Barbie seemed to be the only topic of conversation on the internet a few months ago. It caused quite a stir since Ryan Gosling, who plays Barbie’s lover Ken, and Margot Robbie, who plays the movie’s title heroine, were shooting some outside scenes on the Florida streets. However, because we aren’t currently drowning in Barbie news, now is the ideal moment to see the film’s first trailer and see how everything will play out on the big screen.
Since the massively popular Aqua song “Barbie Girl” won’t be featured in the movie, we can wear the lyrics out now and stress that the Barbie trailer looks – duh – plastic and fantastic. At the same time, you can tell there’s something different in the Barbie world, something that Academy Award-nominated director Greta Gerwig has already teased in previous interviews. After all, the live-action movie is coming out more than 60 years after the doll was created, so some expectations are bound to be broken – or shattered.
The trailer doesn’t reveal much, as it mostly shows Robbie, standing on a beach dressed in her vintage Barbie finest, namely the black and white striped swimsuit and 1950s ponytail found on the original incarnation of the doll. Scored to Richard Strauss’ ‘Also sprach Zarathustra’, which audiences likely recognize from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the trailer ends on a much more vivid note, with quick clips showing the star-studded cast of the film living their fantastic, plastic lives in a hot-pink Barbie world.
