Barbie (I) (2023)
Helen Mirren: Narrator
Quotes
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Narrator : Barbie has a great day every day. Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him.
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Narrator : [from trailer] Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls. But the dolls were always and forever baby dolls, until...
[a large figurine is seen by the young, primitive-like girls; she is revealed to be Barbie in her iconic, one-piece, black-and-white swimsuit]
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Narrator : Thanks to Barbie, all problems of feminism have been solved!
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Narrator : Well, the Kens have to start somewhere. And one day, the Kens will have as much power and influence in Barbie Land as women have in the Real World.
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Narrator : Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls. But the dolls were always and forever baby dolls. The girls who played with them could only ever play at being mothers. Which can be fun, at least for a while, anyway. Ask your mother.
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Narrator : So, Barbie left behind the pastels and plastics of Barbie Land for the pastels and plastics of Los Angeles.
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Narrator : When you're playing with Barbies... nobody bothers to walk them down the stairs and out the door, et cetera. You just pick them up and put them where you want them to go. You use your imagination.
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Narrator : Midge was Barbie's pregnant friend. Let's not show Midge, actually. She was discontinued by Mattel because a pregnant doll is just too weird.
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Narrator : Yes, Barbie changed everything. Then, she changed it all again.
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Narrator : All of these women are Barbie, and Barbie is all of these women.
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Narrator : Because Barbie can be anything, women can be anything.
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Narrator : Girls can grow into women, who can achieve everything and anything they set their mind to.
