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“Barbie” made an plain affect on the world at massive when it premiered in July. The movie comes full with a stacked solid and loads of superb vogue decisions, however it’s additionally notable as a result of it is filled with Easter eggs that reference the whole lot from cultural touchstones to hidden histories.

From the second its first trailer dropped, the movie instantly gave the web plenty of immediately iconic moments to admire, from Barbie (Margot Robbie)’s “Matrix”-esque selection between a excessive heel and a Birkenstock to Ken (Ryan Gosling)’s exuberant mug shot. The film additionally options some much less noticeable Easter eggs that present simply how a lot its artistic group — which incorporates the celebrated filmmaking duo Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach — paid consideration to element. Forward, try a few of the most notable Easter eggs within the movie.

“Barbie” Easter Egg: “The Wizard of Oz”

“Barbie” references many different motion pictures, and one of many foremost iconic options it appears to attract inspiration from is “The Wizard of Oz.” The movie is chock-full of references to the basic story, with film posters of the 1939 movie’s characters regularly popping up within the background. It even performs within the background of 1 body, and at one level, Robbie wears a checkered costume that is paying homage to Dorothy’s basic blue frock.

“Barbie”‘s plot additionally clearly references “The Wizard of Oz,” because it follows Barbie (and Ken) leaving Barbie Land for the true world. Barbie ultimately meets with the creators of Barbie Land, and her disillusionment with them and the true world at massive mirrors Dorothy’s identical disappointment when she learns who the Wizard actually is.

“Barbie” Easter Egg: “2001: A Area Odyssey”

“Barbie”‘s opening scene additionally straight references one other basic movie. It parodies the opening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Area Odyssey,” besides as an alternative of that includes apes in entrance of a black monolith as “2001”‘s first frames do, the “Barbie” trailer sees Barbie stepping out onto a barren panorama as younger ladies look on.

“2001: A Area Odyssey” is famously existential and allegorical, however it basically tells a extremely impressionistic story concerning the origins of humanity and the extraterrestrial forces who, within the movie, appear to have led people towards consciousness. Whereas Kubrick at all times resisted definitive analyses of his sci-fi epic, in 1972, he informed Rolling Stone that “on the deepest psychological degree the film’s plot symbolizes the seek for God, and it lastly postulates what’s little lower than a scientific definition of God.”

“Barbie” definitely additionally touches on related non secular themes, exploring Barbie’s existential disaster about her identification in addition to her relationship to the creators of her world. Gerwig additionally introduced non secular themes right into a Might dialog with Vogue. “Ken was invented after Barbie, to burnish Barbie’s place in our eyes and on the planet,” Gerwig mentioned. “That form of creation fable is the other of the creation fable in Genesis.”

“Barbie” Easter Egg: Barbie Historical past

“Barbie” is stuffed with area of interest references to the historical past of Barbie dolls themselves. Most noticeably, it brings to life plenty of precise discontinued dolls from the Barbie prolonged universe, equivalent to Allan, memorably portrayed by Michael Cera, and Midge, a pregnant doll performed by Emerald Fennell. When Barbie travels to Bizarre Barbie (Kate McKinnon)’s mansion, she additionally runs into a number of notably uncommon discontinued dolls, together with Video Lady Barbie, who had a video digital camera in her necklace. Some discontinued Ken dolls are additionally featured, together with one referred to as Sugar’s Daddy Ken, whose title references the truth that he owns a toy canine named Sugar.

Moreover, many of the vogue, hair, and make-up appears to be like featured within the film are primarily based on precise Barbie appears to be like from the previous, displaying that the costume and styling groups undoubtedly did their archival analysis.

“Barbie” Easter Egg: Ruth Handler and Michelangelo

The creator of Barbie, Ruth Handler (portrayed by Rhea Perlman), can be prominently featured within the film. All of her appearances are layered with existential and non secular significance, and the scene the place Barbie first meets Ruth is even primarily based on Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam,” which occurs to be Robbie’s favourite Easter egg within the movie.

“Barbie” Easter Egg: America Ferrera‘s Husband

“Barbie” consistently blurs the road between actuality and creativeness, and it even provides just a few cheeky references to the precise, non-cinematic world to additional break the fourth wall. Close to the tip, Gloria’s (America Ferrera) husband exhibits up — and he is performed by none aside from Ferrera’s precise husband, Ryan Piers Williams, who exhibits off his nascent Spanish expertise with the phrase “¡sí se puede!” and a reference to Duolingo.

“Barbie” Easter Egg: Sylvester Stallone

Apparently, one of many foremost inspirations for Ken was Sylvester Stallone, who, after all, performed Rocky Balboa within the movie sequence primarily based on his life. “Ryan Gosling additionally loves Sylvester Stallone,” Gerwig mentioned at a panel on Oct. 27, per Individuals. “We had so lengthy to consider it and discuss it, and he and I actually did. His fake mink got here from Sylvester Stallone’s superb outfits. Once I consider adorned males, I believe he is in all probability one of the best one,” she added. “And I really feel like Ken was nothing if not a person in quest of adornment. In order that was a very key second the place we had been like, it’s, it is Sly. And we talked about particular moments we actually beloved in his movies.”

These are only a few of the numerous Easter eggs that make “Barbie” a lot enjoyable to observe. Fortuitously, “Barbie” is now obtainable to hire on-line, which means followers can proceed to overanalyze dialogue, costume in Barbiecore vogue, make customized poster selfies, and bump all of the artists on the “Barbie” soundtrack to their hearts’ content material.