Mentions (16)
"I am convinced that Gerwig screwed up by having too much fun poking at patriarchal archetypes and accidentally made her displays of being an old-school misogynist the best part of the movie."
"Barbie was lightning in a bottle because it had the novelty "taken seriously" stamp of Greta and delivered."
"She went to the same Catholic high school as Greta Gerwig and fell asleep during Barbie."
"Big fan of most of Baumbach's work and love Greta Gerwig's earlier work... you can definitely see that Mattel had their hands gripped around Gerwig's balls. The whole 'barbie creates unrealistic beauty standards for women' critique was mentioned once and very surface level."
"Greta Gerwig is the most interesting case of fall out to me, Lena Dunham is a fascinating case study too although she's been out of style for quite some time."
"Neither Margot Robbie or Greta Gerwig got nominated!"
"Apparently Margot Robbie tried very hard to get Greta to put it in the film in some way and the best she could get was the remix."
"Are we gonna start seeing mumblecore films again? Directed by Greta Gerwig ofc?"
"It's hard to overestimate the impact she could have on the culture with another Frances Ha type movie (maybe with Saoirse Ronan) for the new generation."
"When she said Gerwig does not like girls I understood that deeply. She makes her female characters way too neurotic and introspective as an attempt to make them have more "depth" but its to the point where they are narcissistic and unlikable. Not a girls girl. She is trying hard to do what Sofia Cop"
"Greta Gerwig, the Safdies, the Neistats, and Lena Dunham all got their start in the same building in Tribeca in the mid-2000s. They happened to be starting their careers during a tiny slice of filmmaking history when decent cameras were affordable but there was no precedent for being a 'content crea"
"Greta Gerwig, the Safdies, the Neistats, and Lena Dunham all got their start in the same building in Tribeca in the mid-2000s."
"Greta Gerwig is like a lib Sergei Eisenstein and Barbie is her Battleship Potemkin."
"Are we gonna start seeing mumblecore films again? Directed by Greta Gerwig ofc?"
"It's hard to overestimate the impact she could have on the culture with another Frances Ha type movie (maybe with Saoirse Ronan) for the new generation."
"She makes her female characters way too neurotic and introspective as an attempt to make them have more 'depth' but its to the point where they are narcissistic and unlikable."