How Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ was influenced by her Catholic faculty roots

“Barbie” has been blessed.

Greta Gerwig’s extremely anticipated pink-filled comedy “Barbie” has lastly pushed its magenta-colored convertible into theaters.

The film is chock-full of spiritual motifs and allusions — due to the filmmaker’s previous experiences at St. Francis Excessive College, an all-girls Catholic faculty in Sacramento, California.

“Within the film, like, when it begins, she’s in a world the place there’s no getting older or loss of life or ache or disgrace or self-consciousness, after which she instantly turns into self-conscious — that’s a very outdated story,” Gerwig not too long ago informed the Associated Press in regards to the parallels between “Barbie” and the Bible. “And we all know that story.

“I feel I at all times return to these older story kinds as a result of I went to Catholic faculty and I resonate with them,” the 39-year-old “Woman Hen” director defined, referring to the traditional biblical tales of Christianity.

There are different divine metaphors that Gerwig makes use of in her new flick — together with a shot that references a well-known mural painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

The mom of two told USA Today a couple of second within the function the place Ruth Handler — the creator of the plastic doll — palms Margot Robbie’s Barbie a cup of tea.

The scene is harking back to the “precise approach that God is touching Adam on the Sistine Chapel,” Gerwig mentioned, noting the fresco that depicts the creation of Adam and is impressed by the verse written within the Bible’s Genesis: “God created man in his personal picture.”

Robbie, 33, and the “Little Ladies” screenwriter beforehand spoke to Vogue and identified how the creation story of Adam and Eve is much like Barbie and her boyfriend, Ken, performed by Ryan Gosling within the movie.

“Barbie was invented first,” Gerwig dished to the style publication. “Ken was invented after Barbie, to burnish Barbie’s place in our eyes and on the earth. That sort of creation fable is the alternative of the creation fable in Genesis.”

“The Wolf of Wall Avenue” star Robbie famous how Gerwig penned “an summary poem about Barbie” that was akin to the Apostles’ Creed sonnet and helped create the tone for the Mattel Movies flick.

The movie’s predominant premise focuses on how an harmless Barbie lives in her dream world, Barbieland, the place every little thing is ideal and untouched.

Nevertheless, issues start to alter in her frothy utopian society — and she or he should determine why.

Barbieland is much like the Bible’s Garden of Eden — a lush paradise that was as soon as good however is then ruined by the introduction of sin.

“Barbie” opened in theaters on Friday, July 21, and is already sprouting some weird fandom.

A filmmaker has “Barbiefied” celebrities like President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Princess of Wales Kate Middleton and late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher through the use of synthetic intelligence to morph their faces onto the characters’ pink-adorned our bodies.