One Year to End the ‘Barbie vs. Oppenheimer’ Battle—Here’s the Untold Strategy That Could Change Everything!
I’m reminded of the summer of 2006, when Fox decided to go head-to-head with Warners’ Superman Returns by releasing The Devil Wears Prada. Sure, one was more of a “boy movie” and one was more of a “girl movie” — whatever such nonsensical designations even mean — but they both thrived, arguing that such hard-and-fast rules around gender and movie preference should probably be relaxed. We live in a culture that pits movies against one another, so it’s inevitable that Barbie and Oppenheimer — and the larger cultural issues they symbolize — will be drawn into a silly, stupid fight. It’ll be fun to compare and contrast the two. But don’t get hung up on thinking that your preference represents your stance on serious versus playful, somber versus subversive, art versus entertainment, “boy films” versus “girl films.” Sometimes, it’s OK if they’re just movies.
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