Just about everyone and their grandparents have seen Barbie since its hugely successful theatrical run this summer, and, although there's been a breadth of reactions to the film, most agree that it's not all that hard to understand.
Enter John Carpenter: the director best known for helming the Halloween slashers outlined his understanding of Barbie in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, and it's pretty clear that he didn't get it.
"I mean, I can sum it up. She says, 'I don't have a vagina,' and then at the end, 'I'm going to go to a gynecologist!' That's the movie to me," he said. "I mean, there's a patriarchy business in there, but I missed that whole thing. Right over my head."
He prefaced that by admitting that he surprised himself by watching the movie in the first place.
"I can't believe I watched Barbie," he said. "It's just not my generation. I had nothing to do with Barbie dolls."
However, he did make sure to give the "fabulous" Margot Robbie her flowers and, in a newer interview with AP News, applaud the progress that Greta Gerwig drove forward as Barbie's director.
"Barbie is the biggest movie of the year and it made like $1 billion worldwide, made by a woman. That's incredible. That's progress," he said. "I can't promise you that I understood the damn movie or cared about it that much ... However, I appreciate what she did. Appreciate everybody involved in that film."
For a slightly more eloquent breakdown of Barbie than Carpenter's vagina monologue, check out Exclaim!'s full review.
Enter John Carpenter: the director best known for helming the Halloween slashers outlined his understanding of Barbie in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, and it's pretty clear that he didn't get it.
"I mean, I can sum it up. She says, 'I don't have a vagina,' and then at the end, 'I'm going to go to a gynecologist!' That's the movie to me," he said. "I mean, there's a patriarchy business in there, but I missed that whole thing. Right over my head."
He prefaced that by admitting that he surprised himself by watching the movie in the first place.
"I can't believe I watched Barbie," he said. "It's just not my generation. I had nothing to do with Barbie dolls."
However, he did make sure to give the "fabulous" Margot Robbie her flowers and, in a newer interview with AP News, applaud the progress that Greta Gerwig drove forward as Barbie's director.
"Barbie is the biggest movie of the year and it made like $1 billion worldwide, made by a woman. That's incredible. That's progress," he said. "I can't promise you that I understood the damn movie or cared about it that much ... However, I appreciate what she did. Appreciate everybody involved in that film."
For a slightly more eloquent breakdown of Barbie than Carpenter's vagina monologue, check out Exclaim!'s full review.
