How Zack Snyder finds Warner’s cut joke funny in Barbie
How Zack Snyder finds Warner’s cut joke funny in Barbie – the director revealed his liking for Greta Gerwig’s film and his reaction to the joke about his cut of The Justice League.
By Megan Sauer
The success of Barbie was highly anticipated, but the way it conquered the public and the box office was still a big surprise for those involved, the fans and, of course, Warner Bros. Discovery, which needed to score a success that important. The adaptation is already one of the favorites of 2023 and one of the most relevant in recent years, although not everyone has the same appreciation, especially due to the joke about the Snyder Cut that made many of the director’s followers angry and that he now reveals She found it genuinely funny and not at all an insult.
Barbie vs. patriarchy vs. Zack Snyder?
When Greta Gerwig began working on the Barbie script with Noah Baumbach , both were clear that patriarchy was a very important topic, since the protagonist’s contact with that system would be key to her evolution, even if it was not the only thing that made to change once he knows the real world and realizes its nuances and contradictions. To do this, the scriptwriters decided to use Ken as a figure that would explain how easy it is to enter that system and how its guidelines are spreading in society thanks to a radical stance.
While Barbie, played by Margot Robbie , tries to find herself and assimilate her new reality, Ken ( Ryan Gosling ) returns to Barbie Land and changes the social system to a patriarchal one where the other versions of the doll are subjugated and under control. Kens mentality. This allows the film to reference and even poke fun at some popular themes, including the original cut of Justice League.41% that Zack Snyder spent years defending.
When they are freeing the Barbies from male control, one of them says that she felt like she was in a dream where, for some reason, she cared too much about the Snyder Cut, but once she woke up she didn’t really care anymore. The joke was generally well received by the public, especially since it is easy to recognize the intentions of the reference, but for some others it was an insult that proved that Gerwig was against men and against Snyder in particular.
Gerwig came out to defend the joke and explained that it had nothing to do with the director or his work, and that they even thought about making a reference to Blade Runner but in the end they stayed with Zack Snyder’s Justice League. In addition, Barbie also has connections and fun nods to other films such as Rocky and The Godfather that are not an attack on the works, but rather a mockery of the way in which they are used by certain people, something that the Snyder himself seems to understand without problem.
Zack Snyder responds to the Snyder Cut joke in Barbie
In an interview with Men’s Health (via Variety ) the director was asked about the Barbie film and the reference to his DC film, to which he responded:
I think [‘Barbie’] is great. And I think the joke is pretty good.
Snyder acknowledges that the joke is not about him or his work at DC, and is actually about the fandom that can be really toxic. In fact, for the director, the reference was very revealing about the impact of his movement on pop culture:
What I told Debbie is: You should take a second and think is that your name is so perfectly associated with such a huge pop culture phenomenon that it can exist as a joke in a movie about Barbie. That’s pretty crazy. You just need to step back for a second and say, ‘Wow, what did we do? What happened? How is that?’
The director, who is promoting Rebel Moon, has already spoken on other occasions about the toxicity of certain followers. For a while, he was the target of attacks and death threats, and he knows very well that then things changed and the attacks were diverted towards other people and creatives in an attempt to defend him, so the joke in Barbie is very clear and reflects that experience that he also had to live at some point.
