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“I liked the voice-over”: Margot Robbie’s ‘Barbie’ Originally Planned to Include a More Controversial Joke Than Zack Snyder That Would’ve Upset a Lot of Fans


The film took a dig at the fan campaign that was launched to demand the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but they had different plans
The Margot Robbie starrer Barbie became a blockbuster hit, earning over a billion dollars at the box office. The Greta Gerwig directorial was the first live-action adaptation of the popular children’s toy and was in the making for decades. The film was lauded for its tongue-in-cheek humor and commentary on the real world.

One of the funniest digs that the Margot Robbie starrer takes is the joke on the ‘Snyder Cut’ campaign that was launched by DC fans, who wanted the release of the film Zack Snyder’s Justice League. The joke was intended to be a dig at cinephiles and was more topical, but Gerwig had reportedly planned another nuanced joke that would have upset even more fans. Spoilers ahead for the film.
What Was The Snyder Cut Joke Made In Margot Robbie’s Barbie?

The Greta Gerwig directorial Barbie saw Margot Robbie playing Stereotypical Barbie, who undergoes an existential crisis while being in Barbieland. Barbieland is governed by Barbies while the Kens play second fiddle to them. Robbie’s Barbie visits the outside world with Ryan Gosling’s Ken and gets to know the struggles of women in the real world.
However, Ken discovers the status of men in the real world and goes back to Barbieland with this ideology. He stages a rebellion along with the other Kens and for a few moments succeeds in the indoctrination of the Barbies into submissive roles. However, Margot Robbie’s Barbie comes back and helps the rest of the Barbies realize the issues with patriarchy and deprogram them.

It is at this point that Writer Barbie makes the joke about Zack Snyder’s Justice League. The character, played by Alexandra Shipp, wakes up from her programmed slumber and says,
“It’s like being in a dream where I’ve somehow been really invested in the Zack Snyder cut of ‘Justice League.’”

The joke is aimed at the ‘ReleaseTheSnyderCut’ campaign executed by the DC fans. The campaign is criticized for the relentless bullying that WB studio went through due to fans bombarding every post or event with demand for the Snydercut of the Justice League.
Greta Gerwig Had A Different Joke Planned For The Scene
The point of the Snyder cut joke in Margot Robbie’s Barbie was to point out the superficial and sacred position that a director’s cut of a film holds among ‘male film bros’. Many films such as Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Apocalypse Now, and even Daredevil have been regarded as a massive improvement over its predecessor.
The Snydercut campaign was one of the most ruthless campaigns run by the fans, and after the release, the fans tried to do it again by demanding WB to release David Ayer’s original version of Suicide Squad. However, Barbie director Greta Gerwig mentioned that her intention was not to anger fans of Zack Snyder but to comment on this phenomenon.
According to Gerwig, she originally planned to comment on the director’s cut of Blade Runner. The sci-fi film starring Harrison Ford reportedly had seven different cuts due to director Ridley Scott’s clash with the studio. The director’s cut of the film did away with the voice-over narration that was there in the released cut.
Gerwig revealed in an interview with Variety that the original joke had Writer Barbie mention the film in her speech,
“One of the Barbies says to Ken, ‘Oh my god, I never would have realized that Deckard was a replicant,’…Then when she gets unbrainwashed, there’s a version where she said, ‘I liked the voiceover. I needed it to help me understand what was happening. Nobody’s following this.’”
While the Blade Runner joke would have hit the point home, the Snyder cut joke seemed to be more topical.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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