Greta Gerwig wanted the pinks that appear in the Barbie movie to be very bright and “for everything to be almost too much.” This seems to have caused a worldwide shortage of paint of that color. “The world ran out of roses,” said production designer Sarah Greenwood.
Are you wondering how they did barbieland and the dream house of the popular doll of mattel for the movie Warner Bros. Pictures?. Greta Gerwigthe director of Barbiethe production designer Sarah Greenwood and the set decorator Katie Spencer They gave more than interesting details on the subject.
As you will have seen in images, previews and trailers, Barbie will have a colorful barbielandwhich will be full of barbies and kens and their respective dream homes. While we will see a wide variety of colors in the film, the one that will stand out the most (of course) will be pink. “Maintaining ‘childhood’ was paramount. He wanted the pinks to be very bright and everything to be almost too much.”said Gerwig to Architectural Digest. “I didn’t want to forget what made me love Barbie as a child.”
The construction of this world, as pointed out Greenwoodsparked an international race in search of the pink shade of Rosco paint: “The world ran out of roses.” Furthermore, for the creation of barbielandthe production designer and Spencer were inspired by Palm Springs mid-century modernism, including the Kaufmann House 1946 Richard Neutral. “Everything about that time was perfect,” said Greenwoodwho tried “for doing what Barbie was real through this unreal world.
But, when it comes to focusing on building the dream home of the Barbie protagonist, played by Margot Robbie, Greenwood and Spencer decided to buy one dream house to study it. Although the set decorator assured that the scale of that house “it was quite strange“, both adjusted the proportions of the rooms to 23% smaller than human size for the set. About this, Gerwig said: “The ceiling is quite close to one’s head, and it only takes a few steps to cross the room. It has the strange effect of making the actors look big in space, but small overall.”
Navy in the batch of Warner Bros. Studios on the outskirts of London, the film house of Barbie reinterprets the work of neutral like a three-story fuchsia fantasy, with a slide that winds into a pool. “I wanted to capture what was so ridiculously funny about the dreamhouses“, explained Gerwig. On the other hand, he added:Why go down the stairs when you can slide into your pool? Why take the stairs when you take an elevator that matches your dress?
But this is not all. The director also clarified that in the house of Barbie “there are no walls or doors”. And it is that this type of houses “they assume you never have anything you want to be private, there is no place to hide”. However, the different structures and details in barbieland they weren’t the only thing they focused on.
An important issue for Gerwig in Barbie was to bring to reality “genuine artificiality” doll world mattel at every opportunity. As an example, the director mentioned that the sky and mountains we see in the distance are actually a hand-painted backdrop, rather than CGI. “Everything had to be tactile, because toys are, above all, things that are touched.”
Despite all this work that went into creating barbielandLet’s remember that the film will also take us to the real world, leaving this pink paradise to one side. So we do not know how long we will be enjoying the dream houses of Barbie. But there is no doubt that many details will not only make us smile, but will also take us directly to our childhood.
Barbie is starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as barbie and ken, next to America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman and Will Ferrell. We will also see in the cast: Ana Cruz Kayne, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Connor Swindells, Sharon Rooney, Nicola Coughlan, Ritu Arya, Dua Lipa, and Helen Mirren.
Gerwig He directed Barbie from a script written by her and Noah Baumbach. The producers of the film are David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brennerwith Michael Sharp, Josey McNamara, Ynon Kreiz, Courtenay Valenti, Toby Emmerich and Cate Adams as executive producers.
To see all this fantasy world on the big screen we have to wait for Barbie hits theaters on July 20, 2023.