Deconstructing Barbie was a great idea. It could not have been made into a feature film with the vision of the animations that are currently shown on TV of that character; that would have been a complete FLOP. Historically, deconstructions have advanced culture and knowledge to break through stereotypes and entrenched structures. The Canterbury Tales (1484) is a satire on the stories of the saints; Don Quixote (1615) is a deconstruction of the adventures of the knights who had dominated medieval literature for 200 years; in the 19th Century, the Impressionists deconstructed Neoclassicism paintings like Degas…more recently still, the animated feature film Shrek deconstructed the fairy tale stories of princesses and princes. But from the idea to the fact, there is a gap: Greta Gerwig's version did not deconstruct Barbie, she built a feminist fantasy of reality through an emblematic 60-year-old doll.
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Deconstructing Barbie was a great idea. It could not have been made into a feature film with the vision of the animations that are currently shown on TV of that character; that would have been a complete FLOP. Historically, deconstructions have advanced culture and knowledge to break through stereotypes and entrenched structures. The Canterbury Tales (1484) is a satire on the stories of the saints; Don Quixote (1615) is a deconstruction of the adventures of the knights who had dominated medieval literature for 200 years; in the 19th Century, the Impressionists deconstructed Neoclassicism paintings like Degas…more recently still, the animated feature film Shrek deconstructed the fairy tale stories of princesses and princes. But from the idea to the fact, there is a gap: Greta Gerwig's version did not deconstruct Barbie, she built a feminist fantasy of reality through an emblematic 60-year-old doll.