This week, 60 minutes Profiles of directors, actors and screenwriters Greta Gerwig.
Her latest film, an out-of-the-box blockbuster Barbiewas the highest-grossing film last year, grossing over $1 billion worldwide.
When Gerwig was initially tapped to write and direct, she enlisted the help of her work and life partners, filmmakers Noah Baumbach. Baumbach has written and directed critically acclaimed independent dramas such as squid and whale and marriage storywas a little confused by the idea of a Barbie movie.
“I can’t even understand it,” he said. “Greta wrote these pages…and I thought, ‘I could write this Barbie movie. I totally understand what this is.'”
during an interview 60 minutes Journalists Sharyn Alfonsi, Baumbach and Gerwig talk about their work Barbietheir approach to screenwriting, and why their partnership works. Alfonsi tries to understand what she can learn Barbie sequel.
Gerwig explained that the film begins “very mechanically… like a clock,” with Barbie and her friends having a perfect day at Barbie Land. Then suddenly, there’s an existential crisis: Barbie asks, “Have you ever thought about dying?”
That moment in the film was the culmination of a writing process that began with Gerwig writing a few pages of the script and showing it to Baumbach. In the first few pages, Barbie meets an old woman in her backyard and confronts the thought of her own death.
“Noah immediately understood what I was doing and said, ‘You know, this is exciting and there’s a movie here,'” Gerwig explained.
The writing duo also revealed how their writing process influenced their approach to directing. Both Gerwig and Baumbach said they preferred to shoot the film exactly as written in the script, without making any substitutions.
Gerwig said in the movie lady bird and little womeneverything is scripted, down to every “you know” and “um”. She said this level of detail was important in maintaining the rhythm of the dialogue, which had been written and read aloud hundreds of times before the first frame was shot.
“Once we had something that felt more like a script, we started reading the whole thing out loud,” she explains. “We reviewed the language ourselves so we could hear if there were repeated jokes or off-kilter beats.”
Baumbach and Gerwig wrote ” Barbie Scripts, they always have Ryan Gosling Wanted to play Ken and even wrote his full name next to Ken’s lines in the first draft.
While writing for the character of Ken, Baumbach and Gerwig came up with many ideas, but they were unable to make it into the final draft. In an early version of the script, they further explored the real-world “Ken Effect” and wrote a scene for the film in which Ryan Gosling plays himself.
“We had so much material for Ken. We wrote, wrote, wrote,” Gerwig explained. Baumbach interrupted Gerwig and told her not to “leak.”
“Will there be a Ken movie?” Alfonsi asked. Gerwig laughed and said she couldn’t comment on that, but she didn’t rule it out entirely.
“I mean, the truth is, you know – I guess we’ll see,” she said with a laugh.
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