Barbie and Branding and Business in film

[richardmurray]

The tiniest variance makes a story other. I am not suggesting Life Size = Cool World= Barbie ... but I am suggesting that Cool World <barring the lust themes and sequentially audiences that will not see it for that> plus Life Size <barring the TV movie audience limitation > are the same movie as Barbie 2023 <barring BArbie's global brand nature>

What is my point? 

The current hollywood strike is about maintaining a domestic film industry in the usa amidst the simple financial reality that shows can be made cheaper outside the usa, global sentiments to what is funny or good or entertaining , among those who can afford global communication entertainment <which is not most or a good chunk of humanity> , is similar, and places outside the usa have learned to open up financially profitable creative opportunities for artists while the usa has fewer and fewer financially profitable creative opportunities by the day.

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I don't know what will happen but the Barbie movie reflects these realities. Life Size if in theaters , based on its own financial returns which are very good for a tv movie prove, it could had been better received by the financially profitable opportunity was closed. Cool world is likewise, for the ratings system financially is about limiting audiences for certain work , that is the effect of all ratings systems in media, limit exposure, sequentially profit, based on a tag or label. 

 

The following was the comment to the ny times article writer. 

@mattfleg one thing you didn't mention is cool world in your article https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/24/us/politics/barbie-movie-newsom-gaetz.html  I think the plot and themes, not the results necessarily, are similar
and did the film Life Size mirror barbie but suffer from not being a brand ? https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/life-size-remember-when-tyra-banks-and-lindsay-lohan-did-the-barbie-movie-first/ar-AA1ezVmZ?ocid=socialshare

 

Life Size wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Size