Once it was announced that Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” were hitting theaters on the same day, film communities have been experiencing Barbenheimer fever.
Hot pink photoshop nightmares featuring Margot Robbie’s smiling face in front of mushroom clouds or the horrified face of Cillian Murphy in the plastic environment of Barbieland have been plentiful, and film fans light up with excitement with every weird connective element found between the two films.
In what might be the most unexpected connection possible, it turns out that the center of the “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” Venn diagram is *checks notes* ah, yes, late-19th century French literary figure, Marcel Proust.
I promise you, this is not a bit.Greta Gerwig tossed in a reference to Proust during a moment when the fictional Mattel CEO (Will Ferrell) jokes that the smell of opening up a Barbie box triggers a Proustian memory.
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