Beijing's desire to promote its worldview through movies is putting pressure on major film studios.
Margot Robbie, who plays the titular character, at the world premiere of Barbie. July 9, 2023, at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Credit: Chris Pizzello via AP Photos
In this summer’s most eagerly-anticipated blockbuster, Barbie, the eponymous heroine and her beau Ken travel from their homes in Barbie Land to the human realm. In a surprising twist, the movie’s pink-hued plastic protagonists have created a real-world geopolitical controversy along the way.
An image from the movie’s trailer shows Margot Robbie, playing Barbie, standing in front of a world map on which two curved broken lines are drawn next to a land mass labeled ‘Asia’. Those
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