blockbuster “Barbie” movie’s soundtrack includes colorful hits from Lizzo, Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice, and Billie Eilish, but director Greta Gerwig also revealed that the film was originally intended to include a “fart opera.”“We’ve always tried to get in a proper fart joke and we’ve never done it,” Gerwig told IndieWire revealed about the secret mission she held with longtime editing collaborator Nick Houy to get their characters to pass gas when working together.
But apparently there is no farting in Barbie Land.“We had like a fart opera in the middle [of ‘Barbie’]. I thought it was really funny.
And that was not the consensus,” she explained. “It was in the wrong place, too,” Houy added. “We need to work it into a more significant narrative moment next time.” Failed farts aside, Gerwig, 39 claims much of her original script, which she wrote alongside Noah Baumbach, 53, includes themes of female empowerment and criticism of the patriarchy and was supported by Mattel.
She did, however, previously state that the toy manufacturer wasn’t exactly thrilled about a line in the flick where Barbie is called a “fascist.”Mattel executives even flew out to London where the movie was being filmed to try and persuade Gerwig to remove the remark.
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