‘Barbie’ Music Boss Mark Ronson Trolls Bill Maher for Bashing the Film as ‘Man-Hating’ While Many Others ‘Enjoy a F—ing Magnificent Comedy’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Mark Ronson roasted Bill Maher on social media over the latter’s response to “Barbie,” for which Ronson served as music producer and oversaw the film’s original soundtrack.

Maher slammed “Barbie” as “man-hating” and “preachy” and criticized the scene in which Barbie (Margot Robbie) confronts the Mattel board of executives, which is depicted as 12 white men in the film.

Maher noted the scene is a “Zombie Lie” because the Mattel board actually has 7 men and 5 women on it in real life, although he failed to mention the “Barbie” movie is not based on real life and is actually a satirical fantasy in which a plastic doll comes to life. “We come to this place for magic,” Ronson wrote in response to Maher, evoking Nicole Kidman’s beloved AMC Theatres ad. “We come to AMC theaters to laugh, to cry, to care… and to furiously google ‘mattel board configuration’ while others are trying to enjoy a fucking magnificent comedy.” In Maher’s original post, the television personality and political commentator wrote: “OK, ‘Barbie’: I was hoping it wouldn’t be preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie — alas, it was all three.

What is a Zombie Lie? Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it (tax cuts for the rich increase revenues, e.g.); OR something that used to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend it’s still true. ‘Barbie’ is this kind of #ZombieLie.” Maher appears to be upset with the film for not depicting the Mattel board as it really is in 2023, but, again, the film is a fantasy movie. “I know, I know, ‘How could I know about the patriarchy, I AM a man!’ That argument is so old and so silly,” Maher continued in his post.