6.1 Barbie as an Endowment Film

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Spoilers for the Barbie movie!! The Barbie movie takes people into the presence of God and delivers them to the real world. Join us as we discuss the LDS endowment, existentialism, and heavenly mother as we revel in one of the best movies released in years.

Link to our Face in Hat discord server!

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Dialogue Podcast Network

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/

The Barbie movie transcript we used:

https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?t=121979

Greta Gerwig Refused to Cut a ‘Barbie’ Scene That’s the ‘Heart of the Movie,’ by Zack Sharf

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/barbie-cut-scene-greta-gerwig-refused-remove-old-woman-bench-scene-1235676474/

(FYI my theater was actually in high school… -Aaron)

Wiki existentialism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

What Barbie Understands About Mother-Daughter Relationships, by Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/barbie-movie-mother-daughter-relationship/674931/

In the beginning, there was Barbie, by Alissa Wilkinson

https://www.vox.com/culture/23800753/barbie-review-bible-eden

Barbiemania! Margot Robbie Opens Up About the Movie Everyone’s Waiting For, by Abby Aguirre

https://www.vogue.com/article/margot-robbie-barbie-summer-cover-2023-interview

Walk in the Pink Moccasins, by Carol Lynn Pearson

https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/137-21-25.pdf

The Meeting, by Elouise Bell

https://web.archive.org/web/20171008222301/http://signaturebookslibrary.org/only-when-i-laugh-04

The Year They Gave Women the Priesthood, by Michael Fillerup

https://amzn.to/3DXrqQw

The Defection of Baby Mixo, by Mark Penny

https://lit.mormonartist.net/2016/02/the-defection-of-baby-mixo

Dialogue Book Report’s episode with Eric’s about his book, Just Julie’s Fine, isn’t quite out yet, but here’s the link to the podcast:

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcast-subjects/book-report

Is ‘Barbie’ an allegory of Mother Eve in LDS theology? | Episode 298 of Mormon Land, by Peggy Fletcher Stack, with Rachel Rueckert as guest. Referenced from:

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/08/09/mormon-land-is-barbie-an-allegory/

Parks and Recollection

https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/parks-and-recollection

Heavenly Mother is Packing a Suitcase, by Aisling Rowan, part of Birds to Bones

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvOLfPWMh55/