Greta Gerwig, the director of this summer’s hit Barbie movie, was recently cornered on the red carpet with an unusual question.
As SFGate reports, Gerwig was in San Francisco to accept an award, and later made a big donation to the community. An SFGate reporter asked Gerwig what a Bay Area Barbie might look like, and Gerwig reportedly imagined a Berkeley, California themed Barbie doll.
The doll, Gerwig told SFGate, would be “a little crunchy,” capturing Cals’ vibes in the 1990s. She “has a little Go set,” Gerwig said, referring to the ancient game that many intellectuals consider harder than chess.
Gerwig added that a Berkeley Barbie would have “a lot of really dense theory books” and make “her own clothes.”
We couldn’t help but wonder how such a doll would look. So we used Midjourney, a popular AI tool, to create some pretend photos of Gerwig’s parody Barbie.
Here’s the first photo it made:
That gets Gerwig’s imagined vibe pretty much spot on! We get the homemade clothes, the shelves full of academic books, and a tabletop board game suggesting Go.
We’re not sure what the other stuff on the table is, but whatever!
Here’s the next image:
This time, Berkeley Barbie has something of a Goth look. The AI got the general vibe of Go correct (black and white little objects) but made them way too large and put them all over the table.
The last image follows a similar pattern. This time, Berkeley Barbie had some vaguely organic-looking shapes on her table. It’s not Go, but it’s something!
SFGate also asked Gerwig what a Berkeley Ken would look like. She said he would look exactly the same!
Barbie® is a trademark of the Mattel corporation. This is a work of parody–we are not associated with Mattel or endorsed by them in any way.
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