2023-08-03 16:31 United News Network corner 24 hours
“Your humor is my hell, hurt each other because of the movie?” Hollywood’s two major topical movies at the end of July this year – “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” – both achieved good box office results and became hot topics continuously, also appeared“Pabpenheimer”(Barbenheimer) this portmanteau. However, as Barbenheimer became an Internet meme, using Barbie and the nuclear explosion mushroom cloud as a humorous joke, it touched the pain of the atomic bombing in Japanese public opinion. Fight back with a pink Barbie-inspired picture.
The controversy arose when two films, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” were released on July 21 this year. Although the two strong films were not deliberately linked to publicity, the momentum and topics continued to stimulate the North American box office market, making these two films with hardly any connection themes become the most popular entertainment topic at the same time; Because – “Barbenheimer” (Barbenheimer) – a portmanteau of Barbie + Oppenheimer.
With the box office success and positive reviews of the two films, Bapenheimer’s jokes on the Internet are becoming more and more popular. There are a lot of composite pictures on Twitter, some of which use Barbie movie stills to change the picture, turn it into the background and appear nuclear explosion fungus Cloud scene; or adjust Oppenheimer’s explosion scene to Barbie pink tone, and also use AI to draw, blending Barbie and Oppenheimer’s two worldviews into a visual concept of a new movie.
These memes and pictures are not the official design of the movie or the film studio, but when the fungus cloud jokes are played more and more, for Japan, the only country in the world that has been bombed, this one that hurts historical scars Jokes are not humorous.
In fact, the release date of “Oppenheimer” in Japan has not yet been determined, and since the anniversary of the atomic bombing on August 6 is approaching, the Japanese community has been discussing the timing of the postponement of this blockbuster film. Unexpectedly, some Japanese netizens discovered that the official Twitter account of the previous “Barbie” movie had responded to a picture of Bapenheimer on the Internet and added the sentence “It’s going to be a summer to remember”. Similar responses include Several articles, in the eyes of Japanese netizens, felt that the history of the atomic bombing was treated so frivolously, which aroused a lot of criticism and resistance in the Japanese community.
Many Japanese netizens linked the keyword “#NoBarbenheimer” (Don’t Barbenheimer) to boycott the trend of this black joke, and some non-governmental organizations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki initiated an online petition to demand an apology. Another protest word that appeared at the same time was “#BarbieNoKen”, which is actually an English-Japanese pun.
Controversy raged, and “Barbie” was originally scheduled to be released in Japan on August 11. Warner Bros. Japan immediately apologized and put out the fire on July 31, posting an apology statement through the “Barbie” film’s Japanese Twitter account. The subtle thing is that it was Warner Bros. Japanese officials who apologized first, and stated in the statement that they would ask the U.S. headquarters to take appropriate measures, and then the U.S. Twitter deleted the content of the controversial response.
Although the anger of Japanese public opinion has been temporarily calmed down, the war of memes on the Internet is still happening. Some Japanese netizens began to counterattack by making pictures mocking 911 in the United States. They also used Bapenheimer’s logic to change the news screen of 911 into a pink Barbie style, or embed the “Barbie” poster into the scene of the explosion of the Gemini Tower. Until August 3rd, there were still similar picture wars being reposted, and some Japanese netizens continued to boycott the release of “Barbie” in Japan.
In the online messages that responded, some Japanese netizens also posted pictures of other movies, such as the World War II-themed animation “Thank you, find me in the corner of the world” (この世界の画四に), and the classic masterpiece ” In the animated version of “Barefoot Ayuan” (はだしのゲン), the most frightening scene is the scene of the atomic bomb killing people alive in slow motion, and adding a sentence: “Do you still laugh when you see this?”
At the beginning, Babenheimer was not the official intention, and it may not be deliberately used as a joke with historical scars. The original Babenheimer refers to the phenomenon of benefits and entertainment topics caused by the two movies, and many news media use it as an epidemic. Post-cinema box office analysis topic. It’s just that with the memeization of this word, and thus the spread of it in the form of “image”, various meanings and interpretations are inevitably derived. Now it has evolved into an online map battle between Babenheimer and Pink 911, which is probably unexpected by the film officials and audience.
At present, “Barbie” is still released in Japan on August 11 as originally scheduled. As for “Oppenheimer”, the release time in Japan has not yet been determined.
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