You are the men who gave them the power to destroy themselves, and the world is not prepared.

Oppenheimer opens in theaters today, Christopher Nolan's feverishly anticipated film about

the brilliant but troubled father of the atomic bomb.

You guys have a thing about dying.

Yeah, no, I don't want to talk about Oppenheimer today.

You can go back to your regular life, or you can know the truth about the universe.

The choice is now yours.

The first one.

Okay ladies, let's do this.

Let's do this!

Flip on those heels, fall off your roof, we're having a giant blowout party with planned

choreography and a bespoke song, and we're gonna sleep over tonight because we're girlfriend

boyfriend.

It's today explain, and it's the best day ever.

Hi Barbie!

Hi Noel.

It's today explained, Alex Barish is a culture writer and editor at The New Yorker.

Alex, how did a Barbie movie happen?

I think we're in this moment where Hollywood has a kind of risk of version.

There's a real anxiety about getting viewership, getting audiences, all of these things,

and increasingly they are turning to the kind of tried and true pre-tested material.

And Barbie is, you know, one of the big intellectual properties that had remained untapped.

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