Lucy Boynton on Marcel Proust Jokes Being Cut from ‘Barbie’: It’s a ‘Heartbreaker’ That Audiences Are ‘Losing Touch with That History’

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Lucy Boynton on Marcel Proust Jokes Being Cut from ‘Barbie’: It’s a ‘Heartbreaker’ That Audiences Are ‘Losing Touch with That History’

Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” elevated a Mattel-produced toy adaptation into a work of art that drew near-universal acclaim — but extended references to the one most famously difficult writers in modernist literature were still a bridge too far for test audiences. One of the funniest sequences in the film takes place when Margot Robbie’s eponymous doll meets a group of so-called “Weird Barbies,” many of whom are references to real ill-advised dolls t…