Happy Barbenheimer Day! That’s what the wags on social media are calling it, as Greta Gerwig’s fluffy satire Barbie faces off at the global box office against Christopher Nolan’s intense drama , about the scientist who helped to create the atomic bomb.It’s by no means the first time that two huge movies have been released on the same day. Indeed, some other head-to-heads have been as culturally intriguing as this one. In November 1995, for example, ’s epic movie Casino opened against the inaugural animation Toy Story.But nobody tried to fuse those two titles, and besides, their contrasts weren’t as irresistible as those between Barbie and Oppenheimer: a pair of single-word names, one synonymous with little girls playing innocently with their dolls, the other with an existential threat to humankind.
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