{"id":1991821,"date":"2023-08-05T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-barbies-worldwide-box-office-conquest-comes-to-screeching-halt-when-middle-east-officials-crack-down\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:50:12","slug":"woke-barbies-worldwide-box-office-conquest-comes-to-screeching-halt-when-middle-east-officials-crack-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-barbies-worldwide-box-office-conquest-comes-to-screeching-halt-when-middle-east-officials-crack-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke &#8216;Barbie&#8217;s&#8217; Worldwide Box Office Conquest Comes to Screeching Halt When Middle East Officials Crack Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoke-barbies-worldwide-box-office-conquest-comes-to-screeching-halt-when-middle-east-officials-crack-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1991821&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summer blockbuster \u201cBarbie\u201d has met its match.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the entertainment magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/global\/barbie-postponed-middle-east-ban-saudi-arabia-1235684620\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> reported that officials likely will exclude the hit movie from major Middle Eastern markets.<\/p>\n<p>Countries expected to opt out of the \u201cBarbie\u201d experience include Saudi Arabia, the region\u2019s largest market. The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Egypt, Qatar and Bahrain also indicated they plan to defer.<\/p>\n<p>Middle Eastern officials have demanded changes to the Warner Bros. film. Censors seek edits to \u201calleged LGBTQ-related narration and dialogue in \u2018Barbie,&#8217;\u201d according to Variety.<\/p>\n<p>Since its domestic release on July 21, \u201cBarbie\u201d has been a box-office juggernaut.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, \u201cBarbie\u201d cleared the $400 million domestic box-office threshold on Thursday, its 14th day of release and was closing in on the $1 billion mark globally at that time. This makes it the fastest Warner Bros. movie ever to surpass that mark, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/barbie-box-office-hits-900-million-1235550913\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Barbie?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Barbie<\/a> will likely cross $1 BILLION today, on Greta Gerwig\u2019s birthday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xKuCiPHlGR\">pic.twitter.com\/xKuCiPHlGR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cinema Solace (@SolaceCinema) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolaceCinema\/status\/1687434789438025728?\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In non-woke circles, the film has received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-conservative-ben-shapiro-burns-barbie-doll-thumbs-review-woke-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unflattering reviews<\/a> at best. Some say it amounts to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/warning-barbie-not-harmless-nostalgia-agenda-runs-hate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate-filled screed<\/a> against the patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>I have not seen the movie and therefore have nothing to add on the subject of its content or message. If \u201cBarbie\u201d strikes non-woke viewers as insufferably woke, that impression will be more than enough to keep me away from a movie I had no intention of seeing in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Woke or otherwise, the producers of \u201cBarbie\u201d no doubt spent little time thinking about how to attract the middle-aged conservative male demographic.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, they clearly do want to attract viewers in the Middle East. And therein we find the real story.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this story involves one of the most ironic aspects of the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/secret-recording-catches-teacher-scolding-students-skipping-pride-month-events-dont-belong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woke assault<\/a> on Western culture.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of woke ideology lies the oppressor-victim narrative, an updated version of Marxism\u2019s bourgeoisie-proletariat dichotomy. This simplistic woke worldview divides all human beings into one group or the other, based on factors unrelated to an individual\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, non-Westerners and non-Christians fall safely into the woke ideologue\u2019s \u201cvictim\u201d group.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims, however, seem not to have received the message. They have not behaved like good non-Western victims of oppression should. They certainly have not shown the deference due to their woke liberators.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in some instances, Muslims and Christians have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/1k-christian-muslim-parents-protest-districts-dirty-trick-subvert-parents-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">united<\/a> against the woke LGBT agenda.<\/p>\n<p>No true American endorses censorship. Better that individuals should reject a movie than that officials should ban it.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if Middle Easterners wish to shield themselves from Western cultural rot, who can blame them?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/woke-barbies-worldwide-box-office-conquest-comes-screeching-halt-middle-east-officials-crack\/\">Woke &#8216;Barbie&#8217;s&#8217; Worldwide Box Office Conquest Comes to Screeching Halt When Middle East Officials Crack Down<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer blockbuster \u201cBarbie\u201d has met its match. On Tuesday, the entertainment magazine Variety reported that officials likely will exclude the hit movie from major Middle Eastern markets. Countries expected to opt out of the \u201cBarbie\u201d experience include Saudi Arabia, the region\u2019s largest market. The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Egypt, Qatar and Bahrain also indicated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1991822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}