Elon Musk mocks Barbie after expressing disappointment with Oppenheimer: ‘If you take a shot every time…’

It you take a shot every time Barbie says the word “patriarchy”, you will pass out before the movie ends

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 24, 2023

Earlier this week, Musk responded to a tweet by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who wrote that Oppenheimer likely won’t inspire young people to persue a career in physics. Reacting to Altman’s tweet, Musk wrote, “Indeed.”

Several conservative commentators, such as Ben Shapiro and Piers Morgan, have recently complained about Barbie’s themes. In a 43-minute video, Shapiro predicted the film’s box office failure in the coming days, and set fire to Barbie dolls. Morgan wrote in the New York Post, “If I made a movie mocking women as useless dunderheads, constantly attacking the matriarchy, and depicting all things feminist as toxic bull**t, I wouldn’t just be canceled, I’d be executed…” Meanwhile, the satirical comedy directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling has been delivering incredible numbers at the worldwide box office. The film will pass the $400 million mark globally by today, after debuting with nearly $350 million worldwide in its opening weekend.

Barbie delivered the biggest opening weekend of the year so far in the US, and the biggest opening weekend ever for a female director. While it leads Nolan’s Oppenheimer globally, it’s pacing behind the biographical drama in India, where it has made over Rs 23 crore in five days, compared to Oppenheimer’s Rs 63 crore haul in the same time.

Recently, television actor Juhi Parmar took to Instagram to complain about Barbie, but for entirely different reasons. She felt that the movie’s ‘sexual connotations’ were inappropriate for her 10-year-old daughter, and said that they walked out after 15 minutes. Shahid Kapoor’s wife, Mira Rajput, was dissatisfied by the film’s song-and-dance sequence, and singer Sona Mohapatra called it ‘unbearable’ and ‘terrible’.