The astrophysicist’s belated Barbenheimer viewing left him with some interesting conclusions.
Neil deGrasse Tysonhas earned a reputation associal media’s foremost movie ruiner/movie science explainer.
He shared interesting history aroundOppenheimerand U.S. nuclear tests but brought more than history to his take onBarbie.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Barbie.Gary Gershoff/Getty; Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
That places it roughly somewhere between the lower half of the U.S. and the northern half of Mexico.
“Palm trees further constrain latitude between 20 and 30 [degrees],” he continues.
That narrows the potential Barbie World locations to West Texas, the U.S. Gulf Coast, and northern Mexico.
“The sun and moon,” he concludes, “rose and set over the ocean.
If it’s in the U.S., Barbie World lands somewhere in the Florida Keys.”
Warner Bros. didn’t respond to a request for comment from EW.
However, director Greta Gerwig and her teamtoldArchitectural Digestthat the design was inspired by midcentury modernism in Palm Springs.
