![]() ![]() Convicted killers Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) and Terry Pugh (Keith Szarabajka) break out of prison, seize eight year old boy Philip Perry (T.J. The setting is rural Texas on Halloween, 1962. There's even a pink sand beach.An escaped prisoner chase drama, A Perfect World is an engrossing study of an unlikely surrogate father-son relationship blossoming under the most unlikely circumstances. "They used as much paint as we had," Lauren Proud, the vice president of global marketing for Rosco, told the outlet. The company told The Los Angeles Times that its supply during the film's 2022 production was already lower than usual thanks to a stunted supply chain from the COVID-19 pandemic and a 2021 Texas deep freeze that damaged materials used to make the paint. But for the fluorescent pink shade, the production used Rosco's entire supply. The seemingly white shade on set is, in fact, a very light pink. Naturally, the sets required a lot of pink paint. The movie used up one company's global supply of fluorescent pink paint. The dolls Skipper and Midge live in the treehouse. This treehouse was replicated from the toy, which was the doll Chelsea's treehouse. In Barbie's cul-de-sac, there's a 1985 treehouse marked by a sign that reads "This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places" by "Barbie Department of the Interior." Nearby, there's a toy version of the treehouse with the name "Chelsea" next to it. $25 at Walmart The treehouse was replicated from the toy. ![]() A dance number calls for a sparkly makeover. ("The world outside had to become the wallpaper," Greenwood notes.) Each home has a chimney that visually grounds it, but the overall architecture is a bit skeleton-like and was challenging to make sturdy. Without walls, the homes are mainly floors, poles, and beams. While the dream houses look simple, that’s the very reason they were challenging to construct. There's no fakery there." Constructing the dream houses was an enormous engineering challenge. "When people were on the top bedroom floor, they had to be wired off," Spencer tells House Beautiful. "It has the odd effect of making the actors seem big in the space but small overall."Įven though the homes were scaled down, they were still large structures. ![]() "The ceiling is actually quite close to one's head, and it only takes a few paces to cross the room," Gerwig told Architectural Digest. The dream houses were adjusted to 23 percent smaller than human size. Look out for pink monkey statues, the flamingo mailbox, the wardrobe with glass doors (meant to mimic the urge to rip through a plastic Barbie box), and the kidney-shaped pool with a spiral slide (Robbie’s favorite feature). It's the feeling of a dream house." Stereotypical Barbie's dream house has so many details viewers won't want to miss. "And you go, Well, maybe that's what it feels like, which is good, but it's not a dream house. "It's very interesting because everybody says, Oh my God, it's just like a dream house I used to have," Greenwood says. Placing the houses in a circle allowed for this and ensured Barbie could see all of her friends. Logistically, it was also important for the production to easily shoot from one house to another. The midcentury modern architecture lent itself nicely to the basic elements of the toy houses that the team focused on, like an open flow between rooms with no walls. They landed on this design route early on in the process since they knew they weren't looking to replicate an existing Mattel Barbie dream house. Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer specifically looked to Richard Neutra’s 1946 Kaufmann House, which happens to be one of the filming locations featured in Don’t Worry Darling. Studios lot outside of London, the Barbie dream houses were inspired by the midcentury modern architecture and cul-de-sacs in Palm Springs. Painted backgrounds add to Barbie Land’s artificial feel.īuilt at the iconic Warner Bros. Take her fridge, for example, which includes a decal of food and beverages for the interior and "toy" versions of them in the door shelving that Barbie can actually pick up. Barbie's dream house includes a blend of 3-D and 2-D features as the actual toys do. As you get closer to the center of the sets, items become 3-D. Across Barbie Land, the 50-foot-tall painted sky stretched 800 feet around the studio with 35-foot-tall mountain cutouts set against them. Greenwood compares the Barbie sets to dioramas and museum exhibits because they feature layers of 3-D and 2-D elements. "So the streets are written as Barbie Land, and the 'i' is the circle that they live in." Barbie Land is layered with 3-D and 2-D elements. "When you go into Barbie Land, you go into the dot of the 'i' of Barbie Land," production designer Sarah Greenwood tells House Beautiful. If you thought the Barbie Land lettering in the film was just a cute design introductory to the fantasy world, you didn't look close enough. ![]()
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