EXT. A DESERT-LIKE-LANDSCAPE. DAYLike Kubrick’s 2001, but with little girls, not apes. Andwith baby dolls, not sticks and stuff.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)Since the beginning of time, sincethe first little girl ever existed,there have been dolls.These little girls rock their baby dolls, they burp them,they cuddle them: They pretend to be Moms.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)But the dolls were always andforever baby dolls. The girls whoplayed with them could only everplay at being MOTHERS. Which can befun, at least for a while anyway...Ask your mother.(pause)This continued, until...One of the girls looks UP.Something has appeared in their midst. Something NEW.It’s a GIANT BARBIE DOLL - BARBIE MARGOT, the 1950s Barbie,with her black and white swimsuit and lipstick.The girls react with awe.They’re stirred up and excited by this Barbie Margot notunlike the apes in that Kubrick masterpiece. They try totouch her, and one little girl starts smashing her baby dollagainst the ground until it breaks into pieces. She lets outa child’s howl!One by one the little girls follow suit: whooping, screaming,throwing their baby dolls away in fits of joyful anger.A final little girl throws her baby doll up in the air, andit is spinning, spinning - with a match cut to:

BARBIEINT. WHITE SPACEBarbie stands in a empty space of the soon-to-be formedBarbie Land - it’s a void, a limbo - but clearly in a filmstudio. The World of Barbie is a Technicolor Soundstage.(MORE)2.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)Yes Barbie changed everything! Thenshe changed it all again!We go through all the changes to Barbie Margot, as she movesthrough the decades.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)All of these women are Barbie, andBarbie is all of these women. Shemight have started out as just alady in a bathing suit, but shebecame so much more.

We see a row of Barbies. As we move back we see that “Barbie”is a EVERY different kind of woman -- every profession, everyethnicity, every body shape, every different ability andevery gift. As we pan by each one, we hear:HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)She has her own money, her ownhouse, her own car, her own career.Because Barbie can be anything,women can be anything.We see a Map with Barbie Land on it and a long red arrow isdrawn across a split screen to the Real World.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)(triumphantly)And this has been reflected backonto the little girls of today inthe Real World.Girls playing with the different dolls. The girls all mirrorwhat their Barbie is. So the doctor is the doctor, theballerina is the ballerina, etc.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)Girls can grow into women who canachieve everything and anythingthey set their mind to.Finally, we see a vast sea of Barbies. All in differentoutfits, different hairstyles, adding new friends, speakingdifferent languages. And now Barbie’s world gets continuallymulti-faceted and wide-ranging and diverse and interesting.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)(triumphantly)Thanks to Barbie all problems offeminism and equal rights have beensolved!

(MORE)2.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)Yes Barbie changed everything! Thenshe changed it all again!We go through all the changes to Barbie Margot, as she movesthrough the decades.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)All of these women are Barbie, andBarbie is all of these women. Shemight have started out as just alady in a bathing suit, but shebecame so much more.We see a row of Barbies. As we move back we see that “Barbie”is a EVERY different kind of woman -- every profession, everyethnicity, every body shape, every different ability andevery gift. As we pan by each one, we hear:HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)She has her own money, her ownhouse, her own car, her own career.Because Barbie can be anything,women can be anything.We see a Map with Barbie Land on it and a long red arrow isdrawn across a split screen to the Real World.HELEN MIRREN (V.O.)(triumphantly)And this has been reflected backonto the little girls of today inthe Real World.