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did you watch Oppenheimer, the film about the moral implications of the things we create, starring an actor who also played a Gotham City psychiatrist who went insane

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did you watch Barbie, the film about the moral implications of the things we create, starring an actress who also played a Gotham City psychiatrist who went insane

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EdenDestroyer (He/Him)
EdenDestroyer (He/Him)  
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Content warning: eureka-like Enthusiasm

sim
sim  
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Does it count if I haven't seen either of them yet? Is there another film starring someone who also played a Gotham City psychiatrist who went insane?
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛  
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@sim Then I can recommend[0] "Being the Ricardos" where Tony Hale, Doctor Psycho on "Harley Quinn", plays "I Love Lucy" producer and writer Jess ... Oppenheimer.



[0] no I can't, I haven't seen it
@sim
hapbt
hapbt  
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i watched that new futurama episode it was cool
D. B. Stuck
D. B. Stuck  
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Loved Barbie. The part where she got bit by a radioactive OPPENHEIMER, said "It's Barbie time!", and built a Barbie Dream Jail for the bad guys to reflect on what they did wrong... Well, it brought a tear to my eye. It was my good eye at that.
James is not broken...
James is not broken...  
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never made this connection. well done
dave31175
dave31175  
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Interesting connection. That said I watched neither. I would be interested in seeing Oppenheimer while it's still in theaters but can wait for crowds to die down. I saw the trailer for Barbie and can't imagine sitting through any more of it than the trailer, but will probably watch it just out of curiosity if it streams on one of my services.
Patrick Johanneson 🚀
Patrick Johanneson 🚀  
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@dave31175 Barbie is an existential crisis with a pastel colour palette, in case that helps.
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dave31175
dave31175  
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@pjohanneson Meh, the unwatchable trailer (granted trailers can be a poor representation of a film, but it is their job after all to make one *want* to watch the film) and the immense popularity (I don't always have a good track record with immensely popular films, e.g. Get Out, Parasite, Top Gun Maverick) are a couple of large red flags. Nonetheless I'm sure curiosity will win out and I'll give it a watch if it drops on one of my services!
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VIN Number Diesel
VIN Number Diesel  
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The lesson is: Don't apply for psychiatry jobs at Arkham Asylum.
eena meena me
eena meena me  
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n…none yet… but good to know

(i'm leaning towards barbie…)
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛  
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actually I double-checked and at least Nolan's Scarecrow was a psychologist, not a psychiatrist
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛  
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@silverwizard I'll go check the 17 versions of Harley Quinn on DC and see if any one of them is a psychiatrist. 😃
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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛  
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DC has been terribly inconsistent about whether she is an MD or not, not just between versions, but often within one and the same story universe too:

https://www.cbr.com/harley-quinn-psychiatrist-psychologist/

(DC Fandom was vague about it and didn't provide sources)
Trish Roberts
Trish Roberts  
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Oppenheimer, all the way.
Damselfly - Photo Management 📷
Damselfly - Photo Management 📷  
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Would have been a better toot if you'd followed the modern convention that women are also actors. 😁
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛  
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@Damselfly - Photo Management 📷 That's the convention now? Certainly not in entertainment news.

I considered it. In Swedish I would have done it without a second thought. In English I'm unsure if that would have drawn a bunch of noisy comments distracting from the meme, so I took the safe route.

I may do it differently next time, as your response indicates that using the genderless word might be more accepted and less "activist" than I thought.

I agree that the symmetry would have made it better.
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