Is The Beanie Bubble Based on a True Story?
The Inspiration Behind 'The Beanie Bubble' Isn't What We Expected
By Jamie LernerJul. 21 2023, Published 2:15 p.m. ET
After the fad of true crime reenactments, we’re now getting reenactments of the unknown darkish beginning tales in the back of nostalgic joy, akin to beanie small children. There was once no craze more than the beanie baby craze of the late ‘90s when other folks around the international began obsessively amassing beanie babies.
Now, Apple TV Plus’s film, The Beanie Bubble, goals to inform the story of the beanie craze. With its vibrant colours and quirky casting, we will’t lend a hand however wonder if it’s a fictionalized version of beanie mania or if it’s based on a true story. So what’s the care for The Beanie Bubble?
‘The Beanie Bubble’ is technically based on the e book, which is based on a true story.
The story of the 3 girls who helped Ty Warner transform the billionaire he is today is the middle of The Beanie Bubble. Sure, it’s about the rise of beanie babies. But it’s also about the characters who made them and the politics that surround the ones characters.
Written through Al Gore’s daughter, Kristin Gore, who co-directed the film with her husband, OK Go frontman Damian Kulash, The Beanie Bubble weaves the thread between female empowerment, American politics, and quirky comedy. The movie is technically based on Zac Bissonnette’s non-fiction book, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute.
The filmmakers obviously tried to seize the “dark side of lovable” in the film, which they do thru various storytelling tactics. The name collection is a slo-mo crash of a truck filled with beanie babies. "It's a real incident that happened,” Kristin told Movie Web. “And it felt like a perfect metaphor for the entire movie, for everything we're trying to say with it.”
Parts of ‘The Beanie Bubble’ are highly fictionalized.
Despite pulling from true moments and true stories, there are also fictionalized bits and pieces of The Beanie Bubble. The film is trying more to capture an essence than it is a direct line of storytelling. “The Beanie Babies for us were really just this colorful backdrop to tell a deeper story about what and who we value in the female relationship to the American Dream, and how we got to where we are now,” Kristin shared.
In a way, Ty Warner becomes a stand-in for capitalism, the American dream, idealism, and so much more. He’s much more of a character and a symbol than he is a true-to-reality depiction of a real man.
“I think he's standing in for the American dream," Damian added. "We should be clear that we didn't research Ty, and these are not the actual women. This is a composite story that we learned from that book, and we're careful to say in the beginning, we made up a bunch of this, but that's mostly because we don't particularly care about these stuffed animals.”
While the true story of Ty Warner is just as fascinating—as an adult child of divorce, he allegedly tried to seduce his father’s girlfriends—that’s not the focus of The Beanie Bubble. “This is a rags-to-riches story. It's just not his rags-to-riches story," Damian mentioned. "We want it to be that these women go on the journey where they get what they want in the end!”
Well, we are all here for a female-driven rags-to-riches story that seems to be about our favorite ‘90s nostalgia paraphernalia. Princess Diana could be proud, and we’re not simply talking about the bear.
The Beanie Bubble is now appearing in select theaters and is to be had to move on Apple TV Plus on July 28.
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