10 More Scrapped Movie Scenes Better Than What We Got

While Greta Gerwig's billion-dollar smash hit still found a way to drop a hilariously shocking f-bomb into the bright pink musical comedy, there was actually a time there when one would've popped up way earlier in the flick.

During the film's instantly iconic opening sequence, one heavily inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, the voice of Helen Mirren pops up as Barbie's David Attenborough-esque narrator. And though hearing the masterful Mirren talk about how this doll changed the world as she introduced viewers to Barbieland early on was obviously a captivating treat, those first few minutes would have also originally possessed an extended joke that would have stunned audiences out of the gate.

According to Gerwig herself when talking to Cinemablend earlier this year, the director's favourite line in the entire flick would have been included in this alternate opening. The joke would have involved Mirren's narrator telling Marie Curie to "pipe the f*** down" on page one, a flabbergasting exchange that was designed to set the tone for the routinely astonishing picture to come.

In the end, though, Gerwig ended up sacrificing this much more comical and outrageous opening scene, with Issa Rae being given the solitary F-bomb honour instead.