The Lego Movie Analysis

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Most people can remember playing with Legos at some point in their lives. From 1958-2013, 650 billion Lego bricks were manufactured and sold in 130 countries, making Legos one of the most popular childhood toys. In more recent years, with digital technology on the rise, Lego’s have a become popular subject in video games and movies. The Lego Movie was the first movie centered around Legos to use a fully CGI animation style. While The Lego Movie may at first appear to be an average children's movie, it's storyline goes much deeper than that most movies marketed primarily to families, allowing it to quickly become one of the most sold movies of 2014. Through the use of creative cinematography which helps reinforce the storyline, as well as an ingenious adaptation of an Orwellian society, based upon capitalist values and extreme conformity, The Lego Movie pushes a pro-libertarian, anti-capitalist message, hidden behind the innocent facade of children’s movie. …show more content…

Conformity is especially prevalent in The Lego Movie because it plays on the fact that, while Legos can be used with creativity, they are generally very instruction oriented (e.g. instruction booklets for every lego set). As stated by Joel Arnold, an NPR movie reviewer, “there's an instruction manual for everything, and Emmet eats, watches and says exactly what he's supposed to. The instructions say that's how you fit in, make friends, lead a happy life”. While obviously, this is exaggerated conformity, the conformity seen among the Lego construction workers in the beginning of the film is somewhat realistic, and can be compared to conformity found in any workplace or

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