Uses the audiences perception of reality and shifts it on its head, it doesn't focus on immersion by letting the audience know that the universe the movie is in is one far from their own.
'Postmodernism questions what is real and what is absolute.'
-Palmer 2014
The lego movie is postmodernist as it contains characters that contradict the typical movie protagonists, take Emmet who is far from a hero, he begins the movie with as much opportunity as everyone else. He greets his neighbours, goes to work and watches TV just like everyone else, at the beginning he is very sub-superior to the 'master builders' but through his own imagination and self-belief he turns himself into the hero he dreams to be.
The movie contains multiple genres and constantly flicks between them all, it begins as a light-hearted comedy but in the middle plays on action-adventure.
Intertextuality :
The movie starts on a lego figure starting the day who we learn is called Emmet, then he mistakenly gets imprisoned, he meets a 'master builder' called WyldStyle that breaks him out and informs him that he is 'the special'. He meets Characters from pop culture that are part of the master builders such as Batman,Superman and Han Solo. They find out that Emmet is not a master builder and get angered by this, President Business sends his robots to kill the master builders. Emmet ends up having to partner up with Wyldstyle to save the city of BricksBurg by showing President Business that there is no point in killing all the master builders because he can believe in himself enough to become one.
The message is that if anyone believes in themselves enough they can conquer anything and achieve their dreams, all they need is imagination and creativity.
- The whole movie follows the same plot and idea of 'the matrix'
- Contains characters from the superhero genre
- A game was released along with The Lego Movie
Propp's Spheres of Action:
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