Lego Movie Narrative.

Intertextuality is when one text links to another.

Narrative.

Equilibrium - Emmet is an average guy living a happy life and "everything is awesome"

Disruption - Emmet meets Wildstyle and gets stuck to the piece of resistance, He then is forced to                          run from the police force.

Resolution - They take refuge in Cloud Cuckoo Land and bring together the master builders to                                 inspire them to work together.

Disruption - Emmet's speech is terrible and doesn't inspire anyone.
                    Cloud Cuckoo Land is invaded and destroyed by the Police force, capturing many                                master builders in the process.

Resolution - The team builds a submarine to escape from the Police.

Disruption - The submarine floods and explodes.

Resolution - The team hides inside a double-decker couch to avoid drowning and to escape from the                       Police Force. The couch is found by Metal Beard and the team begins to come up with
                      a plan to infiltrate Lord Business' tower.

Disruption - The plan goes wrong and everyone is captured. Vitruvius dies, Lord Business begins his plan to freeze everyone and Emmet loses hope.

Resolution/Disruption - Vitruvius comes back to Emmet as a ghost and inspires Emmet. Emmet jumps off of the tower with a Battery which causes the holding cells the Master Builders are in to lose power, Emmet however falls into the wormhole at the bottom of the tower.

Resolution - The master builders inspire everyone to fight back.

Disruption - The people can't beat Lord Business' Micro-managers and are glued to the spot.

Disruption - Emmet enters a dimension where 'The Man Upstairs' exists. The father (played by Will Ferrell) sees the mess that his son has made and continues to destroy the abominations and glue pieces together.

Resolution - Emmet is sent back to his own dimension with the Piece of resistance. He becomes a master builder and races to Lord Business. The son has a heart to heart with his father and so does Emmet with Lord Business. The kragle is disarmed by the piece of resistance and everyone frozen is un-frozen.

New Equilibrium - Everyone is happy and allowed to live however they want and build whatever they want.

lego movie facts

The top six big Hollywood studios are:




Warner Bros. Pictures;

20th Century Fox;

Paramount Pictures;

Columbia Pictures;

Universal Studios;

Walt Disney Studios;

A conglomerate company is a company which has rights over and owns other companies such as Walt Disney Studios owning Marvel Studios and Pixar.

The stages of production are:

DEVELOPMENT - Ideas for the film are created, rights for plays/books etc. are bought. The screenplay is written and financing is sought.

PRE-PRODUCTION - Preparations for the shoot are made, actors are hired as well as crew, locations are selected and sets are constructed.

PRODUCTION - The raw footage is recorded.

POST-PRODUCTION - The images, sound and visual effects are edited.

DISTRIBUTION - The finished film is distributed, marketed and screened in cinemas and/or to be sold on home video.

The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) regulates films in the UK.

The main two companies that produced The Lego Movie are:

Warner Bros. Pictures;

Animal Logic;

The directors of The Lego Movie are Chris Miller and Phil Lord.

It costed $100 Million

Half of the film's cost was financed by Village Roadshow Pictures. The rest was covered by Warner Bros., with Rat-Pack Dune Entertainment providing a smaller share.

Warner Bros. Pictures distributed The Lego Movie worldwide and Roadshow Films distributed it in Australia.