FILM 1299: THE LEGO MOVIE
TRIVIA: The term "Master
Builder" is actually an official designation by the Lego Company; per
their website, "LEGO® Master Builders are the highly-trained and
super-creative builders who design all of the official LEGO sets. Other LEGO
Master Builders create giant, detailed sculptures out of LEGO bricks for
LEGOLAND® Parks and special events all around the world."
The word "Lego" is never
spoken in the movie.
Lord Business is president of
Octan, a fictional gas station brand that first appeared in 1992 and has since
been featured in numerous Lego sets.
In order to add more realism to the
movie, the Lego bricks have scratches, fading, and even fingerprints to make
the movie look like someone was manipulating real bricks in a stop-motion
fashion. The Bricks are also affected by their locations, with the bricks in
The Old West realm being more dusty and faded from the sunlight.
Benny, AKA the "1980-something
space guy", a Minifigure from LEGO's classic Space line, has a broken
helmet and a worn-out, scuffed logo on his suit, similar to how many real-life
Space Minifigures look after being used. The helmet is even shown to be cracked
at the same spot where the real-life LEGO piece would usually break.
With the exception of unique pieces
for the characters in the film (i.e: President Business's hair and evil helmet)
every Lego piece in the movie actually exists and can be used in sets.
The creators deliberately tried to
make the movie feel like stop-motion, and avoided making the computer-generated
effects look too obvious. This was done to make the movie look like it contained
real Lego.
After the first "Everything is
Awesome" sequence, the title card that says "5 Hours Later" in
Lego is a photograph of real Lego, and one of the few non-CGI Lego shots in the
movie. The ending credits are also real Lego animated by stop-motion.
Morgan Freeman stated that
the Batman in this film is his favorite incarnation of the character of all
time.
The numbers seen with the pieces
when Master Builders were assembling their free form models are the official
Lego Element ID's (or part numbers) for each of the components used in each of
the models.
In Emmett's apartment, there is a
poster for a movie called "Macho and the Nerd" which is the Russian
title for a previous Phil Lord
and Christopher Miller movie, 21 Jump Street (2012).
When in the Octan tower, Wyldstyle
goes off and tells them to wait for her signal. When she gives it, it's the
"Super Secret" signal from Team America: World Police.
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