The Lego Movie Mindmap
A mindmap containing information on audience, genre and representation within The Lego Movie
- Created by: parisbarnes
- Created on: 06-02-18 10:52
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- The Lego Movie
- Genre
- Superhero
- Use of DC characters
- Superman
- Green Lantern
- Batman
- Wonder Woman
- Emmet's origin story is much like other superheroes
- Action scenes mimic superhero films
- Fictional Metropolis
- Use of DC characters
- Action/Adventure
- City setting
- Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman are typecast into action roles
- Race against time
- Good vs. Evil
- Sci-fi
- Futuristic Settings
- Time Travel
- Spaceships and robots
- Dystopian Narrative
- Conflict between humans and robots
- Western
- Sub-narrative
- Generic costume; hats, boots, neckscarfs, long dresses
- Generic props; guns, beer, horses
- Typical Scenery; cacti, sand, tumbleweed, desert
- Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson and Will Ferrell have all acted in western films
- Comedy
- Comic actors such as Will Ferrell, Charlie Day, Nick Offerman and CHanning Tatum
- Directors are known for their work in comedy
- The 'unlikely hero' character, inexperienced compared to everyone else
- Objects are out of place
- Intertextual References
- Character's from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings
- Wyldstyle and Good Cop/Bad Cop are modelled on characters in The Matrix
- Characters from superhero films
- Warner Bros and Lego are able to include characters from the companies they own
- Superhero
- Audience
- ITV changed all of it's adverts during breaks for Dancing on Ice to Lego simulations of the original adverts
- Appeals to men, women, over 25s and under 25s
- Uses nostalgia to sell the film and the brand
- Animation appeals to younger children
- Voice actors attract an older, more culturally educated audience
- Representation
- Hyper-reality
- Satirises the idea of constructing a 'reality'
- Stereotypes
- Emmett is a 'blue collar' hero, no identity outside of the Lego world
- Wyldstyle is first percieved to be a strong female protagonist but is later identified as the love interest.
- Batman is the embodiment of alpha male, heteronormative gender roles
- Lord Business is a stereotypical villain, ruling over the dystopia
- Genre
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