Sign in or Become a MemberGet access to amazing benefits like free refills on large popcorn & up to $5 off tickets every Tuesday. Join for free now, or upgrade and get even more great perks.Redditor turns classic movie scenes into LEGO art From James Bond to Stanley Kubrick, Alex Eylar’s built dozens of miniature sets. Alex Eylar has a LEGO collection every kid dreams about. In his living room sits a desk packed with tubs, boxes, and cylindrical containers filled to the brim with more than 30,000 colorful blocks. On top rests an army of LEGO bodies and heads ready to be transformed into anyone imaginable. And over the last two years, Eylar, from Orange County, Calif., has done just that. Using his stockpile of LEGOs, a Sony camera, and his eye for creativity, Eylar has recreated some of the most memorable scenes in movie history—including Star Wars, Psycho, The Godfather, and A Clockwork Orange. “I’d always been a LEGO fan, building whatever I felt like, and I’d always been a movie fan, so a clash was imminent,” Eylar told the Daily Dot.
“I built a few scenes—iconic scenes, things people would recognize—and it just kept going from there.” (For the full list of the movies represented, go here.) Each scene has its own unique challenges. The 007 one, for example, took less than 15 minutes and just required a couple LEGO rubber tires in a row and a mini-figure walking across the frame. On the other hand, the scene from Inception was a totally different animal, Eylar said. “[It] took a full hour, because I had to build an entire hallway that could be flipped over,” Eylar said. “Lighting was coming upwards, not downwards, too, so the entire build was a challenge. But it’s my favorite of the scenes I’ve done. It was a cool challenge, and it paid off.” And it’s also paid off in terms of views. Eylar’s Imgur photo set collected more than 1.1 million views in less than a day, largely thanks to post on Reddit that reached the front page Thursday night. Eylar got his first LEGO collection when he was 5 years old, and LEGOs have been a big part of his life ever since.
His first creation was an old space monorail set he erected in his basement, but it was destroyed in a fire in 1993. He collected pieces all through high school and discovered the online LEGO community that only inspired him more, Eylar said. “Been going strong ever since,” he said. About three months ago, under his Reddit novelty handle ICanLegoThat, Eylar illustrated more than 35 weird Reddit user names using LEGOs (see most of them here). The result was nothing short of incredible, with the post collecting more than 2,300 comments. Since then, Eylar has put most of his LEGO building on hold to focus on graduate school. But now that classes are over, the LEGO creations may soon return. “I’ve been thrust into the real world and need to focus on other things at the moment, but the LEGO still sits in my living room, for whenever I can find the time,” he said. All photos by Alex EylarThe casting of the next 007 is a contentious issue for cinephiles around the world, especially for those in Bond’s native United Kingdom.
He’s among the most iconic fictional people to ever be fictionalized—Bond fans are more protective of him and his legacy than perhaps any other fervent fan group is of their precious heroes (save, maybe, One Directioners). Accordingly, the internet has stirred itself into a hilarious frenzy over which actor will be blessed with the opportunity to don the famous tux and shoot people in beautiful, remote, locations. Below is a temporal record of this never-ending brouahaha. October 2012: Skyfall, the third Bond film to star Daniel Craig, premieres. Craig suggests that Steven Gerrard, the Liverpool football star, succeed him as the next James Bond. November 2012: Craig is rumored to be on contract for two more Bond films after Skyfall. Fall 2012: The Idris Elba rumors begin. January 2013: Craig suggests that Robert Pattinson, an actor best known for his role in the vampire franchise Twilight, be the next James Bond. July 2013: Skyfall director Sam Mendes announces that he will return to direct the next Bond film.
Summer 2013: Will Smith, Ryan Gosling, Daniel Radcliffe, boxer David Haye, and One Direction’s Niall Horan are all rumored to be the next James Bond. September 2013: Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is rumored to be the next James Bond. Three-time Oscar Winner Daniel Day-Lewis shoots down rumors that he will be the next James Bond. Fall 2013: Tom Hardy, Damian Lewis, and several other handsome white British actors are rumored to be the next James Bond. January 2014: Idris Elba says there is no truth to the rumors that he will play James Bond. “It’s a rumor that’s gotten out of control,” he says. Spring 2014: A twist! Kevin Spacey and Chiwetel Eljiofor are rumored to be the next Bond villains. Neither rumor proves to be true. September 2014: Denzel Washington says he’d like to be the next James Bond. December 2014: Sony reveals the cast of the next Bond film, called Spectre. Leaked Sony emails reveal that former Sony Pictures head Amy Pascal supported the idea of Idris Elba as the next James Bond.
The Idris Elba rumors begin once again. American conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh says James Bond cannot be black. February 2015: Former Bond star Pierce Brosnan endorses Idris Elba for Bond 2016. March 2015: Eighty-seven year old former Bond actor Roger Moore says Bond should be “English-English.” April 2015: For some reason, there are more Ryan Gosling rumors. June 2015: British oddsmakers give Damian Lewis the best chance to become the next James Bond. August 2015: David Oyelowo announces he will voice Bond in an upcoming audiobook, becoming the first “black James Bond.” The internet later begins to wonder if he should play Bond on screen, too. September 2015: Anthony Horowitz, an author of James Bond novels, says Idris Elba is “too street” to play Bond. Horowitz apologizes the very same day. Tom Hardy becomes the bookies’ favorite to play Bond, ahead of Lewis and Elba. Rumors swirl that British soccer legend David Beckham could be cast as the next Bond.