Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation) Kindle Fire HDX 8.9'' Kindle Fire HD(2nd Generation) Fire HDX 8.9 Tablet Fire HD 7 Tablet Fire HD 6 Tablet Kindle Fire HD 8.9" Kindle Fire HD(1st Generation) Kindle for Android Phones Kindle for Android Tablets Kindle for iPod Touch Available on these devices This book features Kindle Text Pop-Up for reading text over vivid, full-color images when using Kindle Fire or select Kindle Reading Apps. Color Children’s Picture Books with Kindle Text Pop-Up. An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis. All Cast & Crew 7 February 2014 | I was the only adult who didn't bring kids to the theater and all I can say is that I was leading the clapping ... 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 ... ... He's coming, cover your butts. Throughout the movie, Vitruvius clearly sees certain things happen and looks directly at some characters, even though he's supposed to be blind. Except for the Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures logos and even the debut of the Warner Animation Group logo (all presented in LEGO), there are no opening credits, not even the film's title, which doesn't appear until the end of the main-on-end credits. Gravity Falls creator boards Sony’s animated Spider-Man movie Lego Movie 2 will apparently be a musical set in Spaaace! The LEGO Batman Movie Dive deep into IMDb Picks, Amazon Originals, and more. IMDb Picks TV Amazon OriginalsThe film industry is waking up to the fact that it needs to better represent female audiences, says one of Hollywood's most successful writing teams.Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who wrote and directed the Lego Movie, have said they will create more female role models for the sequel.
"It's important to us that the movie plays broadly and that we inspire young women as much as we inspire young men," Lord told the BBC.With the Lego Movie and 22 Jump Street, Lord and Miller are responsible for two of the highest-grossing films at the US box office in 2014. The Lego Movie has made more than $468m (£294m) worldwide, and the pair will also write and produce the follow-up, which is due out in 2018. The Lego toy company made headlines in August when it released a set of three female scientist figures - a palaeontologist, an astronomer, and a chemist - but it has also faced criticism for the predominantly pink Lego Friends range, which is aimed at young girls, Asked what female roles were planned for Lego Movie 2, Miller said: "I don't want to give spoilers but there will be more female characters and more female stuff." He wouldn't reveal whether the lead character would be female. Recent females leads in animated feature films include the princesses Merida in Brave and Anna in Frozen.
Both films won Oscars for best animated feature. The first Lego Movie featured a male protagonist Emmet Brickowski (voiced by Chris Pratt), a construction worker whose "love interest" is Wyldestyle (Elizabeth Banks), a freedom fighter with "a strong, independent streak". "You can feel that the whole movie culture is now starting to wake up to the fact that half the audience are women," Lord said. "Frozen is reflective of that - and I think we are all going to find a great flourishing of women film makers and subject matter in the future."Miller added: "There's been a real shortage of [female protagonists] in recent years and I think that the near future will be very different."The pair, who also wrote and directed the 2009 hit Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, said that they had no more than a plot outline for Lego Movie 2."You would think there would be be more pieces in place but all we've written is 'Fade in..,'" said Lord."I'm certain [that] many broad elements of it will change by the time the movie comes out because that's the way the way that it works," Miller added.
"It's like Lego itself - you can take it apart and put it back together in a different shape."With the release of The LEGO Movie on DVD and Blu-ray this week, we’re taking a look behind the scenes of the movie with the cast and crew. mentators: Chris Miller (co-director), Phil Lord (co-director), Allison Brie (actor), Chris Pratt (actor), Will Arnett (actor), Charlie Day (actor), Elizabeth Banks (actor)1. The design of President Business incorporated elements from a typical businessman, like coffee cup horns that shoot flames. His cape is also shaped like a red neck tie, and the base of his helmet is the knot of the tie.2. The “8 1/2 Years Later” title card is meant to represent Finn (Jadon Sand), the child playing with the toys, who is 8 1/2 years old. Something not totally clear until the reveal at the end.3. There is a poster on Emmet’s wall for a movie called Macho and the Nerd. This is, no kidding, the Russian title for 21 Jump Street.4. With very few exceptions (including some custom head pieces and a few characters like Abraham Lincoln and Shakespeare), every LEGO seen in the movie is a real piece.
Creative uses of some real LEGO bricks include ice cream scoops for water bubbles, Emmet’s shower cap from the surgeon character and white clown wigs for some of the dust kicked up during the chase from the Old West.5. Most of the LEGOs seen in the animated parts of the film are built in the computer. A few exceptions include some titles cards (including the “5 Hours Later” card), some backgrounds (including the city behind Emmet when he first sees Wyldstyle), and the fully stop-motion animated end credits.6. Miller and Lord wanted Liam Neeson to do the lines for Good Cop and Bad Cop in different sessions, but Neeson insisted on switching between them, making his performance even more impressive (and manic).7. Emmet’s “friends” at the construction site as well as some of the Master Builders, are cameo voices of actors Miller and Lord had worked with before, including David Franco (Wally), Jake Johnson (Barry), Will Forte (Abraham Lincoln), Channing Tatum (Superman), and Jonah Hill (Green Lantern).8.
Bad Cop’s line “Darn! Darny darn!” was improvised by Liam Neeson.9. The face of a LEGO character can, in fact, be erased with nail polish remover, but “it takes a lot of rubbing to get rid of it,” says Miller.10. Mark Mothersbaugh tracked down Alessandro Alessandroni, who provided the whistling for Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti western soundtracks, to provide the whistling heard in the music of Old West land.11. Animals from the real vintage LEGO toy line Fabuland can be seen on the walls of the saloon in the Old West.12. Vitruvius is named after an ancient Greek architect. His outfit includes a tie die shirt, jeans, an open bathrobe, a rubber band around his head, and a partially-eaten sucker for a staff. Meant to be a “Sedona hippie,” he was also given a pair of crocs, which are painted on his feet (though do not appear on the real Vitruvius Lego toy).13. After the heroes’ stagecoach crashes into the train, a pig can be seen falling to the ground and exploding into a bunch of sausages.14.
In one draft of the screenplay, Metal Beard was Wyldstyle’s boyfriend, but Miller and Lord changed it to Batman because they felt that was even more insurmountable for Emmet.15. Aside from Vitruvius’s death, the only non-robot that is killed in the movie is a Tiki Guy who gets squished during the assault on Cloud Cuckooland.16. While there are guns throughout the movie, none of them fire bullets (even in the Old West). Instead, they shoot laser bolts, which are made from LEGO lightsaber blades.17. Vitruvius’s line “Ah, we gotta write all that down ’cause I’m not gonna remember any of it, but here we go,” is actually an outtake of Morgan Freeman getting frustrated with changes being made to his lines.18. There was a shot in which Scuba Cops are shirking their searching duties and making out with mermaids, but after test screenings, it was cut because it was considered too racy for a kids movie.19. The seam in Emmet’s hair was designed before the actual toy was made, and when the toy went through production, it ended up not having a seam on the hair.
The shots of Emmet in the real world are mostly shot with a physical toy, but a few shots also use the CGI model, which can be identified by the seam.20. The screens behind Emmet during his final confrontation with Lord Business are Brick Movies made by fans for a contest. These are included on the DVD and Blu-ray.21. The expression on Lord Business’s face when he finally sees things Emmet’s way is based on the Grinch’s expression when his heart grows three sizes.22. Different versions of the script included Unikitty getting together with Batman at the end, as well as her getting together with Metal Beard at the end.23. The voice of the sister is Chris Miller’s son Graham when he was 3, recorded on Miller’s iPhone.24. Easter eggs included in the end credits include a Oscar statuette and a Catwoman helmet on animation director Chris McKay’s credit because he’s a big fan of Catwoman; and an owl in production designer Grant Freckelton’s credit because he was the production designer for Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole.
While it’s fun to sit through a commentary with a large group of people (because it makes us nobodies out here in flyover country feel like we’re laughing together with Will Arnett and Charlie Day), these recordings can be frustrating. In general, actors don’t have as much quality behind-the-scenes information to dole out, and they also have seen the film fewer times than directors so they’re more likely to get distracted and watch the movie rather than simply talk about it. Actor commentaries also tend to be a breeding ground for sarcasm and fake stories that are good for a chuckle but kind of defeat the purpose of the commentary function. (I know I’m starting to sound like grumpy old Lord Business here. Still, this group had enough friendly interaction to not make things too distracting. Elizabeth Banks calling in was a nice touch and had its heart in the right place, but because she couldn’t see the screen or hear the movie, she was limited quite a bit. When Arnett, Brie, Day, and Pratt focused, they had some cool things to say, but most of the choice moments in this commentary come from Miller and Lord who, in typical filmmaker fashion, don’t think anyone actually listens to these things.