We have updated our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy, effective March 1, 2017. Read more about these changes. You are currently citing in MLA 7 format. To cite in MLA 8, click here. What am I Citing?Recently, Ryan Grim posted a story about Sen. Ron Johnson's (R - Wis.) view that The Lego Movie was anti-capitalist. Rep. Johnson responded rather quickly with a post of his own to double-down, and cited several articles to make his case that a broad spectrum found The Lego Movie to be "an especially grievous slam on business." Alas, someone didn't fact-check the fact-check. Sen. Johnson's first citation, from the Weekly Standard, begins by saying "Never before in history have liberal clichés about the evils and the rapacity of capitalism been combined so ironically as they are in The Lego Movie." His second, in the Economist, finds the message to be "libertarian", and says the film "is about learning to break free of the instructions on the box." His third, via the Boston Globe, is an opinion piece, clearly in response to previously existing critiques which found The Lego Movie to be anti-business, whose title says it all: "The Lego Movie may be anti-business, but kids need to hear it" (which, ironically in a different way, may be the piece that most supports his claim that people have widely found the movie to be anti-business).
Fourth, he cites an article in what he terms "the liberal Atlantic" (entitled "The Lego Movie: Further Evidence of Will Ferrell's Subversive Genius"), which in fact specifically challenges the sense in an anti-business interpretation of the movie. The final piece, from The New Statesman actually first appeared in the New Republic; and its title, "Why is the Lego Movie Pushing Anti-Capitalist Propaganda?", is clearly meant to be a satirical jab at those who would take the film so seriously - as this quotation illustrates: "But even more cartoonish is a world where full-grown adults devote ostensibly serious news time to decrying a children's movie. And that, more than capitalism itself, is precisely what The Lego Movie is attacking." The real clincher is a few paragraphs later, though: "At the risk of stating the obvious, we should remember that this movie cannot possibly be anti-capitalist." The author goes on to point out the extremely lucrative profits raked in at the box office, as well as other and varied lucrative associated products.
Perhaps it is needless to say, but clearly none of the five stories characterize the movie as "a grievous assault on business". Complete fail on Sen. Johnson's attempt to support a point with citations - I wonder who was looking stuff up for him? But hey - this whole "fact-checking" thing is kind of new for a lot of folks on the right. Kudos for the attempt, in my book. How will Donald Trump’s first 100 days impact YOU? Subscribe, choose the community that you most identify with or want to learn more about and we’ll send you the news that matters most once a week throughout Trump’s first 100 days in office.The Lego Movie FunnyThe Lego Movie QuotesMovie PresidentLego ThelegomovieLove'N LegosLego AwesomeAwesome BandBest Movies EverMovies CartonsForwardTHE LEGO MOVIE QUOTE president business. all im asking for is total perfection! "Everything Is Awesome" is the theme song to the 2014 Warner Bros. Pictures film The Lego Movie. It was written by Shawn Patterson,[1] Jo Li,[2][3] and The Lonely Island.
The single and pop version featured in the end credits of the movie was produced by Mark Mothersbaugh[4] and performed by Tegan and Sara in collaboration with The Lonely Island. The version of "Everything Is Awesome" featured in The Lego Movie scene, official trailer,[5] TV spots,[6][7][8] video game, and featurette[9] was produced by Bartholomew[10] and performed by Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton under the name Jo Li. A third version appears in The Lego Batman Movie, performed by Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine. On January 26, 2014, the song received its first US radio airplay via Anything Anything with Rich Russo on WXPK-FM, WRAT-FM and WDHA-FM.[11] Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara said in a Billboard interview: We want to be a "serious" musical band, while also being humorous people, but this was so adorable, and the movie looked great, and the opportunity to do something with Mark Mothersbaugh and the Lonely Island ... it was sort of a no-brainer, and it's turned out to be this really cool moment.
We feel like it was a win-win. In an interview to Fox News, Mark Mothersbaugh says the song "was supposed to be like mind control early in the film. It's totally irritating, this kind of mindless mantra to get people up and working." The music video features Lego versions of Tegan and Sara as well as The Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone. Parts of the video were made using brickfilming. "Everything is Awesome" debuted at No. 7 on the Dance/Electronic Songs chart, with 34,000 downloads in its first week (Nielsen SoundScan) and 11 on the Irish Charts. It also charted 35 on the Canadian Hot 100. The song charted 17 on the UK Charts and charted 3 on the UK Indie. In the US Billboard Hot 100, the song charted 57.[15] As of June 2014, the single had sold 418,000 copies in the United States. International Business Times described the song as a parody of creeping fascism, saying that the song "seems little more than an infectiously catchy parody of watered-down radio pop, right down to the faux-dubstep breakdown.
There’s a lot more happening under the surface, however." As one of the songs nominated for Best Original Song at the 2015 Oscars, "Everything is Awesome" was performed as a large-scale musical number featuring not only Tegan and Sara and The Lonely Island, but also on-stage appearances by Mothersbaugh (paying homage to his 1970s group Devo by wearing a LEGO version of the distinctive Devo energy dome), DJ Questlove, and comic actor Will Arnett dressed as Batman (in the film, Arnett provides the voice of Batman and sings the mocking heavy metal composition "Untitled Self Portrait", an excerpt of which was incorporated into the "Everything Is Awesome" performance).[18] According to LEGO Movie co-director Christopher Miller, for this on-stage appearance, Arnett wore the Batman costume originally worn by Val Kilmer in the 1995 film Batman Forever.[19] Arnett also lip-synced to the song on the Reality TV Show Lip Sync Battle, while dressed as Emmet, the character voiced by Chris Pratt in The Lego Movie.
^ [1] "Playlists for 1/26/14" ^ a b 'The Lego Movie': Why Tegan & Sara Went Chirpy for 'Everything Is Awesome' (Video). ^ Devo lead singer dishes on creating catchy 'Lego' song. ^ How 'The Lego Movie' And 'Everything Is Awesome' Parody Creeping Everyday Fascism. ^ WATCH: ‘Everything is Awesome’ at the Oscars Thanks to Will Arnett’s Batman and Oprah, Variety. accessed February 25, 2015 ^ Nick Romano, Will Arnett Wore A Piece Of Batman History At The Oscars. ^ ARIA Australian Top 40 Digital Tracks | Australia's Official Top 40 Digital Downloads. ^ "Tegan and Sara – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Tegan and Sara. Retrieved February 23, 2014. ^ "Chart Track: Week 09, 2014". Retrieved February 24, 2014. ^ ".nz – Tegan And Sara feat. The Lonely Island – Everything Is Awesome". ^ "Archive Chart: March 1, 2014". Scottish Singles Top 40. ^ "1, 2014/ Archive Chart: March 1, 2014" UK Singles Chart. ^ "1, 2014/ Archive Chart: March 1, 2014" UK Indie Chart.