“Benny gets everyone back to bricksburg with the power of autism.” There is nothing else beyond this point. All else is irrelevant in the face of true comedy.
If I had a nickel for everytime Will Ferrell stared in a film that invokes existential thought that’s also based on a toy franchise, I’d have two nickels Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice
In his later career I cant stand him. Possibly Ive grown or he simply doesn’t have the same impact he used to. Barbie, Homes and Watson, The House. All giga shit performance
I was so unbelievably shocked to see the Octan logo on a Lego City set after seeing the movie, then to realize it was always there. Felt like discovering the Illuminati or something
The piece of resistance is clearly a metaphor for reading theory, as it tends to make it difficult to move thanks to a massive protrusion from your body.
@@EternalPhoenix not sure if this is a joke, but by "reading theory" I mean literally reading the books that explain fundamental marxist principles and the analysis that Marxists like myself base our understanding of the world on. I'm sure there are reading lists floating around but Parenti is always a good place to start.
When we were being taught about 1984 in highschool. At one point during analysis of the book I had an epiphany and I said out loud that the story, themes and messages in 1984 reminded me a lot of the LEGO movie. I then went back and rewatched the movie after finishing the book and it all made so much sense. The LEGO Movie is the true movie adaptation of 1984
I just read the book and now my TH-cam is all like: "You want to see this fun video about the Lego Movie and communism!" In the beginning of the video I was thinking: "This sounds almost like 1984." And the direct reference at 7:34 was like: "See, it is like 1984"
I hope, then, that you realize both the LEGO movie and 1984 are not communist propaganda but anti-communist, and that nothing described in here criticizes capitalism but the opposite.
As a non native English speaker with just acceptable enough comand of the language, once I heard "ferrellussy" I had to pause, rewind, put on the captions and read them, meticulously type each letter of "ferrellussy" on the browser search bar only to come up with no results, wonder what to do to find out what "ferrellussy" was, then had a heart-stopping realization as I splayed out my trembling fingers to type "president business man voice actor". Ah, yes, these are the research skills I get to polish as an English learner. This truly was an enlightment moment I will never forget in my road to master the language. I shall keep watching you to learn more words.
Brother I could only imagine learning English in this day and age where we are constantly making new words, or giving a different meaning to a word. Im tryna learn latvian rn n hoping I don't have to deal with that haha. bless ya tho brother man love ur determination
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I think it's also really interesting how Emmett is completely oblivious to the redundancy of voting machines until he says it out loud, as if President Business is the only President there has ever been for quite some time.
I just realized this…oh my goodness. I got like “oh he’s voted cause his company makes the machines” but it just clicked in my brain that he’s been the ONLY one voted for who knows how long. Ironically, I find it more funny because it calls back to it being about the dad of the kid. The dad makes the rules so obviously he’s always be the one in charge when it comes to the legos LMAO
@@compassrose1466 Honestly, I think there's probably more candidates that people can vote for, but the voting machines rig them to all be in favor of President Business, just to give an illusion of choice.
@@compassrose1466 theres also a sign in the background of the Everything is awsome scene saying "I'm President, Because I said So" (or something to that effect) just adding to the beauty that is this film
same vibe as EPIC the musial's song puppeteer going "but this was a hell of a twist. cause we are weak to a power like this" "what was it?" "a woman" "what?"
Idk if every autistic person also has these but i get hyper fixations in specific things for a bit of time before moving on to the next interesting thing The Lego movie being released at the same time as my “space” phase definitely made him my favorite character
I remember watching this in theatres, the movie hits the ground RUNNING with its comedy, the theatre was laughing out loud before our main character is even introduced.
you got a B because you were right and to give you an A is to agree, people dont want to admit they've been brainwashed, people dont want to admit they are wrong
@@Prororo brain washing is the perfect word. Tell me when you hear the word "communism" I guess you have a negative connotation to the word, but "capitalism" you do not, unless you are educated this is how you see the world. Communism is bad, capitalism is good. But in reality it is quite the opposite. You see communism as bad because it goes directly against capitalism and the power that the rich get in this society, in a communist society it's classless, there are no rich, there are no poor, we are just people, humans. This is further backed with how we go to war with any country that tries to convert to communism, not because communism is bad but because the second there's a proper successful communist country we will ALL realize we've been lied to. Brainwashing is the perfect term
@@bp42s56 always a possibility, not given enough information to say otherwise and I always like finding a place to call out society terrible, the more that accept it now with be more accepting of a revolution in the future, even if their hatred isn't fully real, which yes, is propaganda, and yes, it's not good, but it's very useful
I clicked on this video, thinking it was gonna be an extremely political, sort of “out of left field with its takes” negative review of one of my favorite childhood films. When I instead watched was one of the most well written, funniest, most thought out video essays on one of my favorite pieces of media. Thank you for this :)
Read my comment under the author's comment. It was well-written, but it still managed to miss the point. The movie is simply anti-conformist. It has just as much negative things to say about collectivism as capitalism, as both can force conformity out of people.
@@PaendaTube Idealogues are often only capable of viewing their experiences through a single lens, leading to interpreting everything as for/against, or related to their worldview.
when emmett is listing off all the things octan makes he lists music with a clear punk singer and band in the background something very anti capitalist becoming something a capitalist makes just something i noticed
“Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead.” Which has a double meaning here for both the corporate published punk music in universe, but also the movie itself.
@@sp4c1ng_0ut8 The original punks died out, however the values live on. Punks modify copyrighted works for their own creative interests, it's argued the free modding scene is the result of punk mentality, like modelling a Thomas the Tank Engine and slipping it into any game.
“Oh, you like the Lego movie! What do you think is the best part of it?” “Well, I suppose it’s the subtle hints towards communism and the manifesto of ignorance being bliss, it very smartly hides this premise hidden within a silly funny story for kids. Speaking about the kids, the movie seems to make children aware of the differences between social classes and how the rich benefit off the poor, and how we should rise against our so-called ‘superiors’.” “…” “So why do you like it?” “…Lego funny”
Also I would like to point out that, because of the timer at the end of the movie, we know that *Mississippi is canonically a real place in the Lego world.*
@@theseus0467The kid is imagining all this (for the most part,I’m looking at you scene where Emmet moves on his own in the real world) so we can assume that’s how it got imported
@@harrisontownsend910 And that's because he really does sound generic - perfect for a character like Emmett, less so for a lot of his more recent roles.
So you said Vitruvius's death comes unexpectedly, however i think different. His death follows a very common part of the heroes Journey (a theory on how to build stories and is used pretty often in fantasy), when the protagonist loses the mentor. Vitruvius is literally a caricature of classic 'mentor 'type characters in movies eg. Dumbledore, Gandalf and Obi-wan. So really, the Lego movie is playing into another cliche by killing him off. It's just such a self aware movie and I love it.
Also I love the detail that lord businnes quite literally kills him with his money, through cutting his head off with a coin. This also could interpreted as showing how the money gives him and the mega corporation the power to dominate everything.
@@-AlarionI can't believe I didn't notice this. The voice of wisdom is literally killed by money Edit: PLUS, it's a penny, representing that Business considers even the most worthless form of currency to be above Morgan Freeman
@@CatInSuit69 you're right about yellow people being the lego equivalent of white people (ironic, because "yellow" is the color used to describe east asians), but this movie never touches on race nor expands upon your observation. it focuses on triggering class consciousness, kids figure out the race politics part on their own afterwards
6:18 "his double-decker couch, his one original idea, only works with friends." *fu@# that is such a good little detail* seriously, the Lego Movie IS one of the best animated movies.
- The power of heterosexuality - The power of misogyny - The power of autism These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect movie. But LEGO accidentaly added an extra ingredient to the movie: - The power to turn hearts and minds towards sympathetic ends
I can't believe how long it took me to get the "security cameras, all history books, voting machines... Wait a minute-" joke. I never got it till I was like 17
I guess when we were younger, we were never taught about despotic rule, or anything in-depth about governance or power. I ended up teaching myself quite a bit when I got older, and my brain also developed enough to form these connections more easily.
I could see that Octan was a massive corporation working with a corrupt government to do bad things, but I didn't get the significance of the items listed.
@@Rainfire-forgets-to-animate Exactly! That's what I thought too. I was stuck in a basic, child's mindset of "red team bad, blue team good", so I did not understand the following things.
@@divyankrana16 Ferrel + ussy Ferrel is the last name of the voice actor who played lord business I have no idea how to explain the meaning of ussy without triggering comment censorship but you can just google that part.
@@divyankrana16 sus-kupp, dw about censorship, im risking it for the sake of education (listen here yt) anyways people just add on -ussy to the end of nouns, which includes people (like Will Ferell) to talk about.... doing the devils tango with it, sticking their 👉 in its 👌(those two particular hand emojis refer to intercourse, if u were wondering, so i hope you can extrapolate from that!) it's like a suffix that turns the noun into a variant of pussy (in the sexual way, not the cat way lol), making the subject a sex object really. its often humorous and lighthearted, when used as a bit of a gag for a shock response. so Ferrellussy is, well, referencing his 😺even though im pretty sure he doesn't have one. because hes a cisgender man.
@@MidNiteMenaceOfficial yes because socialism means that every one starves, no one starves under capitalism, no one ever, no one had ever starved under capitalism
@@MidNiteMenaceOfficialhow in the WORLD can you confidently be a capitalist in the wake of late state capitalism??? Like dude look around you, this isn’t working and people ARE starving???
Honestly I think Benny’s representation of autistic hyper-fixation goes even deeper. Every time he says “spaceship!” but especially when he says it repeatedly when he actually gets to build and use one, I interpret it as him spouting out lots of technical terms and lingo, but since none of it registers with anyone else they just perceive it as him saying “spaceship!” Credentials: Have had many an autistic ramble myself that makes no sense to the average person.
Not autistic, but start foaming at the mouth any time I find any interesting telecom infrastructure. This is probably how people see me go on about bands and mimo, and microwaves lol.
He was never confirmed, therefore all you get out of him is a cartoony caricature of a space obsession. Reminds me of Benedict Cumberbatch ranting about his portrayal of ASD characters (Turing, Sherlock). He researched his Frankenstein scientist role for a stage play and had this to say: “I went to schools and met people, some of whom are very high functioning on the autistic spectrum. I met a 17-year-old who had the mental age of a one and a half year old. Everything was just about bodily functions. Smell. Sexual arousal. Shitting. Whatever. So when I hear people use diagnostic labels casually - Sherlock is autistic, Turing is autistic - it really upsets me.”
@@scrittle What’s wrong with noting the very autism-coded attributes of a character? If anything, Benny is a breath of fresh air compared to the horrible representation that autistic people (myself included) have to put up with. It’s nice to see a clearly autistic-coded character that isn’t just a bunch of stereotypes thrown together.
"Don't know what the fuck is up with the dude throwing the tomohawk" It's a dude. Throwing a tomohawk. In an old timey saloon. "Cowboy and Indian" lego sets were numerous.
@blackcontentcreator this isn't about history in any way, this is about modern life, so his lack of knowledge of history which you didn't explain means absolutely nothing.
This is an amazing breakdown of what made the Lego Movie just.. stand out from the rest. I’m definitely on board for more and I can’t wait to see what else you can do. Here’s to 100k soon, you’d deserve it.
Really the only things this movie has to say about government is that totalitarianism is bad and cooperation is good. Everything beyond that requires mental gymnastics because they never clarify just how much cooperation is the right amount. Also, it’s not even completely anti-capitalist because we never get to see a free market in action. It’s just anti-totalitarian and the anti-capitalism is arbitrarily implied because the totalitarian entity happens to be presented as a corporation. And yes I know this video is largely satire, I just wanted to present a more serious take on the topic.
"Comrade there's political dissonance in Lego Utopia" 👮♂"Heeeeeyyyyy!" "Build the Gulag" "Round up the enemies of the proletariat and give them a pickaxe!"
15:40 Funny thing that, Octan was not invented for this film. Octan is a fictional fuel company that's been popping up in just about every single LEGO product line since 1992. While originally just a stand in for when LEGO couldn't license the rights to Shell or the like, it since became a piece of crossover establishing iconography and branched out into businesses other than fossil fuels. When working on this film it was just obvious to the people working on it that they could use the already established megacorporation from the old toys and add some lore beyond a color scheme and logo.
@@Calvinfromcalvinandhobbes Same! The logo just looks like a logo for a real company. And seeing Octan be shown everywhere in the movie to just (ahem, *just*) be treated like a fictional company was so wild when I first saw the movie
@@trapadvisor Come on bro, let's not act like most communist nations aren't or haven't been dystopian nightmares to the average westerner. The happiest and most free countries in the world have mostly capitalist economies.
@napoleonbonapart430 I hope you understand that Capitalism and Socialism are systems of economic structure, not forms of government control. And out of the two, Socialism is inherently more controlling. So if you want to stick to the narrative, then yes: Socialism can be a bit of a dictatorship.
@@K_J_Coleman_Composer Both capitalism and socialism can lead to the exact same scenario. Usually both ending in worship of a one specific person for no apparent reason other than their status. Pure Capitalism and pure communism are both misguided, there is a balance, we must maintain our freedom to choose our own professions and be able to improve our lives through our work ethics however, we must also not let any one person become trapped in an inescapable economic position such that the exact same issue occurs.
I love how incredibly straightforward this is. no intro, gets straight to the point, various random "this doesnt prove any point that im trying to make i just love it" bits throughout, the wonderful social commentary, the just general awesomeness of the video, the line "the unstoppable power of autism" this is one of the best videos ive watched so far this year. it, and im autistic so i mean this as a compliment, exudes autism energy. like before you proofread or edited it you wrote in in one stream of consciousness infodump. incredible.
i hate how nobody talks about how they immediately had a replacement for bad cop in the spaceship scene, the guy who says "all units attack that spaceship!" is obviously a replacement. as if they had, had a replacement The whole time.
A bad kids movie has no deeper message for its story a good kids movie has a deeper message that older watchers can get and a great kids movie can tell that message in a way that even young kids can understand without sacrificing quality, that's what the lego movie is I loved the movie many years ago, and even though I wasn't very old, it managed to still get its point across while still being an amazing movie, even if I maybe didn't know all the terms and whatnot like I wouldn't say it told me "Communism is good and any other economy is bad", but it at least told me the message that capitalism isn't perfect by any means and that corporations aren't selfless entities but are more often then not some level of evil
>Modern dystopia that seems good on the surface until you realize what's really going on >Villain is a capitalist overlord AND capitalism itself in the real world >Main working class protagonist overthrows the capitalist villain and lives a happy life alongside everyone else >Perfect world where everything is quite literally awesome >"This is communist propaganda" >What did Max mean by this?
> The capitalist tyrants are overthrown just so that the power vaccum is filled by communist tyrants that instead of enslaving the workers(which is bad) completely ruin the nation with a failed ideology(which is also bad) and then a new capitalist regime takes over and then communist and then capitalost again and the cycle repeats itself until society colapses
It shows an inherently non-capitalist society where no one works in the name of profit motive, the state and large businesses are so intertwined that the market is not free, it's not a free market society, then advocates for a collective focused style of life with no government.
I'd like to point out something I only just now noticed. Benny builds the spaceship in the same amount of time it takes for the entire group of Master Builders to build the base of the sub. (Which was like maybe five seconds.) So, either Benny gets hopped up on meth levels of autistic stimming, or he's genuinely just *that* fast.
20:09 Metrivious’ scream here is genuinely one of my favourite pieces of cinema, I watched this movie as a Lego obsessed kid and I’ve never forgotten it
Communist ideology believes in the idea of a classless and stateless society. Ergo meaning communism is an anti authoritarian ideology. You’re right in saying that it being an anti authoritarian movie doesn’t make in a communist movie. But apart from probably anarchism there isn’t really any other prolific ideology that is both anti authoritarian and is opposed to the mechanism of capital. Without the context of the movie as a whole you could say this was a libertarian movie, but liberalism and capitalism go hand in hand. That’s probably why he called it communist.
@@proleterriert8075 You are correct if we are using ideal textbook definition of communism but in practice most (if not all) communist regimes are very authoritarian. Thats why I find the use of communism in this case a bit misleading. Calling the message of the film anarchist or anarchocommunist would be a lot more accurate in my opinion but I still stand behind anti-authoritarian as best descriptor as the critique of capitalism didnt seem as prominent to me and it could in my opinion be seen more as a critique of being forced/brainwashed to conform to societal norms.
@@ondrejsvehla425 I was actually going to talk about how the discussion was only applicable to communist theory and actual countries that call themselves communist obviously do not conform to the ideology completely. I removed that from my initial comment because I didn’t want to completely bore people with a wall of text so I shortened it just so I could make my point. in hindsight to me making my original comment I concede that you’re probably right in that this is more anarcho-communist than outright communism but I still stand by my point that this is still very much so a communist movie in its message
@@proleterriert8075the overall message shifts from just anti authoritarian depending on your interpretation of the beginning, where we see bricksburgs society, which is very subjective. That means there is sadly nothing more to debate about so fare well and may the force be with you.
I am happy to see you got this finished. I remember watching this movie when it came out, it was like the perfect age for me to watch this movie and I still fondly remember it. Hope this video gets more views because it's well deserved for the time and effort you put into it.
I know its a bit of a joke in reveiws to say "X" is communist/capitalist propaganda. But I don't think that sort of semi-ironic tone really does the analysis justice. Here are my honest thoughts on why I think the Lego Movie is so memerable. The Lego Movie is the heros journey; perfected. I mean, it has all the clichés, but it's written so well, it's incredible. A prophecy, a dying mentor who comes back as a ghost, genaric loose cannon love intrest, exceedingly boring protagonist whoes just like a normal guy, worthless animal sidekick, sappy inspiring speech to tell the citizens to think for themselves, greedy corperate/political villan ect. It isn't even using these tropes ironically or deconstructing them. It full-heartedly embraces them. Only when irony starts being introduced in Lego Movie 2 does the whole thing fall apart. How come it does everything right to make such a boring story work so well? I think one of the best reasons is that everything is carefully designed to support the main motifs of creativity as an escape from a society. Emmet is a backseat rider for the majority of the plot and letting the more colorful charaters take the wheel, while emmet himself serving as comic relief, and also serves as a reminder of the evil the resistance is battleing. Id imagine he would get annoying if he took the spotlight for the middle third of the movie. Despite the bulk of charaterization comming from a trickle of new quirky charaters, and Emmet being a backseat protagonist for the middle third of the movie, we still get to learn about his journey. The audience has sutle hints dropped to him that he has some sort of untapped creativity.(The double-decker couch bit that ends up saving everyone, the fact that his mind is so empty that there is nothing to clear in the first place, ect) This conflict is echoed on 3 separate levels; scocietal, literal, and personal, and all of them are resolved in the exact same beat at the climax. First, the scocietal. "Honey, Where's my Pants " show is just like the "Ouch my balls" show from idiocracy. What's funny about it is that Emmet nearly thinks for himself in like the first 5 minutes of the movie. The famous line "What was I thinking? Eh, I don't care. " It is nearly explicitly clear that that is designed for the populace to stay conforming and to ignore how the people in power hold onto that power. From the only music on the radio being a dong about not worring. "Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you're part of a team!" Are very orwellian lyrics when you co sider the state the scociety is in. In Mr Presidents Tower, the robot minions draw a lot of parallels to the citizens of Brixville. The robots behave in a way that is litterally indistinguishable from the citizens at large. The logical next step for this society is to reach a litteral state of conformity, which is the main evil plot that drives around, but it serves as a more methe story on a more surface level. They need to stop the bad guy from freezing people into place. It is a much more concrete goal than freeing the citizens from their shackles and letting them think for themselves. Mr. President literally plans to glue the citizens into position. This conflict is echoed a third time when the dad charater gets mad at his son for playing with his lego models. He sees it as just someone messing up his perfect world, but comes to realize that his son is just expressing his creativity. The big strategical mistake that the President makes is that he had subdued his own men to the point where stealth is trivial. Emmet is hard to track because his face is "too generic." Emmets plan is to"follow the instructions" a weakness that allows them to infiltrate the tower. Of course, a bold and bombastic plan where you build a super mega rainbow cannon would fail. Mr. President built up an organization that is a foil to creativity. Part of the reason why Emmet is special is because he is not, because he's just like everyone else. In the possi3 of master builders, he is a new perspective. The reason he is the chosen one is because he lived a life of conformity. Through his style of work, he is the only one to see that he can use conformity as a means to an end to trick the villan. The reason I think it's a good story is because it's a tight thematic ship. Each conflict goes to support the moteif of conformity vs. creativity. Just like a good joke. It makes the audience think of multiple things at once. Every conflict supports a singular message on the battle between free expression and order. This battle between "free expression" and "building the perfect world" is sort of emblematic of legos as a toy. We all mashed together some ugly multi-colored spaceship as kids. When we get older, we might enjoy the simple joy of following the instructions to assemble something like an owl sculpture or a movie set. But we lose some of that creativity which makes legos fun. Its okay to be the Dad, as long as we don't force order on others. A simple message, but one I think the lego movie makes quite well.
I've only read like half your comment so far, but that third paragraph which basically boils down to "it's playing all the tropes super straight but it's done so well" makes me think of what people (myself included) say about 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.
Yeah i feel that this message was less about communism, infact it feels individualistic with a emmet chooses his own personality. Its more non conformist than any commu or capi. Its just anti authoritarian
the starting scene of emmet rising from a lying position is clearly a reference to lenin's masoleum in of which it is visually similar to a bed...... the lbeisrlas are coming
I think honestly that the Lego Movie focuses more on themes of will and the self rather than any form of socialistic positivity. Hell, I could easily argue the opposite comparing Brickburg to Stalins USSR, the CCP's dictatorship etc. Marx himself, a stan for Hegel considered society before the individual, himself saying that "the so called rights of man are nothing but the rights of the member of the civil society, " Honestly, I think that the writings of Kierkegaard offer some interesting insites that the Lego Movie also deals with. While I don't agree with this video, and I think that some of the arguements brought up don't really work, I'm glad to see somebody else who likes the movie as I do.
I'd say instead of communist the movie is more just general anti-authoritarian. "Lord Business" is also functioning as the state, and Libertarians and Socialists agree- Corporatocracy is shit. (The point they disagree on is that Libertarians think less government will solve the Corporatocracy conundrum while Socialists think more government will solve the problem)
@JN-so6wt Socialism is when the collective as a whole decides allocation of resources rather than the individuals participating in the collective deciding for themselves, which is capitalism. For big nations, the only reasonable solution that wont involve asking each and every person every economic issue in the population census is having government regulation decided through democracy. So, Socialism CAN not be when the gov does stuff, but it often works out to that, just due to the fault of how the current system works.
I would way more argue that this story feels way more like 1984. Replace lord business with the government there and violla, Lego movie. It is certainly about individualism, but that stands in stark contrast to the ideas of communism.
I'm not sure how he was able to bunch up Communism, Individualism, and a little bit of Facism. All three of those ideologies are like the extreme opposite to eachother in most ways. I also felt like he was trying to review the lego movie than proving his points. It was however a solid review.
@@SideQuestStories uh, no, wtf are you talking about. “a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need. A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state (or nation state).” VS “a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and/or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.” They could not be much more opposed
no way you just used 'ferrelussy' in a video essay... in all seriousness i love this satire yet completely accurate and truthful style of video essay, i enjoyed every minute of it.
when this movie came out i watched it almost every day, because i appreciated how smart the story is and gives kids the benefit of the doubt. its not talking down to you, or treating you like you need your hand held to understand it, its genuinely a good story for anyone to watch. and the writing is so clever and thorough and fast paced that you could watch it 100 times and see a new bit every time. its probably still in my top 5 movies of all time. thank you for making this video!
I might be on crack, but I’d argue that at a certain point “capitalism” becomes “corporatism” and corporatism is closer to communism due to both being a form of collectivism in which people exist as a resource to a singular entity at the top, specifically the state. (extra points if the corporations own the state)
Corporatism is a political system, it has nothing to do with either economic system. You can have a corporate socialism and a corporate capitalism. Look up Mussolini's style of corporatism which was a full integration of all classes into "cooperative" groups.
As a kid I didn’t really have any friends and I was really lonely, Emmitt really helped me come to terms with that when I was younger. I also I have autism and it’s always been really hard for me to “fit in”, the Lego movie was a really good way for me to understand that it’s ok that I’m not the same as everyone else.
@@Axemcaxington Marx communism isn't, Lenin and staling communism is bad and also not communism, because workers don't own anything, nor is there no market
@@Axemcaxington Imagine "thinking" capitalism is good in comparison Also the irony of you having a Fallout icon and having that sort of take really speaks for itself
Hey so usually I don't like to comment about "oh this has so few views crazy" but like, damn bro. This is some good content. God speed. Edit: called it
the message of this movie is to seperate yourself from society, be yourself, an individual, with other creative individuals. as individuals we come together to create society, its a choice, not a demand
Great work. Is unbelievable how every time I rewatch The Lego Movie, talk about it with someone, or find a video about it; I find a new reason to love the film even more. It's simply that awesome.
i just thought how cool it would've been if the real life lego sets made to tie into the movie were only straight-and-narrow 'realistic' scenes that lord business wants. then you'd have to dissassemble them and ignore the instructions to get the fun mechs and cloud cuckoo land and whatnot. it undercuts the film a bit to give you instructions for the expressive, revolutionary builds. this could be taken as an analogue for corporations/governments that pretend to be gay/environmentally concious/morally sound, when in reality they are just trying to pull you back into the system.
The existential horror of experiencing beings beyond your comprehension in dimensions you’ve never known and realizing your own minute scale would be fucking terrifying
a special one, with heart of red
Undertale reference?
More like: A special one, with a heart of yellow (yes, that is a Balls Undertale Clover reference from the hit fangame Undertale Yellow)
idk what to put here
toby fox??!!?1!?!?!?11?!!?1?!
What a bunch-a hippy, dippy, baloney
“Benny gets everyone back to bricksburg with the power of autism.”
There is nothing else beyond this point. All else is irrelevant in the face of true comedy.
Benny is the final form of autism
Benny is my favorite character BECAUSE of that hyperfixation of his
Never underestimate the power of your special interests
Ideed
@@glowdonk What’s even funnier to me is my special interests involve space too. I felt really connected to bennys character as a kid lmfao
Barbie had 3 times the budget, 10 years of hindsight, and 1 times the Will Ferrell
If I had a nickel for everytime Will Ferrell stared in a film that invokes existential thought that’s also based on a toy franchise, I’d have two nickels
Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice
In his later career I cant stand him. Possibly Ive grown or he simply doesn’t have the same impact he used to. Barbie, Homes and Watson, The House. All giga shit performance
@@lChaseMouseoh! Interesting take
@@retrotaco11 I fucking love that show
0.5 times the will ferrell
Fun fact: octan has been a fake lego brand since 1992
It's also in one of the oldest lego games, Lego Island (although it isn't really important, just the logos are there like the actual stickers)
before octan there was shell, im happy that they switched to a fictional brand
Yeah it suits the whole legos sets rarely have more than like two corporations as an in-universe explanation for the monopolism dynamic.
I was so unbelievably shocked to see the Octan logo on a Lego City set after seeing the movie, then to realize it was always there. Felt like discovering the Illuminati or something
Protogen Spotted.
Must. Not. Boop.
english teacher when he pauses the movie:
lmao
always says the realist shit that no one wants to understand
2k likes, almost no replies
@@Ukalnsk i didnt even realise i had this many likes
@@TheRealSamalam lol
The piece of resistance is clearly a metaphor for reading theory, as it tends to make it difficult to move thanks to a massive protrusion from your body.
your protustion is massive? thats gotta be atleast 4 inches
you're so real for this 💀💀💀
Holy shit I never thought of that
Can someone here please explain reading theory? I haven’t heard of it before
@@EternalPhoenix not sure if this is a joke, but by "reading theory" I mean literally reading the books that explain fundamental marxist principles and the analysis that Marxists like myself base our understanding of the world on.
I'm sure there are reading lists floating around but Parenti is always a good place to start.
When we were being taught about 1984 in highschool. At one point during analysis of the book I had an epiphany and I said out loud that the story, themes and messages in 1984 reminded me a lot of the LEGO movie. I then went back and rewatched the movie after finishing the book and it all made so much sense. The LEGO Movie is the true movie adaptation of 1984
I just read the book and now my TH-cam is all like: "You want to see this fun video about the Lego Movie and communism!"
In the beginning of the video I was thinking: "This sounds almost like 1984." And the direct reference at 7:34 was like: "See, it is like 1984"
Capitalism is productive communism is destructive
“Ignorance is strength
Smiling is happiness
Instruction is creativity”
-President/Lord Business
1984 is a garbage attempt of piracy.
I hope, then, that you realize both the LEGO movie and 1984 are not communist propaganda but anti-communist, and that nothing described in here criticizes capitalism but the opposite.
"This is how cops are made in real life" had me dying
so glad someone liked that one
It's true, you never see cops with a second face on the back of their heads, it gets removed during training 😔
@@maxmunich More than you think. Great joke.
same
I thought It was a genuine metaphor for how people have their humanity essentially erased through the training process
As a non native English speaker with just acceptable enough comand of the language, once I heard "ferrellussy" I had to pause, rewind, put on the captions and read them, meticulously type each letter of "ferrellussy" on the browser search bar only to come up with no results, wonder what to do to find out what "ferrellussy" was, then had a heart-stopping realization as I splayed out my trembling fingers to type "president business man voice actor". Ah, yes, these are the research skills I get to polish as an English learner. This truly was an enlightment moment I will never forget in my road to master the language. I shall keep watching you to learn more words.
I spit out my water laughing
From this comment here, it seems you're better at speaking english than most native speakers. Take that as you will!
Brother I could only imagine learning English in this day and age where we are constantly making new words, or giving a different meaning to a word.
Im tryna learn latvian rn n hoping I don't have to deal with that haha. bless ya tho brother man love ur determination
@@EquiNoxM Language always changes this is nothing new lol.
i still dont know what is ferrellussy
I love it when benny's like
"it's spaceshipin' time"
and spaceships over all those guys
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@@cranberrysaucekrazybloke1.891The dying breaths of your final braincell be like
Ksp lore
@@lakaboss9313 average reply in ohio ☠☠☠
This is actually pretty much how it goes in the movie, first time a comment like this was accurate
I think it's also really interesting how Emmett is completely oblivious to the redundancy of voting machines until he says it out loud, as if President Business is the only President there has ever been for quite some time.
I just realized this…oh my goodness. I got like “oh he’s voted cause his company makes the machines” but it just clicked in my brain that he’s been the ONLY one voted for who knows how long. Ironically, I find it more funny because it calls back to it being about the dad of the kid. The dad makes the rules so obviously he’s always be the one in charge when it comes to the legos LMAO
@@compassrose1466 Honestly, I think there's probably more candidates that people can vote for, but the voting machines rig them to all be in favor of President Business, just to give an illusion of choice.
@@compassrose1466 theres also a sign in the background of the Everything is awsome scene saying "I'm President, Because I said So" (or something to that effect) just adding to the beauty that is this film
ohhhhhhhhhhhh 😮
@@thorinpixelshield3951 you can see the poster your talking about in this video at 8:51
The unstoppable power of autism is something that I just have to use more regularly
LMFAO I AM STEALING THIS
Would like to upote but you currently have 1111 likes and I do not want to disturb this nice order.
@@zafranorbian757 you know how to respect the peace. ✌️
but isn't the power of autism balanced by the fact that it is hyper-specific?
@@clintonbehrends4659 hmmmm you got me there
24:04 , “After, everyone hugs and congratulates themselves on ending capitalism, we are met with an even bigger threat, WOMEN”
The only true part of the video.
Fr
same vibe as EPIC the musial's song puppeteer going "but this was a hell of a twist. cause we are weak to a power like this" "what was it?" "a woman" "what?"
I wish you'd mentioned that Lord Business's cape is actually a giant red tie, like the one a businessman would wear
not something i'd noticed, good observation
I NEVER NOTICED THIS
more specifically the tie that the dad wears
or agent 47
his helmet is the knot of the tie
as an autistic guy, i can confirm we become incomprehensible when allowed to engage in our hyperfixations
Idk if every autistic person also has these but i get hyper fixations in specific things for a bit of time before moving on to the next interesting thing
The Lego movie being released at the same time as my “space” phase definitely made him my favorite character
@@toxi101yt5 I get the same thing, I go through "phases" I always thought it had something to do with the fact that I also have ADHD.
sometimes i play genshin so hard that i have to get up and jump around the room. same with subnautica when i get the fear-of-deep-spaces jitters
As another autistic rabbit uh
Yeah can confirm I go utterly silent when I do my trains
one glimpse of a rotary phone and it's so joever for me i will simply go wacky
Guys I have a theory!!!
Octan: Began in 1992
Cold War: ended in 1991
collusion ⁉️
4th Reich ass conclusion
Octan is actually the SOVIET UNION confirmed. Illuminati confirmed
Real
😮
it's funny how a film that has a socialist/anti-capitalist message was used as a way to sell more material goods via themed sets
Capitalists do sell us that rope
capitalism subsumes all critique etc etc
It's anti-corporatism not anti-capitalism
@@jacobdallas7396 corporatism isn't real.
@@riztiz type "define corporatism" into google and I think the top response would say otherwise.
remember when stalin built the double-decker couch? hundreds died....
I think that’s a folk tale by some random person who said he was the only person who lived through the couch of 47’
Can't forget the big communist bed made out of the flesh of siberians, poles and baltic nationalities
Truly a horror of cummunism..
Communism couch incident 100 million dead
@@Cascade7155 100 gorbillion died when lord business ate the lego kulaks with his spoon
@@Cascade7155 *200
I remember watching this in theatres, the movie hits the ground RUNNING with its comedy, the theatre was laughing out loud before our main character is even introduced.
I used the lego movie in an eglish paper once in high school. I had to write about how fictional dictatorships relate to real world ones. I got a B
you got a B because you were right and to give you an A is to agree, people dont want to admit they've been brainwashed, people dont want to admit they are wrong
@@ahuman9391I think brainwashing would be seen as “too extreme” in today’s world
That’s why a I think a better word to use is indoctrination
@@Prororo brain washing is the perfect word. Tell me when you hear the word "communism" I guess you have a negative connotation to the word, but "capitalism" you do not, unless you are educated this is how you see the world. Communism is bad, capitalism is good. But in reality it is quite the opposite. You see communism as bad because it goes directly against capitalism and the power that the rich get in this society, in a communist society it's classless, there are no rich, there are no poor, we are just people, humans. This is further backed with how we go to war with any country that tries to convert to communism, not because communism is bad but because the second there's a proper successful communist country we will ALL realize we've been lied to. Brainwashing is the perfect term
@@ahuman9391ngl i like the idea but his paper itself might have just been a B anyways
@@bp42s56 always a possibility, not given enough information to say otherwise and I always like finding a place to call out society terrible, the more that accept it now with be more accepting of a revolution in the future, even if their hatred isn't fully real, which yes, is propaganda, and yes, it's not good, but it's very useful
I clicked on this video, thinking it was gonna be an extremely political, sort of “out of left field with its takes” negative review of one of my favorite childhood films. When I instead watched was one of the most well written, funniest, most thought out video essays on one of my favorite pieces of media. Thank you for this :)
Read my comment under the author's comment. It was well-written, but it still managed to miss the point. The movie is simply anti-conformist. It has just as much negative things to say about collectivism as capitalism, as both can force conformity out of people.
@@tumultoustortellini yeah dude missed the point by a mile and a half
@@PaendaTube Idealogues are often only capable of viewing their experiences through a single lens, leading to interpreting everything as for/against, or related to their worldview.
"Thankfully they are prevented from being sent to room 101 through the power of Heterosexuality"
Absolutely Banger line
E
Literally 1984
Help I read this as they said it
This is a masterpiece XD
blashempy! Big Brother hates all sexuality due to it not advancing the destruction of Goldsteinism
the birds being not real in this film is a reference to the fact that birds aren't real irl
Who knew The Institute was watching them too?
yeah because theyre goverment drones
Fallout 4 reference? Under a video about the lego movie... i love it!
@@pendremacherald6758
@@pendremacherald6758r/unexpectedfallout
IF IT FLIES IT SPIES!!!
when emmett is listing off all the things octan makes he lists music with a clear punk singer and band in the background something very anti capitalist becoming something a capitalist makes just something i noticed
“Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead.”
Which has a double meaning here for both the corporate published punk music in universe, but also the movie itself.
Sounds like you've never heard of the pop star conspiracy in South Korean.
The entire subculture of punk has been actively commoditized since its inception
@@sp4c1ng_0ut8 The original punks died out, however the values live on. Punks modify copyrighted works for their own creative interests, it's argued the free modding scene is the result of punk mentality, like modelling a Thomas the Tank Engine and slipping it into any game.
@@scrittle fair enough
i love how this video is:
*talks about the main point of the video*
“this one detail in the movie is so cool”
*continues to talk about the main point*
Haha, funny bird. Anyways, Racism is a-
12:01
18:12
20:05
“Oh, you like the Lego movie! What do you think is the best part of it?”
“Well, I suppose it’s the subtle hints towards communism and the manifesto of ignorance being bliss, it very smartly hides this premise hidden within a silly funny story for kids. Speaking about the kids, the movie seems to make children aware of the differences between social classes and how the rich benefit off the poor, and how we should rise against our so-called ‘superiors’.”
“…”
“So why do you like it?”
“…Lego funny”
SPACESHIP
@@titan5695*SPACESHIP*
SPACESHIP
SPACESHIP
SPACESHIP
Also I would like to point out that, because of the timer at the end of the movie, we know that *Mississippi is canonically a real place in the Lego world.*
I figured it's a time measurement in the Lego world and is just an import from the real world, since there are real people in the movie
@@memerminecraft585 I mean Idk how they'd import concepts when other concepts which Lego people haven't discovered are completely unknown.
The location of Middle Zealand implies both a knowledge of New Zealand and its connection to Middle Earth
@@theseus0467The kid is imagining all this (for the most part,I’m looking at you scene where Emmet moves on his own in the real world) so we can assume that’s how it got imported
Space, Wild West, medieval castles and Mississippi, all the famous lego themed
chris pratt voicing the most regular guy in the world makes s much sense
Only gets truer the more movies they decide to shove him into
It’s a me. Mario.
@@Somoneyippe not Mario, *A Mario*
Normally, I hate hate Chris Pratt's roles placements but I actually like his acting in this movements.
@@harrisontownsend910 And that's because he really does sound generic - perfect for a character like Emmett, less so for a lot of his more recent roles.
So you said Vitruvius's death comes unexpectedly, however i think different. His death follows a very common part of the heroes Journey (a theory on how to build stories and is used pretty often in fantasy), when the protagonist loses the mentor. Vitruvius is literally a caricature of classic 'mentor 'type characters in movies eg. Dumbledore, Gandalf and Obi-wan. So really, the Lego movie is playing into another cliche by killing him off. It's just such a self aware movie and I love it.
Also I love the detail that lord businnes quite literally kills him with his money, through cutting his head off with a coin. This also could interpreted as showing how the money gives him and the mega corporation the power to dominate everything.
@@-AlarionI can't believe I didn't notice this. The voice of wisdom is literally killed by money
Edit: PLUS, it's a penny, representing that Business considers even the most worthless form of currency to be above Morgan Freeman
@@maxmunich morgan freeman (and vitruvius) is also black while business is yellow (the lego universe equivalent to white i believe)
hm
@@CatInSuit69 you're right about yellow people being the lego equivalent of white people (ironic, because "yellow" is the color used to describe east asians), but this movie never touches on race nor expands upon your observation. it focuses on triggering class consciousness, kids figure out the race politics part on their own afterwards
6:18 "his double-decker couch, his one original idea, only works with friends."
*fu@# that is such a good little detail*
seriously, the Lego Movie IS one of the best animated movies.
- The power of heterosexuality
- The power of misogyny
- The power of autism
These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect movie. But LEGO accidentaly added an extra ingredient to the movie:
- The power to turn hearts and minds towards sympathetic ends
Its like the fucking infinity stones.
But turns out
I'm ALL of them
yep, romance, with drama, and weird stuff, = perfect movie
"until they were met with an even bigger threat
women"
the power of socialism
I can't believe how long it took me to get the "security cameras, all history books, voting machines... Wait a minute-" joke. I never got it till I was like 17
I guess when we were younger, we were never taught about despotic rule, or anything in-depth about governance or power. I ended up teaching myself quite a bit when I got older, and my brain also developed enough to form these connections more easily.
I could see that Octan was a massive corporation working with a corrupt government to do bad things, but I didn't get the significance of the items listed.
@@Rainfire-forgets-to-animate Exactly! That's what I thought too. I was stuck in a basic, child's mindset of "red team bad, blue team good", so I did not understand the following things.
Yeah, when you notice the problems with modern society, you'll understand a lot more of the deeper jokes within some of these films.
I'm cryinf i realized when I was like 10 or 9😭😭
9:37 "like Ben Shappiro, Lord business must wear lifts" AYOOOO 😭💀💀
it came outta nowhere but it's true lmao
I didn't expect hearing "Ferrellussy" in a video essay about communist lego media but it became infinitely better because of that
what does that word mean? I tried to search it on google; surprisingly no results.
@@divyankrana16 Ferrel + ussy
Ferrel is the last name of the voice actor who played lord business
I have no idea how to explain the meaning of ussy without triggering comment censorship but you can just google that part.
@@divyankrana16 sus-kupp, dw about censorship, im risking it for the sake of education (listen here yt)
anyways people just add on -ussy to the end of nouns, which includes people (like Will Ferell) to talk about.... doing the devils tango with it, sticking their 👉 in its 👌(those two particular hand emojis refer to intercourse, if u were wondering, so i hope you can extrapolate from that!) it's like a suffix that turns the noun into a variant of pussy (in the sexual way, not the cat way lol), making the subject a sex object really. its often humorous and lighthearted, when used as a bit of a gag for a shock response.
so Ferrellussy is, well, referencing his 😺even though im pretty sure he doesn't have one. because hes a cisgender man.
@sus-kupp they mention the man in paris we can explain what ussy means
"after everyone hugs and congratulates themselves on ending capitalism, we are immediately met with an even bigger threat. wome-"
I can’t believe the goddamn Lego movie is the greatest piece of modern socialist media but I’m so glad it is
I know now why I turned out why I did, it’s because I watched this movie as a kid
The greatest piece of-not Robots from 2005? Not a A BUG’S LIFE??
I watched this a TON yet I'm still capitalist. I guess I just don't do starvation lol.
@@MidNiteMenaceOfficial yes because socialism means that every one starves, no one starves under capitalism, no one ever, no one had ever starved under capitalism
@@MidNiteMenaceOfficialhow in the WORLD can you confidently be a capitalist in the wake of late state capitalism??? Like dude look around you, this isn’t working and people ARE starving???
2:47 insane tone shift
Honestly I think Benny’s representation of autistic hyper-fixation goes even deeper. Every time he says “spaceship!” but especially when he says it repeatedly when he actually gets to build and use one, I interpret it as him spouting out lots of technical terms and lingo, but since none of it registers with anyone else they just perceive it as him saying “spaceship!”
Credentials: Have had many an autistic ramble myself that makes no sense to the average person.
I love that
What my friends hear when i talk about hoi4
Not autistic, but start foaming at the mouth any time I find any interesting telecom infrastructure. This is probably how people see me go on about bands and mimo, and microwaves lol.
He was never confirmed, therefore all you get out of him is a cartoony caricature of a space obsession. Reminds me of Benedict Cumberbatch ranting about his portrayal of ASD characters (Turing, Sherlock).
He researched his Frankenstein scientist role for a stage play and had this to say: “I went to schools and met people, some of whom are very high functioning on the autistic spectrum. I met a 17-year-old who had the mental age of a one and a half year old. Everything was just about bodily functions. Smell. Sexual arousal. Shitting. Whatever. So when I hear people use diagnostic labels casually - Sherlock is autistic, Turing is autistic - it really upsets me.”
@@scrittle What’s wrong with noting the very autism-coded attributes of a character? If anything, Benny is a breath of fresh air compared to the horrible representation that autistic people (myself included) have to put up with. It’s nice to see a clearly autistic-coded character that isn’t just a bunch of stereotypes thrown together.
22:02 "Benny gets everyone back to BricksBurg with the unstoppable power of autism." I'm dead 😭
as a wild autisticm, i can agree
@@gmandunn
Same
I always knew Benny was somewhat autistic!
Just bouta comment this
And we even got Lego Batman Movie out of this AND a fun musical sequel.
sadly also lego ninjago
Lego batman was s tier childhood movies
'Fun musical sequel' was shit same as ninjago movie (The others are great though)
@thetoastnbutterpodcast64 debatably
@thetoastnbutterpodcast64 yeah it wasn't as good as the first movie but I like the music!
21:15 german scientists in 1945 trying to avoid execution
The cold war was basically who had better germans
Underrated comment 😂
underrated af
Now you're making me think that NASA arrived to the moon only because of nazi autism.
HOW A RANDOM PERSON IN THE COMMENTS COMES UP WITH A MORE ACCURATE LINE WHEN THE VIDEO IS ALREADY SUCH DETAILED
"Don't know what the fuck is up with the dude throwing the tomohawk"
It's a dude. Throwing a tomohawk. In an old timey saloon.
"Cowboy and Indian" lego sets were numerous.
@blackcontentcreator this isn't about history in any way, this is about modern life, so his lack of knowledge of history which you didn't explain means absolutely nothing.
@@Fellow-Comwhile i agree with what you're saying here. He does bring up history at multiple different times in the video for the sake of his point.
@@Fellow-Comit’s about how a kids movie relates and depicts a fallen liberal extremist regime… that’s pretty historical to me
It’s Native Americans bro, not Indians.
@@Garrett_McGregor I think they used "Indian" because that's typically what those sets were calle despite it being incorrect
Took this man 9 minutes to put lego movie and Adolf Hitler in the same video
I now understand why Lego movie goes around my head almost always when I read about Marxist theory and history of anti-communism.
and ten for ben shapiro.
Isn't that an Internet rule? About bringing up AH in any topic
@@Critic115 Godwin's Law
it's almost like MatPat reincarnated. it's like he's still with us
the algorithm that keeps me trapped in an endless cycle of media consumption cooked with this one
"We are immediately met with an even larger threat... WOMEN"
This is an amazing breakdown of what made the Lego Movie just.. stand out from the rest. I’m definitely on board for more and I can’t wait to see what else you can do. Here’s to 100k soon, you’d deserve it.
Can't believe i got neobing jumpscared on accident.
Can't believe i got neobing jumpscared on accident.
why is this man jumpscaring people is he fnaf at freddies
NeoBing??? What the hell lmao
“Benny gets everyone back to Bricksburg with the unstoppable power of autism” (22:02)
- Maxmunich 2024
this title goes so hard like what do you MEAN taco Tuesday is included in a communist manifesto? thats crazy
Really the only things this movie has to say about government is that totalitarianism is bad and cooperation is good. Everything beyond that requires mental gymnastics because they never clarify just how much cooperation is the right amount.
Also, it’s not even completely anti-capitalist because we never get to see a free market in action. It’s just anti-totalitarian and the anti-capitalism is arbitrarily implied because the totalitarian entity happens to be presented as a corporation.
And yes I know this video is largely satire, I just wanted to present a more serious take on the topic.
14:22 to be fair, the prophecy does say “[…] this *master builder* […]”
fuck
@@maxmunich The only acceptable answer
It still works if the line was just changed to "Wildstyle assumes the Special must be a *stereotypical* master builder" 😋
@@maxmunich thanks for this thoughtful insight on this newfound information
He *is* a master builder! Not of actual lego pieces, but a builder of relationships and an integral part of the revolution.
"Comrade there's political dissonance in Lego Utopia"
👮♂"Heeeeeyyyyy!"
"Build the Gulag"
"Round up the enemies of the proletariat and give them a pickaxe!"
I cant tell if this is Anti Leninist or not💀💀
While I disagree with your likely political leanings this comment is hilarious
@@anitaremenarova6662 wdym, it's a sarcastic joke, ofc it's not to be taken seriously lol
☝️🤓
@@aturchomicz821The answer is yes.
15:40 Funny thing that, Octan was not invented for this film. Octan is a fictional fuel company that's been popping up in just about every single LEGO product line since 1992. While originally just a stand in for when LEGO couldn't license the rights to Shell or the like, it since became a piece of crossover establishing iconography and branched out into businesses other than fossil fuels. When working on this film it was just obvious to the people working on it that they could use the already established megacorporation from the old toys and add some lore beyond a color scheme and logo.
when i was a kid, i was convinced Octan was a real company
@@Calvinfromcalvinandhobbes Same! The logo just looks like a logo for a real company. And seeing Octan be shown everywhere in the movie to just (ahem, *just*) be treated like a fictional company was so wild when I first saw the movie
Back in the 70's Shell had a deal with LEGO.
It's not capitalism vs. socialism. It's Dictatorship vs. Freedom of Thought and Choice.
@@trapadvisor Come on bro, let's not act like most communist nations aren't or haven't been dystopian nightmares to the average westerner. The happiest and most free countries in the world have mostly capitalist economies.
so capitalism vs socialism then
@napoleonbonapart430 I hope you understand that Capitalism and Socialism are systems of economic structure, not forms of government control. And out of the two, Socialism is inherently more controlling. So if you want to stick to the narrative, then yes: Socialism can be a bit of a dictatorship.
@@K_J_Coleman_Composer Both capitalism and socialism can lead to the exact same scenario. Usually both ending in worship of a one specific person for no apparent reason other than their status. Pure Capitalism and pure communism are both misguided, there is a balance, we must maintain our freedom to choose our own professions and be able to improve our lives through our work ethics however, we must also not let any one person become trapped in an inescapable economic position such that the exact same issue occurs.
I love how incredibly straightforward this is. no intro, gets straight to the point, various random "this doesnt prove any point that im trying to make i just love it" bits throughout, the wonderful social commentary, the just general awesomeness of the video, the line "the unstoppable power of autism"
this is one of the best videos ive watched so far this year.
it, and im autistic so i mean this as a compliment, exudes autism energy. like before you proofread or edited it you wrote in in one stream of consciousness infodump. incredible.
,,after everyone hugs and congratulates themselves on ending capitalism, we are immediately met with an even bigger threat, women"
this killed me
i hate how nobody talks about how they immediately had a replacement for bad cop in the spaceship scene,
the guy who says "all units attack that spaceship!" is obviously a replacement.
as if they had, had a replacement The whole time.
I'll give this, the anti democratic title got my attention. Now it's getting my ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
A true patriot
This must be the work of the Automatons. We've got another Major order.
HELLDIVERS 2 REFERENCE SPOTTED
Doesn't have enough aoe, gonna use ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️➡️
Helldivers is everwhere. Keep spreading patriotism men
A bad kids movie has no deeper message for its story
a good kids movie has a deeper message that older watchers can get
and a great kids movie can tell that message in a way that even young kids can understand without sacrificing quality, that's what the lego movie is
I loved the movie many years ago, and even though I wasn't very old, it managed to still get its point across while still being an amazing movie, even if I maybe didn't know all the terms and whatnot
like I wouldn't say it told me "Communism is good and any other economy is bad", but it at least told me the message that capitalism isn't perfect by any means and that corporations aren't selfless entities but are more often then not some level of evil
Reminds me of Kung Fu Panda
The only good corporate entity is the dead one that had its parts repurposed.
Pixar also does a great job of putting immense meaning into most of their films
>Modern dystopia that seems good on the surface until you realize what's really going on
>Villain is a capitalist overlord AND capitalism itself in the real world
>Main working class protagonist overthrows the capitalist villain and lives a happy life alongside everyone else
>Perfect world where everything is quite literally awesome
>"This is communist propaganda"
>What did Max mean by this?
> The capitalist tyrants are overthrown just so that the power vaccum is filled by communist tyrants that instead of enslaving the workers(which is bad) completely ruin the nation with a failed ideology(which is also bad) and then a new capitalist regime takes over and then communist and then capitalost again and the cycle repeats itself until society colapses
Everything Is Propoganda
It shows an inherently non-capitalist society where no one works in the name of profit motive, the state and large businesses are so intertwined that the market is not free, it's not a free market society, then advocates for a collective focused style of life with no government.
But remember the second Lego movie is a communist world hell scape
Communism promises everything but takes away the little things
>The next movie has the Utopia turn into an apocalypse
8:52 don’t forget the poster that says “I am the president because I said so” in the top left area
I'd like to point out something I only just now noticed.
Benny builds the spaceship in the same amount of time it takes for the entire group of Master Builders to build the base of the sub. (Which was like maybe five seconds.)
So, either Benny gets hopped up on meth levels of autistic stimming, or he's genuinely just *that* fast.
it's both
benny solos goku, easily /j
Can confirm, the power of autism lets you build Legos fast
An interesting fact about about Octan is that actually has been appearing in Lego sets for decades as a generic company.
I think you weren’t trying to tell us this was about communism, you just wanted to talk about the best movie ever
20:09 Metrivious’ scream here is genuinely one of my favourite pieces of cinema, I watched this movie as a Lego obsessed kid and I’ve never forgotten it
11:00 "prevented from being sent to room 101 through the power of heterosexuality" why did that joke get me?
I wouldnt really think of lego movie as communist I would istead say that it certainly is anti authoritarian
Communist ideology believes in the idea of a classless and stateless society. Ergo meaning communism is an anti authoritarian ideology. You’re right in saying that it being an anti authoritarian movie doesn’t make in a communist movie. But apart from probably anarchism there isn’t really any other prolific ideology that is both anti authoritarian and is opposed to the mechanism of capital. Without the context of the movie as a whole you could say this was a libertarian movie, but liberalism and capitalism go hand in hand. That’s probably why he called it communist.
@@proleterriert8075amazing observation
@@proleterriert8075 You are correct if we are using ideal textbook definition of communism but in practice most (if not all) communist regimes are very authoritarian. Thats why I find the use of communism in this case a bit misleading. Calling the message of the film anarchist or anarchocommunist would be a lot more accurate in my opinion but I still stand behind anti-authoritarian as best descriptor as the critique of capitalism didnt seem as prominent to me and it could in my opinion be seen more as a critique of being forced/brainwashed to conform to societal norms.
@@ondrejsvehla425 I was actually going to talk about how the discussion was only applicable to communist theory and actual countries that call themselves communist obviously do not conform to the ideology completely. I removed that from my initial comment because I didn’t want to completely bore people with a wall of text so I shortened it just so I could make my point. in hindsight to me making my original comment I concede that you’re probably right in that this is more anarcho-communist than outright communism but I still stand by my point that this is still very much so a communist movie in its message
@@proleterriert8075the overall message shifts from just anti authoritarian depending on your interpretation of the beginning, where we see bricksburgs society, which is very subjective. That means there is sadly nothing more to debate about so fare well and may the force be with you.
I am happy to see you got this finished. I remember watching this movie when it came out, it was like the perfect age for me to watch this movie and I still fondly remember it. Hope this video gets more views because it's well deserved for the time and effort you put into it.
thanks king
I watched it when it was pretty new too, Im happy to say it and others like it affected me very positively
0:05 you could say, if you will... that the communists have the music...
i love you
We've always had it
@@th3kgbdog385 absolutely we have
oh my god amazing comment
There was absolutely no dead air in this video, big props for that
15:26 "He really does put his whole ferrellussy into this persona" made me do a double take lmao
I just went "wait what-"
I know its a bit of a joke in reveiws to say "X" is communist/capitalist propaganda. But I don't think that sort of semi-ironic tone really does the analysis justice. Here are my honest thoughts on why I think the Lego Movie is so memerable.
The Lego Movie is the heros journey; perfected. I mean, it has all the clichés, but it's written so well, it's incredible. A prophecy, a dying mentor who comes back as a ghost, genaric loose cannon love intrest, exceedingly boring protagonist whoes just like a normal guy, worthless animal sidekick, sappy inspiring speech to tell the citizens to think for themselves, greedy corperate/political villan ect.
It isn't even using these tropes ironically or deconstructing them. It full-heartedly embraces them. Only when irony starts being introduced in Lego Movie 2 does the whole thing fall apart. How come it does everything right to make such a boring story work so well?
I think one of the best reasons is that everything is carefully designed to support the main motifs of creativity as an escape from a society. Emmet is a backseat rider for the majority of the plot and letting the more colorful charaters take the wheel, while emmet himself serving as comic relief, and also serves as a reminder of the evil the resistance is battleing.
Id imagine he would get annoying if he took the spotlight for the middle third of the movie. Despite the bulk of charaterization comming from a trickle of new quirky charaters, and Emmet being a backseat protagonist for the middle third of the movie, we still get to learn about his journey. The audience has sutle hints dropped to him that he has some sort of untapped creativity.(The double-decker couch bit that ends up saving everyone, the fact that his mind is so empty that there is nothing to clear in the first place, ect)
This conflict is echoed on 3 separate levels; scocietal, literal, and personal, and all of them are resolved in the exact same beat at the climax. First, the scocietal. "Honey, Where's my Pants " show is just like the "Ouch my balls" show from idiocracy. What's funny about it is that Emmet nearly thinks for himself in like the first 5 minutes of the movie. The famous line "What was I thinking? Eh, I don't care. " It is nearly explicitly clear that that is designed for the populace to stay conforming and to ignore how the people in power hold onto that power. From the only music on the radio being a dong about not worring. "Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you're part of a team!" Are very orwellian lyrics when you co sider the state the scociety is in. In Mr Presidents Tower, the robot minions draw a lot of parallels to the citizens of Brixville. The robots behave in a way that is litterally indistinguishable from the citizens at large.
The logical next step for this society is to reach a litteral state of conformity, which is the main evil plot that drives around, but it serves as a more methe story on a more surface level. They need to stop the bad guy from freezing people into place. It is a much more concrete goal than freeing the citizens from their shackles and letting them think for themselves. Mr. President literally plans to glue the citizens into position.
This conflict is echoed a third time when the dad charater gets mad at his son for playing with his lego models. He sees it as just someone messing up his perfect world, but comes to realize that his son is just expressing his creativity.
The big strategical mistake that the President makes is that he had subdued his own men to the point where stealth is trivial. Emmet is hard to track because his face is "too generic." Emmets plan is to"follow the instructions" a weakness that allows them to infiltrate the tower. Of course, a bold and bombastic plan where you build a super mega rainbow cannon would fail. Mr. President built up an organization that is a foil to creativity. Part of the reason why Emmet is special is because he is not, because he's just like everyone else. In the possi3 of master builders, he is a new perspective. The reason he is the chosen one is because he lived a life of conformity. Through his style of work, he is the only one to see that he can use conformity as a means to an end to trick the villan.
The reason I think it's a good story is because it's a tight thematic ship. Each conflict goes to support the moteif of conformity vs. creativity.
Just like a good joke. It makes the audience think of multiple things at once. Every conflict supports a singular message on the battle between free expression and order.
This battle between "free expression" and "building the perfect world" is sort of emblematic of legos as a toy. We all mashed together some ugly multi-colored spaceship as kids. When we get older, we might enjoy the simple joy of following the instructions to assemble something like an owl sculpture or a movie set. But we lose some of that creativity which makes legos fun. Its okay to be the Dad, as long as we don't force order on others. A simple message, but one I think the lego movie makes quite well.
I've only read like half your comment so far, but that third paragraph which basically boils down to "it's playing all the tropes super straight but it's done so well" makes me think of what people (myself included) say about 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.
Yeah i feel that this message was less about communism, infact it feels individualistic with a emmet chooses his own personality. Its more non conformist than any commu or capi. Its just anti authoritarian
Write more of those around the internet, you’re making the quality of spent time better
Good lord take it to a publisher
I genuinely did not expect a genuine communist essay on the lego movie , I thought it was a joke
the starting scene of emmet rising from a lying position is clearly a reference to lenin's masoleum in of which it is visually similar to a bed...... the lbeisrlas are coming
I think honestly that the Lego Movie focuses more on themes of will and the self rather than any form of socialistic positivity. Hell, I could easily argue the opposite comparing Brickburg to Stalins USSR, the CCP's dictatorship etc. Marx himself, a stan for Hegel considered society before the individual, himself saying that "the so called rights of man are nothing but the rights of the member of the civil society, "
Honestly, I think that the writings of Kierkegaard offer some interesting insites that the Lego Movie also deals with. While I don't agree with this video, and I think that some of the arguements brought up don't really work, I'm glad to see somebody else who likes the movie as I do.
CCP is a dictatorship? I thought members of the CCP were voted in by the Chinese people?
I'd say instead of communist the movie is more just general anti-authoritarian. "Lord Business" is also functioning as the state, and Libertarians and Socialists agree- Corporatocracy is shit. (The point they disagree on is that Libertarians think less government will solve the Corporatocracy conundrum while Socialists think more government will solve the problem)
Correction, socialist think workers owning the means of production is what will solve the issue. Socialist don't like big government at all.
@JN-so6wt Socialism is when the collective as a whole decides allocation of resources rather than the individuals participating in the collective deciding for themselves, which is capitalism. For big nations, the only reasonable solution that wont involve asking each and every person every economic issue in the population census is having government regulation decided through democracy.
So, Socialism CAN not be when the gov does stuff, but it often works out to that, just due to the fault of how the current system works.
True. A lot of the way maxmunich descirbed things also seemed more anti-government and anti-corporation rather than pro-communism. Not a bad message🙂.
@JN-so6wtis it not though?
@@BattyBest What, according to you, is anarchosocialism?
A scene that was skipped here was the submarine-building scene. Everyone is building their own thing without cooperation, causing it to later explode.
I would way more argue that this story feels way more like 1984. Replace lord business with the government there and violla, Lego movie.
It is certainly about individualism, but that stands in stark contrast to the ideas of communism.
I'm not sure how he was able to bunch up Communism, Individualism, and a little bit of Facism. All three of those ideologies are like the extreme opposite to eachother in most ways. I also felt like he was trying to review the lego movie than proving his points. It was however a solid review.
@@gruby_0924 Communism and fascism are basically the same thing, the latter was just a competitive reaction to the former.
@@SideQuestStories uh, no, wtf are you talking about.
“a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need. A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state (or nation state).”
VS
“a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and/or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.”
They could not be much more opposed
@@SideQuestStories In theory communism isn't like fascism, but in practice that's what always happens
@@SideQuestStories Smartest centrist. everyone how disagrees with me is literally a fascism
ok- im only 2 minutes in and you've convinced me to bookmark this video, watch the movie again, and then come back to this. great work dude!
no way you just used 'ferrelussy' in a video essay...
in all seriousness i love this satire yet completely accurate and truthful style of video essay, i enjoyed every minute of it.
"through the power of heterosexuality" THAT MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD XD 10:59
when this movie came out i watched it almost every day, because i appreciated how smart the story is and gives kids the benefit of the doubt. its not talking down to you, or treating you like you need your hand held to understand it, its genuinely a good story for anyone to watch. and the writing is so clever and thorough and fast paced that you could watch it 100 times and see a new bit every time. its probably still in my top 5 movies of all time. thank you for making this video!
I might be on crack, but I’d argue that at a certain point “capitalism” becomes “corporatism” and corporatism is closer to communism due to both being a form of collectivism in which people exist as a resource to a singular entity at the top, specifically the state. (extra points if the corporations own the state)
Corporatism is a political system, it has nothing to do with either economic system. You can have a corporate socialism and a corporate capitalism. Look up Mussolini's style of corporatism which was a full integration of all classes into "cooperative" groups.
@@amazin7006 will do, thank you
As a kid I didn’t really have any friends and I was really lonely, Emmitt really helped me come to terms with that when I was younger. I also I have autism and it’s always been really hard for me to “fit in”, the Lego movie was a really good way for me to understand that it’s ok that I’m not the same as everyone else.
No one's talking to me too
i was worried to click this video and see a conservative or worse a liberal saying communism is bad, but i'm glad you're one of us dude
It is bad tho
@@Axemcaxington Marx communism isn't, Lenin and staling communism is bad and also not communism, because workers don't own anything, nor is there no market
@@Axemcaxington Imagine "thinking" capitalism is good in comparison
Also the irony of you having a Fallout icon and having that sort of take really speaks for itself
@@spectrum9514 oh sorry for liking a game that capitalism paid for
I didn't know the FU*KING LEGO MOVIE was this deep
Well, time watch it again...
Hey so usually I don't like to comment about "oh this has so few views crazy" but like, damn bro. This is some good content. God speed.
Edit: called it
"Through the power of heterosexuality" I am definitely stealing that one
9 minutes to get from talking about the Lego movie to talking about Hitler has to be a world record
"this movie is so good with childhood memories" 1 minute later "this means that the Lego movie has an underlined saying for communism ☭"
the message of this movie is to seperate yourself from society, be yourself, an individual, with other creative individuals. as individuals we come together to create society, its a choice, not a demand
Great work.
Is unbelievable how every time I rewatch The Lego Movie, talk about it with someone, or find a video about it; I find a new reason to love the film even more. It's simply that awesome.
the script for this video feels like when you get assigned a stupid prompt for your essay
i thought this was clickbait, turns out you're a little bit off your rocker instead. this is undeniably a video
never thought a feature long advertisement would be labeled as communist propaganda
i just thought how cool it would've been if the real life lego sets made to tie into the movie were only straight-and-narrow 'realistic' scenes that lord business wants. then you'd have to dissassemble them and ignore the instructions to get the fun mechs and cloud cuckoo land and whatnot. it undercuts the film a bit to give you instructions for the expressive, revolutionary builds. this could be taken as an analogue for corporations/governments that pretend to be gay/environmentally concious/morally sound, when in reality they are just trying to pull you back into the system.
The existential horror of experiencing beings beyond your comprehension in dimensions you’ve never known and realizing your own minute scale would be fucking terrifying
💯
I came into this thinking “there’s no way the title is true” now I look at this movie entirely different
Childhood is enjoying your favourite movies, adulthood is realising that they are all political propaganda.
(Construction) Workers of the World, Unite!
Lego movie 2 has an interesting take on "how growing up as a concept in our society encourages fascism". I'd say it's worth a watch.
Fr also sick pfp down with authority!