Generally speaking, the ending is not created in the order of development of the story until the end of the story. The creation of the ending begins with the overall idea of the story. The overall idea can determine whether the story is exciting. Therefore, how the ending can have a crucial impact on a movie, and a well-designed ending can push a movie to a higher level.
The story mode of "The Lego Movie" is the most common hero mode in Hollywood. As always, the protagonist Emmet was a waste at the beginning. By chance, he was involved in the journey of saving the world. In the process, he gradually grew into a great hero. Of course, there must be a heroine who promotes his progress. The picture style is also refreshing enough. The world of the film is all made of Lego bricks. Not to mention that characters, buildings, cars, etc. are all made of building blocks or building blocks. Even water, gunshot sparks, and explosion effects can be used with building blocks. Show it. Most of the jokes in the film come from the characters’ various cuteness. For example, the astronaut who has always wanted to build a spaceship but has been rejected, after finally having the opportunity to build a spaceship, accompanied by dynamic music, he "bangs". Crashing something on the ground, while shouting spaceship happily. It's really a "man with the same wind".
The ending of "The Lego Movie" gave me a big surprise. Because when I first watched this movie, I thought that at the end, justice must have defeated evil. Emmet eventually defeated the business king and saved the world. But it was the turn of the last 1/5 of the film that magically promoted the film from four stars to five stars.
Emmet fell downstairs, came to the real world, and met "the man upstairs". At this time, the film tells us that everything in the building block world is the imagination of the little boy Fein, Emmet is his incarnation, and the business king refers to his father. His father thinks that those are not toys but building block systems. They should be spliced strictly according to the physical image of the real world. He regards the spaceships and robots that his son spliced according to his own ideas as random splicing things. He also can't understand how dragons can be. Put it on the top of a tall building. In fact, what he spelled out was a model, and his son gave the building blocks imagination and life. The fundamental contradiction between him and his son is the contempt and incomprehension of children's creativity by adults. Finally, after watching the scene of the battle spliced by his son and listening to the story he made up by himself, the father was also shocked by his son's peculiar imagination, realized his mistake, reconciled with his son, and played with building blocks together. Through cross-editing, the business king and Emmet also reconciled and sprayed the antidote to the terrorist weapon Cragg (glue).
The design of the ending makes the film an unconventional layered structure. The outer story is a story imagined by Fein. Dad understands Fein’s childlike innocence and creativity and no longer restricts Fein to play with building blocks. The inner story is the story Fein told his father, that is, the story of Emmet vs. the king of business. The contradiction in the outer story is the contradiction between the adult and the child, and the main contradiction in the inner story is the contradiction between personality and order, freedom and despotism, special and ordinary. Many of the contradictions in the inner story are projections of the outer story.
If there is no Fein and Dad in this movie, but only this inner story, then what effect will this movie show? First of all, the film will end with the ending of the inner story, and it will still end with Emmet's victory, whether in a reconciled way or in a way to defeat the business king. And this will not give the audience a sense of surprise. Although the inner story involves themes about individuality and order, freedom and despotism, special and ordinary, it was never intended to be any serious film. Its toy protagonist and cute style make these grand themes become one. This kind of gimmick, after we watch it, we won't say it is an anti-system political film or the like, but it is essentially a heroic salvation story of gagging. But with this outer story, the film takes it to the next level. In addition to the above-mentioned role that will break through the expectations of watching movies, the theme of the outer story also covers the entire film with a halo, making the inner story out of the building block world and has practical significance. And allowing parents to recognize their children's "wishness" may be the concept that Lego Toys wants to convey. It is no wonder that fans would say that "The Lego Movie" is a movie version of Lego.
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