3.The LEGO Movie

3.《乐高大电影》

The challenge to directors and cowriters Phil Lord and Christopher Miller: transform the blocky LEGO figures, with painted faces and no arm or leg mobility, into charming or rapacious characters a viewer can instantly accept and believe in. That they did. Worker drone Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt ofParks and RecreationandGuardians of the Galaxy) gets mistaken as the Special One, the Neo of the LEGO matrix, by a cadre of underground rebels bent on overthrowing the evil President Business (Will Ferrell). “Anti-capitalist” was the phrase that Brietbart.com applied to this comedy about the nightmare merger of big government and predatory commerce — somehow ignoring that it’s also a feature-length commercial for the world’s largest toy company. Politics aside,The LEGO Movieis a hoot, and a beaut. Shot in a CGI format that mimics stop-motion animation, it has an aptly rough, faux-primitive look, as if some brilliant kid had made a madly elaborate home movie the whole world could love. The sequel comes in 2018.

对于导演兼编剧菲尔·罗德和克里斯·米勒来说，最大的挑战无疑是如何将乐高中积木般毫无灵活性的角色变成魅力四射的人物，并被大众广为认可。2014年他们做到了！该影片讲述了一个普通乐高小人艾米特（克里斯·帕拉特配音）被错当成了“大师建造者”而加入进一支地下反抗组织，力图阻止乐高世界邪恶暴君“商业总统”的阴险计划。这一喜剧动画片打着“反资本主义”的口号来反映政府兼并和掠夺式商业——似乎制作商忽视了一点：影片也映射到这个世界上最大型玩具公司自己的商业运作。该影片运用定格动画技术，呈现了一种“粗制”和“仿”原始的风格，仿佛是几个聪明的小孩子自己制作的家庭影片，但却得到了全世界观众的喜爱。该片续集将于2018年上映。