Creativity In The LEGO Movie

In LEGO’s early days, LEGO was meant to be a toy that inspired children’s creativity. You poured a bucket of bricks onto the carpet and began building what your heart desired. The question I’ve come to ask myself is, has LEGO lost its creative nature? As I saw The LEGO Movie, I began to find it ironic how LEGO contradicted its current modern standing. Contrary to its early days, LEGO sells all if not most of its products as sets. They come with select pieces and instructions to build what you have purchased. These range from Batman sets to Harry Potter sets, and many other themes. The LEGO Movie uses comedy to reawaken their previous sense of creativity through their use of their main protagonist, Emmet. Emmet is best described as the innocent archetype. Since …show more content…
Everyone including Emmet, follow the same instructions and do what they have to do. At Emmet’s construction job, all the employees follow the instructions in order to build buildings. One of the workers instructs Emmet’s crew to take everything weird and blow it up. If the instructions are lost, chaos insures. In a way Emmet represents a child who builds everything by the box. After Emmet meets Wyldstyle (the strong woman), he begins to realize that maybe there is more you can do with LEGO than follow the instructions. He is impressed with her free building creativity. It is at this moment where he no longer feels full conformity. He realizes that he is missing something. In one scene of the film, he is asked to see inside his mind in order to discover his creativity. All we see is a blank white room. Emmet is shown as an uncreative builder which reveals he is not a master builder. As the movie progresses no one believes that Emmet will fulfill his prophecy. Emmet is said to be the hero the prophecy foretold to stop Lord Business by using the piece of resistance. He is said to be the ultimate Master Builder. The most special, but he isn’t. He accidently stumbled upon the piece. He is just like