gom jabbarwocky
2014-10-22, 08:24 PM
I'm probably not the first person to note this, but while watching The Lego Movie, I couldn't help but note uncanny similarities between the film and the plot of the old White Wolf game Mage: the Ascension. I can only assume that these correlations are completely coincidental, but it's driving me crazy and I had to get this out of my system and share this with people. Be warned, major spoilers for The Lego Movie below - also for Mage, but that was a game that came out more than twenty years ago.
I mean, I'm not bonkers for thinking this, right? Let me break it down, first some of the superficial stuff:
- The Awakened = Master builders
- The Technocracy = Lord Business and co.
- The Technocracy creating the Gauntlet and blocking off Earth from the spirit worlds = Lord Business creating walls to separate all the different Lego worlds
- The Technocracy blows up Horizon = Bad guys blow up Cloudcuckooland
Okay, so that's not too out there. Lots of narratives have analogous components. So, let's dig a little deeper...
Alright, so in the movie the bad guys capture the master builders and hook them into a giant machine and uses their creative power to design Lord Business' stuff.... just like the Technocracy captures mages and sticks them in MECHA to use their magic juice to build their stuff! Also, doesn't Lord Business' evil plan with the glue really gel with the Technocracy's stated tie to the forces of Stasis? At the climax of the movie, Emmet goes through a mystic portal and realizes the true nature of his reality before returning to his world with tremendous insight and incredible powers, i.e., like a Seeking or Ascension or something. And in the end, the master builders and Lord Business manage to be cool with each other.... and then the Marauders attack! This is just like the canonical ending of Mage, when the Traditions and the Union have to work together to stop the Marauders from running roughshod over what is left of Earth.
I'm pretty sure that the filmmakers didn't do this intentionally, but I think this is awfully interesting, so I leave it to the forums... is there something to this thesis, or am I just seeing what I want to see?
I mean, I'm not bonkers for thinking this, right? Let me break it down, first some of the superficial stuff:
- The Awakened = Master builders
- The Technocracy = Lord Business and co.
- The Technocracy creating the Gauntlet and blocking off Earth from the spirit worlds = Lord Business creating walls to separate all the different Lego worlds
- The Technocracy blows up Horizon = Bad guys blow up Cloudcuckooland
Okay, so that's not too out there. Lots of narratives have analogous components. So, let's dig a little deeper...
Alright, so in the movie the bad guys capture the master builders and hook them into a giant machine and uses their creative power to design Lord Business' stuff.... just like the Technocracy captures mages and sticks them in MECHA to use their magic juice to build their stuff! Also, doesn't Lord Business' evil plan with the glue really gel with the Technocracy's stated tie to the forces of Stasis? At the climax of the movie, Emmet goes through a mystic portal and realizes the true nature of his reality before returning to his world with tremendous insight and incredible powers, i.e., like a Seeking or Ascension or something. And in the end, the master builders and Lord Business manage to be cool with each other.... and then the Marauders attack! This is just like the canonical ending of Mage, when the Traditions and the Union have to work together to stop the Marauders from running roughshod over what is left of Earth.
I'm pretty sure that the filmmakers didn't do this intentionally, but I think this is awfully interesting, so I leave it to the forums... is there something to this thesis, or am I just seeing what I want to see?