[ SECRET POST #2959 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2959 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://oi59.tinypic.com/217acp.jpg

[comradesmiler]

But OP, the movie does make a point that following the instructions is as viable and respected as being creative.

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly what the secret is saying, I was confused at first too but read it again.

[comradesmiler]

Oh, right. My mistake.

[elaminator]

Yea, I'm not a leader either OP; some people just aren't cut out for it. (Which is totally fine! It isn't anything to be ashamed of.)

I liked that about the film, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I loved the message of this movie. Far better than The Incredibles with their "if everybody's special nobody is". Ugh. I hated that so much. It didn't even make sense.

The Lego movie's message was much healthier. Every cog in a machine is needed. Every person is individual and valuable in some way or other.

[(Anonymous)]

As far as I've been able to tell, Incredibles resonates spectacularly well if, and only if, you're coming at it from a very specific viewpoint: the incredibly gifted kid who's had to hide what they can do all their life because people think it's freaky. From that perspective, it's basically two hours of wish fulfillment. The things that you have to hide will help you save the world! Everyone will love you because of them! (Because real life doesn't work that way, and the other five-year-olds don't want to talk about the Harry Potter books, and kindergarten teachers don't like it when you start reading off the lesson plans.) If you're coming at it from any other viewpoint, it falls flat. Besides, even from that perspective, the moral is weird. If everyone was special, no one would be. I would have been entirely happy with that.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. I was that gifted kid you describe. Literally told I was genius level and classified gifted at seven. I spent years hiding it, or told to be more normal, or told to pretend to slow down for the sake of others, not just at school but later at work because it put off clients. I still hated the message of The Incredibles. Just because I have a high IQ and find mathematics easy doesn't mean other people don't all each have their own valuable contributions. Perhaps exactly because I've been that kid I could see what bullshit the movie was trying to peddle. One size fits all never works, but neither are some people more special than others.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't feel like that was really the Incredibles message, though? That was what Syndrome said, and Mr. Incredible doesn't want to celebrate mediocrity, but in the end the message I got was "Don't just try and blend in, embrace what makes you different."

[(Anonymous)]

celebrating mediocrity is bullshit anyway. The way they hand out trophies for trying hard doesn't teach anyone anything other than "there's no need to try harder than you already do"

[(Anonymous)]

+1 I agree with you; that wasn't the message I took from the movie. The villain doesn't usually spout the moral of the movie, either, so I'm not sure why some people are taking that statement as the central message.

[(Anonymous)]

I've always loved Legos. When I was little, I wanted to play with some but my mom refused to buy us sets. She thought it was better if we tried to make our own things and not have directions to follow, so we had a bunch of random Lego bricks. Of course, she had no idea just how many Legos you need to actually make anything so I never had enough to make much of anything and I had no minifigures.

My cousin would get these huge Lego sets every Christmas and we would go downstairs and watch him make them and I was always so jealous.

Now, I buy all the sets I want. :)

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

While I have to say my mother was better and did buy me Lego, I will say having control of your own money is a great advantage to collecting. I know my set grew in leaps and bounds after I started controlling my income.

[dinogrrl]

Yeah, I get that. We can't all be leaders, then who are we leading? The followers can be just as important.

[lb_lee]

Enh, I've always known I make a way better Spock than a Kirk. I wanted nothing more than to be a cog in a nice machine all my life, and was PISSED when it didn't work.

The thing is, it seems heroes can be weird but not TOO weird.

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

I have leader qualities but I would rather be a functioning piece of the puzzle than the leader, too. I may have the aptitude, but I don't have the inclination.

[lb_lee]

Yeah, while I've always known I'm best in an advisory or second-in-command position. The things a leader needs is an ability to multitask and be aware of the social needs of a lot of people, and that's not my strong point. My strong point is focusing on a line of tasks and slugging away until they're done.

I CAN lead, but it's really not a good use of resources.

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

why do you always sign your posts? you're already logged in so it's kind of ...really unnecessary

[lb_lee]

I need to find a way to make this info common, since we've gotten it before.

Long story short: DID/multiple personalities. Did a 101 thread on it a week or so back. Since all of us use the same account, but we switch, figured it'd be less confusing to just tag the comments. (Since we have way different fandom interests.)

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

I liked this movie and the message of it made me smile. I'm a follower, not a leader, and am content being a follower. I've been told all my life I shouldn't be happy being a follower, that I should strive to be a leader, but ehh... Not my thing.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: logo from the Lego Movie

Text: This movie made me feel a little better about how all I’ve ever been good at is following instructions.

I follow. I conform. It’s more comfortable. According to most media, someone like me can never be the hero.

[(Anonymous)]

I started writing out how "that is not the message I got from this movie at all" only to realise that, wait, I probably missed the whole point (I got bored halfway through and stopped paying attention after all). That almost certainly IS the message of this movie!

'Cause as long as you're a follow-instructions type person, you'll be endlessly buying new sets of Lego to build each one up exactly like it tells you to on the box. Whereas if you used your imagination to build things, you could just buy one big box of mixed Lego and play with those very same bricks happily ever more!

[(Anonymous)]

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nice bait mate

[(Anonymous)]

u r a poet
and don't even know it

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Though I know from experience that you can buy a dozen sets, learn how to build them so well you have them memorised, and then take all the sets, pile them in one big pile of pieces and start building something not in any of the instructions, and then you also have the knowledge of how stable constructions are put together to build your new creation in s solid stable manner.

Besides, I used to give all my mini figures names and played out little day-to-day dramas with them. I still have fond memories of Jerry Bumstead, my yellow-uniformed space-base commander who hated magic.