Dear Plisters

[Markekohut]

What else is interesting about this movie: it is anti-Religion, anti-God even, in sly ways, I suggest. Overtly.  A thoroughly secular self-affirmation movie. ( Unless that is only for the Lego people. Smile. ) 


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On Mar 8, 2014, at 1:41 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Which is ironic, coming from Warner Bros., which has stymied creativity of the US film industry, by looking solely at the international profitability of every project they develop. But that's been the standard playbook of corporate America since the '60s: co-opt and commodify the oppositional.
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>> From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Mar 8, 2014 9:17 AM
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Dear Plisters
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>> I recommend The Lego Movie as a clever, witty satire----a President Business who also runs THE huge socially authoritarian company out of a huge Tower...."the tower is everywhere" ---pretty straightforward on Who Controls the Military-industrial complex.....
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>> And the theme of " anarchic" creativity as the Counterforce, so to speak. 
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>> Among lots of one-liner wit, one surprise bit I loved ( besides Batman's dark side: " I have issues; I'm an orphan") was the interior world called MIDDLE ZEALAND. 
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