Lego Brokeback Mountain
21 February 2006 :: By Chris Coleman
You liked “Brokeback Mountain.” You love Legos. So why has it taken someone this long to combine the two? I present Lego Brokeback Mountain.
With Lego Brokeback Mountain, you get all the awkwardness of seeing two guys make out, but with the perpetually happy faces of little Lego guys. It’s a win-win situation for those of you who can’t quite bring yourselves to go to the movie, yet remain impressed by the fact that you can make just about anything out of Legos. Unless you’re Legophobic, that is.
Via Boing Boing.
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February 26th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
I have an issue with anybody making fun of a movie that deals with gay bashing resulting in death. I wonder how everyone would react if this were a recreation of Jody Foster in The Accused, complete with trailer house and pinball machine. Would everyone think it’s acceptable to make fun of rape and recreate it with legos? Or perhaps another recreation…how about Terms of Endearment…we can have the children gathered around the hospital bed just before Debra Winger dies! Well, I guess it’s always been okay to denigrate gays. Americans used to portray blacks in this same kind of joking way, exaggerating their facial features in postcards, essentially just trying to bring them down. This movie is the first in ten years that I’ve been able to enjoy as a gay-themed adult drama with any kind of quality. The last was Philadelphia with Tom Hanks. Let’s do a lego scene with that too, maybe the courtroom scene where he’s showing his cancer to everyone in the room! Or maybe a scene from Shindler’s List. Any scene will suffice. If you all don’t see how disgusting this is then you completely missed the point of the movie, if you even bothered watching. I wonder how Matthew Shepherd would feel about this. It happened to him too, but it wasn’t 1963, or 1983, it was practically yesterday. Brokeback mountain is a love story between cowboys. But essentially it’s a movie about oppression and persecution. Gay bashing. Death. I just don’t think legos has a place next to that.
February 26th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
What the hell are you talking about? Who’s making fun of the movie?
I could call you all kinds of names and tell you what a fool you are, but I think the greatest insult would be to just make a Lego scene of you getting all worked up over Legos.
Chill the hell out.
February 27th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Legos are fun!