Allegorical Film Analysis - Three Great Paragraphs

THREE GREAT PARAGRAPHS | Analyzing Allegory Film | Pahomov Use the paragraph structure below to compose your in-class writing analyzing the allegorical meaning of THREE elements in your allegorical film. Make sure you type out your allegorical interpretation before beginning the paragraph! My Interpretation: In 2-3 sentences, describe what the allegorical message of the movie is. Leave out the literal elements (character names, places) and use ONLY symbolic language. If you’re really stuck on the allegorical themes of your movie, pick a question from this list to help focus. You’re welcome to start with, “One allegorical interpretation of the movie is that humans…” I think that the Lego Movie shows how by letting your creativity and individuality loose, you and others can work together to solve modern problems in our own lives and in others. EXAMPLE #1 In this scene, everyone wanted to make the sub look like what represented them, the unicorn wanted rainbows and sparkles and Batman wanted darkness, so they all built different parts of CONTEXT: Tell us which element of the film you are going to be analyzing the allegorical meaning of. Could be a character, object, setting, moment of action in the story! the submarine separately. But, Emmett asks what he should do, and his sensei says he should do whatever he likes, and build something that he wants. And so against popular interest, he built the double decker couch, which ended up being the only thing that survived the explosion, saving everyone. (52:20). Since Emmett built what he wanted despite what others said about it, it ended up saving everyone. Using this information, allegorically, it might mean that by embracing what we love and what represents us, it could do a lot of good for us and for others, even if at first they didn’t see the value or importance of what you create. Evidence: In 2-3 sentences, describe a specific moment where this element plays a role in the story. Don’t summarize the whole story -- just describe that minute of the movie. Go back and watch again if you need a reminder! Time Stamp: Include the minute mark where this moment occurs in the film starts, like this (23:03) or (1:02:29) ANALYSIS: The most substantial part of the paragraph is the analysis, where the writer explains the significance of the evidence and uses it to prove the thesis. Refer back to specific moments in the evidence, but do not just repeat them -explain what they reveal and deepen about your allegorical meaning! If the viewer interprets that specific moment symbolically, what does it show us about human behavior? EXAMPLE #2 There is a character who only wants to build a spaceship for the entirety of the movie, and while the team is devising a plan, he suggests that he could build a spaceship, which he suggests a lot, CONTEXT: Tell us which element of the film you are going to be analyzing the allegorical meaning of. Could be a character, object, setting, moment of action in the story! but always gets shut down. This time he is allowed, and not just allowed, but encouraged. (1:16:00). Considering he was encouraged, instead of getting shut down, he was even more excited to build it than normal, which is a high bar. I think that this can represent that instead of putting people and their ideas down, you should motivate and encourage them, even if it might not work. This makes people more inclined to embrace their own ideas and creativity, rather than shutting it down and not letting it surface, a problem we see in real life, adults not letting themselves be creative or imaginative, making this allegorical message an important and relevant one. Evidence: In 2-3 sentences, describe a specific moment where this element plays a role in the story. Don’t summarize the whole story -- just describe that minute of the movie. Go back and watch again if you need a reminder! Time Stamp: Include the minute mark where this moment occurs in the film starts, like this (23:03) or (1:02:29) ANALYSIS: The most substantial part of the paragraph is the analysis, where the writer explains the significance of the evidence and uses it to prove the thesis. Refer back to specific moments in the evidence, but do not just repeat them -explain what they reveal and deepen about your allegorical meaning! If the viewer interprets that specific moment symbolically, what does it show us about human behavior? EXAMPLE #3 In the moments before this scene Emmett was presumed dead, sacrificing himself to save the others, but now Lord Business is invading the city, and the master builders haven’t arrived. CONTEXT: Tell us which element of the film you are going to be analyzing the allegorical meaning of. Could be a character, object, setting, moment of action in the story! Because of this, Wild Style, or Lucy, went to the news and told everybody to be more like Emmett, to not be afraid of Lord Business and to fight back by building whatever they wanted and whatever they thought might work. (1:14:10). I think that in this scene, Lord Business represents judgment and modern problems, because he is terrorizing everyone, and freezing them in place, like how judgment freezes our creativity. But Lucy talking about Emmett and how he had so many wacky and crazy ideas that ended up working and almost saving everyone inspired everyone else to follow him. This ended up working, because when the master builders arrived they saw the people making tons of machines and vehicles that were working, which in my eyes represents how if we don’t let judgment stop us we can use our creativity and individuality to overcome and adapt to modern problems. Evidence: In 2-3 sentences, describe a specific moment where this element plays a role in the story. Don’t summarize the whole story -- just describe that minute of the movie. Go back and watch again if you need a reminder! Time Stamp: Include the minute mark where this moment occurs in the film starts, like this (23:03) or (1:02:29) ANALYSIS: The most substantial part of the paragraph is the analysis, where the writer explains the significance of the evidence and uses it to prove the thesis. Refer back to specific moments in the evidence, but do not just repeat them -explain what they reveal and deepen about your allegorical meaning! If the viewer interprets that specific moment symbolically, what does it show us about human behavior?