'The Lego Movie' Brilliantly Subverts Movie Tropes
The Lego Movie achieves great humor and story with a combination of childish comedy, adult references, irony, and by subverting popular movie tropes.

A high school boy must follow in his shaman grandfather's footsteps to become the beacon of light he was meant to be.
The Lego Movie achieves great humor and story with a combination of childish comedy, adult references, irony, and by subverting popular movie tropes.
That feeling in your gut which tells you that there’s something out there you should look for and make your own, is what the power represents
There’s enough evidence to insinuate that What We Do in the Shadows is intentionally queer-coded.
The “gay best friend”, an age-old trope, has been done in countless films and television series. Ranging from one-note (Sex and the City's Stanford and Mario) to nuanced (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss), the gay best friend exists to support and advise the main protagonist, with their conflicts swept to the side.
A few episodes in, I realized the most prominent theme of In The Long Run wasn't culture, race or even finding independence--but the idea of belonging.
Given a choice between a man and a mountain, it’s safer to choose the mountain.