Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the intertextual relationships between the Matrix and The Lego Movie (10)
The disadvantages of the intertextual relationships between The Matrix and The Lego Movie are that the majority of the plot, characters and setting in The Lego Movie have been copied from the popular movie The Matrix. For example, The Lego Movie is first of all set in a world of Lego, and later on in the movie, it is revealed to the audience and one of the characters that they are all being controlled by a little boy playing with Lego. In The Matrix, it begins in a large city, and Neo is living a normal life, but it is later on revealed to him and the audience that he, and the rest of the human race had been living in a computer programme which had been built by computers called the Matrix. This links the two movies, because both them are set in built worlds, being controlled by others. The Lego Movie copied The Matrix again, with the characters, as the main characters in both movies, Emmet and Neo, are just normal people, going about their daily lives, when all of a sudden, things change, and it is revealed to them that they are 'The special' or 'The one' this part of the story in the lego movie is completely copied from the matrix.
The advantages of the intertextual relationships between the matrix and The Lego Movie are that the matrix is a popular movie, which many people enjoyed, so by copying this storyline in The Lego Movie, they ensured that it would be interesting to the younger target audience, because of all the adventure and action, and would also appeal to the older target audience, because they would be able to identify the links to The Matrix, because they would have seen the matrix, and would also enjoy The Lego Movie. Another advantage of the intertextual links between the two movies is that The Lego Movie could interest the younger audience, who probably don't know what The Matrix is, so would introduce them to the same sort of storyline, and possibly interest them in the movie, The Matrix.
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