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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Brickfilm of the Week: 2001: A LEGO Odyssey (June 19, 2015)]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Yeah.  I hate BURP pieces andf other non-brick-built thigs, because I'm from the old-school.  Like those Dinos ijn Jurassic World sets.   You know, I'd enjoy to put them together from regular bricks rather than 3 to 4 big pieces.

Anyway, I saw the film and loved it!  Loved the use of a few retro sets in it too!]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[HoldingOurOwn]]></name>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Brickfilm of the Week: 2001: A LEGO Odyssey (June 19, 2015)]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I had no idea that BURP bricks were hated so much :P

This film was really fun, in a way, it made little sense, but in another way, it made tons of sense (kind of like the original 2001: A Space Odyssey! ;) ) You were right to say not to judge the film based on framerate. Once I began watching this film, my eyes adjusted to the framerate, and I could appreciate the film for what it was: a good brickfilm.]]></content>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Brickfilm of the Week: 2001: A LEGO Odyssey (June 19, 2015)]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Yes.  I love those two.  I found them about a year or so ago, when I went looking!  Thx for your help!]]></content>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I have sent the file, HOO. Also, if you're looking for 2001-themed brickfilms, you might have seen these already but two of the other best-known ones are [i][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQokzyzusQk]Also Thwacked Zarathustra[/url][/i] by Thomas Foote and [i][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz4aQ2YbN-E]ONE: A Space Odyssey[/url][/i] by Spite Your Face Productions, both also released in 2001.]]></content>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[This is archived in Google Drive and google is blocked from my computer.  Is there an alternate location?

Or someone can email me the file: holdingourown "at" ymail. "dot" com]]></content>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[This is totally awesome.  I actually looked around video sites for any 2001-themed Lego animations, but I DEFINITELY missed this one.  I hate summer because I won't be able to watch this until later this weekend, and I'll be amped up until I see it.]]></content>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Brickfilm of the Week: 2001: A LEGO Odyssey (June 19, 2015)]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[This week’s Brickfilm of the Week is [i][url=http://brickfilms.wikia.com/wiki/2001%3A_A_LEGO_Odyssey]2001: A LEGO Odyssey[/url][/i] by Marc Atkin.

[i]2001: A LEGO Odyssey[/i] is both a homage to the 1968 film [i]2001: A Space Odyssey[/i] and to the LEGO building toy and spans several eras. It was made in 2001 by Marc Atkin. Marc Atkin was a member of the early LEGO fan site LUGNET, and his films were in the Brickfilms.com directory. His only other film is [i]Jar Jar Binks and the French Revolution[/i].

[b][url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-z4JziKeyQTeTIwX1lZV0YxUVU/view]Watch [i]2001: A LEGO Odyssey[/i] on the Brickfilm Archive[/url][/b]

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[u][b]SPOILERY DISCUSSION BELOW![/b][/u]

Before we dive into analyzing [i]2001: A LEGO Odyssey[/i], let’s remember a few things. This film was made in 2000 (released in 2001), on a Powerbook without any stop-motion animation software. When viewing a film it is important to remember the context of when the film was made. There is a time and a place to critique a film’s frame rate or animation, and this is not that time.

With that said, let’s talk about [i]2001: A LEGO Odyssey[/i]’s great strength: its great editing. Like the Kubrick film it homages, this film features very clever editing that helps drive the story.  Cuts are carefully chosen, like the flying brick fading to the rolling wheel at 1:05. Also observe how the story is told: man finds simple LEGO, he smiles. Woman finds more complex but still interesting LEGO, she smiles. Man finds the infamous dumbed-down LEGO of the 1990s. He frowns. This simple repetition tells us so much without a single word of snarky dialog. And again, in the end, we see a similar transition: from the monolith, to a Mindstorms RCX computer brick, to a simple 2x4 red brick.

What are your thoughts on [i]2001: A LEGO Odyssey[/i]? What did you like about it? What did you think of the editing, and how it helped tell the story? Did you have a favorite moment?]]></content>
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			<updated>2015-06-19T15:42:46Z</updated>
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