Then Fall Caesar

Date: 2007
Posted by: thenardier1
Credits: Created by Brian Randall for Brandall Films
Cast: Lego
Duration: 4.25

A dynamic intepretation in Lego of the assassination scene from Julius Caesar, enhanced by some creative camera work but weakened somewhat by poor picture quality.

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My name is Macbeth

Date: 2006
Posted by: SupaComix
Credits: Directed and animated by Nick Browne, music by Mitch Benn
Cast: Lego
Duration: 4.27

A Lego animation, marrying the story of Macbeth to a rap accompaniment not so far away from Eminem. The animation is rudimentary by some brickfilm standards, but it makes a virtue of its roughness, and serves as a witty comment on the play. The obligatory expletives have been deleted. The assorted Lego figures include characters from Star Wars as the three witches. The film was directed and animated by Nick Browne, who manages the Supa Comix website, which is dedicated to the worlds of online media and comic books. This is an output of one of the site’s projects, ‘We 3 Men’. Music is by Mitch Benn (with a burst of Green Day over the credits).

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A Lego Soliloquy

Date: 2007
Posted by: MrFerder
Credits: Animated by Jonathan Williams, for JMW Productions
Cast: Jonathan Williams (voice)
Duration: 1.14

This interpretation of the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy from Hamlet is animated and narrated by Jonathan ‘Mr Ferder’ Williams. A superior example of Lego animation, or brickfilms, it is crisply shot and edited, with some wry comic business taking place in the background. The idea of having Hamlet’s words spoken by a skeleton (and more of a skull than a skeleton) is something of an imaginative coup.

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