RE Log Fall 2019

12 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2019 Their breakthrough came in 2009 with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs , though their work on the story was hardly a smooth ride. The script came together, Miller and Lord recalled, only after a Sony Pictures executive lambasted them for a poor early draft, which she said lacked a soul and felt like “just a bunch of jokes.” They followed that with 21 Jump Street in 2012 and The Lego Movie two years later. In The Lego Movie, they introduced a hugely likeable main character, Emmet Brickowski, an ordinary guy who discovered a personal font of creativity no one realized he had. Lord and Miller were insistent that their star, Emmet, be talentless. “The idea that an artist is some kind of genius who knows something that other people don’t is kind of harmful,” Phil said. “It makes it seem like creativity is something that is reserved for a very small, elite group of people, as opposed to something everybody does all the time.” “�e idea that an artist is some kind of genius who knows something that other people don’t is kind of harmful.” - Phil Lord ’93 Photographs by Suzanne Kores