The Lego Movie · 2014 — 第 14 / 22 章 · 2'08" · B2

Emmet Pitches His Master Plan, Explained:the last thing someone expects

The heroes are ready to give up until Emmet makes the case for teamwork. "No! It's follow the instructions," he argues: not improvising like MasterBuilders, but building from a plan together. The joke is that a construction worker's advice may be the only thing that can beat Lord Business.

あらすじ

Hiding from Lord Business, the MasterBuilders snipe at each other until Emmet speaks up. He admits he is only a construction worker, but argues that his gift is following a plan and getting everyone to work as a team. If MasterBuilders applied that same discipline, he says, they could save the universe—so they hand him markers and paper to draw one.

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このシーンの表現

the last thing someone expects

the thing someone would least anticipate

艾米特用反问 what's the last thing Lord Business expects 引导大家去想敌人最松懈的地方。

The last thing they expect at the gate is a polite knock.

このシーンの他の表現

  • follow the instructions

    to do exactly what the directions say

  • work together

    to cooperate on a shared task

  • well said

    a brief praise for someone's words

このシーンのメモ一覧

41 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

スラング · B2mateysAvast, mateys!
表現 · B1I thought you said ...Metal Beard, I thought you said we were a lost 'cause!
表現 · B2it's hard not to do somethingWell, it's kind of hard not to hear when you're yelling everything.
文法 · B2when you're yelling everything

adverbial time clause: The when-clause sets the moment; the main clause keeps it until the end.

Well, it's kind of hard not to hear when you're yelling everything.
発音kind of hard not to

elision

Well, it's kind of hard not to hear when you're yelling everything.
表現 · A2come backSo why did you come back?
表現 · B2overlook somethingI watched Lord Business' forces completely overlook it.
文法 · B2Ideas so dumb and bad

so plus adjectives for degree: So and bad hold the degree open until the next sentence supplies the result.

Ideas so dumb and bad...
表現 · B2no one would ever think ...that no one would ever think they could possibly be useful.
表現 · B2the last thing someone expects

the thing someone would least anticipate

what's the last thing Lord Business expects MasterBuilders will do?
表現 · B2keep someone downHow you gonna keep 'em down on the farm?
発音keep 'em down

weak form

How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm?
スラング · B1'emHow you gonna keep 'em down on the farm?
表現 · B1follow the instructions

to do exactly what the directions say

No! It's follow the instructions.
表現 · B1work together

to cooperate on a shared task

But you can't work together as a team.
表現 · B1as a teamBut you can't work together as a team.
表現 · B1just imagine ...Just imagine what could happen if you did that.
文法 · B2if you did that

hypothetical condition: Past tense after if signals an imagined case, not a past event.

Just imagine what could happen if you did that.
表現 · B1save the universeYou could save the universe.
発音save the universe

liaison

You could save the universe.
表現 · B2Well said

a brief praise for someone's words

Well said, Emmet. Well said.
スラング · B2laddieShe be a fine speech there, laddie.

「Emmet Pitches His Master Plan」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene argues something surprising for an action movie: the hero's superpower is procedure. After a run of disasters built on improvisation, Emmet asks the group to try the thing they despise—following instructions and literally acting like a team. The diagnosis comes as "But you can't work together as a team"; the plan is the cure. It is also a class joke: the MasterBuilders are artists, and Emmet is a construction worker, the one who reads the manual. The film keeps insisting that imagination without coordination fails, which is why the least special member becomes the one leading the room.

Theme

FriendshipEmmet argues that a group of brilliant individualists can only win if they agree to cooperate.
IdentityThe least talented person turns out to be the one who can organize everyone, defining himself by discipline rather than flair.

発音のポイント

  • kind of hard not to — elision
  • keep 'em down — weak form
  • save the universe — liaison
Guys, you're all so talented and imaginative.

The opening of Emmet's pitch: he flatters the group before telling them what they lack, so the criticism lands as encouragement.

But you can't work together as a team.

The diagnosis of everything that has gone wrong: each hero is brilliant alone and useless together, which is why every plan has collapsed.

Just imagine what could happen if you did that.

An invitation to picture the payoff, turning cooperation into a promise rather than a chore.

You could save the universe.

The speech's climax, scaling up a construction worker's method to the fate of the world.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Emmet propose following instructions?

The group keeps failing because every MasterBuilder improvises alone. Emmet, a construction worker, argues that if everyone followed one plan together, their talent would finally add up instead of scattering.

Why is the plan a shock to the MasterBuilders?

They value free improvisation and hate rules, so following a fixed set of instructions feels like the opposite of their identity. The scene turns their resistance into the joke.

What does Emmet ask for at the end of the scene?

Markers, construction paper, and glitter glue. The request signals that the next step is not a battle but a planning session, where he will draw the plan himself.

Is Emmet actually a MasterBuilder?

No. He says plainly that he is just a construction worker. The scene's point is that being able to organize and follow a plan may matter more than raw creative talent.

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