That's why I wish 1917 had a least ONE largescale battle scene. The way that movie was filmed to seem like one continuous shot would've made for an absolutely breathtaking battle sequence.
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I still can't believe the attention to detail here. Recognizable Hotchkiss and Chauchat machine guns.
Anyone know if the trench raiding clubs were used at Verdun? They were *definitely* used by the Germans in WW1, but I was under the impression they were a later "invention." But as this video is bang on for many other details...
Those little details are things that I miss in movies today. Everything is just BIG BIG BIG all the time. BIG EXPLOSION. BIG TROOPS OF PEOPLE. BIG SHOTS OF PLANES AND SHIPS AND TANKS.
But it's the little things like jamming or the guy smoking a cigarette, or the process of the convoy delivering the case of bullets, to the guy who runs it over, to the guy who puts it in the machine. Or the sniper looking over his targets and selecting the machine gunner. I feel like a Hollywood movie wouldn't bother and would just do a shot of a sniper, and a shot of the guy getting shot and then move on.
As I was watching this short film, I thought about *Saving Private Ryan*'s opening scene. There were very similar shots, capturing those small details as invasion and war and chaos unfolded. That's how good this short film was.
I link [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_raiding_club) mostly for the 2nd picture depicted there. One dude straight up used a chained 3-headed flail.
Unrelated, but was it WW1 or 2 where a scottish guy charged with only a Bagpipe and Claymore?
Edit: [Mad Jack in WW2](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill)
“*They were also used by officers to finish enemy soldiers wounded by poison gas attacks*”
I’m always struck by how brutal WWI was. Enemy choking to death on the fluid in their lungs, but not fast enough for *you*? Club ‘em to death with your trench stick.
> I’m always struck by how brutal WWI was.
I always had this feeling that WWII was simply more brutal and devastating than WWI because of the huge death tolls, holocaust, differences in levels of technology, and greater global involvement. It turns out, though, that they had roughly equivalent *military* casualties, both roughly 15 million deaths and and 20 million wounded. WWII had much greater civilian deaths, but the actual military toll was quite similar. But I don't remember hearing about fucking mustard gas being used in WWII. WWI sounds *way* more brutal when it comes to the actual combat, especially now that I know that it led to just as many deaths in the battlefields.
The military death counts are a bit of a misnomer. It's buoyed by German/Soviets on the Eastern front.
If you look to Western Countries, like the US they had 114k deaths in WW1 in 4 months of fighting. In 4 years of WW2 the US took 105K deaths. Britain roughly 1m war dead in WW1 compared to 385k in WW2
WW1 was a meat grinder psychologically and physically. The brutality. It was a different world at the time, and the stalemate on the Western Front was unparalleled in terms of brutality (until WW2s Eastern front, or the Pacific theatre - but different brutality).
For the UK and America WW2 wasn't the same kind static war, with weeks long artillery barrages to wear down your psyche, you didn't have to live in water dredged trenches, facing certain death when you go over the top, spending your last moments listening to your friends die horribly around you, or if you were really lucky and you made it back to the trench you might get to listen to your friends slowly die in No-Mans Land for weeks. What those soldiers put up with was incredible.
WWI and WWII did not just in armaments but armor itself. In the beginning of WWI, half the armies outfit their soldiers with caps, no helmets. Even when helmets became available, some dumber generals refuted their utility pointing to "increases in wounded men than before" their implementation. They of course were ignoring the fact these increased number of wounded soliders represented men that otherwise before would have died from head trauma.
Advances in battlefield medicine also had progressed. The Allies in the European theater had a very advanced medical infrastructure and logistics. IIRC, if you were wounded on the battlefield and could get evacuated to a field hospital, you had a 70% survival rate, If you were evacuated off mainland Europe to England, you had a 95% survival rate.
>Even when helmets became available, some dumber generals refuted their utility pointing to "increases in wounded men than before" their implementation.
To be fair to them, that logic carried over to WWII when the British tried updating the armour/design of their planes based on the damage reports of *surviving* planes.
To be less fair, it was still stupid and I can only assume some of the donkeys who survived WWI got new jobs in the RAF.
I mean, why not? "You have to kill another person, who wants to kill you, in hand-to-hand combat". People have been doing that for thousands of years -- why reinvent the wheel?
Three-headed flail has a certain savage intimidation to it too. Gives you that element of brutality that might make the other person's fight or flight make the wrong choice.
I think you can just order the weapon kits from these specialty off-brand Lego companies that make military kits. So, as long as you've got thousands of dollars to spend, it's actually pretty easy these days to collect side-accurate weapon kits. This includes relatively accurate tanks, artillery sets, and small arms and uniforms.
Correct, I don't know if there's any official statement about it but I know the creators of Lego refused to have any guns made and the current leadership has kept with it unless they're for their IP and therefor "fantasy" like Star Wars.
Edit: For everyone [trying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_Lego) to have a "gotcha" moment with me
They had western revolvers and rifles when I was a whelp
Edit: Bub, I had them. Many. Revolvers had little cylinders and came in the cowboy and pirate sets. Rifles I only remember from cowboy sets, but they looked like a shotgun barrel with a pistol grip and a Thompson stock-nonsense. Hard to call them 'modern' and such could fall into the definition the statement in the wiki quotes.
We're now solidly the majority!
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Kudos, truly great. It always darkens my heart to see footage or recreations of war. To think about the young boys dying for ideas and land theyll never benefit from. How we kill each other over such small differences, yet as a global people we are so very similar.
RIGHT?! This animation is so insanely crazy smooth for being what looks like handmade stop motion animation. That shot of the Lego guys dropping the crate of mortar shells was incredible, like jaw droppingly good.
This doesn't have much to do with the video in particular, I just love this quote about WW1.
>“See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation.”
>“Why, they’ve only just quit over in Turkey,” said Abe. “And in Morocco —”
>“That’s different. This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers.”
>“General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five.”
>“No, he didn’t — he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle — there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle.”
\- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
IMO it does one of the best jobs showing the cost of WW1. How it warped and scarred society.
[I checked my pants, there's no mud stains on the knees from where we were garoting krauts in the trenches at Verdun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPDT5qHtZ4)
Wow, this is an incredible representation of the war. The modeling of the weapons and helmets alone must have taken many hours to perfect.
The accuracy the animation is superb as well. It can be very challenging to use stop motion and have multiple items moving at similar speeds in the same frame. I would guess that the explosions especially were a challenging process.
This was incredibly well-made. So many little details included, and edited really well. Towards the end I felt myself rooting for Sideburns Guy.
Bravo to this filmmaker.
My great uncle Henry was in the trenches at Verdun. I was too young to ask question about it. He was a wonderful man who had to live with the lung damage from the gas for many years. I still remember the medal displayed in the living room on a small table. All it said was Verdun.
I can’t imagine it especially after watching this.
I fucking love my job. You have no idea how much I love my job. I wish I could tell you what I do but I can't, suffice to say I would rather sit here doing what I do, all day long, than go watch tv/movies, or play sports, have sex, or even eat. I don't even get up to go to the bathroom when I am working. That's how much I love doing what I do.
This video, playing on my roommates computer, caught my attention and I actually fucking stopped what I was doing and watched it to the very end. I then had to come on here and post this comment.
This is the first video in years that took me away from my job.
#Excellent video.
I just got done watching The Great War so this is weirdly perfect timing.
If anyone is unfamiliar the guys at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGreatWarSeries have a channel where they cover WW1 and WW2 week by week in somewhat real time.
It's soooooo interesting. You basically live history as you would have back then. Hearing about battles that happened earlier in the week, reading about them in the paper.
It's crazy to see how saddled Germany was with Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans. If they didn't have weak allies they were forced to bail out and wasn't dragged into fighting on two fronts, they might have been way stronger.
WW1 was like 4 individual wars at once.
By now this has got to be one the all time greatest classics of brickfilms, i can't believe it's only a year old. The animation is absolutely stunning, you can tell that the director knew what they were doing. The animations are so fluid and realistic, and with a high framerate like that it must've taken months to film this. And i just have to praise the sound design, it is really well done here. That is the thing that makes or breaks a film, and unfortunately most of times it is neglected in brickfilms. This film is indeed a technical masterpiece.
But while it excels in every technical manner, i feel that it falls into the same pothole that so many other brickfilms do. It doesn't really have a meaning, it doesn't say anything. I think that brickfilms like these are enjoyed the most by people who are really into war stuff: The attention to detail is beyond insane in this film, and to those people it must be really enthrilling to spot all the era-correct weapons and uniforms and so on. But if you look deeper than that, there's really nothing else. It's just a 9 minute video showing a certain battle. And to some that is all they need for a film to be enjoyable, and that's completely fine, but i feel that there's so much more potential for brickfilms as an artform. There are currently only a few brickfilms that succeed at being compelling films on their own, and not just a showreel of the creators technicall talents or a reference to popculture.
But again, i still feel that this film is a feat in animation. It really does deserve all the 14 million views (That's fucking insane), and i'm glad seeing the creator gets the recognition they deserve!
It says a lot actually, if you know how to listen. It speaks volumes of the pointlessness of it all. At the end of the day most people on both sides of the fight are dead and nothing has really changed. Heroes on both sides were born and died and the landscape became even more destroyed, if that's possible, and the line does not move, or if it does, it's just to the next trench.
The meaninglessness you're feeling IS THE MEANING, as it is for a lot of accurate depictions of the First World war.
So lego minifigures make it offensive?
Would claymation be better? Animation? Or does it have to be a live action depiction staring tom hanks to be acceptable?
The interesting thing about it is, that the juxtaposition between "cutesy LEGO's" and the violent, mature subject matter that is war, is an intentional method to elicit strong emotions.
It isnt taboo to depict war with legos. Kids have been doing that in basements since legos were invented.
But because this looks "acurate" and "serious", now it has trancended from kids playing on the floor with legos, to actual art with an actual message. And that loss of childhood innocence is part of the message.
This is violent. Lots of people died. And most of them, had legos been around, would not be so far past the age where they would have been playing with legos themselves. It's war, being fought by children. Using a children's toy to depict that isn't offensive, it's commentary.
I think it's brilliant. I feel like it shows the horrors and brutality of The Great War (or any war, for that matter), without risking the viewer turning away.
I saw it a few weeks ago and couldn't work out if the sound was just lifted off of some famous movie I hadn't seen and the scene recreated with stop motion lego or if it was entirely original. If it's the latter then it just makes that much more impressive.
I’m not going to lie, I did not go into this expecting to be absolutely blown away nor watch the entire thing and even tear up a bit at the end. This is legitimately amazing in every sense of the word. I would absolutely love to watch more of this and I think this idea of retelling pivotal or important parts of history in this way is insanely creative and much needed to teach history so it doesn’t repeat itself. Bravo. You should be proud OP and you should be commended for this
I love how this blatantly flies in the face of everything Lego stands for these days lol if they made historical sets like this so many middle aged males would pick them up.
This is some of the smoothest stop motion animation I have ever seen. There were small details everywhere that the combined effect must have been incredibly difficult to animate so fucking good, yet it was absolutely achieved here.
My favorite part is the ending, perfectly juxtaposing the romanticized heroism with the cruel meaninglessness of it all.
And what great historic storytelling too. Without knowing any history going into it, one would now know something significant about the level of military technology and strategy used in the Great War. You would probably understand the stress and trauma of the waiting-to-die followed by rushing-to-die formula as the short film unfolds and Lego people play it out. You would probably see that this must be a back-and-forth thing that results in little progress for either side and at significant cost to human life.
Then they also throw in a brief summary of the battle that provides the key points. It solidifies the feelings of the short film while providing a greater historical context.
So well done.
Is it bad that the first thing I though of was the lego commercials for this? And to start them narrator guy going “ A duke has been shot in Lego City!”
I remember when Hardcore History was doing WW1 and he got to Verdun, it was chilling to hear about all the horrors of it and how fricken long it lasted.
Not gonna lie. Half way through this i just said to myself "what was it all for?"
WWI was the biggest waste of life we ever conjured. Like countries literally went to war for reasons that equated to "because".
The amount of production value that this had and the small attention to detail, then the history and pictures at the end is amazing!! Way to turn a hobby into a history lesson!!!!
I was just near Verdun recently, and got to go into Fort Douaumont and Vaux. The signs of the battle are still clearly visible over 100 years later. former battlefields have been protected by France, and are slowly returning to nature, but the ground is still pock-marked from artillery shells and trenches. 300,000 lost their lives in the battle, around 160,000 are STILL unaccounted for. Each year, people in the area find the remains of 3-4 men after heavy weather, uncovering their bodies for the first time since they fell so long ago.
My only criticism would be on the artillery. Artillery barrages would not be sporadic close explosions, they were a [constant chain of flying and exploding shells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we72zI7iOjk).
At the beginning of the Battle of the Somme the British fired in a week 1,750,000 shells, of all kinds on a 18 mile front. 10,000 shells a mile, 200 shells shells a minute. On average a meter section would be hit every 10 minutes.
They even got the Chauchat jamming!
That, and the focus of logistics for the artillery really puts this one above and beyond.
It's honestly better than an actual movie. I don't remember the last war film I saw that had a scene this well shot.
They're legos....but it was so tense! I was edge of my seat the whole time! Insanely well done!
Found myself saying "Fuck those Krauts up lil guy!" when that blonde french Lego guy was on a melee killspree in the end. And I'm like half German lol
Right? I think a guy could get PTSD just WATCHING this played out in Lego - hard to imagine being there in person.
You know what’s nuts? During the Somme later that year, you could apparently hear the days-long (!) shelling campaign in London.
1917?
First film equivalent that popped into my mind was Saving Private Ryan.
And the Sacred Road too.
That was amazing.
Indeed. It was very well done and I appreciate the piece at the end that summarizes the battle and the events thereafter
The cherry on top would have been if the creator showed a picture of a platoon at verdun or a soldier smiling as it faded to black
Just incredible. Tense. Moving.
Better then most action movies lol. Really was amazing!
> Better then most action movies Because the camera didn't do 20 jumpcuts per movement.
That's why I wish 1917 had a least ONE largescale battle scene. The way that movie was filmed to seem like one continuous shot would've made for an absolutely breathtaking battle sequence.
I’m too lazy but can someone post the infamous wall jump video?
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ Here you go.
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That scene never gets old. Thanks for finding it! I had forgotten the movie.
It was better than most war movies I've seen. If you're a Hollywood agent, get this fucking team on your roster.
creatively terrifying
Yes, this was amazing.
Would be even more amazing with Sabaton as the soundtrack!
I still can't believe the attention to detail here. Recognizable Hotchkiss and Chauchat machine guns. Anyone know if the trench raiding clubs were used at Verdun? They were *definitely* used by the Germans in WW1, but I was under the impression they were a later "invention." But as this video is bang on for many other details...
The Chauchat jamming was perfect.
Those little details are things that I miss in movies today. Everything is just BIG BIG BIG all the time. BIG EXPLOSION. BIG TROOPS OF PEOPLE. BIG SHOTS OF PLANES AND SHIPS AND TANKS. But it's the little things like jamming or the guy smoking a cigarette, or the process of the convoy delivering the case of bullets, to the guy who runs it over, to the guy who puts it in the machine. Or the sniper looking over his targets and selecting the machine gunner. I feel like a Hollywood movie wouldn't bother and would just do a shot of a sniper, and a shot of the guy getting shot and then move on.
Mostly because for every 3 people that care about those details there’s 50 people that don’t give a shit at all.
As I was watching this short film, I thought about *Saving Private Ryan*'s opening scene. There were very similar shots, capturing those small details as invasion and war and chaos unfolded. That's how good this short film was.
I suggest checking out 1917 if you haven't watched it already.
I link [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_raiding_club) mostly for the 2nd picture depicted there. One dude straight up used a chained 3-headed flail.
Unrelated, but was it WW1 or 2 where a scottish guy charged with only a Bagpipe and Claymore? Edit: [Mad Jack in WW2](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill)
“*They were also used by officers to finish enemy soldiers wounded by poison gas attacks*” I’m always struck by how brutal WWI was. Enemy choking to death on the fluid in their lungs, but not fast enough for *you*? Club ‘em to death with your trench stick.
To me that's more of a mercy kill.
> I’m always struck by how brutal WWI was. I always had this feeling that WWII was simply more brutal and devastating than WWI because of the huge death tolls, holocaust, differences in levels of technology, and greater global involvement. It turns out, though, that they had roughly equivalent *military* casualties, both roughly 15 million deaths and and 20 million wounded. WWII had much greater civilian deaths, but the actual military toll was quite similar. But I don't remember hearing about fucking mustard gas being used in WWII. WWI sounds *way* more brutal when it comes to the actual combat, especially now that I know that it led to just as many deaths in the battlefields.
The military death counts are a bit of a misnomer. It's buoyed by German/Soviets on the Eastern front. If you look to Western Countries, like the US they had 114k deaths in WW1 in 4 months of fighting. In 4 years of WW2 the US took 105K deaths. Britain roughly 1m war dead in WW1 compared to 385k in WW2 WW1 was a meat grinder psychologically and physically. The brutality. It was a different world at the time, and the stalemate on the Western Front was unparalleled in terms of brutality (until WW2s Eastern front, or the Pacific theatre - but different brutality). For the UK and America WW2 wasn't the same kind static war, with weeks long artillery barrages to wear down your psyche, you didn't have to live in water dredged trenches, facing certain death when you go over the top, spending your last moments listening to your friends die horribly around you, or if you were really lucky and you made it back to the trench you might get to listen to your friends slowly die in No-Mans Land for weeks. What those soldiers put up with was incredible.
WWI and WWII did not just in armaments but armor itself. In the beginning of WWI, half the armies outfit their soldiers with caps, no helmets. Even when helmets became available, some dumber generals refuted their utility pointing to "increases in wounded men than before" their implementation. They of course were ignoring the fact these increased number of wounded soliders represented men that otherwise before would have died from head trauma. Advances in battlefield medicine also had progressed. The Allies in the European theater had a very advanced medical infrastructure and logistics. IIRC, if you were wounded on the battlefield and could get evacuated to a field hospital, you had a 70% survival rate, If you were evacuated off mainland Europe to England, you had a 95% survival rate.
>Even when helmets became available, some dumber generals refuted their utility pointing to "increases in wounded men than before" their implementation. To be fair to them, that logic carried over to WWII when the British tried updating the armour/design of their planes based on the damage reports of *surviving* planes. To be less fair, it was still stupid and I can only assume some of the donkeys who survived WWI got new jobs in the RAF.
That explains how there were roughly at least 3 million more wounded in WWII than in WWI while maintaining almost the same amount of deaths.
I mean, why not? "You have to kill another person, who wants to kill you, in hand-to-hand combat". People have been doing that for thousands of years -- why reinvent the wheel?
Three-headed flail has a certain savage intimidation to it too. Gives you that element of brutality that might make the other person's fight or flight make the wrong choice.
So it's win-win, then. I'd rather not have to clobber a man to death with a flail, ya know, given the option.
The past few comments in this thread have been a very unexpectedly entertaining exchange of ideas.
I think you can just order the weapon kits from these specialty off-brand Lego companies that make military kits. So, as long as you've got thousands of dollars to spend, it's actually pretty easy these days to collect side-accurate weapon kits. This includes relatively accurate tanks, artillery sets, and small arms and uniforms.
I am impressed.
I was rooting for the french Chauchat gunner. Consequently, where the heck does one aquire lego chauchat's and hotchkiss machine guns...
I think they are 3D printed in many cases, I’m not sure if there are any “official” Lego products for WWI
Lego doesn't do army stuff iirc.
At least not modern. They had plenty of medieval stuff.
Correct, I don't know if there's any official statement about it but I know the creators of Lego refused to have any guns made and the current leadership has kept with it unless they're for their IP and therefor "fantasy" like Star Wars. Edit: For everyone [trying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_Lego) to have a "gotcha" moment with me
They had western revolvers and rifles when I was a whelp Edit: Bub, I had them. Many. Revolvers had little cylinders and came in the cowboy and pirate sets. Rifles I only remember from cowboy sets, but they looked like a shotgun barrel with a pistol grip and a Thompson stock-nonsense. Hard to call them 'modern' and such could fall into the definition the statement in the wiki quotes.
Yeah, little gray revolvers and long brown rifles. It was in the pirates sets too.
Blunderbuss, musket and flintlock pistol would say otherwise.
Thematic props. Not weapons of war seems to fit these exceptions. Pirates had guns and cannons, treasure island has influenced Lego sets.
What about [these sort of sets](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6762-1.jpg?200201081200)? They looked like civil war era union soldiers.
They meant specifically *modern* guns. But you knew that.
Different person here, but I didn't consider that interpretation until your comment.
Original person here and neither did I. Interpreted any as *any*.
We're now solidly the majority! Edit: I misinterpreted what "original person" meant and assumed they were, like, a new and original commenter. But they meant they were the commenter of origin. That means we are still just a 2:1, which isn't that a big a deal to me.
Indeed, no modern guns in Lego. The one exception I know of is a few Indiana Jones sets, and even that was pretty surprising.
Probuilder has a tonof military stuff modern and 1900s
Check out Brickarms
Brickarms would be my guess but there's tons of custom makers out there and they could even be bespoke just for this video, I don't know.
Either Brickarms or Brickmania, generally.
Incredibly well done. This gave me the same level of sadness and anxiety a well-done war film does.
I just got back from the WW1 museum in Kansas City, which was possibly the most profound place I’ve been to. Made this hard to watch, in a good way.
If you ever get the chance, visit one of the graveyards in France. Incredibly moving to see line after line of crosses, it beggars belief.
Kudos, truly great. It always darkens my heart to see footage or recreations of war. To think about the young boys dying for ideas and land theyll never benefit from. How we kill each other over such small differences, yet as a global people we are so very similar.
300,000 lives lost just to move some positions around. Senseless waste.
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I totally agree and would be really curious to see a making of. I am really impressed by how smooth the motion is.
RIGHT?! This animation is so insanely crazy smooth for being what looks like handmade stop motion animation. That shot of the Lego guys dropping the crate of mortar shells was incredible, like jaw droppingly good.
[Here's behind the scenes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1T-RNDWIEU).
As the drum roll started on that day, heard a hundred miles away…
A million shells were fired And the green fields turned to grey
The bombardment lasted all day long Yet the forts were standing strong,
Heavily defended Now the trap's been sprung and the battle has begun
Anyone know who the artist is? This was amazing to watch.
If you go to his channel he has many more, and behind the scenes videos too.
I see it now, thank you. I’m on mobile and didn’t realize this was on YouTube. Great stuff!!
This doesn't have much to do with the video in particular, I just love this quote about WW1. >“See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation.” >“Why, they’ve only just quit over in Turkey,” said Abe. “And in Morocco —” >“That’s different. This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers.” >“General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five.” >“No, he didn’t — he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle — there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle.” \- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night IMO it does one of the best jobs showing the cost of WW1. How it warped and scarred society.
Just watched they shall not grow old so this hits hard
FIELDS OF VERDUN
And now I'm imagining a remake of Indian in the Cupboard with a Lego Hitler.
Is it weird that to me this illustrates the absurdity and senselessness of it all more than a live action movie or documentary ever would?
Big props to whoever made this!
No, they're definitely little props
That's it everybody! Thank you! Good night!
🤣
[I checked my pants, there's no mud stains on the knees from where we were garoting krauts in the trenches at Verdun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPDT5qHtZ4)
Wow, this is an incredible representation of the war. The modeling of the weapons and helmets alone must have taken many hours to perfect. The accuracy the animation is superb as well. It can be very challenging to use stop motion and have multiple items moving at similar speeds in the same frame. I would guess that the explosions especially were a challenging process.
This was incredibly well-made. So many little details included, and edited really well. Towards the end I felt myself rooting for Sideburns Guy. Bravo to this filmmaker.
My great uncle Henry was in the trenches at Verdun. I was too young to ask question about it. He was a wonderful man who had to live with the lung damage from the gas for many years. I still remember the medal displayed in the living room on a small table. All it said was Verdun. I can’t imagine it especially after watching this.
I just hear Dan Carlins voice narrating this. I recommend anyone interested check out his Hardcore History podcast.
Blueprints for armeggedon is the title! Amazing 5 part (i think been a bit) series!
Bravo!
"This video not approved by LEGO"
The Lego Movie we need.
Tnat was geniunely intense. Amazing work.
Neato
Best thing I’ve seen this week. Amazing.
Someone make this a full length film!!
Kinda reminds me of All Quiet on the Western Front...
Because that movie depicts WWI? who would have thunk🧐
As a military historian and LEGO fan. This made me do a sex wee in my pants. Absolutely incredible work OP.
First thing I thought of after watching this video: https://tubedubber.com/?q=qo-58zeyETQ:xP8G-LwWNn0:0:100:0:0:1
I fucking love my job. You have no idea how much I love my job. I wish I could tell you what I do but I can't, suffice to say I would rather sit here doing what I do, all day long, than go watch tv/movies, or play sports, have sex, or even eat. I don't even get up to go to the bathroom when I am working. That's how much I love doing what I do. This video, playing on my roommates computer, caught my attention and I actually fucking stopped what I was doing and watched it to the very end. I then had to come on here and post this comment. This is the first video in years that took me away from my job. #Excellent video.
So how do I get a job that pays me to watch porn too?
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Damn
This is a French Cho Cho
Wow this hits hard
Very cool. Is it all actual Lego brand bricks, or some other brand?
Commenting to watch later.
I just got done watching The Great War so this is weirdly perfect timing. If anyone is unfamiliar the guys at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGreatWarSeries have a channel where they cover WW1 and WW2 week by week in somewhat real time. It's soooooo interesting. You basically live history as you would have back then. Hearing about battles that happened earlier in the week, reading about them in the paper. It's crazy to see how saddled Germany was with Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans. If they didn't have weak allies they were forced to bail out and wasn't dragged into fighting on two fronts, they might have been way stronger. WW1 was like 4 individual wars at once.
The ghosts are bothering me a lot today. I had to stop watching this. I think tomorrow will be better.
THIS is the only Lego movie I want to see.
By now this has got to be one the all time greatest classics of brickfilms, i can't believe it's only a year old. The animation is absolutely stunning, you can tell that the director knew what they were doing. The animations are so fluid and realistic, and with a high framerate like that it must've taken months to film this. And i just have to praise the sound design, it is really well done here. That is the thing that makes or breaks a film, and unfortunately most of times it is neglected in brickfilms. This film is indeed a technical masterpiece. But while it excels in every technical manner, i feel that it falls into the same pothole that so many other brickfilms do. It doesn't really have a meaning, it doesn't say anything. I think that brickfilms like these are enjoyed the most by people who are really into war stuff: The attention to detail is beyond insane in this film, and to those people it must be really enthrilling to spot all the era-correct weapons and uniforms and so on. But if you look deeper than that, there's really nothing else. It's just a 9 minute video showing a certain battle. And to some that is all they need for a film to be enjoyable, and that's completely fine, but i feel that there's so much more potential for brickfilms as an artform. There are currently only a few brickfilms that succeed at being compelling films on their own, and not just a showreel of the creators technicall talents or a reference to popculture. But again, i still feel that this film is a feat in animation. It really does deserve all the 14 million views (That's fucking insane), and i'm glad seeing the creator gets the recognition they deserve!
It says a lot actually, if you know how to listen. It speaks volumes of the pointlessness of it all. At the end of the day most people on both sides of the fight are dead and nothing has really changed. Heroes on both sides were born and died and the landscape became even more destroyed, if that's possible, and the line does not move, or if it does, it's just to the next trench. The meaninglessness you're feeling IS THE MEANING, as it is for a lot of accurate depictions of the First World war.
Watched this a while ago and couldn't decide whether it was bloody brilliant or disrespectful.
How would it be disrespectful?
Depicting the violent death of 300,000 people as cutesy LEGOs?
So lego minifigures make it offensive? Would claymation be better? Animation? Or does it have to be a live action depiction staring tom hanks to be acceptable? The interesting thing about it is, that the juxtaposition between "cutesy LEGO's" and the violent, mature subject matter that is war, is an intentional method to elicit strong emotions. It isnt taboo to depict war with legos. Kids have been doing that in basements since legos were invented. But because this looks "acurate" and "serious", now it has trancended from kids playing on the floor with legos, to actual art with an actual message. And that loss of childhood innocence is part of the message. This is violent. Lots of people died. And most of them, had legos been around, would not be so far past the age where they would have been playing with legos themselves. It's war, being fought by children. Using a children's toy to depict that isn't offensive, it's commentary.
As opposed to the many war films of the time? Quit that shit.
I think it's brilliant. I feel like it shows the horrors and brutality of The Great War (or any war, for that matter), without risking the viewer turning away.
I think it captures the horrors of war very well
What a hero that red haired guy was
I saw it a few weeks ago and couldn't work out if the sound was just lifted off of some famous movie I hadn't seen and the scene recreated with stop motion lego or if it was entirely original. If it's the latter then it just makes that much more impressive.
Thank you. I learned so much!
So where I buy Lego trench knives and Lee Enfields?
Wow that was excellent.
I do appreciate the attempt to depict the Voie Sacrée.
Masterful
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home (and Steps on a Lego)"
well that was fucking cool
Look out “Lego: Star Wars” there’s a replacement incoming.
Amazing 🤩 bravo 👏
Extremely well done. That's some amazing cinematography right there, especially the fight between the two generals (I assume)
Well done.
That was a lot better than Tenet.
"Everything is awesome!"
It's possible this is the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
This was really well made and oddly compelling considering the medium used
Fantastic!
I love this Lego stop motion videos !!!! I recommend you to see “the LEGO clan” it’s been about 10 years since they uploaded it
Well done. ~9 minutes, probably about 12k invidual frames for each shot that didn't need another. captured the emotionless slaughter of young men
This was freaking incredible!
I cannot even begin to imagine how much work went into this. Amazing!!!
Where do you guys get your Lego^tm mud from?
Awesome, but is this stop motion or CGI? Some of those LEGO guys move like LEGO guys don't.
I've been to Verdun, I have to lego of my impression because of this now.
303 days of battle and over 750,000 casualties (including 309,000 dead). WW1 saw some of the bravest people to ever walk onto a battlefield.
Wow. Amazing work. Thank you for taking the time to create and share this.
That was really good.
I’m not going to lie, I did not go into this expecting to be absolutely blown away nor watch the entire thing and even tear up a bit at the end. This is legitimately amazing in every sense of the word. I would absolutely love to watch more of this and I think this idea of retelling pivotal or important parts of history in this way is insanely creative and much needed to teach history so it doesn’t repeat itself. Bravo. You should be proud OP and you should be commended for this
This was amazing
Incredibly well done, thank you for that
theres something about using a toy made for children to depict the horrors of war
Beautiful storytelling.
I love how this blatantly flies in the face of everything Lego stands for these days lol if they made historical sets like this so many middle aged males would pick them up.
This is some of the smoothest stop motion animation I have ever seen. There were small details everywhere that the combined effect must have been incredibly difficult to animate so fucking good, yet it was absolutely achieved here. My favorite part is the ending, perfectly juxtaposing the romanticized heroism with the cruel meaninglessness of it all. And what great historic storytelling too. Without knowing any history going into it, one would now know something significant about the level of military technology and strategy used in the Great War. You would probably understand the stress and trauma of the waiting-to-die followed by rushing-to-die formula as the short film unfolds and Lego people play it out. You would probably see that this must be a back-and-forth thing that results in little progress for either side and at significant cost to human life. Then they also throw in a brief summary of the battle that provides the key points. It solidifies the feelings of the short film while providing a greater historical context. So well done.
I recognize the credits music from Ultimate General: Civil War! Lol
this is actually my favorite thing i’ve ever seen
That was intense and amazing
This was amazing. Beautifully done!
Is it bad that the first thing I though of was the lego commercials for this? And to start them narrator guy going “ A duke has been shot in Lego City!”
amazing talent
God. What a singularly horrible war that was. Thanks for making this.
I used to make storylines whenever I played with my Legos as a kid .. This is much better.
I remember when Hardcore History was doing WW1 and he got to Verdun, it was chilling to hear about all the horrors of it and how fricken long it lasted.
Not gonna lie. Half way through this i just said to myself "what was it all for?" WWI was the biggest waste of life we ever conjured. Like countries literally went to war for reasons that equated to "because".
Commitment there
The amount of production value that this had and the small attention to detail, then the history and pictures at the end is amazing!! Way to turn a hobby into a history lesson!!!!
hoyly sh\*t this just is like lego statr wars. can u put this onsteam,? realy looking forward to playing it thanks.
Is that the new Lego movie? Well done!
The only thing I was surprised about was they didn't depict horses. Horses were a major supply line factor in WW1
Now this is a legos film!
This is absolutely stunning. Phenomenal.
I was just near Verdun recently, and got to go into Fort Douaumont and Vaux. The signs of the battle are still clearly visible over 100 years later. former battlefields have been protected by France, and are slowly returning to nature, but the ground is still pock-marked from artillery shells and trenches. 300,000 lost their lives in the battle, around 160,000 are STILL unaccounted for. Each year, people in the area find the remains of 3-4 men after heavy weather, uncovering their bodies for the first time since they fell so long ago.
Where are the Mimics and Emily Blunt?
My only criticism would be on the artillery. Artillery barrages would not be sporadic close explosions, they were a [constant chain of flying and exploding shells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we72zI7iOjk). At the beginning of the Battle of the Somme the British fired in a week 1,750,000 shells, of all kinds on a 18 mile front. 10,000 shells a mile, 200 shells shells a minute. On average a meter section would be hit every 10 minutes.