Hello pod, I'm Chris Eward and welcome to the 45th edition of the Empire podcast, the

only movie podcast that wants Britain to remain in the EU, as long as they allow Latvary

Cracosia and Genovia in a long, long last. This week we're going to tackle big filmmakers

tackling bigger topics, and I don't mean the delicious nutty chock the bar. We've got

zero dark thirding, we've got Lincoln, we hailed the return of the Austrian ocus, Arnold

Schwarzenegger takes a last stand, and we're also going to be chatting to the great man and

zero dark thirde star and friend of the magazine, Mr Mark Strong. But first politics is also

in the mind of my three colleagues this week. Starting off with a woman who knows only

too well, the perils of a conflict between two sets of people and have it in the same land,

driven by internal differences leading to devastation and inevitable tragic bloodshed. But that's

what you get when you move south of the river isn't it, Helen Ahara? Yeah, New Cross says no, Chris.

New Cross says no, down with the north of the river. Next up is our art house guru, Mr. Phil

Desamlin, who's just returned from the toy fair, is that right? Yes. Where he spent ages trying to

broker a peace treaty between Lego and Stickelbricks. How do they go through? And well, well,

went very well. How long that's? The toy fair is amazing. He saw some amazing things. We saw

Legos, man of steel and Iron Man 3, and they've got a lone ranger train set, jailbreak,

mineshaft, something or other who are three years to hold. They talked through the whole story

of the film. And I discovered that there was a sequence in the lone ranger that basically came

from a Lego kit. Lego said, OK, we've done, we've built these things according to the film that we've

seen for you. But we've also got this carriage thing. Can you incorporate it into the film? Please,

because we really like it. And I guess Bracame went, OK, yeah, this is what film making has come to.

And so they've got a sequence that was basically pioneered literally by a little plastic man.

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