The Lego Holocaust?

I remember that back when I was in high school I did a book report on the Holocaust for history class. It really taught me a lot I didn't know and brought out a lot of emotions in me as a person and a Jew. I wrote a conventional report which was, I guess boring. An English kid named John Denno thought that he would instead show key moments in the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust with Legos. Yeah, the little brick toys. The work received praise from the Simon Wiesenthal center, no small feat. Some people might think that it is trivializing the Shoah by using toys. I mean, the picture below of the liberation of the death camps and an Auschwitz built out of Legos is skirting the realm of bad taste, but if it teaches people about this crucial event in world history I guess it's OK. But that's not what I thought about when I saw this.

When the Oscar nominations came out last week there was a lot of controversy that The Lego Movie was not nominated for Best Animated Feature. I agree, it's a crime. But the makers of The Lego Movie could take a cue from this kid and ensure that the sequel will get a nomination: make it a Lego Holocaust movie. Movies about the Holocaust are Oscar catnip. As Ricky Gervais famously showed in Extras all that Kate Winslet needed to do to win an Oscar was do a Holocaust movie. And you know what? He was right. I mean, I'm not volunteering to direct because I might get excommunicated like Baruch Spinoza if I did but maybe a worse Jew than me could do it.