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"Carol?"
*long pause*

This is a second tribute for the best film ever made - "Carol". Funny thing is, originally I was going to make this scene only, but BrickLink went down for a few days, which prevented me from searching on its database for the most suitable minifigure parts immediately. When the site was running again, I had an idea that I can take a picture of the famous scene in the department store as the Christmas picture, which became my first tribute for the film, and I'm extremely happy that I did it, it looks so great, please, check it out! :D

I chose this scene, because it's the second best scene in the film (after the ending, of course! the third best is letter, it's also important, but it's almost impossible to capture as a single recognizable shot, I think). Just a one line (three, actually, but the last is repeat of the second) from only one character, but oh my goodness, the acting, the acting! How comes the film never got an Oscar, just the nominations?! The acting is impossible to show with the bricks, but I'm doing my best. :)

I was considering using the full quote as the title, but I would rather let it be mystery. Spoilers! ;)

Instead of taking two pictures, I decided to split the space to include both places. Well, phone calls travels a distance, why pictures can't? xD I already used this trick for Doctor Who scene, but I think here I did it better. Especially considering the lights were tricky - I didn't get the result I wanted, because in my lighting kit for a particular set I don't have the color I needed here, so I had to fix it in Photoshop, and it is still not what I wanted, but I tried. I hope somewhere in the next year I will get the lighting kit, but it's pricey.

Also during minifigure casting I noticed once again how few there are sad minifigure faces in flesh colors - actually only three for white female minifigures! And neither one suits the character because of different face features. So I had to use another pattern, but once again I had to change the colors of the eyebrows, because this is a whole different problem I encounter while selecting heads - I need a particular emotion, but the eyebrows in the wrong color. It's harder when I need both the eyebrows and lips in certain color. This is the reason why I need LEGO to make a set with Taylor Swift - there's just no head with light eyebrows and red lips (ComicCon exclusive and Disney Alice doesn't count). Not a single one! I can't build my own Taylor if I'm not doing a render like this one! This is sad. We need more complicated emotions! And more faces with eyebrows other than black and brown!

As for the phones, I drew the pattern with the permanent marker. I used the real pattern of rotary dial from 1980s LEGO set as an example, so it's just like the real part, except this is custom. xD

Taken on: November 23, 2023

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