MEGAMIND
Genre : Animation
Realease Date : November 5, 2010
Director : Tom Mc Graith
Script : Alan J. Schoolcraft, Brent Simons
Producer : Lara Breay, Ben Stiller, Denise Nolan Cascino
Distributor : Paramount Pictures
Duration : 96 Minutes
Megamind is one of the great animation film in box office. The story starts when Megamind was
sent by his parents when there is disaster in his planet. That problem also experienced by Mr.
Goody (Metroman) who was come from Balupunk Spunk Planet. Rivality was started when
Megamind didn’t get his destiny to live in luxurious house because of Mr. Goody (Metroman).
Megamind is one of the examples of a superhero film. There are three things which are
different with other superhero movies.
There are some that will be discussed. Megamind is the film that has a hero concept of the
story. The hero’s film usually used the hero as the central character. But in this film almost all of
the actors have the central character.
In Megamind movie, there are two actors that have rivalry. They are Metroman and Megamind.
Metroman is the hero in metrocity, the people in Metrocity is very proud of him while
Megamind is the bad actor that always disturbs Metroman to destroy crime. There is also
Minion who also accompanies Megamind to do everything. The interesting one is in other
superhero films, the main character has another character. Like Peter Parker in Spiderman. But
in this movie, Metroman, Megamind, and Minion have only one character.
Generally, the plot in this film is the linear plot. Started by Megamind who falled then
continued with the flashback. Several chronological orders of this story will show the difference
from the other super hero’s film.
When Metroman decide to be concealed by pretending to die after he was boomed by
Megamind, then Megamind also did the same thing. He decided to do the right thing which
Metroman had done. Eventhough, in the beginning the people in Metrocity didn’t want to
accept him as their hero, but when he helps Metrocity people from the crime things finally they
can accept him as their city’s hero.
The valuable things which had done by a hero in a story is the winning hero got in beat their
enemy. This case was generally happened in super hero’s film. As the example Spiderman, who
always beats his enemy from the beginning until the end of the story and he become single
figure. Meanwhile in Megamind, the figure transmission happens where in the beginning,
Metroman is the hero and Megamind as the villain figure. In the end of the story, precisely
Megamind becomes the hero of metrocity. The difference of the plot shows that he has the
vast difference plot from the other hero’s film.
In many hero’s film, point of view which used is all-knowing or the first people who adore the
hero. Usually hero’s film started from the hero’s point of view, but in Megamind film, the first
narration started from the villain figures, named Megamind. Started from the childhood of
Megamind and Metroman had a rivality. They had different home, school, and environment.
Megamind who always got the worse one. It was made him to be the villain figure. If in the
other hero’s film villain figure was showed to dominate world, in Megamind film villain figure
was show only for proving that he had the same power as the hero. That above explanation
proves that Megamind had different point of view from the other hero’s film.
