Watching Notes 23: Qualified Routines

Destinee 2022-09-07 02:58:58

The protagonist and the original hero are essentially "children": no actual malice, acting only for fun rather than actual interests, limited (no greed) (C: Is this a necessary condition for children's films)

Character arc of the protagonist: the original good guy - turned into a bad guy - back to the good guy

Auxiliary line: love (the heroine has an ideal view of perfect love: does not pay attention to everything outside, requires feeling, shared experience, and the quality of appreciation)

Spectacular: Demolition Battle (Superpowers vs Novelty Machines)

Storyline: The protagonist becomes a hero

(Character: For comparison, the original protagonist is the negative of the hero (cowardly/failure/ordinary/evil), but he has the potential to become a hero in his heart (kindness/perseverance/brave/genes?)

Opportunity: Arrange for a reason that the protagonist (and only him) must stand up alone to save the world

Process: small rejection - small victory - smooth development - emotional high point suffered a huge failure (it seems to be a complete failure and can't fight back) - (set up a volt line before using) Jedi counterattack - big victory (winner of fame and fortune, career, family, love, friendship, life))

Harvest: The main source of the character's feeling to the audience is the character's expression (the extremely ugly protagonist only gets the audience's empathy with watery eyes and big melancholy eyes)

Half-feminist heroine: She has a strong personality, is not stupid, does not hold back, is essentially powerless, and provides tips at critical moments

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Megamind quotes

  • [at the Metro Man Museum, on opposite sides of a raised circular walkway that surrounds a giant Metro Man statue at statue-face height]

    Megamind: [holds a bouquet of flowers] I've made a horrible mistake. I didn't mean to destroy you. I mean, I MEANT to destroy you, but I didn't think it would really work.

    Roxanne Ritchi: What are we supposed to do? Without you, evil is running rampant through the streets.

    Megamind: I'm so tired of running rampant through the streets. What's the point of being bad when there's no good to try and stop you? I had so many evil plans in the works - the illiteracy beam, typhoon cheese, robo-sheep... Battles we will now never have. So it's good to have this time now... You know, before I destroy the whole place.

    [activates a timer concealed in the bouquet]

    Megamind: It's nothing personal, just brings back too many painful memories.

  • Roxanne Ritchi: [about Metro Man] I thought he'd make one of his last-minute escapes.

    Megamind: [disguised as Bernard] Yeah, he was real good at those.