The Bad Blue Brilliant Part 1

From Mita's lecture about television and narrative, i want to breakdown the narrative theory from the animation superhero movie, Megamind (2010) because i think this movie has a really interesting characteristic and story line.

Narrative structure :
End -  Beginning - Middle 1 - Middle 2 - Middle 3 - End

1. When the movie start, it shows that Megamind is falling from the sky, talking about how he end up like this, then it flash back from the beginning.

1. The first equilibrium is when Megamind and Metroman landed in earth, they were raised in a different environment but then they go to the same school.

2. The first disruption is when Megamind kidnap Roxanne Ritchi during the dedication to Metroman's day. 

4. The first attemot to resolve the disruption, Metroman came to help. But it turns out that he went to Megamind's trap.

3. There is a twist, Megamind has successfully defeat Metroman, he found out that Metroman's weakness was Cooper. This is the resolution of disruption.

4. The disruption occurs when Megamind feel so empty without fighting with Metroman, his power over the Metro City is pointless.

5. So his attempt to solve the disruption is to create another new superhero from the Metroman's DNA and give the power to someone. By accident, Hal gets the power.

6. But another disruption occurs, Hal aka Titan turns out to be the new villain who destroy the city even worse than Megamind.

7. So the attempt to resolve the disruption is Megamind try to defeat Titan with all of his gadgets.

8. The resolution is Titan is lost at the end, his power is taken back by Megamind.

9. The new equilibrium now is that Megamind becomes the new hero of the Metro City.

For the characteristic i will talk in the next post because the characters is quit complex, with some of the psychoanalysis that i found in Megamind (2010) movies.

Bibliography
Healey, E. 2011. Narative - Tzvetan Tvodorov's Theory [online]. Available at: <http://heathenmedia.co.uk/radiostar/2011/10/31/narrative-tzvetan-todorovs-theory/> [Accessed at 5 August 2013]
Megamind. 2010. film. Directed by Tom McGrath. USA: DreamWorks Animation.