The Bad Blue Brilliant Strikes Back!

Another analysis on Megamind (2010). I think that in this movie, there is a message that wanted to be delivered. It is about a debate that has been talked about over years. The debate about "Nature vs Nurture". Is someone's behaviour is from their environment or from their nature? John Watson believed that human is 100% on the side of nurture ( environmental). If based on John Watson's believed, Megamind who was raised in the prison by the criminals might not turns out to be a Superhero in the end of the movie compare to Metroman who was raised by a wealthy family. In fact, his dark side is actually appeared because in the class, no one wanted to be his friends, and i assume it is because of his appearance which is looks like alien, rather than Metroman who is really human like with a super strength.

Megamind was trying to be fit in to his friends, he was not a bad guy at the first. During that time he mentioned that he was confused about his destiny. His father talked about his destiny when he was a baby and about to launch to earth, so it was interrupted, his rocket has been launched before his father could finished his sentence. So, by assuming his own experience as he never and always failed to be a good guy, he will be a bad guy instead, with his Minion fighting agains Metroman. But at the end of the movie as he turned to be the Superhero of the Metro City, i think that it has a message about the John Watson's theory, that actually our behaviour is not based only from our environment. In the movie it also shows how Titan who were raised by the Space Dad end up be the Villain in the end of the movie. So based on this two example from the movie, I think that it based on the mixture of our natural behaviour and our environment, that interact in ourself and produce our own behaviour.

Bibliography 

Kwasni, J. 2012. Megamind : Was John Watson Right? [online] Available at:<http://reelthinking.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/megamind-was-john-watson-right/> [Accessed at 5 August 2013] 

Lewis, D. 2000. The Nature Versus Nuture Debate [online] Available at: <http://www.coedu.usf.edu/agents/dlewis/publications/naturevsnurture.htm> [Accessed at 5 August 2013]
Megamind. 2010. film. Directed by Tom McGrath. USA: DreamWorks Animation.