Deconstruction of Minion Characterization in Despicable Me Movies
Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated 3D comedy film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9, 2010 in the United States. The film’s central characters are Gru, a super-villain who adopts three girls from an orphanage and minions, a small, yellow, cylindrical creature who have one or two eyes. The sequel, Despicable Me 2 was released on 2013 continue the journey which Gru and minions experience. In this essay I would like to discuss the deconstruction of minion character in Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 movies. The issue that I would like to explore is the slavery that being experienced by minion.
Despicable Me told a funny, sweet, self-contained story about a guy named Gru who renounces villainy and embraces fatherhood. At first, Gru was a sneaky and somewhat cold-hearted man, who was determined to become the greatest villain in the world. At first he showed a dislike of children being easily irritated by Agnes, Edith and Margo. But after that, he embrace the fatherhood toward his adopted children and become a member of AVL (Anti-Villain League) Addressing minion from the origin word of mini, minion is already placed in the lower class. Mini means something small in comparison with the other things of its nature. In power relation system, minion can be seen as inferior toward the other relies on the origin of their name. In addition, in Encarta Dictionaries, the word minion means a servant or slave. It begins on the early 16th century from the French word, mignon. This definition by Encarta strengthens the slavery which minion portrayed in the movie. Hence, when they are considered inferior and put in the lower class, Gru as the boss of the minion is the master of minions. He owned them and he become the master of them.
The color of minion also indicated that they have a negative