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Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell’s ‘Megamind’: Good vs. Evil, or in Geo-

Parlance It’s Going to be Democracy 2, Imperialistic Totalitarianism 0 

© 2011 Brad Kempo B.A. LL.B.

Barrister & Solicitor  

 

Need more proof of Hollywood’s legacy of contributing to military conflicts like World War II, Vietnam and Cold War?  The diplomacy archive documents dozens upon dozens of films having been quietly turned into geo-platforms to advance the coalition’s interests and objectives.  The November 5, 2010 production of ‘Megamind’ goes into the archive as another contribution to the peace, security and prosperity of the 21st century.

 

The film from opening Dreamworks logo to end credits was scripted with and full of the lexicon.  The hero was played by Brad Pitt to draw attention to how coalition partners view the Custodian, first name also Brad, in his international community assisted quest to address the evil of our time.

 

 

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Megamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever known... and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt has been a colossal failure, thanks to the caped superhero known as "Metro Man," until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder: Can the world's biggest "mind" actually be the one to save the day?

Source: Rotten Tomatoes

 

 

Like with most geo-productions since the autumn of 2006 the lexicon is embedded in the very first scene.   What totally makes the case this film finds its genesis in the coalition vs. Chinada conflict is the fact that Dreamworks producers insert what has become exceptionally powerful evidence proving the true nature of Canadian governance – what occurred during the third week of September 2002 after the Custodian filed the Federal Court lawsuit – in the opening logo sequence.  Slightly more than a month before the release of ‘Megamind’ another Hollywood movie also featured this chapter of his life in which obstruction of justice, the totalitarian ‘climate of fear’ and the arrogance of absolute power converged on the multi-decade lab monkey.  He puts it this way in Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Social Network’: Firing on All Geo-Cylinders:

 

Sean also seeks to educate the two Facebook executives by speaking from personal experience on what it means to be in the big leagues with competitors who will stop at nothing to gain an edge or take down the venture.  This is where Aaron inserts an instance of obstruction of justice that informs the conclusion about gangster governance.  As pled in the Federal Court Amended State of Claim, two weeks after filing the action (late September 2002) a street soldier who’d been engineered into the Custodian’s life and for 3 1/2 years posing as an investor in the sabotaged legal research service offers to take him fly fishing several hours north of Vancouver as a perk; where on that dark night he goes through the motions of threatening to assassinate him and dump his body in the woods where it’ll never be found: para.  309 – 317; 391 – 400; 412 – 421); the kind of conduct one would see in a movie like ‘Goodfellas’.  The first treatment of this political culture revealing abomination was by David E. Kelly in the television series ‘Boston Legal’ (October 11, 2005). 

 

 

 

Right at the start of the film the lexicon is employed, a coalition identifier, to articulate that there should be serious trepidation over the Chinada threat.  The context, moments away from dying - Megamind is falling to his death:

 

 

  

 

Here’s my day so far: went to jail, lost the girl of my dreams and got my butt kicked pretty good.* 

* coalition identifier   

 

Then begins a life retrospective.  He is introduced as a newborn who is being rushed to an escape pod because his planet is being destroyed just like Krypton in Superman lore; in this case sucked into a black hole.  His almost fluorescent green eyes is the first of many instances of articulating the quantum theme; and the choice was also motivated by wanting to always have the evil of Chinada in close proximity with the good of the Custodian and his international partners.    

 

I came from what you might call a broken home – literally broken.  I was [sign, TI] eight days old and still living with my parents.

 

 

 

 

The screen-wide warning sign, with Taylor Identifier red flag, is at the core of the coalition's serious trepidation about the first clash of civilizations of the 21st century. 

 

 

During his celestial voyage he finds he’s not the only one having been punted into outer space.   Another baby from the adjacent planet in a space capsule rendezvous with him and the two head towards Earth.  As they descend into the atmosphere the two collide sending him on a new trajectory.  He lands in a prison yard while the other baby skids into a mansion, coming ro rest in the living-room.  This environment is rendered in the colors of Chinada when the voiceover is referring to fate -- geo-describing the Custodian's imminent lifestyle involving trans-generational wealth; followed by where he lands which articulates the Chinada High command's life sentence: 

 

 

 

 

Could this be what I was destined for? A dream life of luxury. [ships collide]  Apparently not. [Chinada] Even fate picks its favorites.  No bid deal – a much different fate awaited me. [prison sign] 

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Luckily I found a lovely little place to call home [five inmates, then three

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Mr. Goody Two Shoes on the other hand [China] had life handed to him on a silver platter.

 

 

 

Producers draw attention to one of the events that triggered a full appreciation of what partners are up against - the brutal murder of an innocent American at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.  A short clip is added of Megamind making license plates.  The one he's working on contains an 8 and 9 (digits add up to 17, making it a double China identifier).  The one in front of him the number 47  - the lexicon's assassination reminder.  The digits 2,1,4,7, add up to 14  - a Custodian identifier.  Above it is another plate, the digits 9 and 3, which total 12 , another coalition identifier.  And above it (top right corner) another plate, with digits 1, 6 and 6, which add up to 13  - a Taylor Identifier.

 

 

 

 

The two meet up again when both attend the same kindergarten, which is right next door to the prison.  By then their value systems had been cast by the environments in which they were raised.  He trained in the ways of criminals and his nemesis with high morals.  Some of their classmates are rendered in the color of quantum and the pattern of prison certainty to juxtapose what happens to the malfeasant and the Custodian’s guaranteed wealth and articulate the child protection theme.  The school sign is rendered in the colors of Canada to (i) describe the malfeasant as pubescent and (ii) contrast the size of coalition assets and capabilities with its ideological adversaries.  

 

 

 

 

He quips at one point “fitting in wasn’t an option” and producers edit-in a class photo which has a total of 12 characters plus him to make a Taylor Identifying 13, to describe how there’s no place for totalitarians in the modern world where democracy in all its manifestations is the dominant ideology. 

 

 

 

The next scene is saturated with the lexicon – Erin M., China, Canadian prison certainty and quantum.  He’s waiting to be picked for sports teams and is left to the very last; to this he states “No matter how hard I tried I was always the odd man out – the last one picked – the screw up – the black sheep – the bad boy”.   Note there are five characterizations. 

 

 

 

 

And note the African-American child attired in the pattern of prison certainty and quantum, the purpose of which is to high profile institutionalized and globally proliferating racihism.  

 

 

As the audience observes his nemesis getting a fifth gold star for outstanding achievement, Megamind states “Was this my destiny?”, which is geo- for how it’s the Custodian’s “destiny” to become one of the wealthiest people on the planet given what was done to him and by whom for such a long period of time.

 

 

 

The script goes on to have him state “Wait, maybe it was; being bad is the one thing I’m good at; then it hit me: if I was the bad boy then I was going to be the badest boy of them all!”; which is a clever way to describe what happened to the last couple of generations of the Ottawa-Toronto-Montreal triangle of power and wealth and why they became the most despised in the industrialized world.   The Fiefdom treatise argues this point thusly:

 

In every non-democratic regime, whether totalitarian, dictatorship or fascist, etc., we see very bizarre government behaviour.  And each one is different.  Canada’s is unique and most troubling to my clients.  I argue in my treatise “As the reigns of governance were transferred from one generation to the next the new members of the elite looked at what their parents and grandparents got away with and pushed the envelope of corruption, criminality and impropriety to the point where by the 1980s the country’s leadership was clinically sociopathic”.  Some non-democratic regimes in the past had a fascination with the occult.  The political and coroprate elite of this country is no different.  

 

A coalition identifier (three containers of bomb making chemicals) is used to red flag this as geo-relevant; and after stating his life goal, “I was destined to be a super villain”, the colors of Chinada are inserted to further substantiate the matter. Then “…and we were destined to be rivals; the die had been cast; and so began an enduring epic” is added to draw a comparison with the Cold War.

 

 

Covers of newspapers fly across the screen – the second one “Battle of the Century”, the coalition identifying third “Good Beats Evil” and the Custodian identifying fifth “Metro Man”.

 

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While Metro Man is honored by the city’s residents as their hero, Megamind languishes in prison -- his cell designed like a kiddy's playroom to underscore again the infantile essence of the Chinada High Command and its followers. 

 

 

To assert that’s where its leaders and their blind flock of black sheep are headed for life for violating The Security of Information Act (cited in the Reform Coalition of Canada’s Introduction) the self-confessed evildoer gets a visit from the warden who is scripted to draw this inescapable inevitability to his attention:

 

Warden:          You’ll always be a villain.  You’ll never change and you’ll never leave. […] You got a present in the mail.  

Megamind:      Is it a puppy? 

Warden:          From Metro Man [reading note] “To count every second of your 85 life sentences”.

 

 

 

The Blair M. is timed to Megamind's prediction that he'll escape, which in the geo-context is an iron (fist) clad assurance none of them will ever leave the penitentiary ... ever

 

 

In addition to confirming what all coalition partners know is the case – that the malfeasant are all incorrigibles and thus parole isn’t even an option, producers employ a Taylor Identifier (the scripted 85, with its implicit China and Custodian identifiers) to underscore they’re all lifers and insert the Dogville punishment threat ("puppy") to remind them how much the community of democracy, rule of law and human rights advocates wants them to become worm food.

 

 

The film’s relevance to the 21st century’s first clash of civilizations is again emphasized when the jail scene ends and the next one begins.  News reporter Roxanne is standing in the city square filming a segment and the audience sees for the first time and then throughout the movie that the network she works for is Channel Eight.  ‘Law & Order’* and other productions occasionally used this technique. 

 

* Like the March 12, 2008 and March 25, 2008 episodes; plus the October 19, 2006, February 8, 2007 and March 29 and April 25, ‘07 (unpublished) episodes of ‘Shark’ and Dreamworks’ Bee Movie

 

 

 

When Megamind escapes from prison he plots to assassinate Metro Man.  When the dirty deed appears to have been done the villain addresses a large crowd assembled in front of City Hall to hear what he has to say.  Roxanne pipes up on behalf of the citizens:

 

Roxanne:          I’m sure we’d all like to know what you plan to do with us and this city. 

Megamind:      Good, I’m glad you asked that.  Imagine the most horrible, terrifying, evil thing you can possibly think of … and multiple it by six.

 

 

 

While the evildoer is delivering producers’ Satanic condemnation Roxanne’s assistant is observed to be wearing a big slogan button on his chest – “Game Over”, which is their way on behalf of the partnership saying that having embraced this belief and value system is not to be tolerated and severe, life lasting consequences are planned. 

 

 

Megamind becomes bored with his life at the pinnacle of power and wealth – something it’s to be noted isn’t the case in Canada.  Given their underdeveloped cognitive faculties, like vicious preens they never tire of repeating the same criminality and human rights violations day-in-day out, year-in-year out measured in decades.  He becomes melancholy that he took out Metro Man because there’s no longer any challenge in life.  He attends at the ancient Greek sized statute of a monument in the city square to reflect on this ex post facto error of judgment. 

 

You know we never had this chance to say good-bye.  Wo it’s good that we have this time now – you know before I destroy the place. Nothing personal – brings back too many painful memories. 

 

 

 

[Foreground: Statue – Metro Man’s nose – Clooney M.]

 

 

 

Before ceremoniously tossing his bouquet of yellow flowers over the edge he pulls out of it a red colored detonator (= China).   At “destroy the place” the audience observes the timer set at three minutes; which it sees counts down to 2:58 to highlight how the coalition is determined to fully deconstruct institutions in Canada’s public and private sector that support the Chinada High Command’s nefarious agenda.  There is a hint of why this needs to happen – those “painful memories” being the Cold War and the costly Vietnam conflict.

 

 

 

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Megamind then decides the only way out of his doldrums is to create a new super hero he can battle with and thus bring a renewed sense of significance to his ultra-boring life.  

 

 

A sub-plot involves a romantic twist.  With Metro Man gone and Roxanne single, he begins to find her attractive.  He disguises himself using a device that alters his features from ugly villain to handsome intellectual.  She and ‘Bernard’ begin dating; and at one point when she discovers Megamind’s lair the two bump into each other.  This is when her assistant, Hal, who’s waiting outside for her is inadvertently injected with the chemical concocted to create the Metro Man replacement.  Here’s where the Clooney M. makes its entrance; for the oversized needle plows into Hal’s nose and the ensuing discomfort causes him to put his finger to it.  But it’s not just any finger.  Producers choose the middle finger to generate a protracted ‘we’re gonna f _ _ k you up real good ‘Powell M. to drive home that there’s no alternative but to do take ‘em down en masse to protect civilization from these Satanic psycho-pubescent perverts.   

 

Hal:                  [protracted Cl.M.] What’s going on?  

Roxanne:         Hal, what happened?  

 

Hal:                 I think a bee flew up my nose. I was just about to make my frontal assault to rescue you but, like, 50 ninjas just tried to attack me. So I had to beat ‘em all up, and I did. They’re all crying, so…  

Bernard:          Wow, a brave one, isn’t he?

Hal:                 How are you?  

Roxanne:         Oh this is Bernard; he’s my partner. 

                        [Cl.M. close-up] 

Bernard:          Yes, yes partner.  

 

Hal:                Well look partner: I’m her partner.  She doesn’t know what she’s saying. She’s been through a traumatic experience.

 

 

 

 

The lexiconic maneuver red flags the script in its describing the partnership that is the coalition and the Clooney variety is chosen because it’s original significance was to draw attention to the corruption at the core of Canadian governance, the use of hand signals by the country’s security apparatus to make victims feel stalked, swarmed and surrounded and later because the nose has been a regular target for hypno-torture. 

 

 

When Roxanne drops Hal off at his apartment after this encounter Megamind and his cohort, Minion, are conducting surveillance on him from their invisible car.  The network’s logo, Channel Eight, is inserted as a precursor to what’s about to be stated on the diplomatic record.  Hal’s executing a Clooney M., which is followed by this exchange:

 

Megamind:      Who is this man [Bl.M.] infused with God-like power? 

Minion:            Well sir, his name is Hal Stewart. 28 years old, no criminal record. 

 

 

 

 

The Clooney M., Blair M, and Sorkin China identifier constitutes a triple play coalition identifier red flagging how producers are servicing in a most humorous way the Custodian’s international persona; for the partnership has always viewed not only his survival but intellectual strengths as remarkable in the face of what he suffered – a twenty plus year non-stop assault on his cognitive faculties by the militarized hypnosis experimentation program. 

 

 

With the romance between Roxanne and Bernard comes an opportunity to add another entry to the isolation-deprivation category of diplomacy condemnation.  The two are scripted to enjoy a picnic together and the colors of Chinada are added.  As the camera pans out green foliage is added to insert the communiqué that for this kind of torture compensatory and punitive damages are due and owing. 

 

 

 

[Mariah M. – the pregnancy gesture]

 

When the evildoer returns to his lair he conducts an internal review of himself. Producers use the moment to full geo-advantage.

 

 

 

 

Megamind visits Hal at his apartment to discover that after gaining superpowers he turns to a life of crime – which is antithetical to the whole idea of creating his nemesis. 

 

 

 

 

 

The teenager cum putative hero is playing video games   Producers add an Beijing Olympics assassination reminder in the score digits.  He's surrounded by stolen stuff, which Megamind is furious over.

 

 

 

Keen on an alliance with the villain, Hal shows him a drawing of what he thinks his costume should look like – the colors of Chinada are juxtaposed with the Custodian’s first initial ‘B’ to add another dimension to his supra-celebrity status.  This is conceptually parallel to choosing quantum colored eyes for Megamind.

 

 

 

 

Frustration sets in and he chastises his creation.

 

Megamind:      I can’t believe you – all your gifts – all your powers – and you squander them for your own personal gain.  

Hal:                 [Cl.M.] Yes. 

 

 

 

 

 

Geo-translation: It’s beyond belief that with all their political hegemony and hoarded trillions where they could enjoy fulfilling lives improving Canada, benefiting the country’s citizenry and engaging in social justice initiatives and philanthropy they prefer the parochial pleasures of totalitarianism, wealth plundering on an historic scale and the institutionalization of hypno-torture.  The audience sees the ‘Game Over’ reference again that underscores it’s only a matter of time before the public and private sector systems that protects them collapse.

 

 

 

As Roxanne and Megamind, who erred in revealing his Bernard impersonation, are driving to a place they think some clues about Metro Man are present, the Channel Eight logo is added to red flag his remark “You gave him these powers; can’t you just take them away?”, which is another arrest-prosecution-conviction-sentence-prison communiqué.

 

 

 

Metro Man is discovered to be alive; having faked his own death because after growing up to become the city’s hero he lost his freedom to be what he wanted to be.  He refuses to help deal with the kid cum super criminal #2 despite desperate pleas. 

 

 

 

 

Hal has now named himself Tighten – phonetically ‘Titan’ – and becomes a super villain’s super villain.  He becomes livid when Megamind taunts him over his relationship with Roxanne, for Hal was not so secretly enamoured with her.  His anger takes on gargantuan proportions and he begins to terrorize Metro City.   One of his superpowers is laser-eyes that destroy everything on contact.  As he’s flying through the streets obliterating everything a news anchor voiceover states “We now have confirmed reports Tighten, first thought to be the city’s new hero [logo: Eight] has turned evil – this city has never seen this level of destruction” – another characterization of the Beijing leadership as ideologically opposite to what the modern world represents and what has to be done to be victorious. 

 

 

 

Roxanne feels the only way to deal with this out-of-control situation is to confront the source.  As Tighten is flying around decimating buildings with his laser eyes she hears him call to him.   He confronts her put her straight:

 

Tighten:           Let me guess: after seeing how awesome I am [logo: 8] you’ve finally come to your senses. Well, I’m over you.  

Roxanne:         I’ve come to stop you Hal. 

 

 

 

 

He kidnaps her, takes her to the roof of the tallest structure in the city and ties her up; to which she tries again to appease him:

 

Roxanne:         Please don’t do this.  I know there’s still good in you Hal. 

 

Hal:                 You’re so naïve Roxanne.  You’re living a fantasy. There is [Cl. of Civ M.] no Easter bunny. There is no tooth fairy. There is no Queen of England.  This is the real world and you need to wake up.

 

 

 

 

The lexiconic gesture red flags the “Easter bunny” reference – the rabbit being symbolic of Canada’s political leader, who’s been an internationally delegitimized Prime Minister since 2007.  

 

 

Metro Man arrives to save the day to rid the city of this new menace.  Or so the audience is led to believe.  It turns out to be Megamind impersonating the super hero -- making a grand entrance with ominous clouds, loud music and a laser lightshow --  because he knows Tighten is fearful of him. 

 

 

 

 

 

And the strategy is successful, but only for a short time.  An error during the confrontation makes Tighten realize he’d been duped and returns to wreak havoc on an even greater scale than before. 

 

 

Roxanne is freed, rescued by Megamind and they fly away.  But Tighten strikes their vehicle sending her bouncing off three store awnings before landing on the pavement.  Producers choose the store address “6893” as a way to juxtapose during the final moments of the film the Custodian’s quantum entitlements and the coalition’s guarantee of him taking possession of that trans-generational wealth. 

 

 

 

 

Moments later Megamind is seen to have been pierced with a needle like object juxtaposing that fortune with their fate.  But it’s an illusion. Megamind wasn’t injured at all.  Just stunned from one of Tighten’s aggressive tactics. 

 

 

 

The monster he created is finally defeated when he's able to inject a neutralizing chemical into the body.  One last Clooney M. is employed.

 

 

 

 

The reformed villain shouts out a coalition identifying three times “We won, we won, we won”, which is an accurate prediction of the end result of the coalition vs. Chinada conflict, making it Democracy 2, Imperialistic Totalitarianism 0. 

 

 

 

The film’s credits are also geo-politicized.  Right after the director, Tom McGrath, is identified the two producers want to be credited with their contributions, so they add the number 826 to their credit – a double China identifier (one of the Sorkin kind) and the digits add up to be a Custodian identifier – which is one last time producers draw attention to what the production was all about.  And Ben Stiller arranged for Chinada colors to be rendered on his credit.

 

 

 

 

 

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