Margot from Despicable Me

Now that I have interpreted the most important sister from the trio, we can focus on the other two. Because I also find them interesting, admirable, and there’s things to say!

I’ve started mentioning Margot in the other blog post, because it was necessary in order to understand Edith, and how they’re different.

Now, as I’ve said, Margot is the ultra practical one. Like Edith but in a different way (because it’s a different role) she steps up. Her role is to take charge. As the one who is basically the mother, but I don’t like comparing her to one. It’s just that the things she has to do, are very similar. She has to make sure the other two are okay, they have everything, they’re taken care of, (all their needs, like the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs). She is the PROTECTOR.

Every time the girls are put in a new situation or a new place, the first thing she does (that she must do) is make sure it’s safe and works. Like when she goes into Gru’s house, the first thing she does is look around, inspect, and, it doesn’t take her long to discern and announce that Gru’s house is not “appropriate for kids.”

She is also the comforter. When they are placed in these situations/places, she takes Agnes especially, to both protect and comfort. She is like the shield.

She is also the positive one. While Edith is the edgy one and can get away with saying all the weird things since she is the middle child, Margot knows she must be the glue, the protector, the one who has to both 1) herself keep it together, and 2) keep the rest of them together. She doesn’t say weird things. I mean it’s also just not her personality, so life just works out good like that. She must keep things positive, even when she herself is scared and when the situations they are put in are quite horrible. For example, she is always telling Agnes when Gru is joking like when he says that there “might be someone in the closet.” When they first show up, she says that everything will be okay.

She challenges rules, like Gru’s rules that he tries to establish when they first move in. She is smart, and attempts to test the boundaries and outsmart. She probably does it for the good of the group.

Gru: You can’t touch anything.

Margot: Floor? Air?

She is smart to explore just the boundaries and how far he’ll/anyone will go in situations.

Maybe it’s from her life experiences that made her this way? Definitely the protector role, the taking charge, and the glue that she realizes she is, she realized it was helpful and necessary, and her job. The testing of boundaries and collecting of data she probably also realized was useful and necessary from her life experiences, because of the situations she has been put in.

She knows when to bend boundaries too. Like when she is able to convince Gru to go to the amusement park, read the bedtime story, or when she simply refuses to “deliver the cookies” until after dance class.

She’s like she’s secretly collecting and analysing in her brain, always. But at the same time she’s funny and has fun while doing it, her personality shines through, she knows her role and place, and stays true to herself. She doesn’t let anyone mess with her. No matter how threatened or scary maybe she should feel? Not Gru. Not Vector. So she doesn’t really care what other people think of her (similar to Edith). When Vector asks if he bought the most cookies, she just replies, “$52.”

A good moment to analyze from the first movie is when they have to all “jump.” Of course, she lets others go first. But before she herself goes, she needs to know something. “You gave us back,” she said. And it’s not that she wasn’t going to jump herself, or wanted to put her sisters in danger by making them jump first (on the contrary!!!) or wouldn’t have resolved this first if she needed to, but she just needed to say it. I can’t even tell if she needed a response/that response from Gru. I think he just says, “I know.” But then he also says. “It’s the worst mistake I’ve ever made.” At some point of his response, I don’t know exactly when, she jumps herself.

I think it’s a reflection of her own- I’m not sure how to describe it. Her own needs, I guess? Seems like a weird word to use in this context though. I view as more selfless than anything. She took care of everyone and everything else first. Only to deal with her demons later. Kind-of reminds me of the blog post “Routine” when finally at the end of the day you can deal with your demons.

She always keeps it together. Like when it hurts really bad for everyone when Gru gives them back, but she still says “thank you” from the car window before driving off. Again, it’s like she knows her role to the bone. At the same time, she lets emotions show. Like the same moment of hesitating before jumping.

I think I analyze these characters so much that even the makers of them movie probably would be surprised. “We did not think of this.”

I need to watch the other movies though, because Margot changes the most, A LOT, when she meets that one boy.