School's First (Un)Official Megamind Day

[pitbulllady]

Well, it didn't quite go off as planned, due to some unexpected technology issues involving some not-so-Smartboards.  Yesterday was to have been the first time that Megamind was shown school-wide as a reward for good behavior during the first of two days of March state testing, but it had to be moved up to today in order to get the issues worked

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[sharelle]

Whoo-hoo! That's an awesome story! I'm so glad you got to show the film, and even happier that they enjoyed it so much.

[dani_kin]

Now THAT is a good day at work!

I did a screening of Megamind for my teens at the library this past summer. We always do a few movies in the summer, mostly as an excuse for them to come in their pj's/comfy pants and lounge in the AC. Megamind was great because they knew I liked it and a bunch of my otaku/weebo girls hung out afterwards and drew adorable chibi Megamind art. It was great. They now also yell "OH NO NOT THE DRILL" anytime I say 'you know the drill' in a program.

And especially since you do have kids that really GET the whole "I want everyone to think I'm bad thing", hopefully they connected with the movie in a deep way. I think that it really works for anyone who has had a rough start at life and to show its not how you start, but where you choose to end up.

I'm all about getting paid to watch my favorite movie.

[pitbulllady]

They really DID get that whole part about pretending to be bad, along with the message about bullying and showing prejudice against someone else for being different, especially for just LOOKING different. They laughed where it was really funny, but I didn't hear one person "diss" the movie, at all. Rarely do we show a movie that everyone can at least sit through without griping about how lame or "baby-ish" or "dumb" or whatever they think it is. They really got emotionally involved with the characters. There were lots of sniffles and "awwwww's" when Minion and Megamind had their falling out, as well as during the Rain Scene. Normally, you can't pay a lot of these kids to watch anything that isn't specifically aimed at an African-American audience mostly, that does not feature a "gangsta" Hip-Hop soundtrack. They almost rioted last year when we showed one of the "Harry Potter" movies, for instance. Megamind connected with them, though, in exactly the right ways. He's tough, but he's not a bully or a "thug". He's SMART, and that

[murasaki_yugata]

XD That is beyond awesome! Very well done and thank you so much for sharing! :D

[alpha_centari27]

I'm glad first of all that you managed to pull this off and for the fact the kids were able to relate to it.

Megamind is one of the best if not the best movie I have seen in a long time.

[pitbulllady]

I have had a LOT of students over the years who have expressed just that very sentiment, that everyone EXPECTED them to be bad because of where they came from, their family history, their poverty, etc., so they just accepted the fact that they WERE bad, and nothing was ever going to change that. They looked FORWARD to jail, because that's where most of their family already was, and because jail at least offered some opportunity to "rise to the top", even if it was on a totally wrong "ladder". Most of my kids don't see having a criminal record or having served time as a negative thing at all, but rather, a badge of honor. That they could see someone who'd been in that same boat, figuratively speaking, but who had made a CHOICE to turn his life around and was able to pull it off, hopefully will make some re-think their own "destiny". My students, odd as it might seem, aren't inner city kids. They are small-town and rural kids, in one of the state's poorest counties, in a state that had a lagging economy even before the recession