Gru, second class villain, outdistanced by a computer nerd who stole a pyramid., wants to put the moon in his pocket, first by shrinking it with a weapon he pilfered from a foreign nation, and then by bringing it home for safe keeping,
But when his nemesis, a computer geek named Vector, steals the shrink gun from him, Gru adopts cookie selling orphaned girls to help him get it back.
See the film to figure out the ploy and to see what comes next. Also see the film because of its many winning attributes, especially its themes: that even a villain has a heart and that our children, or underlings, believe in you even if you don't believe in yourself.
You see a speech lesson coming, don't you?
The Gru in you who feels that he is only meant to be awful, needs to step aside. You can be a great speaker if you believe in yourself and if you just try, try, try. Look at mishaps along the way as stepping stones to greatness. Learning the wrong way of doing things amounts to a great education.
Your audience wants you to succeed, in the same way that the Gru's adoptees want him to be a good Daddy, one who will make it to their ballet recital. Audience's know how it feels to be up there--they have great commiseration with someone who stands in front of a crowd. So they are your friends who are cheering you on.
And as I said in a distant post, seeing each person in the audience as a child thirsting for knowledge and affection will bring out the dad in you who wants to allay heir fears.
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