Despicable Me 2 continues the story of Gru and his adoptive daughters, but rather than being evil, he is recruited by an agency to fight a different villain. Naturally, the success of Despicable Me led to a sequel in 2013. They're no longer just minions, but little characters with personalities that can be identified, even if they do blend together visually. I used the first names of staff members like Kevin Curran, Stewart Burns, Bob Bendetson, and about ten others." While this may seem inconsequential, giving the Minions names makes them more individualistic, which offers audiences something more to latch on to. I chose from the blandest white guys I know: Simpsons writers. In order to contrast their weirdness, I gave them bland white-guy names. Throughout the script, Gru would always refer to them collectively as “boys,” but I thought it would be funny to address them each by name, since, to me, they were alike as a pile of little yellow Advils. Working as an uncredited punch-up writer, Reiss recalls, "My most lasting contribution was to Despicable Me’s Minions: I gave the little bastards names. In his book, Springfield Confidential, one of the original The Simpsons writers Mike Reiss revealed he contributed some work to the first Despicable Me film. A key decision was made in this first movie that sets a tone for the ongoing franchise.
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