Film
964: Despicable Me
Trivia: Steve Carell describes Gru's accent as a cross between Ricardo Montalban and Bela Lugosi.
During
the dance sequence, the DJ Minion is using a "Gru-ray Disc" player,
with the same color and font style on the writing as a Blu-ray Disc player.
When Gru
is seen entering the "Bank of Evil", the subtitle "Formerly
Lehman Brothers" can be seen over the door.
Gru
tells Miss Hattie, in Spanish, that her face is "como un burro." This
means "like a donkey."
The
directors actually wrote a language for the gibberish the minions speak
throughout the film. They called it
"minion-ese".
Each word the minions speak in the film translates into an actual word.
The name
of the main protagonist, Gru, appears to be taken from the Russian Military
Intelligence agency GRU. GRU is an acronym for Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye
Upravleniye (roughly translates to Main Intelligent Department/Directorate),
the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian Armed Forces. It
is the largest Russian intelligence agency, six times larger than the SVR
(formerly the KGB). This may hint at Gru's own origins.
In his
application to adopt the girls, Gru's first name is given as Felonious.


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