A Joyride of Emotions Pixar’s Inside Out is an interesting take on how our emotions work as well as how our brains operate. The story starts off with a narration by Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler, explaining how her job works, and how she and the other emotions came to be inside the mind of young Riley Anderson. The emotions watch and guide Riley by influencing how she reacts to different daily situations. The only thing the emotions are not prepared for however, is an unexpected move from Minnesota to San Francisco (Inside Out). This hilarious take at how our brains work allows Inside Out to create an entertaining and engaging movie using character interaction and its deeper emotional and psychological meanings. As the film begins, it is clear from the start that the emotions care a great deal for Riley. As the primary emotion, Joy takes it upon herself to be the leader of the group and does everything in her power to make sure every moment of Riley’s day is a happy one. Sadness, voiced by Phyllis Smith, is not sure of her purpose in Riley’s mind, so her fellow emotions attempt to keep her involvement to a minimum, in fear of putting a damper on Riley’s mood. The rest of the emotions, Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Fear (Bill Hader), keep Riley’s life fair, poison free, physically and socially, and safe, respectively (Inside Out). A stand out character who appears is Bing Bong, voiced by Richard Kind, Riley’s imaginary friend from when she was a
The film Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley and her changing emotions after she is forced to move from her home town in Minnesota to San Fransico for her father’s job. The story is told from the perspective of her five emotions. Riley’s emotions are led by Joy, who attempts to guide her through the stressful event. Although Joy puts forth great effort, Sadness takes over. When trying to protect Riley’s core memories from Sadness, Joy is swept from headquarters through the dump tube and Sadness follows. With Joy and Sadness gone, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are the only emotions left in headquarters; therefore, Riley cannot be happy or sad. Because Joy and Sadness are absent, Riley’s personality islands diminish one by one. Riley fights with her family, pushes away from her friends back home, and loses interest in hockey. As Joy and Sadness navigate through Riley’s brain in search of a way back to headquarters, they encounter many obsticles. Back in headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust place the idea of running away into Riley’s head. Joy witnesses the transformation of a sad memory into a happy memory, and finally realizes the importance of all emotions, including Sadness. With the help of Bing Bong, Riley’s imaginary friend, Joy and Sadness find their way back to headquarters and are able to stop Riley from running away. An update in headquarters takes place, and more personality islands develop. Joy learns to accept the
The theory of emotion that is displayed in Inside Out is the Two-Factor theory. When Riley has a physiological arousal, it is cognitively labeled. One example is when Riley was getting fed the broccoli, her physiological response was screaming and crying, and it was cognitively labelled as disgust. It is the two factor theory because screaming and crying could also be the physiological response for fear.
According to Adler and Proctor (2011), it talks about responding to transgressions and some examples to that would be coming to an acceptance, rejection and discussion. In the movie “Inside out” we discover how all the emotions try to steer the way to control the little girl “Riley” mind but one specific character by the name of “Joy” is basically the one in charge of them all and tries to take on more of the responsibility in situations. Throughout the movie something happens to Riley and her emotions
Just in: Joy has escaped from Riley’s mind! There has been a sighting of Joy at the Mind Metro buying a ticket to Role Ridge. Role Ridge is known for having the 2nd largest population of story and movie stars after Charatopia. Will she spread delight and glee? Will there never be sadness or misery ever again? Will Riley be like a gloomy lump of coal?
There are five characters in “Inside Out” that are to describe the emotions of Riley: Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. Sadness describes the medial prefrontal gyrus part of the brain. The medial prefrontal gyrus is strongly associated to depression, which is shown through the character sadness since she is constantly sad and moping around. The medial orbitofrontal cortex is shown by Joy because it involves extraversion. Joy throughout the movie is excited and happy, linked to extraversion. Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Sadness all also describe the amygdala. The amygdala is responsible for the perception of emotions, usually negative. The medial prefrontal gyrus, medial orbitofrontal cortex, and amygdala combine to be represented by all of the characters.
We all react differently. This movie tries to help us understand why we react the way we do. The main characters teach you lessons on how the way we react helps us in life. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness are characters. Helps us understand why we react the way we do.
Expressing your emotions can be easily related to voicing an opinion, which has continuously been ridiculed lately. It can be hard to show emotion when it’s been repeatedly laughed at. Like Amy Tan’s mom, most ignore the sight of emotions because they don’t want to their own to be revealed and some that claim to have an open mind and are curious suddenly shut down and become defensive as if upset by what they chose to hear. So why continue to express yourself and not be heard? Shame surrounds what you found to be the most beautiful part of yourself and you close off, only allowing the re-revised version of you to be met while the raw, scribbled, full version is only be known by you. In the movie Inside Out, a core component to Riley’s self, Joy, overshadows other emotions unknowingly. An unfamiliar stressor interrupts Riley’s life that Joy doesn 't understand and, naturally, does everything in her power to make sure Riley avoids anything that could cause her any sadness, displeasure, or suffering. It’s understandable to not want a loved one in any way aching, such as the character Sadness, who is the epitome of the major blues. Sadness becomes a major emotion Riley begins to experience for the first time back to back and is taken on an emotional roller coaster of confusion and stress. A crucial turning point in the movie is when Sadness witnesses Bing Bong silently cry and then empathetically decides to tell
At the end of the day, it’s a romantic comedy. Featuring Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) an author who starts off being arrogant and loaded with himself. At that point Nina Moseley (Nia Long) a photographer, with feelings everywhere. The motion picture identifies with one type of relationship as the essential core interest. Leaving others to trust that affection is befuddling and confounded.
This presented Docter, who had the task of creating a character whose emotions needed to be effectively communicated, with a far more demanding task my task of defining the personalities of movie characters in hopes of understanding what emotions exist in humans and how they are manifested. While I originally thought that breaking down the characters in The Breakfast Club would give me insight into the process that went into choosing the emotions in the movie Inside Out, it has mainly made me realize that, while the five emotions that governed Rylie’s head worked together to ultimately communicate that it is important to experience the full spectrum of emotions in order to thrive, I came to the realization that it is highly likely that every person that viewed the movie most likely interpreted each of those five emotions. I would think it plausible that a spectrum of the viewers viewed the character Sadness as more an embodiment of longing, while others might have interpreted Sadness as regret or
Inside out has showed us that emotions can be difficult to handle and deal with when growing up. Riley, the main character, is an embodiment of pre-teens and adolescents everywhere because she could not to figure out what to feel to a certain situation. Her actions along with emotions are adapting to the world in order to act in compliance to society or rebel against it. This is the prime time where the flight or fight response kicks in. Adolescents can be difficult to understand which can lead to some being two faced with their behavior. They may act a certain way in front of family members or adults, but act a completely different way in front of their peers. When this occurs, their
When the film begins, the emotion of Joy is controlling the control panel inside Riley’s mind. Her goal is to make sure that Riley is always happy. But by the end of the film, everyone learns that there is much, much more to being happy. In fact, at the end of the movie, when Joy lets the others control, mostly Sadness, Riley seems to have a deeper form of happiness.
The animated film Inside Out directed by Pete Doctor is about the change in emotions due to stress, and how the brain changes with age. The film is about the mind of an 11-year old girl named Riley, who is trying to remain happy with the family move from Minnesota to San Francisco. Once the family arrives in San Francisco, a series of events happen that make her upset or disappointed. However, she tries her best to please her parents by pretending to be happy. The movie also highlights the function of short and long-term memory, and the psychological changes in becoming a pre-teen. The major characters in the film were the personification of her emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger. These five personifications worked together to allow Riley to function, and express how she is feeling (Doctor & Carmen, 2015).
The movie Inside Out is about a young 11-year old girl named Riley, who moves from her home state Minnesota to California. When she was first born, she developed the 5 emotions of joy, anger, fear, disgust, and sadness that controls her memories, actions, and thoughts. Throughout her life the emotions help Riley guide her through life and when she moves
This paper explores the development of Riley Andersen, the 11-year old protagonist in the Walt Disney Studios film Inside Out. When Riley is forced to move to San Francisco with her family, viewers witness her struggle to work though her developmental tasks and her psychosocial crisis. Although she had once been successful in her stages of development, her transition to a new home and a new school negatively impacts her emotions and causes a regression in her developmental tasks. With the support of her family and increased emotional maturity, she is able to successfully overcome her developmental obstacles. Throughout this paper, the principles and concepts of the psychosocial theory are discussed in relation to Riley’s
The film Inside Out (2015) produced and directed by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures, is a movie based on the emotions of a 11-year-old girl called Riley. The film’s principal characters are five emotions located in Riley’s brain. These emotions are Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger. All of them work together inside Riley’s mind to accomplish one goal: Her Happiness. Everything revolves around Riley because she is facing a hard move with her family from Minnesota to San Francisco, leading to big changes around his life, attitude, and behavior. Most of the movie is set inside Riley’s mind, where the emotions operate her brain’s control center. The film explains that our brain has functions that control our responses to certain situations, and the ways that we handle these situations are controlled by our emotions. Also, it explains that our personalities and identities are defined by certain emotions, which shape how we handle and express to specific situations. The decisions and actions that the emotions choose to do in Riley’s life will drive the plot. Inside Out (2015) will not only explain through its colors, lighting, and camera shots the storyline of the movie, but also the importance of emotions and how they play a big role in our lives.