Five Emotions In 'Pixar Disney Film Inside Out'

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

Pixar’s film, Inside Out, addresses our relationship to our feelings in a sophisticated way for adults and kids to understand and enjoy. Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, and Fear, the five emotions that dwell in the inner world of a young girl named Riley. Joy is the team leader and she displays compassion and demonstrates the aspect of her that permits her to be happy. Anger is very passionate about making sure things work out fairly for Riley. Disgust is highly opinionated and tries to protect her from poisonous situations whether physically or socially. Sadness was used to signal when Riley needed comfort and support. Finally, Fear, he is always on the lookout and I used to protect her. All five of the emotions contribute to build up Riley’s personality. She is upbeat, honest, cheerful, somewhat neurotic, etc.

One of the first conflict styles Joy uses in the beginning of the movie is competing. This occurs when one person completes their goals and the other does not. Adler and Proctor stated (2011), "This win-lose approach to conflict involves high concern for self and low concern for others... competition seeks to resolve conflicts "my way" (page 386). In the movie when Joy comes in contact with a conflict she tends to react the way she sees fit. When sadness tries to touch one of Riley's core memories Joy immediately pushes her away and makes her turn her attention to something else so that she won't be in the way. By being pushed away this causes Sadness to be the losing party because she is not able to achieve her goal of having more input in Riley's

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?

At the beginning of the film, Riley and her parents live in Minnesota, where she has friends, enjoys her school, is a valued member of an ice hockey team, and has an all-around happy life. The movie’s introduction depicts a typical day of Riley’s life in Minnesota, during which all five of the emotion characters properly fulfill their functions and leave Riley in a normal state. Joy provides happiness for the young girl. Sadness provides Riley moments of comfort from her parents and emotional bonding between Riley and her parents. Fear keeps her from hurting herself by prompting a cautionary response. Likewise, Disgust and Anger fulfill their intended, beneficial roles, thereby fulfilling their manifest functions. At the end of the day, Joy congratulates her counterparts, telling them, “Nice job, everybody. Another perfect day.”

On the outside, Riley, the movie's main character, is a typical 11 year old. Unfortunately uprooted from her home in Minnesota to live in San Francisco for her father's job, Riley has a tough transition into the new town, sports and school. Usually a happy girl, Riley begins to argue at the dinner table and fails to get onto the hockey team, leading her deeper into an unhappy state of mind. Although all of these events happen to her, like most people, Riley is guided by her emotions. There are joy, anger, fear, sadness and disgust. These emotions are located in Riley's mind, and we as the audience are able to see them physically. Throughout the movie, they help her with her everyday life and decision making process.

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.

Had I watched this Inside Out at different points over the semester, I would have been able to find different flaws each time. This movie is supposed to be about Riley, but it turns out to be centered around the journey that Joy and Sadness must take in order to return to headquarters, more specifically, it validates sadness as an emotion. Sadness spent her first eleven years with Riley being told to stay back and not to screw anything up, in reality, sadness is often frowned upon, because for some people, they are the opposite of Riley’s character. This movie shows that the happiest of children can go through life changing struggles and embrace their other emotions. You cannot appreciate being happy unless you have known being sad, this movie brings attention to the necessity of a balance in life.

During the first half of the film, Joy was the boss of the headquarters and most of Riley’s memories were all happy. The concept of Riley’s five emotions are borrowed from the concept of Paul Ekman, a well-known scientist in the psychology of emotions. Ekman stated that there are seven basic emotions, the five mentioned in the film, plus surprise and contempt, also explaining why the control board was expanded at the end of the film. When Headquarters is left to only Anger, Fear and Disgust Riley is left feeling solely those emotions to get her through this move and new environment. While Joy and Sadness are lost inside the paths of Riley’s mind she begins to lose many important social aspects of her life like “Friendship Island” which causes her to become angry and closed off from her hometown friends when they call to catch up with her or while she is trying to fit in and make new friends at her new school.

Throughout the duration of the movie Joy believes Sadness is irrelevant, and questions why Riley needs Sadness. In the beginning of the movie, Joy is the main user of the control panel, making, Joy, Riley's main emotion. When Sadness and Joy disappear everything comes to a halt. While on the mission back to headquarters, Sadness and Joy find Riley’s old imaginary friend Bing Bong. But Bing Bong becomes sad when he realizes Riley has grown up and doesn't need him anymore.

Inside Out is an animated movie produced by produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Inside Out is about emotions such as joy, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust and lots of memories that are inside Riley's Head. Joy is the emotion who makes Riley happy. She was the first emotion that was created inside Riley's head. She always want to think about the bright side of things and always stay happy.

I believe you chose this movie, to help us better understand emotional, gender, and self-identity development in adolescents and to show us how complicated emotions can be. A person can’t remain one emotion, because that’s impossible, we can feel multiple emotions at once. A concept that I better understand because of watching the movie is emotional development. In the movie, Riley was expected to be happy most of the time, because of her parents. Since emotions are adaptive, how they felt was how they expected her to feel.

The sadness emotion makes Riley cry in front of her class and creates a negative memory. Riley is having a social anxiety disorder. She is so overcome by fear that she cannot longer think straight. She is also overgeneralizing her classmates in that thinking that they are all thinking about her in a negative way.

Emotions are a source of information about our environment and ourselves. Emotions help us make certain actions; such as to avoid, fight, and seek comfort. Throughout the film we can see that as children grow to understand our ability to experience and understand emotions. By the end of the film, Riley’s struggles help her develop a much more elaborate control board that allows her to experience subtler and nuanced feelings. Child development research tells us that as children grow, their emotional lives become richer and more complex.

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.