On June 19th, 2015, Pixar released the animated film Inside Out, which has the premise of showing the complex emotional life of an 11 year old child named Riley as she moves from Minnesota to San Francisco.The focus of the film is on the personified emotions that run the control panel of Riley’s mind; Joy, Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Anger.
These are five out of the six emotions that can currently claim scientific
legitimacy (surprise was not included in the film) (Web. 17 Sept. 2015. ). Each of the main characters embody the emotion that they represent; Anger is brute and volcanic, Sadness is dreary and walks slowly, Fear is jittery and stutters, and Disgust is highly dismissive and judgmental. Each of them share control over Riley’s thoughts
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Our emotions add “hues” to our perceptions of life. We see this portrayed the film with Riley’s memories, each of which are symbolized by colorful glowing orbs. The color of each orb symbolizes the emotion that Riley associates with the memory. Red memories are angry (for example, memories of Riley’s temper tantrums), yellow ones are happy (such as Riley’s memories of laughing with friends), blue ones are sad (when Riley moves away), green ones are disgusting (as when Riley eats broccoli ), and purple ones are fearful (when Riley almost puts a fork into a dangerous electrical outlet as a …show more content…
Sadness is necessary for the development of empathy When Joy and Sadness need the help of Bing Bong, a long forgotten imaginary friend of Riley’s, it is Sadness that comes to the rescue. When Bing Bong realizes that he will fade permanently from Riley’s mind, Sadness helps by “allowing him a moment to shed his tears. She watches him cry. Then, she reaches out to him subtly and thoughtfully. With an understanding nod, she tells him, “You’re sad.” It’s what he needed to hear. He begins to open up, describing his feelings and the reasons he’s sad. “ (N.p., n.d. Web. ). Sadness has an approach that is, in my opinion, very therapeutic. Therapy, in simple terms, is talking about one’s feelings in order to cope with said feelings, and this is exactly what Sadness has Bing Bong do. In addition to this, Sadness speaks to Bing Bong in an extremely honest and straightforward way. Instead of telling him to “cheer up” or something of an optimistic nature (like Joy attempts), Sadness realizes that that is not what Bing Bong needs, and simply validates his feelings by saying “You’re
People push being happy on society as a total must in life; sadness is not an option. However, the research that has conducted to the study of happiness speaks otherwise. In this essay Sharon Begley's article "Happiness: Enough Already" critiques and analyzes societies need to be happy and the motivational affects it has on life. Begley believes that individuals do not always have to be happy, and being sad is okay and even good for us. She brings in the research of other professionals to build her claim that extreme constant happiness is not good for people. I strongly agree that we need to experience sadness to build motivation in life and character all around.
The movie that we have chosen is Inside Out. Inside Out has been the most popular animated movie produced by the Pixar Animated Studio and Disney in the summer of 2015 and it was overwhelmed with the audience’s positive feedbacks. This movie is directed by Pete Docter and produced by Jonas Rivera.
how hot the setting of the movie is. The color also reflects tension, conflict, anger,
During the movie, I found that these concepts that were taught in class helped me better understand and relate to certain clips of the movie. Throughout the rest of the paper, I will be going into a bit more detail about exactly what these concepts are and mean, following that I will be giving examples from the movie that demonstrate the concepts of conflict and politeness theory.
Think of a children’s movie or two. Maybe a Disney or Pixar movie first comes to mind; or maybe a movie with “real” actors. Who are the good guys in this movie? Who are the bad? This should be easy to answer given a basic knowledge of the movie. Now who are the “good guys and bad guys” in life? Not as easy to answer. Of course, comparing fictional stereotypes to real people does not make all that much sense. Most people can obviously tell the difference between watching a movie and events happening in life. The distinction is clear. Yet children are different. They can still distinguish from the fictional and reality, but are more exposed to and influenced by the portrayals movies can impose.
Even though the community does benefit from Sameness, there are some things it is deprived of. While color is not absolutely necessary for the proper functioning of a society, it is still something important that this community lacks. “The red was so beautiful” (Lowry 95). This quote shows that once Jonas is exposed to color, he realizes how beautiful and important they are. Whenever he sees rare flashes of red, he gets excited and likes it. After being able to experience color, he looks at th...
Communication is everywhere. We, as interactive human beings, spend the majority of our time corresponding with others to satisfy our physical, identity, social, and practical needs (Adler, Rodman, & Sevigny, 2011). Often, this is consciously done; we search our minds for the accurate linguistic means to express our experiences, and use them to communicate with those around us. However, communication is not as straightforward and effortless as we may believe. It is, in fact, often unintentional, with 65% of it occurring as a result of non-verbal cues (Matsumoto, Shibata, Seiji, Mori, & Shioe, 2010). As mentioned by Marta Dynel (2011) in a study done on nonverbal communication, “Non verbal signs and signals ... are prevalent practically in all social encounters, which entail at least two individuals, who need not even talk or consciously interact otherwise”. Examples exist in all mediums, including in the animated film ‘Up’, where one scene depicts transactional communication between a male and female character, all expressed nonverbally . The nonverbal communication in this scene, along with various other communication constructs, will be discussed.
4) How this relates to the real world: This relates to the real world because positive and negative behaviors are displayed by terms of words and actions everywhere around us on a daily basis. After reading this article, I believe the mood maintenance hypothesis has a tighter grip on positive people. Expressing positive behavioral actions and words can change someone’s day. However, I believe using empathy is one of the strongest and most influential strategies to extinguish negativity. Empathizing with another person means to express a genuine care and share that persons state of mind, thus having a strong impact on that particular individuals feelings.
Colors raise feelings and provoke emotions, but sometimes these connections are considered as being a result of a color possessing a feature of descriptiveness; bananas are yellow, therefore it may be viewed that the color yellow serves as a descriptive color of the
The Pixar film, Inside Out, begins with a girl named Riley. She grew up in a small town in Minnesota and then moved to the city of San Francisco. Viewers follow Riley’s journey in her head. Throughout the movie, we see the changes in Riley’s mind through the actions of the emotions and events that occur. Inside Out is a film that accurately depicts many aspects of psychology.
Joy and Sadness are the leaders in the film. Joy is the first emotion to appear inside Riley’s brain when she is born. Joy is the clear leader of the other emotions with Sadness emerging as a distant second. She tries to keep everyone moving, focused and sets the goals for the team. Even after the other emotions appear, Joy remains Riley’s primary emotion throughout the movie. Sadness wants to be optimistic and helpful in keeping Riley happy, but she finds it so hard to be positive. “Sometimes it seems like the best thing to do is just lie on the floor and have a good cry.” Sadness was the second Emotion to take hold in Riley 's mind, appearing a half a minute after Joy. Afterwards, she tended to be more on the outs with Sadness. Joy does
Not many children’s movies show children how the brain develops, stores memories and works in day to day life, but Inside Out does just that. Within this hour and a half movie the psychology topics of long term memory, short term memory, emotions, and development is all include. Although it is very clear Inside Out indulges on these psychological topics throughout the movie, memory and emotions take the spotlight. Developmental psychology may not be as obvious, but is still in several of the scenes in Inside Out.
The debate over the good and bad aspects of Disney movies has been going on for years. It has become a part of pop culture in a way never expected through things such as YouTube videos and meme’s. While looking at multiple Disney movies may give a wider range of example of both the good and the bad in Disney movies, to help depict the effects the movies actually have on kids it is most beneficial to study just one movie. Zia’s essay argues that Disney movies have a good influence on children by teaching them good life morals. However, one of her examples, Mulan, is not an example of achievement through hard work like Zia explains, but rather a change made through magic, and example of the horrible historical inaccuracies made in Disney movies and the lack of parental respect that they teach children.
At first glance, Pixar’s Inside Out seems to be your standard coming of age film. The film follows an 11-year-old girl, Riley who is forced to make a move from Minnesota to San Francisco with her parents. However, a deeper look at the film reveals how accurate it is to developmental psychology. The center of the story isn’t Riley and her family, but Riley’s primary emotions –Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. The five emotions are personified as characters that control her mind as she transitions from childhood to adolescence and deals with the challenge of adjusting to a new place. Inside Out uses Riley and her emotions function as a demonstration of the relationship between emotion and cognition. In doing so, the film reveals several important questions about developmental psychology. Such as, how do emotions color our memories of the past and what is
Color psychology plays an important role in the film. Colors in this film are an index, which the village complies with. The colors chosen to stand out throughout the film evoke certain emotions from the characters. Yellow is the safe color while red is the dangerous color. These colors are enhanced throughout the film. These colors are bright and vibrant, while other colors appear dull. Most characters are seen wearing neutral tones of colors. Red is the color that is worn by “those that shall not be named”. A strong use of red as the “bad color” is when creatures enter the village and leave red marks on the doors. While they use the color red, villagers never address it, or name it, instead, they say “the bad color”. On the other hand, yellow is the exact opposite, it symbolizes safety.