Riley's Emotions In The Movie '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

about Riley how is trying to adapt to her new environment in San Francisco. This transition causes her behaviour to change. In the film, Inside Out, it discusses the socio-cultural principles that influences Riley's behaviour.

Each named emotion expresses Riley’s feelings after seeing the world through her eyes on a big projection screen. When something whens that would give Riley joy, the character, Joy, has the job to make Riley feel that way. The Two Factor theory explains we feel an emotion by first coming in contact with the stimulus, become physically aroused by it and cognitively label the feeling we have is an emotion, and then experience the emotion. This lines up very closely with the process of the characters choosing how to make Riley feel. They witness the stimulus RIley is in contact with, the named emotion whose job is producing that emotion comes forward to make themself known, and finally she feels that

Riley and her family go through a lot of changes when they move from Minnesota to San Francisco.

As the story progresses, Riley and her family move from Minnesota to San Francisco, where Riley experiences culture shock. She and her family find their home to be more than a bit worn and dismal. To make matters worse, their furniture has become lost in the cross-country move, and Riley’s father is experiencing stress and anxiety in his job at a startup firm. Riley is uncomfortable at her new school and in her new social environment as a whole. Riley’s mother urges her to keep smiling, stay happy, and be there for her father. At first the emotions are able work together, keeping Riley in harmony. However, Sadness begins to cloud Riley’s memories and feelings and override her balanced personality. She tells Joy, “Something’s wrong with me. I think I’m having a breakdown.” Joy attempts to take Sadness out of

These emotions are important for children to learn about and be aware of especially when getting older and growing into the tween years. One of the two things I took away from this movie was that you could have more than one emotion attached to a memory. It isn’t a very hard concept to teach children but it’s more or less something that hasn’t been acknowledged on another TV show or movie. Another thing I took away from this movie is that all of your emotions play a role an important role in representing who you are for example, Riley is run by Joy, her mother is run by sadness and her father is run by anger. This could mean that Riley is inherently happy person who normally reacts with a positive out look on life, this could also mean that her mother comes off a little more reserved and some what sad and her father a little more aggressive or short tempered, this enables each person to have their own personality. I feel the biggest lesson children can take away from this movie is the idea that you are allowed to feel whatever emotion you are feeling and that is okay. You shouldn’t feel like you have to force down your emotions to make things easier for yourself and others around you, feel what you are feeling mindfully and then move

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

Riley’s family move from Minnesota to California. With the difficulty of moving homes, the emotions go into panic mode, like any normal pre-teen would react, but Joy recognizes the problem and tries to help keep the situation positive. On the trip to Riley’s new house, the emotions share the possibilities of what their new house could look like. The creativity that the emotions contain depict houses with slides, dragons, candy, and even in a tree. When she arrives at a new house all the emotions are quickly disappointed by the exterior of Riley’s new home. Joy then remembers that Riley’s dad was talking about how great Riley’s room was going to be. Again, Riley is disappointed and Joy is pushed off the control board by Anger, Sadness, Disgust, and Fear to create memory balls. Joy tries to influence the emotions by creating a dream room for Riley. As Riley heads downstairs for her stuff from a moving van, she discovers that they van is delayed for a couple of days. Bad situations seem to keep piling up for Riley’s family and when Riley realizes this, she begins to play hockey with a piece of paper to take her parents out of their mood. Her dad gets a phone call from his job and the mood goes down again. Her mom seems sad and Riley suggest pizza from a place she saw down the street. The pizza is a disappointment, it has broccoli on it. Riley can’t seem to get out of her rut. When night comes, she overhears her dad still upset on his phone and asks to be tucked in. Her mom comes into her room and right before Riley was about to get mad, her mom thanks her for her positive attitude in

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.

The Emotions are all assigned to Headquarters, the place in Riley’s brain her thoughts and feelings are originated. Within Headquarters are brightly glowing orbs, that are color-coded fitting the Emotion which was

The film ends with a now 12-year-old Riley adapting well to life in San Francisco, making new friends, and leading a more emotionally complex life.

Sadness, Joy, Fear, Disgust and Anger. Five emotions felt by human beings on a regular basis. These five emotions are personified as characters in the movie “Inside Out”. The movie Inside Out is about an 11-year-old girl named Riley who is living a happy life until she moves with her family to San Francisco (Rivera, Docter, del Carmen, 2015). Cognitive, social and linguistic development are all essential parts that contribute to the development of a growing child, such as Riley. The movie displays these types of development in terms of memories, emotions, attention, humor and many other aspects. The purpose of this paper will be to explain why the movie Inside Out (2015) is appropriate for children ages 6 to 12 years of age in terms of their cognitive, social and linguistic development.

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.