Written by: Original Story by: Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley
Additional Story Material By Michael Arndt and Simon Rich
Additional dialogue by Bob Peterson, Bill Hader and Amy Poehler
Directors: Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen
Produced by: Jonas Rivera
Starring:
Amy Poehler- Joy (voice) Phyllis Smith- Sadness (voice) Richard Kind- Bing Bong (voice) Bill Hader- Fear (voice) Lewis Black- Anger (voice) Mindy Kaling- Disgust (voice) Diane Lane- Mom (voice) Kyle MacLachlan- Dad (voice)
Running Time: 95 min Rating: PG
Theme/Main Idea:
Theme/Main Idea
Dealing with our individual emotions. To understand how they impact our everyday lives and especially during a time of upheaval. How do we relate to our emotions? How do they help create our personality? How do we benefit from having emotions like fear, disgust and anger in our lives?
Film Facts
The emotions each have intentional shapes: Anger looks like a brick, Fear is tall and thin like a nerve, Joy is shaped like a star, and sadness resembles a teardrop
Each emotion had a different version of what pixar called ‘solidity’. Pete Docter requested this in order to depict the emotions as energy particles.
Originally writers drew additional emotions including ‘Surprise’, ‘Pride’, and ‘Trust’.
To cover traumatic events properly they consulted psychologist, scientists, neurologists.
Synopsis of Film:
After eleven year old Riley moves to San Francisco with her parents, her emotions: Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness and fear conflict on how to best navigate her new house, school and city.
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Key Concepts:
Emotions: “an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness” (Dictionary, 2016)
Anger: “a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire” (Dictionary, 2016) Fear: “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.” (Dictionary, 2016) Joy: “the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation” (Dictionary, 2016) Disgust: “repugnance caused by something offensive; strong aversion” (Dictionary, 2016) Sadness: “affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful” (Dictionary, 2016)
Understanding our emotions and the role they play in our lives. That emotions are powerful and can, especially during times of stress, distort memories we may have Self-Regulation: how do we self regulate so that our emotions do not control our actions.