What Inside Out reveals, beyond the obviously attractive simplicity of the idea of having just five basic emotions, is the triumph of a psychologised view of the self: one that lacks any ruling faculty.
But there’s more missing from Riley’s mind than emotional complexity, psychodynamic drives, or nascent sexuality. It’s a wonderful mess of mental metaphors, even including a dark subterranean unconscious, albeit one tame enough for a U certificate. The various regions are joined up by tubes and wires as well as the very literal “train of thought” railway. In this special interest in the bodily and facial accompaniments of feeling, Ekman is a descendant of pioneer emotion theorists of the 19th century, including Charles Darwin and William James. Ekman’s particular concern has been to show that there are certain innate facial expressions, whose emotional meaning can be discerned by anyone, regardless of their culture and education.
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Quite understandably for the purposes of an animated movie aimed at children, Inside Out simplifies things further still.Įkman’s list of cross-cultural basic emotions is longer, including, in addition to the five in the film: contempt, surprise, shame, amusement, satisfaction, contentment and relief, among others. The psychological model used by the film is essentially the one already popularised with stunning success over several decades by the American psychologist Paul Ekman, the leading proponent of the theory that all human beings, regardless of their historical and cultural milieu, share a repertoire of identical “basic emotions”. Riley’s mental steering committee is headed up by Joy at the start, but as the narrative unfolds, Joy, who has previously tried to keep the four more negative emotions – Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Sadness – away from the controls, gradually learns the special value and importance of sadness.įive basic emotions: Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust, Joy.
It’s a pretty run-of-the-mill story, but there’s a twist: it’s all seen through the eyes of the five emotions that control the girl’s mental life, from a console inside her brain. Inside Out is the tale of 11-year-old Riley and her traumatic move from Minnesota to a new home in San Francisco. While my son giggled at the good old-fashioned slapstick, I could chuckle knowingly at references to Freud, evolutionary psychology and the emotional turmoil of puberty. He thought for a moment, before replying: “That sounds pretty boring.” It’s true that I could have done better with the pitch, but the film held his attention, and mine, and gave us both a few laughs. This show is followed by Disney/Pixar’s musical short Lava, and then Inside Out, which is shown with Dolby Atmos immersive sound and the theatre’s recently installed Dolby Vision high dynamic range 4K laser projection system.As we drove to our local cinema to see Inside Out, my five year-old son asked me: “So what is this film going to be about?” “Feelings,” I said, “the feelings that live inside our heads”. “I know you can dance, but can you act.”Ī behind the scenes clip can be found here.
The 3D Live system also triggers stage lighting to complete the effect.“The fun part was the casting, getting people into the studio and opening up,” said Scott. Scott brought some humor to Sadness, who dances to “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and tries to get out from under a rain cloud - which appears on the LED screen, and follows the dancer around the stage. The show’s choreographer, Dave Scott, who is perhaps best know for his choreography on Step Up 3D and So You Think You Can Dance, interpreted the film’s emotions through the music and dance style of each character.įor instance, Anger’s featured dance is aggressive and uses hip hop, to Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” Joy’s dance in based on ballet to “Walking on Sunshine” - and ends with aerial work. “After the script was approved by Disney, and we began the storyboarding and design phase.” “We went off the concept from the film’s marketing materials ,” he said. And in the stage show, titled ‘Music of Light,” five dancers interpret one emotion each, while interacting with virtual 3D environments on a patented 3D LED wall that was constructed on the theatre’s stage by 3D Live, the company that produced the show.ģD Live’s Ryan Pardeiro, who directed and co-produced the performance, said work starting in April with developing the concept and story. Inside Out features five emotions as characters-Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust. It opens all screenings of Disney/ Pixar’s Inside Out, which is playing at the venue through Aug.
Hollywood’s historic Disney-owned El Capitan Theatre is again using a pre-show to push its entertainment value, this time with a nine-minute Inside Out-themed live stage show that combines 3D environments with live dance.