Emotions In The Pixar

In the Pixar movie Inside out the setting is inside the mind of an eleven-year-old girl named Riley. As she moves to a new town and learns to adapt there, the movie is using different colored characters to depict how our emotions have an effect on our memories. In Inside Out the five following emotions inspired by a psychologist named Robert Plutchik are illustrated as characters in her mind with different personalities: Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger, and Sadness. Robert Plutchik suggests that we these emotions could be organized in a color wheel, which groups emotional opposites: joy/sadness, anticipation/surprise, fear/anger, and trust/disgust. Linking these emotions to incidents gives specific memories significance, which makes the memory stronger. Hence the reason why Riley's imaginary friend Bing Bong states in the movie, "When Riley doesn't care about memories, they fade." …show more content…
This then triggers the amygdala, a pair of tonsil-sized areas in each brain hemisphere. The amygdala is located above the pair of seahorse-shaped structures called the hippocampus is where the amygdala is at. In the movie Inside Out's, this is referred to as the 'Headquarters'. The five emotions attribute a personal nature or human characteristics to the amygdala and connect the emotional importance to a different memory. In the movie, this is done by pressing a big button on the control system in Headquarters, which activates nerve cells in the amygdala sending alerts to the