Hello Prof. Jorge,
Here is my Movie Synopsis and Life Journey in relation to Joseph Campbell's "A Hero Has A Thousand Faces" framework. Have a nice weekend.
Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going inside their head? Inside Out is a story about Riley and her emotions and how they struggle to adjust a new life. After Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions try to control the situation too much which creates more confusion to Riley. An attempt to restore Riley's normal being is under the heed of her emotions.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL'S THE STAGES OF THE HERO'S JOURNEY --- Inside Out
1. Ordinary World
Inside Riley, there is a Headquarters, where the control center operated by her five emotions.
a. Joy - The leader responsible for making Riley happy all the time and keep things positive whatever the circumstances are.
b. Sadness - She makes Riley cry and feel sad, Joy questions what good exactly she does.
c. Fear – He keeps Riley safe.
d. Disgust – She keeps Riley being poisoned physically and socially.
e. Anger – He make sure everything is fair for Riley.
Inside Riley's brain are the core memories that came from important events in her life, almost Joy. Each core memories power a different aspect of her personalities. These personalities describe how she reacts to her environment, which makes Riley, Riley. These are Hockey Island, Goofball Island, Friendship Island, Honesty Island and Family Island.
2. Call to Adventure
Riley's parents decided to move from Minessota to San Francisco, where her father has a new job and her mother supported it but felt sad. Riley didn't like what she saw at San Francisco and she was put under stress. Her new house and room stink, friends are in Minessota and all their stuff were in the missing van. With all this confusion, all the emotions except for Joy find there was absolutely nothing to be happy right now.
3. Refusal of the Call
With the change of the environment, Sadness does self-loathing but Joy trying to keep her out of Riley's control. On Riley's first day on her new school, she told something about herself, about Minessota. "Everything is different now", the change is tough, she cried. While Joy trying to keep Sadness away from the control and touching the core memories, they accidently ejected from the Headquarters with Riley's Core Memories, and get lost to Long Term Memory.
4. Meeting the Mentor
With only Fear, Disgust and Anger left in the control centre, all personality islands turn down. Without Joy, they couldn't make Riley happy. In Long Term Memory, Joy and Sadness stumble upon Bing Bong, Riley's old imaginary friend. Bing Bong knows that Joy needs to be in the Headquarters to prevent Riley's personalities falling apart. He is willing to accompany her through Train of Thoughts.
5. Crossing the Threshold
Riley can no longer manages her emotions; she only feels disgust, fear and anger. She became disrespectful to her parents. She was scolded by her father and when he tried to console her, she couldn't feel anything, and Goofball Island was destroyed. She talked to her friend in Minessota, her friend couldn't stop talking about the new girl on their team, Riley felt bad, and Friendship Island was destroyed. Her mother convinced her to try out a new hockey team, with her personality island being down, she couldn't play right, and Hockey Island was destroyed. Anger came to the idea that Riley needs to go back to San Francisco, because everything was perfect there, even this means running away for Disgust and Anger.
6. Tests, Allies, Enemies
Joy tried her best to save Riley's falling apart; she needs to go back to the Headquarters as fast as she could. Bing Bong leads them to take the shortcut to train station to catch the Train of Thoughts. Sadness being familiar with the Long Term memory island, she warned Joy about the danger of this shortcut Abstract Thought, but she didn't listen. Soon after they are in, the Mind Workers arrive to analyze the concept of "loneliness" but they see that there seems to be something inside, they activate it to clean it up beforehand. Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong are suddenly taken through the 4step extraction process. 1st non –objective fragmentation, 2nd deconstructing, 3rd two–dimensional and before they reach the 4th stage of nonfigurative, Sadness realized they could exploit their two-dimensional state to get out. Still they weren't able to reach the train.
