They don’t have exactly the same color hair. Joy has an “electric” blue hair color (to reflect her energy) while sadness has a deeper, “sadder” color blue.
That’s so great! I was wondering if everyone had the same emotions with the same genders and the same ones in charge and how they actually did the controlling thing and everything, and here’s the answers in a funny little package. And now I have whole new questions concerning the differences between Riley’s emotion set and her parents’ to anticipate the answers to!
It interests me that no one except Riley’s seem to really be exhibiting their respective emotions (and that her parents’ sets seem to be lead by Sadness and Anger, respectively, when Joy leads hers’. Joy seems to be missing, interestingly). I guess this is probably an indicator that when you grow up your emotions change, possibly mellow out, and get along together better. Heh…it makes sense, but I gotta say, I don’t like the idea of Riley’s emotions changing like that. I just like them so much as they are (though, I guess I should wait until the movie actually comes out to say that).
I like Riley’s dad’s emotions better than Riley’s mom’s emotions, by the way.
Edit: And it just occurred to me I’m probably over analyzing Pixar’s usual method of using original footage that isn’t from the movie for their advertising. Blah. I’m taking it as canon unless it’s contradicted anyway.
I’ve watched the trailer a few times now. It looks great!! My only concern was that this was indeed a rather tense scene to use for a trailer (especially given that our reaction is supposed to be one of comedy, given by the punch of the clip). But it did the job of intriguing me in this film and its characters, and also reminded me how far away June '15 is.
Some notes:
The voice acting is great! Riley sounds a little older than I imagined, but I suppose it befits an 11-year old going through changes
I find it interesting that all of Mom’s emotions seem to be “hyper-feminine” with matching hairstyles while Dad’s are “hyper-masculine” with facial hair, regardless of the actual gender of the emotions. Or perhaps the emotions themselves don’t really have genders to begin with, but rather, present themselves differently? Hm…
I’m imagining that the movie itself is probably more mellow than this clip, since it must accomplish the relatively hefty job of showing these multiple communicating stories both inside and out the characters’ heads. I partially rewatched it to catch some of the little gags and nuances that went by too fast the first time.
Definitely a Doctor-esque style in the entire direction of this scene. I’m eager to see more
Alright, this movie seems to be the answer to those who believe Pixar’s lost some of their creativity. I admit I wasn’t assured by the trend of only sequels. Still, we’re getting back to something that’s completely original and immediately appealing.
mynameiskhannie: Interesting! I can only wonder what their purpose in the story is now…
also, I can’t believe it took me this long, but probably the reason why Riley’s emotions have both male and female genders in contrast to her parents is because of her tomboy personality (not sure if that was pointed out yet).
…Okay, I don’t want to be rude or falsely accusatory or anything, but generally when a claim shows up with no source, the best course of action is to take it with a grain of salt.
I was puzzled that the emotions inside Riley’s parents are almost identical to hers.
The first idea I had was that they would be more adultlike in appearance, because they’re inside mentally/physically mature individuals.
And that they’d be also dressed differently.
When the “defconfootdown” screen was described to me, I pictured her father’s emotions all in military uniforms because of the keys description.
When I first saw the trailer, I laughed a lot. But then I realized that I was getting a bit bored by the time I watched it the fourth time, and then I felt it didn’t feel like a Pixar film, I don’t know. But I’m still interested in this concept and story.
I really think it has more to do with the fact that Riley’s emotions still control her, whereas her parents are in control of their emotions. I think that when a person matures (at leas in this universe) their emotions conform to who they are. If you noticed, in the mom, Fear and Anger just looked like a gender-flipped version of themselves; in the dad it was Joy, Sadness, and Disgust.
Actually, I think it’s more to do with the fact that Riley is a mix of feminine and masculine traits.
The official bio says she’s a tomboy into sports.
So someone with that outlook would naturally possess “male” emotions.
Whereas her parents follow the typical gender types, so their emotions reflect the single natured aspect of their minds.