Why sometimes we feel that there are several voices arguing in our heads?
Why does "grow up" seem to be a sudden thing?
These questions are the questions that Peter Dougert and his production team intend to explore in "Brains."
It all stems from a real puzzle by the director Dougter: his daughter Elie has always been a happy child who was energetic and happy when she was a child. She has the same teeth and claws as the little girl who later became the wife of the protagonist in "Flying House" ( Elie dubbed her). However, when Elie was 11 years old, she suddenly became quiet and reticent.
——What is she thinking? Why does it become like this?
It was this question that made Dougt decide to make a story about the "mind". A little girl named Riley moved with her parents across most of the country from Minnesota to San Francisco, facing the full challenges of the new environment, but this is only the background of the story. The real story lies in her brain: in the "headquarters" of the mind, there are five emotional villains, they manipulate Riley's behavior together, and manage the magical long-term memory and subconsciousness outside the headquarters... a scientific theory Supporting, but completely fictitious world.
After disappointing Pifen for several years, this time Pixar finally "opened his brain". It's not a princess, it's not a sequel, it's a complete original. Moreover, the idea this time is not the mouse chef who is good at cooking, or flying to a house in South America with a bunch of balloons. The idea of "Brain Agents" is even more ambitious than the previous two. It sneaks into the most mysterious organ of the human body. Brings a set of wild but logical and self-consistent brain theory. If you want, you can use this theory to explain anything you have thought about in your head.
[Evolutionary history of villains]
Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, these are the five emotional commanders in the brain of the heroine Riley, and they are also the "Mind Agents" Five basic emotions defined by "Team".
Joy is the character who always wants to make you happy. She has her own aperture that jumps up and down, calling for "get up and hi" all the year round, and the mantra for encountering difficulties is "I can fix it". She spares no effort to make you happy.
Fear is a role that reminds you to stay away from danger. There are many crises in life. It is not only the spider in the corner or the 90-pass roller car that is considered dangerous. If there is no Fear to force you to review overnight before the exam, it is estimated that you can still have a few more subjects.
Disgust protects your body and mind from "poisoning". Because of Disgust, you refuse to eat British food, fall in love with Bicrape, and dress as a killer Matt. (Of course, some Disgusts have limited abilities after all.
Anger guarantees that you will be treated fairly by the world. The old king next door beats you? Spitfire burns him to death in minutes. Couples on the street show affection? Spit fire to death heterosexuals. Goddess dumped you? Spitfire...wait, it seems that Sadness is here.
Who is Sadness ? No one knows. She always appears silently, touching the console involuntarily. Then you cry out, or feel sad for a moment. Come.
When deciding that "emotions" should be the protagonist, Dougert and his colleagues did a lot of research. How many basic emotions do humans have? Scientists’ answers are not consistent. Some say three, while others think there are. There are 27 kinds. One of the consultants of this film, the famous American psychologist Paul Ekman gave 6 answers in 1972: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise. Dougt considered this at the beginning Combination, but in the end felt that "surprise" was somewhat similar to "fear" and abandoned it. He also considered using "Optimistic", pride (Pride) and "glorious" ( Schandenfreude), but was later told that "optimism" is not an emotion, and the latter two are slightly redundant.
Designing the image of emotions has become one of the biggest challenges. Everyone has these emotions, but no one has seen them. They are It should not be completely personified, and it has to match our feelings about these emotions.
The emotional villain we finally see comes from this idea. Joy is like a star, beating and glowing all over. When we are happy, it seems that "the whole world is bright."
Sadness is an inverted blue teardrop, bloatedly dressed and slow to move. When you are sad, you always want to hide, wrap yourself up and stay in a daze.
Anger is a red brick that can breathe fire on top of his head. Anger can overcome fear, so Anger often beats Fear.
Fear is a sensitive nerve. There is a dog's tail-like hair hanging from the back of the head. It will dent in different shapes according to the degree of fright.
Disgust is a broccoli-Riley's most annoying food. Well, the director said that when designing, everyone felt that children would be disgusted by broccoli...
The color of emotions is the easier part to determine. Melancholic blue, annoyed red, or shiny yellow are all intuitive. Green is the color of vegetables, and most children don't like to eat it. As for Mr. Fear's purple, it is the leftover.
Dubbing is also an important part of shaping emotions. The first to join was Lewis Black, who dubbed Anger. His iconic roaring tone made the producers think of him for the first time; Fear's dubbing Bill Hader was once a "Saturday Night Live" (SNL) imitator and senior The narrator, also an old fan of Pixar, has provided a lot of creativity for the story; the voice actor Mindy Kaling of Disgust often interprets similar bitch characters; Phyllis Smith, who plays Sadness, is the first time he has dubbed a cartoon (by the way , Sadness’s original setting was a boy, but the team felt that there were too many males in the heroine’s emotional team); the most difficult character to dub was Joy, the director didn’t want a cheerleader-like noisy character, and more Want a realistic, tomboy-like Joy. This kind of balance between "fuck" and "annoying" is very difficult to grasp. Fortunately, Amy Poehler, who entered the group at the end, is the top joke player who has hosted the Golden Globe Awards for three years and carries the audience super fast.
In Riley's brain, Joy is her emotional commander-in-chief. On the one hand, she is set to be a happy child by nature, and on the other hand, it represents the universal wish of parents all over the world-wishing that their children are happy.
But in the story we will also find that not everyone is dominated by Joy. Some people are naturally sad, some are irritable and irritable, and all beings are so complicated. Maybe there are several kinds of emotions that are tearing up power. (Which is me
[Brain World Architecture History] The
emotional villain is in its place, and then it’s time to create the brain world. Like the emotional villain, this is a hard process from scratch. The internal design inspiration source of the Brain Command In the hypothalamus, at the same time, the producer does not want it to look too sci-fi, but hopes that it is a place that looks warm and comfortable and allows the emotions to settle down.
The memory balls generated during the day will be temporarily stored on the shelf of the headquarters (short-term memory) , And when you fall asleep at night, these memories will roll into layers of long-term memories like a maze along with the pipes, where there are Mind Workers who are responsible for sorting them out (they are the ones who make the Divine Comedy pop out to brainwash you from time to time) Unimportant memories, such as the call of the old Wang next door, are the work of the "Forgetter".
By the way, "memory" and "long-term memory" were originally designed to look like dewdrops and spider webs. Later. makers in the design of the structure to visit the Jelly Belly candy company and an egg processing plant, especially on the egg factory production equipment to make big producers felt the tremors of the soul, so with the later memory ball pipelines.
personalized Personality Islands are the decisive factor for us. Each core memory (Core Memory) lights up an island and reflects a certain part of our character. A warm family life, a good friend who makes trouble together, first I won the championship in this competition and challenged bungee jumping for the first time... These core memories constitute every point in our character-of course, not all the shining points. Whenever a core memory is lost, the corresponding part of the character will It disappeared suddenly. Fortunately, these islands can be rebuilt.
Abstract Thought is one of the weirdest places. It can compress emotions and thoughts into two dimensions and then to one dimension. Because the 11-year-old Riley's abstract thinking ability is still immature, this is a dangerous construction site.
There is no doubt that Dream Production is the place where the production team plays the most. Bill Hader, who dubbed Fear, invited the director to the backstage of Saturday Night Live for a week, and finally had this copy of SNL and Hollywood.
The designers of Subconscious made this gloomy space with reference to many horror movies. Many Westerners have a clown (sometimes Uncle McDonald) in their subconsciousness. However, there is a teacher Feng Yuanzheng in the subconsciousness of many young people in our country.
Memory Dump is a garbage dump in the abyss. The phone number of Lao Wang next door is lost here, but you will never remember it.
Oh, by the way, we may have imagined friends when we were young, just like BingBong, it is a mixture of all kinds of things we like, talk to us and play with us (you talk to the air to scare parents Bad time), but when we grew up we abandoned it.
[Apocalypse of the Mind Agents]
The theme of "The Mind Agents" is still growth. This sounds like a bad topic, but the difference this time is that this story helped us re-recognize ourselves, our emotions, how we were held hostage by emotions, why we forgot, and even why we listened to a pair of skateboarding shoes. You will keep rubbing in your mind.
This process of growth is no longer limited to Riley overcoming all kinds of discomforts and facing the new life, nor is it limited to the reality that parents let go of their children after seeing them.
This growth is our new understanding of ourselves after this story.
First, accept every emotion.
We always long for joy to resist sadness, praise optimism and mock negativity. Social culture encourages us to be a lively, outgoing, positive and sunny human being, but not everyone’s personality is Joy sitting in the center, with a confident smile of "I can fix it" to overcome all difficulties.
More often, it is the "negative emotions" in life that give us strength: sadness makes us deep, to learn and experience, to increase the weight of life; fear makes us plan ahead and carefully sail the boat for thousands of years; anger draws us out The bottom line is to warn foreign enemies to be inviolable; disgust determines character and prevents us from following the trend and losing ourselves. Happiness does make us live better, but in many cases, blind optimism does not help. It is a short-lived meteor that has burned through the sky.
What’s interesting is that in the initial design, the production team asked Joy and Fear to fly out of the headquarters to take an adventure together, but then they found that the story couldn’t go smoothly-they wanted Joy to have an epiphany during this experience. Do something that you wouldn't do before, but Fear couldn't accomplish this mission. In the process of overthrowing the story, they discovered that only Sadness could teach Joy such a lesson.
Maybe we were all just like Joy at the beginning, unable to understand the meaning of Sadness's existence and wanted to exclude her. However, the loss of the ability to grieve does not make people perfect. There will be many difficult moments in human growth, and you can't get through it if you watch a funny movie a thousand times. At this time, finding a quiet corner and crying can help you resurrect and fight again. So in the end we will finally walk the way of Joy, knowing that sadness is also part of life, and in many cases it is Sadness that leads you to the light.
Every emotion shapes us. Only by accepting them can you truly accept yourself.
Second, growth is accompanied by loss.
Everyone grows up differently. Some people fall into trouble, some have a serious illness, and some move from the countryside to the city. This is a process that no one can escape. When we suddenly see the chaotic world of adults, our childhood becomes a soap bubble soaring in the sun at that moment, irreversibly.
So every child left between childhood and adulthood may be like Riley. Joy disappears bizarrely, and you fight for the rest of the guys, so they become silent, suspicious, sensitive, irritable, rebellious... and their parents are also very rebellious. Confused, where did the former little angel die? This seems to be a very sudden process. We have lost our childhood, and our parents have lost us who are carefree.
This is not a growth story to be photographed for children. For those children who have not grown up, these five villains together may not be as cute as one. However, for adults, especially those who are already parents, it is a carefully crafted inner adventure, full of ingenuity that makes people smile or think deeply.
Most of the production team of "Brain Agents" are already parents, and this movie has a lot of their personal feelings. When one day their children suddenly possessed secrets and became reserved, many parents secretly thought: Don’t grow up, it would be great if time could stay in our intimate moments forever.
The producer of the film, Jonas Rivera, said: “As a parent, there are many moments where I hope that time can stop forever. But that’s not right. That’s not our duty as parents. Our duty is to guide them. "So there was a tearful embrace of the family at the end.
Everyone has experienced loss. Losing BingBong, losing the pure memory ball, losing the island of personality that was once proud of. However, loss is an inseparable part of growth. This is a process of sorrow and joy.
When loss comes, we need to say goodbye. Sometimes we say goodbye to completely forget, sometimes we rebuild a new city on the ruins. The disappearance of childhood announced that memories will no longer be without impurities, and the intertwined emotions make memories start to be mixed. But this is life. Only when you understand sadness can you experience the preciousness of joy; only when you carry too much weight can you have real relaxation.
From simplicity to complexity, from a child to an adult, and the looming "adolescence" at the end, this is after all a sunny story.
(There will not be a sequel to this film, but what about aging? The memory ball fades in batches, the emotional villain is sleepy, the whole world collapses into the abyss of forgetting...Sadness, don’t go anymore. Write down
[How to use "Mind Agents" to perform a one-time grid analysis? 】
Actually, this is the first thing I think of after watching the movie.
I think the best thing about "Brains" is that Riley's story is over, but the audience's story has just begun. When the audience puts the settings in the film on themselves, they will find that the path of growth they have experienced may be a more exciting film.
You can use the theory of this film to write a vivid character analysis book for yourself, of course, you can also use it for others.
For example:
My name is George Martin, and I wake up in more than 50,000 bodies every day, but I never have nightmares, because Dream Studio does not have so many actors. And Fear was already dead. I don't know who else is alive, but at the end of each season of GOT, when the audience reacts, Joy will pop out and work hard. My long-term memory is more full than others, because I can't throw away the foreshadowing of ten years ago, and I have to often have workers take it off and wipe it. However, it's really hard to fit recently. It's time to find Anger to fill in the pit...Oops, my "Island with pits must be filled" collapsed a few years ago.
You feel it.
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[Fun facts]-Many
images in the memory ball in the background are "Flying House" Clips in
-When Riley and their parents travelled to San Francisco, the scene where they encountered a bird standing on the phone line came from Pixar's 2000 short film "Birds! bird! bird! "
-The globe in Riley's classroom also appeared in each of the "Toy Story" series-
One of Riley's classmates wore clothes with the characters of "Toy Story"-Many cars in the
street scene of San Francisco were posted with "Cars" The car rear sticker-
Riley’s father’s company is called Brang, which is a meaningless word. The name is called to make it sound more like a start-up company. This is in line with the strong technological entrepreneurial atmosphere of the Bay Area.
-A parking meter in San Francisco reads: "25 cents or a dollar coin, or the exchange of items during the Burning Man" (Quarters and Dollar Coins or Barter During Burning Man)-As
a contribution to the Walt Disney Family Museum Salute, the ice rink where Riley went is exactly the location of the museum in San Francisco (104 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94129)
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