We’d dramatized scenes like Joy and the memory dump where those old memories are disappearing.
At first, those felt like they were at odds and they were fighting each other.
And as the film evolved, it really grew to be about embracing and understanding sadness.
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I think the big struggle for us was that the film originated in this idea of not wanting your kid to grow up and holding onto childhood and trying to preserve that, knowing full well that it’s impossible to do so. Did it take a lot of work to find the right balance between those two points of view?
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One thread of the movie is the child learning to deal with her own emotions, and then the other one is about the parents trying to hold onto to those memories in some way, even though they’re moving in the past. Trying to figure out what’s going on in our kids’ heads is what led to this movie. The story is kind of told from a parent’s point of view, Joy being this surrogate parent. That’s not going to be a part of my life anymore. Also, personally, I really value the sort of goofy, funny play on the ground with dolls and stuff. As a parent, it was really tough, because you don’t want your kid to be sad. And then when she was 11, she was more kind of like, “Ugh…” I think that rang true for me as a kid. Yeah, those pics, I have one of her being all goofy and she’s got a broken arm and she’s making a funny face. Let’s talk about that inspiration for the film. Screen Rant sat down with Docter at the film’s recent press day in Los Angeles to discuss the ideas, concepts and production aspects behind this instant Pixar classic.īill Hader told me that the way you pitched the film to him was you showed him a picture of your daughter at a younger age, all happy and smiles, and then at 11, a little more sullen… Inspired by his own personal parenting experiences with his daughter, Docter and the incredible Pixar team have fashioned a funny, unique and powerfully moving story about memory, loss of innocence and leaving the past behind. But Inside Out may be his finest work yet. Inside Out was conceived by director and co-writer Pete Docter, the longtime Pixar creative (he was the company’s 10th employee) whose previous directorial efforts have been Monsters Inc. Leaving her younger years behind, Riley begins to experience emotions like sadness and fear more intensely – and that’s the twist: Inside Out takes place mostly inside Riley’s mind, a phantasmagorical place where her primary emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Anger (Lewis Black) – guide her reactions to the rapidly changing world around her. The film follows an 11-year-old girl named Riley (voiced by Kaitlyn Dias) as her father’s job forces the family to uproot from her bucolic childhood home in Minnesota to the loud, busy streets of San Francisco. Inside Outis a flat-out masterpiece and possibly the best Pixar movie since Up.