Survive and advance directed by Jonathan Hock is a film which follows the late Jim Valvano and his NC State team in their under-dog journey to winning the 1983 NCAA Championship. Captured through the NC State team, and real footage 30 years on, as well as Valvano. Survive and advance is about a team, led by a once in a lifetime coach, who demonstrates the importance of a dream, belief, and a how a team can become family. It was interesting not just from a coaching/sport psychology perspective, but from a life one. The story is told effectively through both humorous and solemn moments all which made me stop, think, and reflect on life.
Any audience, whether children, teens, or adults, can identify with the characters of Inside Out. Scott also contributes the film’s success to the quality of the animation, saying the film “ranks among Pixar’s grandest visual triumphs.” The superb animation and the degree to which the audience connects to the film are what, in Scott’s eyes, make Inside Out great. 2. Do you find Scott’s TONE authoritative?
In the book “Inside out & back again” by Lai, Ha is being turned inside out in the following ways.. She feels dumb, has no friends, getting bullied. Ha moved to Alabama because that's where her family got sponsored to and ever since she moved there things haven't been going exactly well.”... So this is what dumb feels like. ”(Pg.156, Lai)
Knives Out is a murder mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film captivates its audience with the narrative twists, impeccable cast, and social commentary. It tells the story of a privileged family taking advantage of a wealthy man who did all he could to take care of his family. Throughout the story, we learn that Harlan Thrombey was a rich author and patriarch of his family. He was selfless and took care of his family by lending money, offering jobs, and supporting education.
Sadness and Joy, two of the emotions that play key roles in the life of our main character, Riley Andersen. In the film Inside Out, the movie was directed by Pete Docter and he co-wrote the film alongside Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley. Although the film focuses on Riley’s developing emotions as she adjusts to her new life in California, the audience focuses on the development of her actual emotions, Joy and Sadness. Always butting heads, Joy and Sadness were never really on the same page, Joy always leading the emotions to ensure Riley had a happy life, while Sadness would accidentally get in the way and would sometimes be left out. Even so, through Riley’s memories and the trials Sadness and Joy face to return back to Headquarters to help Riley
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Empathy played a big role in the movie because the two protagonists Lian Chu and Gwizdo had an abundant amount of empathy towards each other. Since the two characters had been with each other ever since they were orphans, they had built a strong brotherly bond with each other that allows them to freely express and understand one another. In the movie Inside Out, empathy is shown through the anthropomorphized emotions in the protagonist Riley’s mind. Together they learn and understand each others feelings to be able to work out problems amongst each other and Riley’s mind.
First Contact is a documentary series directed by Jeff Newman. The series follows six participants who have negative views towards Indigenous peoples as they journey to homes, communities and reserves in various locations across Canada. They meet Indigenous peoples who tell them their stories and discuss issues faced by Indigenous peoples. As the participants meet more people and expand their understanding, at differing levels their views begin to shift. The point of view is that of the participants, highlighting them and their opinions, and the Indigenous peoples are seen as background characters with the purpose of providing information throughout the documentaries.
People’s appearance can sometimes trick a person into their true identity. In the film, “Get Out” by Jordan Peele, the character Rose is introduced as a charming girlfriend, but at the end, her true form is revealed causing a life and death situation. This movie is based on how an interracial couple is going to visit Rose’s parents house. The irony falls there because she knows exactly what it is going to result at the parents home and her boyfriend, Chris, is going to be the victim. Although the knowledge that is out there about White people not liking African Americans and doing bad things to them, now in this movie it's seen as if the Whites want to be them.
While, sadness couldn’t really much control her negative feelings but Joy is always there to help Riley to stay happy and most of her memories are fill with happiness which means Riley is not a person with high rate in neuroticism. And then, she is much more a person with high scores of agreeableness even though anger did play an important role of the reason why Riley is acting weird during the climax of the movie but according to the beginning of the movie, Riley is a very understanding and trusting girl. Riley is a very imaginative girl which means she is on the high end of openness, throughout the whole journey outside of the headquarters, she even has a imaginative land that’s full of different ridiculous stuffs. The last
The transition from the fantasy world of children to the adult world is “the beginning of sadness” (24). Although it is quite unusual to think that a ten-year-old would think this way, he recognizes that this transition
The people in Riley's head are perfect examples of how the Schachter-Singer theory works. When something happens to Riley and is aroused in some way, based on what is happening one of the emotions takes to the controls and designates a certain response to the stimulus. Also another tell tale sign that the Schachter-Singer theory applies to Riley is that the stimulus and the response don't happen simultaneously. The stimulus happens then a bit later an emotion kicks in. Lastly, her emotions do not fall under James-Lange theory of emotion because her emotions are not solely caused by physiological responses but outside stimuli as
Often times in modern media the truth is manipulated to be more appealing to the audience. For example, directors may ignore the laws of physics or misrepresent the cultures and beliefs they choose to depict in their film. That being said, most people would not expect Pixar’s “Inside Out,” a film directed at children, to have much psychological value. However, the film is, for the most part, accurate and recognizes many different theories of psychology. One of the first things viewers will notice is the 5 main emotions, which happen to be Paul Ekman’s five universal emotions, excluding surprise and contempt because those are more socially ground than psychologically.
Toy Story, directed by John Lasseter, is a 1995 motion picture movie developed by Disney and Pixar. It’s a famous children's movie that plays a very important role in society and can give off many different messages to everyone watching. Toy Story creates narratives for children to conform and adapt to society in many different ways. Have you ever thought why was this movie written? In Toy Story, a few messages that stick out are Deviance, Social Class, and Gender Roles.
For my beyond the classroom experience I watched an African American inspired movie by the name of Get Out. Get Out was a media sensation after its release and it sparked major controversy over racial issues. The movie trended on social media for days after its release, as white and blacks were both infuriated about the way their roles were portrayed, racially. After seeing so much backlash on social media about the movie, I decided to watch it myself. That is what led me to this experience.
One of the great message in the movie was that you can accomplish anything with just your mind and that the mind has the ability to change things up. For instance, if you are having a negative day and everything is going bad, but you can change that with your mind and make it positive. Usually I stress myself out a lot of the time because I constantly think, think, and think.
