In “Inside Out 2”, Riley turns 13, reaches puberty and faces new emotions. There are five new characters: Anxiety, Envy, Shame, Ennui (which has caused a lot of confusion due to its importance) and Nostalgia, which only appears occasionally.
However, Pixar film director Kelsey Mann’s original plan was to introduce nine emotions, four more than made it into the final cut. We tell you what they were and why they were eliminated.
“Inside Out 2” was going to give Riley 4 more emotions
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Kelsey Mann revealed that his original idea was to overwhelm the protagonist, Riley, with the arrival of these new emotions. This, to represent the changes and difficulties one goes through in adolescence.
“I started with nine new emotions appearing (in the protagonist’s brain). I wanted Joy to feel overwhelmed. “I overwhelmed her with all these new feelings,” he told the aforementioned magazine. Among the new characters were Suspicion, Amazement, Guilt and Sadness.
In several interviews, Mann has also commented that they considered introducing Schadenfreude, a German term that refers to the pleasure a person feels when another person experiences a humiliating moment, because from the first movie “Inside Out” they wanted to include it.
Pixar character designer Crystal Kung shared some of the sketches for Suspicion, Astonishment, and Guilt on her Instagram account. In them, you can see that the first of Riley’s new emotions was that of a detective, with a skeptical look at his surroundings.
For her part, Guila carried a large backpack wherever she went.
For Asombro, the character design ideas were varied and different from each other, although the characteristic present in each proposal is the eyes that declare their wonder to the world.
Why did you remove some of the new emotions in ‘Inside Out 2’?
The answer to this question lies in the feedback received by the film’s director. “The first criticism I got was, ‘This is great, but there’s so much noise around it that it makes you lose focus,'” Kelsey Mann told Entertainment Weekly.
So the creative team behind the film had to work out the number of characters in the story.
To reduce the number of new emotions and find a balance in the story, Mann and his team enlisted the help of Dutcher Keltner, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who had also served as an emotional expert on the first film.
It helped them understand that some of the emotions they wanted to introduce came from or overlapped with others and that, for the story, they didn’t make as much narrative sense.
Although they didn’t make the final cut, some of the rejected characters had a brief “cameo” in a scene from “Inside Out 2,” which shows all the emotes waiting their turn to enter the control center.
Let us know in the comments if you’d like to know all the feelings that the creators of ‘Inside Out 2’ had in mind.
Source: univision
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