Inside Jonas Rivera and Out

This article was an interview with Pixar Producer Jonas Rivera. The first question he is asked is why is Riley's Mom's head motion sadness. This is because they really wanted to show that Riley's main emotion pushing her forward is happiness. They aren't trying to say that her mom is depressed, rather that her sadness comes out a little more than other people. The next question that was asked is if Pixar discovered any thing interesting about the human brain while working on the film. He explained that big thing was that there's a lot of scientific debate on a lot of things that go on in the brain. One thing that took a lot of discussion was the idea of long term and short term memory. In the movie it is shown that short term is displayed in the control room along with core memories, and at the end of the day they are sent off into long term memory. But of course a few things were scrapped like knowledge and understanding. The next question was if he was iffy on if a few things would work with the narrative or not. He feared that there where too many ingredients a lot of the times. Also for the fact that Joy loves Riley but Riley doesn't even know joy exists. Also they needed to know if the islands would work or not, and if they should destroy them or not. The next question was how many things they had to change in the film to match the emotional levels of different cultures. They had to change brocolli to a bell pepper in Japan because that's what they find discusting. Also they changed Riley's Dad from thinking about hocky to soccer in European countries. And the last question he is asked is if he is excited or nervous on the next film they are working on. He explains that he is having the same conversations with fellow Pixar people and are already thinking of exciting new ideas.
I liked this article. Pixar really are masters or their craft and the people there really know what they are doing. I've seen Inside Out and I thought it was a great movie. I was kinda sad that Pixar kinda had a recent streak of okay movies, but I really think they're getting their groove back and I can't wait for even more great movies.