Week 2 | Day 7 of 7

23:37pm มาต่อกันที่ Pixar in a Box ครับ

Topic #5 Character arc: character transformation and their needs.

• the choices a character makes in response to obstacles and how the character changes as a result can be referred to as character arc.

• character -> obstacles -> goal

• the obstacles are what make them who they are, what make them change into this new person.

• all stories have some kind of transformation. whether the transformation comes form the character or the character creates transformation in the world.

• For Joy, the character wants Riley to be happy all the time. ‘What happens’ is she ‘falls’ into the memory dump, a major obstacle in the movie, the emotion of joy would be inaccessible for Riley for good. Inside the memory dump, she plays a memory of what happens to Riley when she is challenged, and when she replays a memory, she ‘realizes’ that the only reason that Riley actually is happy is because ‘she actually goes through a phase when she was sad.’ Now she knows what she needs. Riley needs sadness, and ‘now the ‘‘action’’ changes.’ Joy is going to move heaven and earth to make sure that sadness gets back to headquarters. More important than her own goal. She’ll realize that Riley is actually much better with sadness and fear and disgust and all the other emotions in her life, in order to make Riley completely happy.

• When we actually watch movies wherein characters achieve something simply by just walk through a door, “it doesn’t feel authentic.” In fact, we don’t think the character deserves it. We want the characters to actually work for it, because we also know that if you get something for practically nothing, you won’t value it.