ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a discussion of two animated films: Inside Out (2015, Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen) and The Emoji Movie (2017, Tony Leondis), both of which represent and externalize various emotions in a pictorial manner. Inside Out is about a young girl experiencing a difficult family geographic move, conceiving her mind in a mechanistic fashion as having a Headquarters in which the five major emotions reside and seek control. The Emoji Movie concerns the popular graphic icons used in text messaging, email, and on cell phones as substitutes for expressing emotions in words. The movie centers on a “meh” emoji which violates the requirement of communicating one singular feeling by conveying many contradictory ones.
