ABSTRACT

Reason & Emotion was the title of one out of a trio of anti-Fascist short films Walt Disney produced in 1943, telling of two little guys in the head of each person that symbolize the person's emotions, one of which was brutal and tended to Nazi ideology while reason was rejecting this. The word emotion comes from the Latin emovere, meaning 'disturb'. These disturbances are universal and always tell the truth. Reason is the field of writing. But there is more to emotion. The written situation becomes the criterion for the emotional development of a character, but to empathize with its emotions, there are more elements needed: Spectators must like the design of the character, either a hero or a villain, the score evokes emotion too. Reason brings us values to apply to emotions, and these are different from culture to culture.