When asked what the Goal of the story was, i.e. When asked the Story Outcome of Inside Out-did the film end in Success or Failure-the unanimous answer from my children was Success. The Objective Story Throughline takes an objective look at everyone's conflict. This includes Joy, and Sadness, and Anger and Fear and Disgust and mom and dad and everyone else-including Riley. The Story Goal is the point of resolution all the characters in the story are focused on. From now on these islands will be the penultimate expression of an Spacetime. This is the purpose of the Story Continuum. We know the scope of the story and we know when it will end. As the islands fall into the abyss we the Audience know that the climax is rapidly approaching. Typically the Story Continuum can be a difficult and often obscured point to define. In a time when a lot of feature films stray from meaningful narrative, it is nice to see that someone still cares.īefore getting into the deep analysis presented by my children, I do have to mention perhaps the most obvious Spacetime Story Continuum in the history of storytelling: the five islands of Riley's personality. To say Inside Out is a great story is an understatement. Pixar's Inside Out: written so impossibly well and so clear that two ten-year old boys (twins)-completely unfamiliar with the Dramatica theory of story-could easily identify two story points usually difficult to find: the Story Goal and the Main Character Growth.Ĭontrast this with a story analyst with over twenty years of experience with the theory (me) who struggled with the former, would never dare try and make a decision on the latter, and who basically spent most of the film completely awestruck at the level of artistry involved with the animation.

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