Talk:Joy/@comment-3467828-20170726223651/@comment-5203516-20180405063508

You are not the only one; I have seen lots of people say that they didn't like her because she was "mean to Sadness," which isn't really true. But I personally love this character. People complain about how she's annoying because she's happy, but there are a lot of subtleties to her performance that I think go mostly unappreciated, mainly nonverbal actions ex. Just before the pizza scene, and also, one of my favorites, the skating scene, where she shows almost a motherly atitude towards Riley. They basically show that she does the happy thing to encourage the other emotions around her, but that she starts to become overwhelmed when anything starts to go wrong. So she's not one-dimensionally happy, I'd say she's optimistic. And she's not selfish because she is doing everything for Riley's sake.

Also people are saying she's flawed. Yeah, no duh, most people on Earth are, and in a movie you want your characters to be interesting, so you might showcase this a little. Name a protagonist who is not flawed. And again people usually say this because she was "mean to Sadness." That's called a character dynamic, and she was really just not understanding her; remember the scene where she ttied to find things to relate to her but they were always negative: rain, the funny movie where the dog dies. Even Sadness herself thought that she was annoying. Then you get your character arcs, and all the characters change, and they all work together. Joy's real flaw is that she thinks Riley needs to be happy all the time.

I relate a lot to this character, she reminded me of what growing up was like. She represents that childlike wonderment that is in full force when your young, but then gets much more complex when you're older. I especially love the line "What could happen?" because truthfully this realization never stops, but if you're optimistic, you'll know that you can get through anything that life throws at you. Also, to get really personal, this character and this movie, as the saying goes, changed my life, because I took an entirely different direction in my education and developed a more optimistic personality because of this. So yeah, I think she's great... but whatever, I guess the postmodern musings and light research of Wisecrack are much more digestible to people who only want to look at things superficially. I mean, look at all the sexualization in this comment section... (CUTS TO Inside Out at 00:15:44) [Yes I know this movie that well!]