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happens because without Joy Rilley can not be happy since Joy is the only one who can make Rilley happy. In the screenplay, Sadness says if Joy was not
in Headquarters, Rilley would not be happy and they need to make Joy back to the Headquarters p.45. Bing Bong also realizes that without Joy, Rilley can not
be happy, so Bing Bong asks Joy and Sadness to follow him to go back to the Headquarters p.66.
Then her messy hair explains that she has no time to comb her hair because whenever she wakes up, the things that she wants to do is to jump into
everything which is interesting for her. This condition can be seen from her behavior in several situations mentioned in the screenplay. It mentions that “Joy
jumps back into driving position”p.3 and “Joy pops up the Core Memory Holder. Inside are five intensely bright golden memories” p.6.
“Joy plays the accordion around Headquarters. The others appear, looking grumpy. Joy yells over the noise.
Joy : Hello Did I wake you?
Anger : Do you have to play that? Joy
: Well, I have to practice. And I don’t think of it as playing so much as hugging.
She tosses aside the accordion and runs off. Joy
: Okay, first day of school Very, very exciting I was up late last night figuring out a new plan. Here it is.”p.34
The next point is her green dress. Joy’s green dress’ means that Joy is giving harmony, balance, center, and refreshment either for the other emotions or Rilley
herself. Joy’s green dress shows that she is actually the center of other four emotions. A color experts and a researcher of color, Angela Wright 2016, has
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widely-known theory called The Wright Theory about the meaning of colors toward psychology.
“GREEN.Balance
Positive: Harmony, balance, refreshment, universal love, rest, restoration, reassurance, environmental awareness,equilibrium, peace.
Green strikes the eye in such a way as to require no adjustment whatever and is, therefore, restful. Being in the centre of the spectrum, it is
the colour of balance - a more important concept than many people realise. When the world about us contains plenty of green, this indicates the
presence of water, and little danger of famine, so we are reassured by green, on a primitive level.”.
Other meaning comes from her bare feet. Her bare feet are an express of a person that fully energize and difficult to control. Like in the screenplay, shown
that Joy likes to jump here and there. In an interview of a USA Online News 2016, called USATODAY, the director explains the meaning behind Joy’s bare
feet. On the interview, Pete Docter declares that Joy’s bare feet and pixie reinforce her rambunctious character.
After all the direct meaning have been elaborate, it can be concluded that Joy is an energetic character. The next part of all is Joy’s dramatic meaning
which can bee seen by the situation where the character involves.