Reviewing Moana - A 2016 Animated Film
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The inventor
There’s an old saying that success has many parents, but if you study their children you’ll find one parent who made all of them.
That parent is yourself.
I can’t tell you how many times I heard someone say they didn’t know what they wanted to do with their life until they was in high school. And then suddenly everything made sense! They knew what they wanted to be since junior high.
It sounds crazy, but we’re all endowed with this inner knowing thing. This understanding of ourselves that comes from somewhere inside us.
It’s just like when you were a kid and would ask “If you could have any superpower as a child, what would it be?” We’d always reply “Super-strength.”
Why super-strength? Because we all have enough strength within us already to accomplish our goals. All you need to do is access those strengths and work on developing them.
The thief
In The Lego Movie, we are greeted with an interesting premise and setting. We as the audience take place in a world where every person is their own hero. This makes sense because each individual has different strengths they possess which help them achieve their goals.
A young boy named Bruce (Chris Pratt) works at a fast food restaurant and dreams of one day being able to afford his dream house. He believes he is not qualified to be successful and thus decides not to strive for what he wants.
This changes when he meets two other employees who agree that he should pursue his goal despite how hard it may seem. His new colleagues inspire him to believe in himself and mys- terious tools such as tessellations and Technic bricks prove helpful in helping him realize his goal.
After mastering these concepts, he constructs his ultimate weapon - a giant robot made out of Legos.
The superhero
Superhero films have been around for quite some time now, with most people giving credit to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy or Marvel’s Captain America and his friends. Since then, we have seen many more studios try their hand at creating super hero movies and sometimes it works and other times it does not.
With all this talk of failures and success, there is one thing that seems to matter the most: the audience. If the movie is meant to appeal to everyone, it will fail because no one wants to watch a film that only has special effects and explosions every five minutes.
If the movie aims to be more action-packed than comedy like the Avengers did, then it will lose its momentum before it even gets going. A lot of these problems can be avoided if the writer/director makes sure the story is something that anyone can relate to.
The child
As our society becomes more focused on technology, staying in touch at all times, and having access to every detail of life, things can get a little bit crazy. For some kids, this over-stimulation is even causing health issues.
Research has shown that young children who experience a lot of stress are less likely to grow up developing healthy social skills. They’re also less likely to learn how to manage their emotions and develop self-confidence.
It seems like everywhere you look these days, there’s a screen! Kids spend almost half of their waking hours interacting with a screen or device. And although it’s easy to think that they’re learning something from it, studies show that it may be creating problems for their development.
There have been several reports about kids as young as six experiencing symptoms of anxiety or depression due to too much exposure to screens. While research isn’t conclusive, many pediatricians agree that limiting screen time could be a start to helping your child deal with mental health challenges he or she might face later in life.
The father
As our society becomes more connected through technology, there are now opportunities for people to spread their influence much wider than ever before. People with higher social media profiles have become influencers in this generation, creating online communities that gain attention for celebrating diversity, encouraging others to be like them or teaching about different cultures.
Many famous celebrities find themselves at a loss for what to say after they announce their own wedding, so they turn to the internet for inspiration. These sites can make your wedding day even bigger by giving you ideas or tips for decorations, services you can hire and ways to organize the event!
There is an increasing number of companies that use animation as a way to tell business stories. Animation can be very effective when used correctly, especially in the marketing field. A few examples include telling customers how to do something, explaining new products, or showcasing a product’s features.
Businesses who use animated videos as part of their marketing campaign tend to focus more on storytelling instead of just advertising. It was our writer here at BestAnimationStories.com who inspired us to start writing about interesting animated film blogs and websites. So, today we would love to talk about one such site: TopTenList.net.
You may have noticed that we linked to this website above. That is because this article was written in collaboration with its author. He has included the underline text along with his own, making it clear that he wrote some parts of this article.
The brother
In The Brothers Grimsby, we meet two brothers who are in very different situations but share a lot of similarities.
One is your average working-class guy with his nose to the grindstone job and family that he works hard for. He puts in lots of effort into everything he does and doesn’t expect much praise or recognition for it.
He's got lots of secrets and things he keeps hidden away because he doesn't want anyone to find out what a bad person he can be. This sometimes comes at a cost though as he may lose friends over it.
The other brother is completely different. He's more charismatic and people seem to like him easily. He has a knack for making others feel good about themselves and he always gets the best results from those around him.
He's better spoken than his sibling too; he knows how to use his voice to get what he wants. When he needs to motivate someone else to do something, he drops some strong bombs.
The girlfriend
In this movie, we are taken as an audience member into the life of Tom Park, a 26-year-old office manager who has his own apartment, job, and family. He spends most of his time watching television shows and movies with his significant other, Annie. They seem to have a good relationship, but he always feels that there is something missing.
He thinks she should be more passionate about things, but she doesn’t appear to care too much whether or not he cares. She just wants him to be happy so she leaves him alone to do what he wants to make him feel better.
At times he wonders if maybe he isn’t in love with her, but then he reminds himself that he does enjoy spending time with her and that it makes him happy. So he decides to go along with whatever mood she is in because he hopes that one day she will realize how important she is to him and they can work through their issues together.
But everything changes when he finds out that she cheated on him while they were still married. This sets off a crazy chain reaction of events that show us both the truth about relationships and the lengths people will go to for happiness.
The chef
Many people have stories they will tell for the rest of their lives. They may not know it, but those stories are mostly about themselves or experiences that they’ve had, but only person who knows this is you.
That’s why there’s an entire genre of storytelling called internal story telling. These stories are just you talking to yourself, your subconscious mind.
It’s important to understand how powerful these stories can be. In fact, some say that our internal stories don’t stay in the brain chamber very long before being re-written and replaced with more positive ones.
So, what happens to all those negative stories we keep storing up? They get recycled and used somewhere else.
The way someone speaks often times reveals a lot about them. A tone of voice, speed of speech, volume, and even whether something is said directly into your ear or through the space around you are all significant nonverbal clues.