Film Theory: The BIG Mistake of Monsters Inc

Damn kids who never clean their toys before bed, who still buys their kids cats in this century? Children already know what these things are for. Oh, what could cause so much foot pain? I really wish kids would stick to Minecraft. Hello Internet. Welcome to Film Theory, the show that shows you that you shouldn't be afraid of the

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in your closet because the real world is full of much worse things. Today we're talking about the Pixar classic, Monsters Inc, if you don't remember. Monster's Inc is not just the name of the movie, it is actually an electric company that obtains electricity by harvesting energy from children's screams.

The business model of this place is simple: use a portal to let a monster enter a child's room through the closet. Do something scary and watch the scream energy canisters fill up, except it turns out their business model isn't working as well as it used to. Kids today are apparently growing up too fast and losing their fear of

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, which is kind of a weird premise, right? I mean, I understand that children are the ones who are supposed to be afraid of monsters, but if you think about it, the people who would be most disturbed by a monster coming out of their closet door would probably be the ones who don't believe on monsters in the first place, right, I mean, not only do you suddenly have this terrifying beast roaring at you, but now your entire worldview has been shattered in front of your eyes, I guess existential dread and questioning reality .

It just doesn't have the same impact as a bloodcurdling scream, huh, anyway, when we start our movie business it's bad at Monsters Inc and things are doubly bad for star employee James P Sullivan, aka Sully, when one day he accidentally he takes his work home. He is spending a night at the factory when a human girl walks through the door and enters the monster realm. Boo causes a big ruckus as it turns out that the monsters are as afraid of us as we are of them, tainted with the help of her friend Mike Wazowski works to return her home and along the way Loki learns how to become a father.

Coming back seriously to this movie now that I have a son, there are so many scenes that are different except this one, yes, that moment where the two... A two year old has a somber look in his eyes with the expression that says It's time to locate the nearest bathroom. The most fictional thing that happens in this movie, forget about the portals and the monster companies. If you get that look from a two-year-old, it's It's too late, don't ask me how I know that lively shenanigans ensue and after foiling a plot to kidnap children for the sake of screaming, which I completely overlooked the first time I saw this movie and its genuine nightmare fuel, we learned that children laugh. is actually what produces more energy than children screaming, so in addition to saving the day for Boo Mike and Sully, it also saved the day for Monsters Inc, whose new business model based on laughter not only leads to a happiest world for little children. the world, but also for the city of Monstropolis, but let's talk about tacks here, okay, finding out that laughter provides more energy than screaming, makes the ending enjoyable, but how real is it?

What is really Monstropolis running here? How could a scream? -The work-based energy system and is there any explanation why laughter may be more efficient? Believe it or not, but as fictional as the rules of this world may seem, I think I've actually figured out the mechanics of how this all works, so I'll pass. Aside from Elon Musk, here comes Elon Matpat to show the world our next green energy source emotion. While the idea of ​​screaming or laughter serving as an energy source may seem fanciful, you might be surprised to discover that It actually fits with the cries of real-world science and Laughter, like all sounds, is the result of the energy vibrating particles of air or any other material through which sound travels.

Those vibrating air particles are a form of kinetic energy, so if you have a device that is somehow capable of capturing that kinetic energy, you would actually be in business and wouldn't you know it, you don't need to have a special engineering degree from Monsters University to realize this. A group of 11th grade students at a science high school in the Philippines made headlines when they created their own proof-of-concept device. that's like a speaker, but in reverse, instead of taking electrical energy and converting it into sound waves like headphones, they take sound waves and convert them into electrical energy, they take sound waves to vibrate a magnet and coil system that creates a flow of electrons and it's not just a measly flow of electrons here people it's enough to power a 5 watt LED light bulb apparently this idea won him a silver award at a big scientific convention to which I say silver are you kidding me ?

They generated electricity from sound, I mean what did it do? the gold medal winner creates nuclear fusion while the rest of us are making baking soda volcanoes. Anyway, this silver metal idea gives us a starting point when it comes to how screaming and laughter can provide energy. One thing that should be fairly obvious is that louder sounds provide more energy. Volume measured in decibels is literally a measure of how intense sound waves are, which directly correlates to the amount of energy they carry, except that it is Here where we run into our first problem, human laughter generally registers around 65 decibels. screams register around 90.

While that may not seem like a big difference, it's actually significant. The decibel scale we use to measure sound intensity is logarithmic. I'll spare you all the math, but it basically means 90 decibels. The scream is actually 56 times louder than a 65 decibel laugh, it doesn't look very good for laughter based power, maybe the villainous monsters are planning to kidnap the children and tie them to chairs, we are onto something or maybe There is something else at play here, perhaps sound. is not the only thing that occurs when you laugh or scream, after all, these extreme emotions are experiences that involve our entire body, so we must consider screaming versus laughter as a complete metabolic experience.

Fortunately, real-world researchers have conducted a surprising number of studies on this same topic. It was found that laughter in general can burn between one and three calories per minute, but fear also does a good job of speeding up your metabolism. A separate study at the University of Westminster found that people who watched horror

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s burned an average of 1.25 calories per minute by being in a state of intense fear here's Johnny, you've been sitting there all day mom, I'm doing exercise here, ugh, I'm really sweating, in fact, 1.25 calories per minute burned from fear is actually a little low because that was the average of the entire movie instead of periods of fear intense enough for a scream of Creepy, primal horror, which means once again the screams have a slight edge over the laughs, but I feel like there's something important about us.

After all, we are overlooking this, in the prequel movie Monsters University we are shown that monsters have the ability to access all kinds of places in the human world, but they choose to focus on children's rooms, surely the Screaming kids can reach a pretty high decibel level, but let's be honest, if monsters only cared about harvesting energy from something really loud, they could just take a door leading to a waterfall or an airport or something similar when it comes to burn calories, those one to three calories per minute are small. To harvest that much energy from the human world, you simply take a log and burn it, you will release 4780 calories of energy more than you would get from thousands of minutes of terrified screaming, and a log will clearly not be able to defend itself.

There's something else going on here and I think the answer is that the neurochemical dopamine has historically been known as the brain's pleasure chemical, but that's a bit of a simple explanation. More recent research suggests that it is best described as the motivational chemical that gives you the drive that you really want to get out and do something. Studies show that playing video games actually doubles dopamine levels in the brain. Fun fact is about the same raise you get from um how can I put this very passionate make out on Valentine's Day? Don't worry. friends, you have video games to keep you company, your brain will be just as happy as the rest of your body and, although you may not know it, activities that are known to increase dopamine levels in the brain include laughing and, surprisingly, screaming, In fact, the simple act of Screaming alone is enough to trigger a dopamine release, which means that all those companies selling scream therapy pillows actually have a little leg to stand on.

This method of screaming to trigger a neurochemical release and relieve stress briefly became a popular therapeutic technique during the 1970s. Say it briefly because it turns out that the more you do it, the less effective it becomes at releasing dopamine and there you have it, my friends. , the piece we're missing, that's why Monsters Inc seems to be doing so poorly these days. Remember that your business model pivots. about having a daily rotation of doors to children's rooms that they visit repeatedly and the more you keep scaring the same children, the less dopamine each of their screams will release.

Nowadays, they just don't freak out like they used to, yes, Mr. Waternews. You're right, you know why kids don't get scared like they used to. It's because the more you scare them, the less effective their screams are, but you know what doesn't become less effective with repeated laughter while using the primal scream therapy technique. has now fallen out of favor, there is much scientific research indicating that laughter is an effective therapeutic treatment that releases dopamine into your system and unlike screaming, whose effectiveness decreases with repetition, laughter can actually increase levels of dopamine. dopamine the more you laugh, according to a study by researchers at the Zurich University Hospital found that people with higher levels of dopamine were more likely to laugh when exposed to humorous stimuli and laughter led to higher levels of dopamine in the future, leading to a self-perpetuating cycle where the more you laugh and generate dopamine, the easier it is.

It turns into your brain laughing and generating more dopamine the next time you encounter something funny. In other words, you couldn't ask for a better, more sustainable source of energy than laughter. It really is the best medicine. The benefits of laughter are. both in the short and long term. -term, which is great news for me, considering my addiction to the who is line, anyway, it's also great news for Monsters Inc, who in making the transition to laughter as a power source have just found something much more effective and much more sustainable than harvesting. he screams, but hey, that's just a

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, a movie

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and you know, what's no laughing matter, you know what's really scary, the fact that Monsters Inc isn't on Netflix, yeah, the old mouse took all his movies and dumped them on Disney Plus. vault that you can keep open as long as you keep paying, at least in most cases, that's how things go.

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