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Inner Workings

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Inner Workings	label	Inner Workings
Inner Workings	page	InnerWorkings
Inner Workings	comment	Inner Workings is a CGI animated short from Disney Animation Studios that premiered November 23, 2016 in front of the full animated feature Moana, directed by Disney story artist Leo Matsuda.The story is about an office employee named Paul. Walking to work, he encounters many distractions. This sparks a conflict between his brain, his logical side that wants him to ignore the distractions and go to work; and his heart, his free-spirited adventurous side that wants him to let loose and enjoy life a little.
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Inner Workings / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Inner Workings / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The redhead is named Kate, after the director's girlfriend.
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Inner Workings / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Inner Workings / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Paul's lungs each breathe alternately, rather than simultaneously.
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Inner Workings / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Inner Workings / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: There's a few, including the fact his heart has literal heart-strings he's pulling all the time. When his brain gets fed up with the distractions, he takes the strings, balls them up and sticks them to the side where Paul's ear is. He stuck it in his ear.
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Inner Workings / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Inner Workings / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: After Paul's Brain wrests control from Paul's Heart, Paul goes back to work, only to slow to a crawl as he becomes depressed. Then we cut to Paul's Heart looking miserable to show his heart's just not in it.
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Inner Workings / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Inner Workings / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Paul's lungs mostly appear each time his heart does, and they feel whatever emotion the heart feels. They even console his heart when he feels sad.
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Inner Workings / int_277686f2	type	Reused Character Design
Inner Workings / int_277686f2	comment	Reused Character Design: Paul strongly resembles a younger version of Carl Fredricksen.
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Inner Workings / int_28951c74	type	Top-Heavy Guy
Inner Workings / int_28951c74	comment	Top-Heavy Guy: The guys at the beach. Most prominently the Surfer Dude.
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Inner Workings / int_31df9110	type	Masculine Lines, Feminine Curves
Inner Workings / int_31df9110	comment	Masculine Lines, Feminine Curves: Paul is modeled with straight lines and boxy anatomy while the woman he meets is modeled with lots of curves and round shapes. However, the dichotomy is not quite gender-split as the square anatomy applies to all the men and women working at Paul's company and the round anatomy to all the beachgoers.
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Inner Workings / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Inner Workings / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Paul's Brain's starts out a stickler for routine, focused on avoiding risks for the sake of preventing wacky, highly unlikely deaths (by sharks, overeating, juggled chainsaws, ectr.). But after seeing Paul's Heart is too despondent for work, he starts to contemplate how it would be so much worse if Paul lived out a boring, unhappy life of constant work with not friends, family or fun. This is what prompts him to take a chance with letting the Heart decide how Paul should best spend his lunch break. By the end of the lunch break, Brain and Heart are in sync with appreciating how fulfilling life can be.
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Inner Workings / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Inner Workings / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Subverted. Paul (or rather Paul's brain) thinks his bosses are this, but they never do anything overtly villainous or even mean. They even join in the Dance Party Ending.
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Inner Workings / int_414b064b	type	Lonely Funeral
Inner Workings / int_414b064b	comment	Lonely Funeral: While working at his joyless office job, Paul's Brain looks at an elderly man working next to him and imagines Paul working endlessly until he's old and lowering himself into his coffin, with the only one in attendance being the priest.
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Inner Workings / int_4176a2b1	type	Juggling Dangerously
Inner Workings / int_4176a2b1	comment	Juggling Dangerously: A chainsaw juggler can be briefly seen when Paul gets distracted by a sunglasses vendor, and later in the Brain's Imagine Spot.
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Inner Workings / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Inner Workings / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Disney Castle shows up in the credits as a sandcastle on the beach nearby Paul and his new family.
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Inner Workings / int_54d5074	type	Speaking Simlish
Inner Workings / int_54d5074	comment	Speaking Simlish: Most of the speaking is just random gibberish. The only clearly spoken dialogue in the short is when Paul sings the words "California Loco!" in the shower.
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Inner Workings / int_5e01640d	type	X-Ray Sparks
Inner Workings / int_5e01640d	comment	X-Ray Sparks: The first Imagine Spot has Paul slipping in the shower, knocking his radio into the water and electrocuting him, complete with a shot of his skeleton.
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Inner Workings / int_62c365d5	type	Emotions vs. Stoicism
Inner Workings / int_62c365d5	comment	Emotions vs. Stoicism: The central conflict is between Paul's brain, who wants Paul to take life seriously all the time and not take risks, and his heart, who wants him to abandon his responsibilities and just have fun.
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Inner Workings / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Inner Workings / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The anatomy book at the beginning has some interesting descriptions written in Canis Latinicus. Some examples include the respiratory system (Systemis Inhala et Exhala), the integumentary system (Nudus Tastefuli), and Paul himself (Paulus Caput Quadratum). When Paul sees the beautiful sunglasses seller, his Heart briefly clutches the heartstrings in the shape of a heart.
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Inner Workings / int_63cad64b	type	Threatening Shark
Inner Workings / int_63cad64b	comment	Threatening Shark: Paul wants to run to the beach and have fun surfing, but his brain is afraid they'll get eaten by a shark.
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Inner Workings / int_646b9cc8	type	Organ Autonomy
Inner Workings / int_646b9cc8	comment	Organ Autonomy: All of Paul's organs seem to have a mind of their own and an influence over his actions, especially the Brain and the Heart.
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Inner Workings / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Inner Workings / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Paul and the redheaded sunglass vendor are revealed to have married and have two kids.
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Inner Workings / int_6e95f5c1	type	Nutritional Nightmare
Inner Workings / int_6e95f5c1	comment	Nutritional Nightmare: Paul sees someone eating a delicious pancake breakfast outside a coffee shop and gets hungry, but then his brain starts calculating how many calories would be in it, and concludes that eating it would make him instantly balloon up to 325 pounds and die of a Hollywood Heart Attack.
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Inner Workings / int_7bc076de	type	Hartman Hips
Inner Workings / int_7bc076de	comment	Hartman Hips: All of the characters in the short have exaggerated proportions, with the female beach-goers having hips at least three times wider than their waists, including the sunglasses vendor.
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Inner Workings / int_7bd657f	type	White Collar Worker
Inner Workings / int_7bd657f	comment	White Collar Worker: Paul is an office employee for a company called Boring, Boring & Glum. Unsurprisingly, his job is extremely dull, and consists of nothing but pushing buttons and printing papers.
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Inner Workings / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
Inner Workings / int_9578bb87	comment	The anatomy book at the beginning has some interesting descriptions written in Canis Latinicus. Some examples include the respiratory system (Systemis Inhala et Exhala), the integumentary system (Nudus Tastefuli), and Paul himself (Paulus Caput Quadratum).
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Inner Workings / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Inner Workings / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: When the Brain finally realizes that forcing Paul to a life with no risks is going to end with him living a miserable life and dying alone.
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Inner Workings / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Inner Workings / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All/Not So Stoic: Paul's bosses end up joining in on the Dance Party Ending. Each of Paul's Brain's ways Paul could die end with the Running Gag of a priest rattling off a blessing at his early grave. Paul's Brain extrapolating a lonely, unhappy life coming to an end with old Paul dragging himself up the hill, never having really lived, is the first time the imaginary priest looks sad.
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Inner Workings / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Inner Workings / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: The short is CGI, while the Brain's Imagine Spots are traditional hand-drawn animation.
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Inner Workings / int_9874f2ab	type	All Work vs. All Play
Inner Workings / int_9874f2ab	comment	All Work vs. All Play: Paul's Brain is All Work, while Paul's Heart is All Play. Paul's Brain eventually realizes that All Work is no way to live.
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Inner Workings / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Inner Workings / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: Paul's bladder appears in a couple scenes, but there's no urethra visible. The bladder can still empty... somehow.
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Inner Workings / int_a3c0c1df	type	Dance Party Ending
Inner Workings / int_a3c0c1df	comment	Dance Party Ending: Paul finally getting out of his routine and starting to enjoy life more leads to one of these breaking out at his office.
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Inner Workings / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Inner Workings / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Paul's Brain keeps imagining ways Paul could get killed deviating from his routine, ranging from mundane (slipping in the shower, losing his job, and freezing to death on the streets) to unlikely (Paul letting himself go and dying of a heart attack) to highly improbable (backing into a chainsaw juggler*To be fair, a chainsaw juggler CAN be seen doing his act nearby, though in a Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment or getting eaten by a shark). Then the Brain has one of Paul leading a boring and miserable life and Dying Alone.
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Inner Workings / int_bad22526	type	What If?
Inner Workings / int_bad22526	comment	What If?: Played for laughs. Each action on the outside causes Paul's Brain to consider the possible fatal consequences of them (i.e. dancing in the shower leading to death by electrocution or trying on sunglasses leading to death by juggled chainsaws).
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Inner Workings / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Inner Workings / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: At the end of the short, Paul and the sunglasses seller get married, and have a son who looks just like him and a daughter who looks just like her.
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Inner Workings / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Inner Workings / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Aside from Paul and his bosses Boring, Boring and Glum, no other human character is named within the short. Supplemental materials reveal that the redheaded sunglasses seller's name is Kate.
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Inner Workings / int_cb8880a5	type	Soul-Crushing Desk Job
Inner Workings / int_cb8880a5	comment	Soul-Crushing Desk Job: It stars a guy named Paul who works at an office building called "Boring, Boring, and Glum". Nobody in the office enjoys their job, but Paul (and, it's implied, everyone else) feels obligated to do nothing but work. The whole point of the short is that Paul learns to find a balance between Emotions vs. Stoicism and becomes all the better for it, to the point that the whole office becomes a much more lively place.
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Inner Workings / int_cff33981	type	Living Is More than Surviving
Inner Workings / int_cff33981	comment	Living Is More than Surviving: Paul's Brain finally gets control of him back from the Heart, but comes to the realization that a Paul who never takes any risks will just end up working and working his soulless office job until he's an old man and then dying a sad, meaningless death. It gives controls back to the Heart so Paul can have fun, enjoy his life, and make it a life worth living.
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Inner Workings / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Inner Workings / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: Paul's Bladder relieves itself when Paul finally decides to break out of his routine and goes for a swim in the ocean on his lunch break.
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Inner Workings / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Inner Workings / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Paul's Stomach is a combination of all the organs that make up the digestive system.
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Inner Workings / int_e4f05faa	type	Jaw Drop
Inner Workings / int_e4f05faa	comment	Jaw Drop: Paul's bosses do this when they see him struggling with the door.
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Inner Workings / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Inner Workings / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Each Imagine Spot by Paul's Brain after death by electrocution shows a humorous variation on Paul's grave for each cause of death. For death by overeating, the coffin is oversized. For death by shark attack, the coffin partially protrudes from the shark's jaws. For death by chainsaw, we see four mini-coffins, each bearing the letters of Paul's name. For death by exposure, Paul's body is in a huge ice block (similar to the Iceman).
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Inner Workings / int_f5129c45	type	Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious
Inner Workings / int_f5129c45	comment	Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious: During lunch break, everyone at the office pulls out identical plain sandwiches and starts chewing in unison. When Paul's Brain gives control back to Paul's Heart, the first thing it decides to do is go get a delicious breakfast from the nearby cafÃ© instead, complete with pancakes, eggs and bacon.
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Inner Workings / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Inner Workings / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Paul's Brain imagining various increasingly improbable ways Paul could get himself killed, each time ending with a friar saying a Latin-sounding gibberish prayer over Paul's grave (the grave varying according to each cause of death).
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Inner Workings / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Inner Workings / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Paul's Brain only does what it does out of concern for Paul's safety.
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