Happy? Sad? Full Of...? Sony Film Gives Life To Emojis
Chand Sahkeel Published May 20, 2017 | 10:45 AM
LOS ANGELES, , (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th May, 2017 ) - If emojis were alive, their job would not be easy: called on at all hours to show up on screen happy-faced, with heart-shaped eyes, as mini-pizzas or ...
piles of poop. They form the indispensable background to our digital lives. It is almost impossible to imagine a text message without emojis. These thousands of symbols establish the tone to our communications: happy, sad, annoyed, frustrated, ironic.
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) last year recognized their importance, adding them to its collections. Filmmaker Tony Leondis could not resist the temptation: He has designed a world in which these fantasy figures exist.
His "The Emoji Movie," a Sony animation, reaches US theaters in July. "I want to know what the story is behind the phone" where emojis dwell, he told reporters at a round-table discussion attended by AFP.
"What is that world? And build from there." And so was born the city of "Textopolis," located deep in the smartphone of 15-year-old Alex. There, all life revolves around a unique industry: making emojis. Imagine a vast control room, its walls covered with tiny cubicles, each containing one of the fun figures, just waiting for young Alex to employ them in a text.
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