ASIA324 Literature of Hong Kong – Creative Project
Outside In: Modern Re-Telling of Ronald Mar’s “Streets in the Sun”
By Chloe Chong, Emily Law, Ann Wong, Veronica Wong, Damon Wong
“We were inspired by Inside Out (Disney, 2015) as the characters each embody an emotional personification of the protagonist of the movie. Naming our project “Outside-In” puts at the forefront our aim to bring out the internal turmoil of the protagonist, while allowing us the creativity to re-organise the characters and his thoughts to demonstrate his resolution of such turmoil. […] [W]e identified the protagonist’s five core emotions that deeply influenced his thoughts and behaviours: Pride, Fear, Sympathy, Shame, and Longing, along with enlightenment of Pride. Afterwards, we highlighted the various ways these emotions emerged in the story to shape our impression of the protagonist from these five perspectives and come to a profound and more nuanced understanding of him. […] To display our findings and creative endeavors, we created five social media accounts for each dominant emotional persona and created a group chat where they could ‘interact.’” — Project Rationale