¿What is the inner universe of our Smartphone? The emoticons that we use every day, are they static or do they have an independent cyber life, in your digital world?
In Emoji we discover Textópolis, a dynamic city that comes to life hidden behind text messages. It is inhabited by the emoticons that we use every day.
In Textópolis, each of the emoticons (Emoji) has a unique facial expression, with one exception. Gene is an emoji that was created without any filters, and it can take many different expressions. However, Gene wants to be like the other inhabitants of Textópolis. To do this, he enlists the help of his close friend "High Five" and the notorious codebreaker, "Rebelde."
The adventure begins
This crazy team, formed to search for Gene's origins, will go through all the apps on the phone. All of these applications are in their wild and fun field. It's about finding the code that will repair Gene.
In the middle of the adventure of the three friends, a threat endangers all the applications of the Smartphone, and all emojis in general. The fate of Textópolis and the terminal itself is in the hands of the three adventurers.
It will be in this difficult situation, when the emoticon of the thousand expressions, Gene, will discover the high potential of his ability. Despite what he thought, the having so many expressions can become a powerful weapon to help your entire emoji community.
What is the origin of emojis?
The emoticons that we use in text messages take their name from the combination of two Japanese words: image and letter. The first known emoji was created in Japan, Very Near the End of the 1990s, by Shigetaka Kurita. It was the symbol of the heart among the mobile options. This first experience was so positive that the range of symbols was expanded to 176. Emojis were only available in Japan at first, but the success of emojis spread globally.
Some filming secrets
EMOJI is a movie, as we are seeing, what is based on the now famous WhatsApp emoticons. According to the director, Anthony the plot follows in the footsteps of emoticons inside a mobile phone, where a world secret is jealously guarded.
To discover these secrets you have to access the world of 'emojis' through the text tool, and integrate ourselves into the Emoji Valley; the place where emoticons live and work.
The movie generated a "multi-million dollar bid" for the rights to its production, between Sony, Warner Bros and Paramount Pictures. Finally it would be Sony, after paying a million dollars, who would take over the project.
El EMOJI Official Trailer was published on YouTube, for the first time, in June of this year 2017. Very soon it would get close to 55.000 “I don't like it”, compared to just 13.000 “I like it”.
Some names from the movie
One of the actresses in the cast, Anna Faris, He had previously collaborated with his voice in other famous animated films. For example, it was Sam Sparks in both installments of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs."
It must be remembered that the actress who was initially thought of was not Anna Faris, but Ilana Glazer, for the voice of the character of Rebelde.
For its part, T.J. Miller plays the role of Erlich Bachman on the series "Silicon Valley." It is not the first time that he has contributed his voice to an animated film. Miller was Fred in "Big Hero 6" (2014) and "Tuffnut" in one of the installments of "How to train your dragon." Recall that the actor also had a small role in the animated series Family Guy.
Christina Aguilera gives her voice to Akiko Glitter, in the Just Dance app. The emoticon of the flamenco woman has the voice of Sofía Vergara.
One of the best known voices of iconic characters (for example, Charles Xavier in "X-Men"), Patrick Stewart, is the voice of the smiley poop emoticon.
We must also cite James Corden, among the cast of voices. Corden is a British comedian well known in the television world.
Some other curiosities
As an annex to EMOJI, you can view the short titled “Puppy"Based on the universe of the" Hotel Transylvania "movies.
¿What emoticons can be seen in the movie? Most of which we use daily. The doll of laughter, the amazed one, the monkey that has eyes covered, the ballerina that we use to indicate party and dance, and the poop that smiles, which could not be missing.
Recall that It is not the first film based on the inner universe of our Smartphone phones. The characters we saw in "Angry Birds: The Movie" were also from the mobile game of the same name.
The initial title of the film was to be 'Emojimovie: Express Yourself'.
Spotify
Among the Smartphone Apps through which the adventurers protagonists of EMOJI will pass is Spotify. The inclusion of this well-known music streaming app has been possible thanks to an agreement with Sony Pictures Animation (SPA).
State-of-the-art digital animation
EMOJI is an animated film directed by Anthony Leondis, known by other titles like “Igor” or “Lilo & Stitch 2: The effect of the defect”. The original script is written by Leondis himself, along with Eric Siegel.
The EMOJI Challenge App
This official application is already located in the top 6 of the Appstore, consolidating the success of Sony Pictures Spain in its commitment to mobile applications.
Two weeks after its launch and created by Sony to promote the film, the app is a success. Emoji Challenge has reached a million responses to their riddles. More than 50.000 games already played, and an average of 120 users per second in the game.
Is an application developed for any age. Available both Android as in iOS. Due to its gameplay dynamics, it is also a platform for different prizes and raffles that Sony Pictures Spain will present throughout the summer.