Big release for this summer, “Elemental” is Pixar’s 27th animated feature film. pandemic and the commercial failure of “Buzz Lightyear”, while its rivals flourish at the box office. Inspired by director Peter Sohn’s experiences as the son of immigrants from Korea, this is a story of friendship and later love (something rare in the Pixar story) in the City of Elements, where residents of fire, water, earth and air live, between Ember (Spark in the Portuguese version), a quick-witted and impetuous young woman of “fire”, and Wade (Nilo in the ‘translation’), a fun, sentimental and relaxed “water” boy, with the background of emigration and the expectations of parents with their children. from the short film “Partly Cloudy” (2009) and who debuted in feature films with “The Good Dinosaur” (2015), he said that the inspiration to use the elements as characters came when he started “scribbling things” to find out where they would take him and ended up “stumbling” on the fire ones, which then led to the idea of a water one.” I could feel the conflict and fun that could come from that. But it also started to link to my own life with my wife, having married someone who wasn’t Korean. And the cultural shock that this created with my own family”, he explained. He deepened the context: “When I was growing up, I didn’t appreciate all the things my parents had gone through. One war and they came to the US without knowing anything about English. And they faced a lot of obstacles that I, a kid growing up in New York, just didn’t understand or empathize with. And as I get older and with each ephemeris that passes, I am more amazed at what they managed to do with so little and that I, as a father, could not do now. And that gratitude became what held all parts of the film together.”Peter Sohn had to deal precisely with the death of his parents during production: the parent when the project was taking shape at a very early stage of development, the mother close from the end: “I didn’t know how much it would affect this production […]. I don’t know if it was because of education, but I just kept working non-stop. […] I put as much love and dedication as I could into honoring them”. ” data-title=””Elemental”: Pixar’s new film is a love story between fire and water in a hopeful tone – SAPO Mag”>
Unsurprisingly, transferring the elements to animation turned out to be a complex task, starting with the protagonist’s “fire”. Creating Ember was a very difficult problem, but the most exciting thing was seeing her come to life for the first time, because she was our main character and carried the burden of the story”, says the director, who assumed that it was his favorite of “Elemental” and that the “temperamental” protagonist and the “emotional” Wade mirror the personalities of his wife, of origin Italian, and himself. Honestly, we could make a good horror movie with these images”. from a visual effects standpoint” and added layers to make Wade captivating, a challenge when “trying to create an interpretation” of something whose nature is… reflective.” If you really look at the water, it can be any color of the rainbow because it’s a mirror. So we were dealing with those same problems when lighting it”, added the director. Interestingly, “Partly Cloudy” turned out to be a first “experience” with “air”: the short he made for Pixar in 2009, shown in theaters before “Up – Highly!”, it was about clouds that create babies and deliver them to their parents via storks. And Peter Sohn highlights evolution: “I love this Pixar idea of trying to find a moving story while making advance technology. I love the weather, I love nature, and this air character concept was just something I thought hadn’t been animated before. Back then, we didn’t have the technology to really get that quality, but now we do.” Director Peter Sohn and Producer Denise Ream” data-title=””Elemental”: Pixar’s new film is a love story between fire and water in a tone of hope – SAPO Mag”>
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