New Trailer for Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ Reveals a Fantastical World With a Deeper Meaning (Video)
thewrap.com“Elemental,” which you can watch above.From the studio that brought toys to life, populated a world full of monsters and took you under the sea, “Elemental” explores what a vibrant metropolis would be if that metropolis was populated exclusively by anthropomorphic elements (made of fire, water, air, earth).
The story follows a young fire woman named Ember (Leah Lewis) who falls in love with a water man named Wade (Mamoudou Athie).
Sure, opposites attract, but when you’re made out of those materials, how does that even work?Earlier this week, select press was shown about 20 minutes of footage from the new movie, which gave a much better sense of the characters and the larger world, and provided greater context in terms of how personal this story was to director Peter Sohn, whose parents immigrated from Korea and established a neighborhood grocery store in the Bronx.
When introducing the footage, Sohn said that he wanted to make a movie about “appreciating the sacrifices our parents made for us.” Sohn later said that his grandmother’s dying wish was that he marry a Korean girl.
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