“Elemental’’ director Peter Sohn says his parents ignited the spark for the upcoming Disney and Pixar animated film.
Sohn invited his parents — who both had emigrated from Korea to the U.S. — to an event. Seeing them from the stage filled him with a deep appreciation for all they had done for their family.
But the fact that they are elements also gave animators the ability to give the characters particular powers. For example, Ember’s a girl of fire. She can use that fire to remake broken glass and weld metal. “I think “Elemental” is a very special film because it’s about Ember kind of coming to face who she is and what she wants to do; if she wants to pursue her path or if she wants to kind of stay close to her roots and her family and what people expect her to be,” said Assadourian. “Wade changes Ember, or he kind of awakens her to say, ‘there’s so much more you can do with your life.’”
“The idea of xenophobia was always in the story from the beginning ,” he said. “Because my father and mother experienced the same xenophobia, it wasn’t a new thing… the idea of Asian hate that started happening in such boldface manners was really terrifying. I remember my mom calling me and saying don´t go out into San Francisco. She was terrified, and she had never been terrified to that level when we were growing up; it was a real fear.
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