![]() In one scene Ember shows off how she can turn the landscape different colors. Naturally, fire and water isn't a good mix but, through the magic of animation, they make it work. Their daughter, Ember, meets a Water character named Wade. The Fire parents have emigrated to Element City where they open a grocery store. Attention to detail and a wild imaginationĮlemental is like a fantastical, kid-friendly, Romeo and Juliet. It's a "very exciting" dish, the server agrees. Almost like he's voicing a character in a Pixar movie, Sohn mimics his mom smacking her lips together in delight. "The funny thing about my mom is that she's so loud eating the crab," he tells the server. He tells him that his mother's favorite dish was the crab. Inside the restaurant, Sohn recognizes the waiter. "It was my parents' happy place," he recalls. When the shop did well, Sohn's family would go to Chinatown, especially the restaurant Hop Kee. "My mother was the cashier and my father kept working this four in the morning 'till 11:00 at night job, seven days a week." In Elemental, the father also works long hours. Sohn's parents, Korean immigrants, owned a grocery store in the Bronx.īetween the cart and other odd jobs, Sohn says his father saved enough money to buy a bodega-style grocery store in the Bronx. "It was my parents' happy place," says Pixar filmmaker Peter Sohn of the restaurant Hop Kee in New York's Chinatown. ![]() Element City, as it's called in the movie, is "very much based off of these immigrant neighborhoods," including Little Italy and Koreatown, "I was so inspired by that," says Sohn. New York City's different cultures inspired the metropolis in Elemental. But when it came to the movies, there's this Venn diagram where we could connect." "I spoke English better than I did Korean, and so much of growing up was this battle to try to understand each other. "My mother's love for movies was this weird way that we could communicate because she didn't speak English very well," he remembers. We did, but we also talked a lot about his parents. I thought we'd be talking about the ins and outs of filmmaking. I recently met Peter Sohn in Chinatown where he and his family celebrated special occasions. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Pete Docter, Pixar Animation Studio's chief creative officer, left, and filmmaker Peter Sohn attend the World Premiere of Elemental at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on June 8, 2023.Īlberto E. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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