Elements: the new Disney and Pixar film is based on the game Fireboy and Watergirl

'Elements': the new Disney and Pixar movie takes that opposites attract to the extreme. The film is based on the game Fireboy and Watergirl. The animated film, which will delve into a world inhabited by the elements of nature, will be released in theaters next Thursday, June 22. 

"Opposites attract" seems like a hackneyed phrase but it is still true. And now Disney and Pixar are willing to prove it with fire, water, earth and air.

Next Thursday, June 22, the mouse company will premiere Elementos, its new animated production, which will precisely take the public to discover a magical world in which the four elements of nature coexist.

This is Element City, a harmonious place that only has a very simple rule to maintain order and balance: the elements cannot mix with each other, for any reason.

Although there are four elements of nature, the story of this film will focus on Ember, a young firefighter with a good sense of humor, impatient and with great love for her family. She is part of the fire element and will burn Element City when she meets Wade, a young empathetic, observant, a bit of a crybaby... and a member of the water element.

As is evident, the other elements of the City will begin to notice the "dangerous" closeness of Ember and Wade, who, instead of hiding, enjoy each other's company in front of others, while they discover each other's world.

And yes, this means that they are challenging the rules.

This is where the cliché phrase reappears, but in the form of a question: what can you do when opposites attract?

Peter Sohn, the film's director, commented at the film's press conference that this was precisely what he wanted to experience when relating two such opposite elements.

“One day, when I started doodling, I came across this fire character and then a water character and I could feel the conflict and the fun that it could be to build a story from there,” said the filmmaker.

Sohn has been one of Pixar's tabs for more than a decade and has worked on films such as Finding Nemo, Up and The Incredibles, among others. 

Although at first the filmmaker's idea was to play with the elements of nature and imagine a magical and almost perfect world in which water, earth, air and fire coexist, at one point he stopped to analyze that in reality he was writing his own life story.

”My wife married someone who is not Korean and that created a culture shock; she also (as she was writing) she reminded me of the kid who grew up in New York, who just didn't empathize,” she explained.

Sohn acknowledges that "nothing was easy at first", because it was a plot that in the end reflected very personal aspects, but the message was worth it. There he understood that many could feel identified with his different life situations.

“The idea of ​​this movie was meant to be very hopeful, colorful, and with a lot of disparate communities,” he said.

The diversity of characters would end up becoming something like the different cultures of the world.

In fact, the producer of the feature film, Denise Ream, explained that for this film more than 100 immigrants who work for Pixar met with the filmmakers to talk about their experiences with other cultures.

"It was phenomenal. Most of us, wherever we are, come from somewhere else. There were so many emotional stories about what people went through to come here, so many experiences from their families… I don't think you can really explain the impact of something like that in one story,” she said.

However, Elements is also about the variety of personalities. For example, the air elements always walk in the clouds; Earth can be shifty, water is always involved in something and fire gets hot easily.

But beyond everything, this comedy ends up being a film of self-discovery, learning to make decisions and accepting others.

To reflect his personal emotions, Sohn began to play with the scenery, so that the intensity was reflected in the scenes of Ember and Wade.

“Part of Ember's journey is understanding her identity, how it relates to her own culture and then to the culture of the city she's lived in or been a part of; but through this journey she meets Wade and she begins to see the city in a new light and we wanted that to come through on screen. So we needed to discover parts of the city that were beautiful and meaningful to it, both positive and negative," said the director.

For this reason, the filmmaker explained that: "when there are moments in which Ember and Wade connect, there is more glass or there are more reflections, or there is more beauty, or there is a different language of forms."

And it is that Ciudad Elemento is a type of dream place, with many vibrant colors (as used by Pixar), which together with the different landscapes achieve perfect scenarios.

Elements has a duration of just over 100 minutes and will be released next Thursday, June 22 in theaters across the country, an exact year after Lightyear, the last film that Pixar had brought to the big screen.