Pixar director Peter Sohn's latest film, Elemental reflects his own experiences navigating life as the child of immigrants.
"My grandmother's dying words were like, "Marry Korean!," Sohn told ABC News during a Zoom interview.
Peter Sohn is known for directing 2015's The Good Dinosaur, and he also voiced Emile in Ratatouille and the cat Sox in Lightyear. "The story that she told was so fun and moving to us, that the mother character started to shift more into that." Sohn's parents are immigrants, having moved from Korea to New York City in the early 1970s, where he was born. To make the film and story more authentic, the filmmakers spoke to over one hundred first and second generation immigrants about what it was like to pack up and start over completely in another country.
The filmmakers also discussed what kind of things each elemental district would sell that's unique to them. For fire, that includes items like matchbooks, fire sparklers and ceramics. They also wanted to portray what it's like to have traces of history left behind by different families moving to and from particular neighborhoods.
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