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4 Things Parents Should Perceive about Pixar's Elemental
Ember is a feisty young gal with a positive attitude, a drive to accomplish and a quick temper that often gets in the way.
When Ember gets angry, she blows up. Literally.
That’s because Ember is literally made of blaze and resides with her fiery family in Element City, where the other elemental citizens live. There’s the water citizens. And the land citizens. And the air citizens. These elements often interact – they chat and they say their “hellos” – but they dare not touch.
“Elements don’t mix,” we are told.
Back to Ember: She works for her father in a family-owned store that sells the necessary items you dependency if you’re made of fire – fire-starter and lighter fluid, for instance.
Unfortunately for Ember, her quick fuse can be a problem in customer relations. One day, she wisely walks away from an argument, only to explode (literally) in the basement, causing widespread damage and – aghast – moisture damage from the sprinklers.
That’s when she bumps into Wade, a member of the water element collective who is a municipality inspector. He’s her polar opposite – patient and empathetic. He also cries … a lot.
Despite their differences
Elemental Is Another Poor Example Of Pixar’s Poor LGBTQ+ Road Record
Summary
- Elemental channels classic Pixar adventure with Ember and Wade, but falters in LGBTQ+ representation with minor characters.
- While Ember and Wade journey through Element City, Diverse characters Lake and Ghibli are unfortunately sidelined.
- Pixar's Elemental, released during Pride Month, misses the mark on LGBTQ+ representation, displaying an ongoing issue.
Warning: minor spoilers for Elemental.2023's Elemental follows some of Pixar’s best traditions but, unfortunately, also continues the studio’s poor LGBTQ+ path record. After going back to the Toy Story saga with the spinoff Lightyear, Pixar returned to original stories with Elemental, directed by Peter Sohn. Set in a world where all four elements (fire, water, land, and air) coexist, named Element City, Elemental introduces fierce new fire elemental Ember Lumen (voiced by Leah Lewis) and go-with-the-flow water elemental Wade Ripple (Mamoudou Athie) — and their romance
Elemental
Movie Review
Element City: Families come here to build new lives, raise their children, fulfill their wildest dreams. It’s the one place where every element peacefully coexists in harmony.
Except fire, that is. And Ember Lumen is sick of it.
Ember’s parents were the first Heat people to migrate to Element Urban area. Since then, they’ve helped establish an entire community, providing food, toys and wisdom through their shop, the Fireplace.
Bernie, Ember’s dad, wants to retire and give the shop to Ember. But he won’t undertake it until she can control her purple-hot temper.
Only, that’s really hard when there’s so much to be upset about. Element Town wasn’t designed with Fire people in mind. So Ember can’t even abandon Firetown without accidentally burning the leaves off Earth people or boiling Fluid people to the point of evaporation. And even in her own neighborhood, she has to carry around an umbrella to defend her from fluid spilling over from Element City’s transportation canals.
Still, Ember’s determined to prove she can keep her cool and dash the shop.
But when Wade Ripple, a Water person who works for the city’s building code office, accidentally bursts through the Fi
Elemental Continues Pixar's Mishandling of LGBTQ Characters
The following contains spoilers for Elemental, now playing in theaters.
A core theme in Disney Pixar's Elementalis acceptance. While the atmosphere and earth-based elementals mingle in Element City, fire and liquid stay away from each other. It's why the film has a forbidden romance between Ember and Wade. However, these opposites can't help their attraction, with Elemental's ending depicting them tracking their hearts on a charming, romantic journey.
Interestingly, the visually-stunning Elemental is touting itself in terms of diversity regarding Pixar's first non-binary character. Unfortunately, it's all marketing and meeting a business objective. That's because, as the key scene in question unfolds, it's very surface-level and lacks substance. It instead reiterates the animation studio has a issue with its take on inclusivity.
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Elemental Severely Underplays Lake
When Wade brings Ember over to join his family and have dinner, his non-binary sibling