Pixar Elio has a score of 83% rotten and 91% on the popcornmeter, but he nevertheless bombed when he made his debut on June 22 with a disastrous opening weekend of $ 20.8 million. Elementary And MUFASA: The king of the lion have also been struck off like flops. However, the film Pixar has only won $ 72 million worldwide to date, so a rehearsal of surprise success that these films found are not likely.
The Hollywood Reporter (via Toonado.com) published an in -depth article exploring what was wrong with ElioAnd it seems that the film we got was not the one that the filmmakers initially intended to do.
The trade uses the example of a scene shown at the crew two years ago, which saw Elio collect garbage on the beach and transform it into homemade clothes. This included a pink tank top, which, according to several initiates, was part of the intention to represent him as a co -queer character (to reflect the identity of the original director Adrian Molina as an openly gay filmmaker).
Molina had no intention that it was a story of exit because the title character was only 11 years old, but Elio was made more masculine “Follow the leadership comments.” His love for environmentalism and fashion has been abandoned, as did the clues that he could have a male crush. Elio still wore garbage, but there was no explanation.
The problems of the film go far beyond these changes, because a test projection would have taken place in Arizona in the summer of 2023. When the public was asked how many of them look at him in theaters, “Not a single hand was lifted.”
The rumor says that Molina was injured by this and the comments he received from the boss of Pixar Peter Doctor, which led him to be replaced by new co -directors, Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi, shortly after. Molina had the opportunity to stay as a co -director, but was left as a continuous series of scanning changes has been brought to her original vision for Elio.
It was the departure of Molina that prompted Barbie Star America Ferrera to move away from the film, despite its writing of its lines. The budget, on the other hand, has reached $ 200 million after Pixar decided to completely reshape the filmmaker’s original story.
As an anonymous artist who worked on Elio The Met, “I would love to ask Pete and the other Disney leaders if they thought or not that rewriting was worth it. Would they have lost as much money if they just let Adrian tell his story?”
“It was quite clear thanks to the production of the first version of the film which [studio leaders] Constantly plundered these moments of the film which alluded to Elio’s sexuality to be queer, “ They added. “Suddenly, you delete this big key room, which is a question of identity, and Elio is nothing but nothing.”
It may be the case, but Elio I have always received a positive response from criticism and those who watched it, so the biggest problem at Pixar could understand how to bring people to present themselves for these original stories.
However, the fact that Molina’s vision was essentially decimated by the leaders suggests that the studio is no longer the creative / friendly force of the filmmakers that it was in the past. Pixar Win or lose The series on Disney + have also been criticized for having cut a trans character, so the diversity is definitely on the rear burner.
Elio Now play in theaters. Have you ever looked at it?
