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Until the precise moment the opposites-attract animated romp quietly redeemed itself as an under-the-radar triumph after all.
(Which, lets face it, how many people outside the Mouse House C-suite really were?)
Its going to take another generation to unteach them that.
It did a lot of harm to the industry.
Then came last years disastrousLightyear a high-concept, Mr. And, in just the latest manifestation of Hollywoods What have you done for me lately?
Precisely none of these issues have been lost onElementals director, Peter Sohn.
I was heartbroken, for sure, the director tells Vulture over tea in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
The film just wasnt connecting.
There was a lot of surprise.
There were a lot of supportive conversations like, The movie is good.
We believe in the work we have done.
There were also a lot of conversations like, How did we get here?
I was very nervous because Ive never done anything this personal, says Sohn.
The process of making this film continued to show how scary being that vulnerable really is.
Which is when a strange about-face took place.
I had stopped looking at social media.
I was trying to understand word of mouth and what it means, Sohn recalls.
He watched as a wave of positive energy built momentum.
The same forces that took it down brought it back up, he says.
I never experienced that before.
3in the same time period.
Doing a love story is risky these days.
This romance we built has value and that was the thing that had urgency for me.
