{"id":22354,"date":"2023-10-28T20:11:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T00:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=22354"},"modified":"2023-10-28T20:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T00:11:20","slug":"elemental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/elemental\/","title":{"rendered":"Elemental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;ve just never been punched in the face with beauty before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elemental<\/strong>, released in 2023<\/p>\n<p>Bernie and Cinder, fire elementals, leave their home because of a big storm. Eventually their daughter Ember works in the fire shop with her dad. She even beats his record for making deliveries. But she has a temper, and he doesn&#8217;t think she&#8217;ll be ready to take over the shop until she can control it.<\/p>\n<p>The animation in this Pixar movie is very nice, of course.<\/p>\n<p>The different elements, the things they can do, and how they might interact, are a terrific part.<\/p>\n<p>I like how the movie they go and see is called &#8220;Tide &amp; Prejudice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about dating someone your parents wouldn&#8217;t approve of, and trying to be a good daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, and Catherine O&#8217;Hara. Directed by Peter Sohn (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-good-dinosaur\/\"><strong>The Good Dinosaur<\/strong><\/a>). The gentle music is by Thomas Newman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;ve just never been punched in the face with beauty before.&#8221; Elemental, released in 2023 Bernie and Cinder, fire elementals, leave their home because of a big storm. Eventually their daughter Ember works in the fire shop with her dad. She even beats his record for making deliveries. But she has a temper, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-22354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22354"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22362,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions\/22362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}