Pixar's "Elio" is coming to theaters this summer, taking the title of an 11-year-old boy on a scientific adventure film that has been desperate to deal with since learning about the unlimited potential of space travel and the lives of other planets. Feeling at the ground and perhaps a little burden on his aunt Olga (Zoe Saldasha), Elio (expressed by Jonas Kibreab) manages to eagerly send a message into space and ends up abducted by the aliens and inserted into the communist, an interplanetary organization with representatives. Despite this misunderstanding, Elio feels like he finally finds a place where he belongs, especially when he meets a young person from a friend named Glordon.

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When the directors Domee Shi (From the wonderful "turning red") and Madeleine Sharafian (the story of "turning red" and "Coco") brought "Elio" to life, it should not be surprising that they used the classic "extra-cod" by Steven Spielberg, "Extra-terrier" as an inspiration, as well as the film, but the film, but a stunning one. But do you expect several scientific classics with the rating of Ridley Scott and Johnon Carpenter to be some of the other movie influences on Pixar's family friendly?

During the early day of the press for Elio, I sat down with Dome and Madeleine Sharafian to talk about their scientific adventure, and they discovered how some classic horror scientific films helped shape the visual style of "Elio".

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Shi and Sharafian worked with cinematographers Jordandan Rempel and Derrick Williams to use the signature look of Spielberg's scientific classic, as well as some of his worst fellow directors. Sharafian explained:

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"I was really excited to join our DPS, Derrick Williams and Jordandan Rempel for diving in the aesthetics of Spielbergian scientific films, such as "ET", "Close Meetings", And some of the more frightening those like "foreign" and "something". We watched them with a nice tooth comb for visual appearance, giving Jordandan a lot to work. So, we made this kind of darker, deeper shades. "

Sharafian also noticed: "One of my favorite things is the atmosphere, where you will sometimes watch Spielberg's film and there is a fog in the room and you are like," why is there a fog in Eliot's bedroom? I don't understand. " There is something about it, she dreaming, excites us, and that's about the way you feel, not what is real in the movie.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etvi5_cnnae

Especially you will notice a more foggy look during night shots, where the lights shine enough to create a little setting in the middle of darkness. If you look at some of the early shots in the trailer above, as well as some of the later footage of the military based, a small foggy glow surrounds the lights. It's a nice touch to watch in an animated film.

But this is not the only technical touch you will see.

For those looking for a few more details about the film, Sharafian continued:

"We were filming the film with anamorphic lenses, which I know is an animated film, but we use real cameras in the same way as the movie would like live. So you'll see a little touch of it. There's a red ring around a light that can shine exactly with you. This is all for the movie."

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If you are not familiar with the anamorphic lenses and what they do on the camera, they provide an extremely wide view of a given image without distorting faces or lines. It allows directors to catch a wider field of vision and help create ultra -wide relationships on rectangular aspects.

The anamorphic lens is what often gives films that a certain cinematic look when compared to the average television show, although it has changed significantly because cable and streaming services have begun to enter the same visual style for television programming that they never see. So, you can understand why it would be useful when bringing a life scientific scientific adventure.

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You can see Elio's Chinese qualities when Pixar's movie hits theaters starting June 20, 2025.