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The idea of a non-binary character was used for marketing/promotion to try and gain interest, primarily during Pride Month, any development surrounding this character being non-binary is not in the final film.
If it's not part of the movie, neither the dialogue nor character development, then it shouldn't be listed as a character trait in the description of the characters as it's irrelevant to how the character is depicted in the film.
The director making remarks about the characters outside of what is shown should either be considered under the marketing for the film OR in a trivia section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:802:DF01:E1FD:FAAC:96B1:C532 ( talk) 18:06, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey, who's Matt Yang King? You should take out the stuff that is unconfirmed. How do you guys know who voices Alan Ripple? Are you spies or something? Maybe "Ripple" isn't even his last name, and he's not really Wade's dad, maybe he's just his brother. Yeah, some websites stated that he is possibly Wade's brother, but I recommend YOU not to add anything, and just make it "TBA as Alan" no "Matt Yang King" or "Ripple". Unconfirmed stuff. How do you even know if "Ripple" is Wade's real last name? I know it was in his tag that reads "ELEMENT CITY INSPECTOR WADE RIPPLE. But Maybe it's fake, you never know. Also, what the heck is "Fern Grouchwood"? Where the heck did you get "Grouchwood"? Did you make that up? You put "Matt Yang King" on there like you're so sure, but maybe you're wrong. That's why you can't trust everything you read on Wikipedia. Silly Simonthings18. MariaKwanta ( talk) 04:52, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
The voice actor confirmed it in replies on his IG post 176.234.229.187 ( talk) 09:30, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
HOW? 184.185.152.3 ( talk) 17:54, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
So we know the Performance is Poor at the Moment. We should keep an eye out what's the Latest Earnings of the Box Office later. Happiness is Simple ( talk) 20:31, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
Here I am @ Nyxaros: at the talk page. Since when do we include a source that has cherry picked tweets to summarize "social media reception". We don't. It's synthesizing unreliable sources (tweets) to come up with an overall conclusion. I wasn't the only one that contested this inclusion of yours. What is your rationale for including this? The Metacritic deletion was just collateral damage, though it could be argued that it's unnecessary. Let the reviews speak for themselves. Mike Allen 00:31, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
2300 98.10.136.168 ( talk) 11:31, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
You can watch this movie in movie theaters. Seinfeld429 ( talk) 12:34, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
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Change the run time to 1 hour and 43 min or 103 minutes Indyquaza135 ( talk) 23:32, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
I have made many edits about this films box office performance. The reasons for reversion were weak. Either "box office could improve" or "too early". These are both subjective assessments. I have provided many, even too many apparently sources to back my claim of a box office bomb. No one reverting my edits has provided sources portraying the films box office as successful or just not bad. At best this film earnings were disappointing (yahoo) at worst they were a disaster (global village space). Both sources call it a flop or bomb. Why this is too early for us but not for most RS's I don't know. Can we at least keep the fact that this is the lowest grossing opening weekend for a Pixar film. A fact that most articles mention. PalauanLibertarian 🗣️ 20:44, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Predicted to need as much as $500 million to break even, some critics are looking toward Elemental's Japanese debut on Aug. 4 as the final test of its turnaround.Predicted by who? Mike Allen 20:48, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Screen Rant and CBR are sister sites sharing several staff/resources. You quoted them at $400million earlier (now met with the trades acknowledging the turnaround as well with THR noting it "weathered the storm" and "won’t be a huge theatrical money loser after all"), and now the goalposts are being moved?
Getting back to what Talk pages are for, though, what exactly are we trying accomplish in this discussion? We dont need to continue to use it as a repository of every story covering the box office performance. Things have changed so much, I think we've lost sight of where its going. It seems all the coverage paints a pretty clear picture: The film opened poorly, and it appeared to be a financial disappointment; however sustained ticket sales over its theatrical run resulted in box office sales totalling $_____<fill in the blank>. This is all pretty well outlined in the THR piece just linked, aside from a final number, so multiple references can be consolidated until a final number eventually comes. - 2pou ( talk) 17:48, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
Nice article in the New York Times today: ‘Elemental’ Morphs From Flop to Hit, Raising Questions Along the Way.-- ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 15:06, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
It could be noted that Flarrietta is a customer at The Fire Place. Also here is a link on the Immigration Official: https://pixarpost.com/2023/05/elemental-sneak-peek-american-idol.html 65.130.217.56 ( talk) 03:46, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
According to the website CBR, it is estimated that the film will need to gross $500 million to break-even. [19] Is this accurate and should we include it in the article? And1987 ( talk) 20:01, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
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"Elemental had just reached $300M domestically and $450M worldwide." 73.132.195.186 ( talk) 15:11, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
Aside from the plant thing when did they face xenophobia?
It's more the father who is quite the racist, coming to a city full of water guy and complaining that they are actually water guy living there? and that the city is not made for fire people? well duh
Little-kinder (
talk) 20:10, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
I've seen edit warring for those two, which violated WP:3RR. Honestly, when the aggregators (like Rotten Tomatoes which classified it as "fresh" and Metacritic which received "mixed or average" reviews) disagree, then we shouldn't be summarizing in the lead. LancedSoul ( talk) 22:25, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
"disagree"about anything. There are already multiple spurces stating mixed reviews. I've already explained multiple times with edit summaries and a message, and posted a RT link. Cite your sources for "positive reviews" claim. Questioning a reliable source by writing
"Using Metacritic as a source isn't helpful either"does not seem like the right thing to do. ภץאคгöร 22:47, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
" unacceptable"? I'm not the one continuing to ignore/remove reliable sources and insisting on trying to portray a feature of a particular website as something it is not. I advise you to stop accusing other editors and instead focus on improving your edits. I also suggest that you don't continue with your "this article determines all RT states" attitude everywhere just because someone shared a Vox article years ago and you got it. (RT already has its own page here). ภץאคгöร 08:01, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
many recent publications have said "acclaimed", so why not add them? You can solve the problem by adding "many" of these alleged publications. ภץאคгöร 08:16, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
many recent publications have said "acclaimed"claim. And now you're trying to use what's written on other pages, ignoring sources for this page, as a valid reason to have your own way. ภץאคгöร 08:37, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
"hovering around 70% or higher and around 60 on the latter"is positive or mixed, the sources themselves do, and the sources are used regardless of
"at least 65% on Rotten Tomatoes and 55 on Metacritic". You are the one who is clearly not listening. "lukewarm" does not mean "positive". Digital Spy reports RT score going up, not the overall reception changing to
"somehwat positive". This is the result of your
many recent publications have said "acclaimed"claim? These are the
many recent publications? Not only are you claiming information that is fabricated and false, but you are also wasting the editors' time. ภץאคгöร 08:18, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
Chris Bumbray of JoBlo.com gave the film a 7 out of 10, stating: "At its heart, Elemental is a rom-com, which, oddly enough, is a rare thing these days. Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie (who was great in the Netflix movie Uncorked) have good chemistry, and there's a sweetness to their tentative romance that hasn't been seen in a mainstream movie in too long. Sometimes you almost forget you're watching animation as the two characters feel alive. However, at a certain point, you realize this is a nice movie but perhaps not as resonant as their best work. It's sweet and entertaining in the same way Onward is, meaning it's second-tier Pixar – below the classics like Wall-E and Up, but far above any of the Cars movies, Elio, Lightyear, etc."
How is Elio “second-tier Pixar” when the movie hasn’t even been released yet? Jimmysmitzismyhero72 ( talk) 20:17, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Dunno. In the meantime, I added a footnote to his review explaining that Elio has not yet been released yet. Thanks for noticing! OmegaMantis ( talk) 21:23, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
The problem is that using {{cast list}} isn't necessary because they have descriptions and critical commentary, which is similar to Luca since they also have descriptions and critical commentary as well. LancedSoul ( talk) 21:05, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
It is unusual to cast minorities as romantic leads in a Pixar production. Leah Lewis Lewis is Asian American and Mamoudou Athie is African American which I did not figure out until I saw pictures of the actors. I tried to add this information to each cast entry but this was removed as "irrelevant" with all the controversy surrounding the Little Mermaid and Disney pledging to cast more minorities, and animations like Rayna and the Last Dragon feature a mostly Asian cast Bachcell ( talk) 01:46, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
I like to change the run time to 101 minutes please. I saw it on the blu ray dvd. Super Chow58 ( talk) 12:32, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
Of the box office takings of around 500 million, half goes to the cinemas and 100 million was spent on marketing. This means that the film cost 200 million and earned around 150 million. How can you call that a sleeper hit? ~~~~ 2A0A:A541:95CA:0:2166:495A:6C2C:D153 ( talk) 17:43, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm not an expert wikipedian but I'd like to add a section on the conlang in the language and its pretty cool and an interesting part of the movie. I definitely know how to format it and all and have sources for it but I don't know etiquette on whether such a section is notable enough to be added. ChromeBones ( talk) 09:03, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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The idea of a non-binary character was used for marketing/promotion to try and gain interest, primarily during Pride Month, any development surrounding this character being non-binary is not in the final film.
If it's not part of the movie, neither the dialogue nor character development, then it shouldn't be listed as a character trait in the description of the characters as it's irrelevant to how the character is depicted in the film.
The director making remarks about the characters outside of what is shown should either be considered under the marketing for the film OR in a trivia section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:802:DF01:E1FD:FAAC:96B1:C532 ( talk) 18:06, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey, who's Matt Yang King? You should take out the stuff that is unconfirmed. How do you guys know who voices Alan Ripple? Are you spies or something? Maybe "Ripple" isn't even his last name, and he's not really Wade's dad, maybe he's just his brother. Yeah, some websites stated that he is possibly Wade's brother, but I recommend YOU not to add anything, and just make it "TBA as Alan" no "Matt Yang King" or "Ripple". Unconfirmed stuff. How do you even know if "Ripple" is Wade's real last name? I know it was in his tag that reads "ELEMENT CITY INSPECTOR WADE RIPPLE. But Maybe it's fake, you never know. Also, what the heck is "Fern Grouchwood"? Where the heck did you get "Grouchwood"? Did you make that up? You put "Matt Yang King" on there like you're so sure, but maybe you're wrong. That's why you can't trust everything you read on Wikipedia. Silly Simonthings18. MariaKwanta ( talk) 04:52, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
The voice actor confirmed it in replies on his IG post 176.234.229.187 ( talk) 09:30, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
HOW? 184.185.152.3 ( talk) 17:54, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
So we know the Performance is Poor at the Moment. We should keep an eye out what's the Latest Earnings of the Box Office later. Happiness is Simple ( talk) 20:31, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
Here I am @ Nyxaros: at the talk page. Since when do we include a source that has cherry picked tweets to summarize "social media reception". We don't. It's synthesizing unreliable sources (tweets) to come up with an overall conclusion. I wasn't the only one that contested this inclusion of yours. What is your rationale for including this? The Metacritic deletion was just collateral damage, though it could be argued that it's unnecessary. Let the reviews speak for themselves. Mike Allen 00:31, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
2300 98.10.136.168 ( talk) 11:31, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
You can watch this movie in movie theaters. Seinfeld429 ( talk) 12:34, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
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Change the run time to 1 hour and 43 min or 103 minutes Indyquaza135 ( talk) 23:32, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
I have made many edits about this films box office performance. The reasons for reversion were weak. Either "box office could improve" or "too early". These are both subjective assessments. I have provided many, even too many apparently sources to back my claim of a box office bomb. No one reverting my edits has provided sources portraying the films box office as successful or just not bad. At best this film earnings were disappointing (yahoo) at worst they were a disaster (global village space). Both sources call it a flop or bomb. Why this is too early for us but not for most RS's I don't know. Can we at least keep the fact that this is the lowest grossing opening weekend for a Pixar film. A fact that most articles mention. PalauanLibertarian 🗣️ 20:44, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Predicted to need as much as $500 million to break even, some critics are looking toward Elemental's Japanese debut on Aug. 4 as the final test of its turnaround.Predicted by who? Mike Allen 20:48, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Screen Rant and CBR are sister sites sharing several staff/resources. You quoted them at $400million earlier (now met with the trades acknowledging the turnaround as well with THR noting it "weathered the storm" and "won’t be a huge theatrical money loser after all"), and now the goalposts are being moved?
Getting back to what Talk pages are for, though, what exactly are we trying accomplish in this discussion? We dont need to continue to use it as a repository of every story covering the box office performance. Things have changed so much, I think we've lost sight of where its going. It seems all the coverage paints a pretty clear picture: The film opened poorly, and it appeared to be a financial disappointment; however sustained ticket sales over its theatrical run resulted in box office sales totalling $_____<fill in the blank>. This is all pretty well outlined in the THR piece just linked, aside from a final number, so multiple references can be consolidated until a final number eventually comes. - 2pou ( talk) 17:48, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
Nice article in the New York Times today: ‘Elemental’ Morphs From Flop to Hit, Raising Questions Along the Way.-- ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 15:06, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
It could be noted that Flarrietta is a customer at The Fire Place. Also here is a link on the Immigration Official: https://pixarpost.com/2023/05/elemental-sneak-peek-american-idol.html 65.130.217.56 ( talk) 03:46, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
According to the website CBR, it is estimated that the film will need to gross $500 million to break-even. [19] Is this accurate and should we include it in the article? And1987 ( talk) 20:01, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
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"Elemental had just reached $300M domestically and $450M worldwide." 73.132.195.186 ( talk) 15:11, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
Aside from the plant thing when did they face xenophobia?
It's more the father who is quite the racist, coming to a city full of water guy and complaining that they are actually water guy living there? and that the city is not made for fire people? well duh
Little-kinder (
talk) 20:10, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
I've seen edit warring for those two, which violated WP:3RR. Honestly, when the aggregators (like Rotten Tomatoes which classified it as "fresh" and Metacritic which received "mixed or average" reviews) disagree, then we shouldn't be summarizing in the lead. LancedSoul ( talk) 22:25, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
"disagree"about anything. There are already multiple spurces stating mixed reviews. I've already explained multiple times with edit summaries and a message, and posted a RT link. Cite your sources for "positive reviews" claim. Questioning a reliable source by writing
"Using Metacritic as a source isn't helpful either"does not seem like the right thing to do. ภץאคгöร 22:47, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
" unacceptable"? I'm not the one continuing to ignore/remove reliable sources and insisting on trying to portray a feature of a particular website as something it is not. I advise you to stop accusing other editors and instead focus on improving your edits. I also suggest that you don't continue with your "this article determines all RT states" attitude everywhere just because someone shared a Vox article years ago and you got it. (RT already has its own page here). ภץאคгöร 08:01, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
many recent publications have said "acclaimed", so why not add them? You can solve the problem by adding "many" of these alleged publications. ภץאคгöร 08:16, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
many recent publications have said "acclaimed"claim. And now you're trying to use what's written on other pages, ignoring sources for this page, as a valid reason to have your own way. ภץאคгöร 08:37, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
"hovering around 70% or higher and around 60 on the latter"is positive or mixed, the sources themselves do, and the sources are used regardless of
"at least 65% on Rotten Tomatoes and 55 on Metacritic". You are the one who is clearly not listening. "lukewarm" does not mean "positive". Digital Spy reports RT score going up, not the overall reception changing to
"somehwat positive". This is the result of your
many recent publications have said "acclaimed"claim? These are the
many recent publications? Not only are you claiming information that is fabricated and false, but you are also wasting the editors' time. ภץאคгöร 08:18, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
Chris Bumbray of JoBlo.com gave the film a 7 out of 10, stating: "At its heart, Elemental is a rom-com, which, oddly enough, is a rare thing these days. Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie (who was great in the Netflix movie Uncorked) have good chemistry, and there's a sweetness to their tentative romance that hasn't been seen in a mainstream movie in too long. Sometimes you almost forget you're watching animation as the two characters feel alive. However, at a certain point, you realize this is a nice movie but perhaps not as resonant as their best work. It's sweet and entertaining in the same way Onward is, meaning it's second-tier Pixar – below the classics like Wall-E and Up, but far above any of the Cars movies, Elio, Lightyear, etc."
How is Elio “second-tier Pixar” when the movie hasn’t even been released yet? Jimmysmitzismyhero72 ( talk) 20:17, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Dunno. In the meantime, I added a footnote to his review explaining that Elio has not yet been released yet. Thanks for noticing! OmegaMantis ( talk) 21:23, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
The problem is that using {{cast list}} isn't necessary because they have descriptions and critical commentary, which is similar to Luca since they also have descriptions and critical commentary as well. LancedSoul ( talk) 21:05, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
It is unusual to cast minorities as romantic leads in a Pixar production. Leah Lewis Lewis is Asian American and Mamoudou Athie is African American which I did not figure out until I saw pictures of the actors. I tried to add this information to each cast entry but this was removed as "irrelevant" with all the controversy surrounding the Little Mermaid and Disney pledging to cast more minorities, and animations like Rayna and the Last Dragon feature a mostly Asian cast Bachcell ( talk) 01:46, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
I like to change the run time to 101 minutes please. I saw it on the blu ray dvd. Super Chow58 ( talk) 12:32, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
Of the box office takings of around 500 million, half goes to the cinemas and 100 million was spent on marketing. This means that the film cost 200 million and earned around 150 million. How can you call that a sleeper hit? ~~~~ 2A0A:A541:95CA:0:2166:495A:6C2C:D153 ( talk) 17:43, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm not an expert wikipedian but I'd like to add a section on the conlang in the language and its pretty cool and an interesting part of the movie. I definitely know how to format it and all and have sources for it but I don't know etiquette on whether such a section is notable enough to be added. ChromeBones ( talk) 09:03, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
The redirect Fire and water cannot be together has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 24 § Fire and water cannot be together until a consensus is reached. Utopes ( talk / cont) 01:20, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
The redirect Elements cannot mix has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 24 § Elements cannot mix until a consensus is reached. Utopes ( talk / cont) 01:21, 24 March 2024 (UTC)