Why Does Elio Have An Eye Patch? I Asked The Pixar Animators, And I’m Living For Their Reasoning

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"Elio" animated science fiction adventure film produced by Pixar.    We have to talk about what we learned about the feature that is following "Inside Out 2’s" massive commercial success when we were invited to Emeryville, California, to get to know the project at the very place it was crafted. Specifically, we need to discuss Elio and his already trademark eyepatch.  In "Elio," we’ll follow an 11-year-old boy who’s gotten really into space and aliens following the untimely death of his parents. So much so, he actually longs to leave Earth and be abducted by them in hopes of living a less lonely existence. In the 20 minutes of footage I saw, I learned Elio has recently started living with his Aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña) on a military base when he makes contact with real aliens and gets his wish.

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00:00I don't know if this is a spoiler, but like Elio's little eye patch.

00:04Can you talk a little bit about that?

00:06Well, you didn't get to see how he got his eye patch, but he gets an eye patch.

00:13That's all we can say.

00:15Yeah, it was a bit of a challenge because we were like, does he have to spend the rest of the movie with his eye patch on?

00:20It does provide like a very useful way of knowing that's Elio.

00:25So it's really kind of like a handy, you know, identifier for him.

00:30And in the end, it wasn't causing too much trouble.

00:32It's one less eye for us to animate.

00:35Yeah.

00:36And for a film about a kid who has kind of dreams of being a space captain pirate or whatever, it's kind of really on theme.

00:46So we were surprised at how well it was woven into the movie by the end, I should say.

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