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49381 Book-Film Response ** FINDING NEMO ** I chose to do my Book-Film Response on the movie, Finding Nemo. Finding Nemo was directed by Andrew Stanton and was released on May 30, 2003. The movie begins with two clownfish, Marlin, played by Albert Brooks, and his wife Coral, played by Elizabeth Perkins, who are anxiously waiting for their eggs to hatch. Marlin and Coral were talking about what names to use for their 400+ children. Marlin wanted half of them to be Marlin Jr. and half to be Coral Jr. However, Coral liked the name Nemo. When they were finished talking about the names, Coral turned around to find a barracuda right behind them. Marlin told Coral to go into the anemone (this exhibits the protective nature a man has towards a woman) but Coral didn’t listen and swam to her eggs. (This exhibits the protective nature a mother has for her children, sometimes putting her own life in danger to protect them) With the barracuda following her, knocking Marlin unconscious in the process, and ended up eating her and all but one of her eggs. When Marlin wakes up to find that all but one egg was gone, he decides to name him Nemo in memory of Coral. (Although Marlin wanted half of the children to be named after him and half of the children to be named after Coral, by naming him Nemo, Marlin was, in a sense, granting Corals last wish before she died).

The movie then moves to Nemo’s first day of school. Nemo, played by Alexander Gould, is very excited about school but Marlin is overprotective of him because of what happened to the rest of the family. After arriving to school, Marlin reluctantly allows Nemo to go with the rest of the children to school. After the teacher and students leave, Marlin discovers they are going to the “drop off”. Panic stricken, Marlin then goes to the drop off to bring Nemo home and in the process, embarrasses Nemo in front of all the students saying he can’t swim well, due to the fact Nemo was born with a small right fin as a result of his encounter as an egg with the barracuda. (Marlin is overprotective of Nemo because he was not able to protect Coral and the eggs from getting eaten by the barracuda. Marlin suffers from Post-traumatic stress disorder which is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you've seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. Pg. 182,296,386,561) (Marlin exhibits the authoritative parenting style on pg. 221).

14:00 minutes into the movie, Nemo then decides to swim out to a boat to show how well he can swim. This results in Nemo getting taken by a scuba diver, Dr. Phillip Sherman, played by Bill Hunter. (Although Nemo’s dad told him to come back and not touch the boat, Nemo disobeyed (defiance) and swam further and further because of his dad saying he doesn’t think he can swim well and because he embarrassed him in front of all of his friends. This is an example of innate goodness; Nemo was seeking out an experience to help him grow, but experienced a poor outcome as a result of frustration in his efforts to express his goodness. Pg. 3) Marlin then follows the boat to try and save his son. While the boat was floating away the diver knocked his mask overboard which had both the name and address of who he was and where he lived. Marlin then continues swimming in search of his son, which leads him to meeting Dory (16:00 minutes into the movie). Dory, played by Ellen DeGeneres, is a Pacific Regal Blue Tang with short-term memory loss (Dory lacks processing efficiency pg. 254) (Dory has ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) pg.268 as exhibited in her behavior. For example: Being easily distracted, Difficulty maintaining focus on one task, Daydreaming, becoming easily confused, Talking nonstop, Dashing around, touching or playing with anything and everything in sight, Being constantly in motion).

Dory and Marlin then set out to find Nemo together. This caused them to run into three sharks, Bruce, a great white shark; Anchor, a hammerhead shark; and Chum, a mako shark (18:00 minutes into the movie). (The sharks have a meeting they do where they state their name and how many days it has been since they’ve eaten a fish. This can be compared to alcoholics at an AA meeting stating their name and how many days it has been since they’ve had a drink pg. 389). The sharks’ fish friendly shark motto is: "I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food." (Bruce’s statement at the meeting “I never even knew my father” is initiative vs. guilt from Erickson’s psychological stages pg. 30) While with the sharks Marlin finds the mask the diver dropped but is unable to read it (21:00 minutes into the movie). Dory then tries to help and take the mask to the sharks to read it but Marlin doesn’t want her to. He pulls back the mask, leading to Dory getting hit in the nose, her nose bleeding, and Bruce wanting to eat them (22:00 minutes into the movie). After Marlin and Dory get away from the sharks, Dory accidentally drops the mask. While swimming, they find themselves up against an anglerfish. Marlin then fights the anglerfish so Dory can find and read the mask which says “P. Sherman, 42 wallaby way, Sydney.” After getting away from the anglerfish, they run into some moonfish who give them directions to Sydney. They then have an encounter with jellyfish that sting them terribly causing them to “fall asleep” most likely anaphylactic shock. When they wake up they find themselves on turtles riding the East Australian Current. This in turn leads them to meeting Crush, played by Andrew Stanton, and his son squirt, played by Nicholas Bird. (Crush is a very laid back, carefree, beach bum kind of guy. Characteristics of openness/intellect from The Big 5 Personality Traits pg. 279)

After they got off the EAC (East Australian Current) they found themselves lost so they asked for help, from a whale. Dory then communicated with the whale, trying to speak “whale”. The whale then ate Marlin and Dory and swam them to Sydney, Australia. After Dory’s communication with the whale, he blew them out through his blowhole and they realized he had taken them to Sydney. Marlin and Dory thanked him for his help. They are then almost eaten by a pelican, but Nigel, a brown “good” pelican, played by Geoffrey Rush, saves them. The agreeable Nigel (Big 5 Personality traits pg. 279) then takes them to where Nemo was.

During the time Marlin and Dory are searching for Nemo, Nemo is in the diver’s dentist office in a fish tank (24:00 minutes into the movie). Nemo, however, is not the only fish in the tank (25:00 minutes into the movie). There are seven other fish with him, there was: Gill, a Moorish Idol (He was the leader of the tank gang and could relate to Nemo because he also had a malformed fin and was taken from the ocean); Bloat, a Puffer Fish, (He experiences anxiety and blows up in times of fear or stress); Peach, a Starfish, (who sticks to the side of the tank as the lookout); Gurgle, a Royal Gramma, (who over reacts to every situation); Bubbles, a Yellow Tang,(obsessed with his bubbles as a coping mechanism acquired from being in a tank) ; Deb, a Four-striped Damselfish (Deb may have a touch of schizophrenia disorder due to the fact that she sees her “twin sister flo” even though she really doesn’t exist pg.60); and Jacques, a Pacific Cleaner Shrimp (Jacques has Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) pg. 322). The tank gang learned that the dentist, P. Sherman, will be giving Nemo to his niece Darla for her eighth birthday. The gang then told Nemo how P. Sherman had given her a fish for her last birthday and she killed him as a result of her constant shaking of the bag he was in. Gill decided they would try to help Nemo escape before Darla arrived. They planned for Nemo to stop the filter so the dentist would put them in bags and while he cleaned the tank, they would all escape into the harbor. The plan didn’t work the first time they tried it, because Nemo couldn’t stop the filter. Nemo then heard from Nigel, that Marlin has searched the whole ocean for him and that he encountered three sharks and a sea turtle and was on his way to Sydney to get him. After hearing that his dad was trying to find him and not giving up, Nemo then tried the escape plan again and stopped the filter. The tank got filthy dirty but while the fish were sleeping the dentist installed a tank cleaner that scanned and cleaned the tank. Darla then showed up for her dentist appointment and P. Sherman had her fish, Nemo, ready for her. Nemo then faked being dead so the dentist would flush him down the toilet and he would be sent to the ocean because “all drains lead to the ocean”. When Nigel flew in through the window with Marlin and Dory in his mouth, Darla dropped Nemo onto the dentist tray. The bag burst and Gill and the gang then used the ring of fire off of [|Mount Wannahockaloogie] to help Gill escape to the tray where Nemo was and help him get down the drain to the ocean.

Nemo reaches the ocean and runs into Dory. Dory not realizing who Nemo was, because of her short term memory loss, helps Nemo search for Marlin. While helping search for Marlin, Dory sees the side of a pipe that said “Sydney” and everything came back to her. As she helped reunite Marlin and Nemo she gets caught in a fishing net with other fish. Nemo knew what to do to help them get out because he had a similar experience when he was in the fish tank. Marlin trusted his son and let him help by telling all the fish to “swim down”. The plan worked, Dory was saved, and Marlin realized his son really could swim well even though he had a gimpy fin. Marlin trusted his son. Nemo returned to school and squirt went along with him. The movie ends with a scene where the cleaner in the fish tank had broken, forcing the dentist to put all the fish in bags to clean the tank. While in the bags, the fish rolled their bags out the window, across the street and into the harbor, which in turn freed them.

At the beginning of the movie, Marlin started as an overprotective, fearful father who wouldn’t allow his son to do anything. Through the course of his journey to find and save his son, he learned that he could trust himself and his son. In the end, this new found trust offered freedom, security, and stability to their relationship.

On May 30, 2003 Roger Ebert wrote a review for Finding Nemo. He gave the movie four stars. Ebert said, “There is a story, though, one of those Pixar inventions that involve kids on the action level while adults are amused because of the satire and human (or fishy) comedy.” He noted that the father (Marlin) was the hero in Finding Nemo where as in most animated movies the hero is the mother. Meta critic (based off of 37 critics) gave the movie 89 out of 100. Critics raved about the use of color, form, and movement. Although I don’t agree, some reviews have been written saying it is “painfully easy to see the cliques emerging.” Or it is not a good movie. In 2003 it won “Best Deleted Scenes, Outtakes and Bloopers”, “Best Animated Film”, “Best Animated Feature”, and “Hollywood Film Award – Animation.” It has won [|Saturn Awards] and Academy Awards. “The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews and won the [|Academy Award for Best Animated Feature]. It was a financial blockbuster as it grossed over $864 million worldwide. It is the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of [|2006] and is the 2nd highest grossing G-rated movie of all time. In 2008, the [|American Film Institute] named it the 10th greatest American Animated film ever made during their [|10 Top 10] .”

** BIBLIOGRAPHY **

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Boyd, Denise and Bee, Helen. //Lifespan Development: Fifth Edition//. Boston, Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon 2009, 2006, 2003 __ Movie __

“//FINDING NEMO //” DVD. Directed by Andrew Stanaton and Lee Unkrich. 2003; Burbank, CA: //Buena Vista Home Entertainment //. Walt Disney Pictures __ Internet __ Ebert, R. (30 M). rogerebert.com. Retrieved from

[] Meta critic: keeping score of entertainment [] List of Pixar awards and nominations (feature films) __ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pixar_awards_and_nominations_%28feature_films%29 __

__+++++++++++++++++++__ __Subject Matter—20 points out of 20__

__Higher-Order Thinking—20 points out of 20__ :

__Organization--30 points out of 30__

__Format--10 points out of 10__

__Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling--10 points out of 10__

__Readability/Style--10 points out of 10__

Grade: 100/100