This is a film commentary on the movie Finding Nemo by Andrew Stanton. It is about a clown fish named Marlin (Albert Brooks). He’s very overprotective about his son Nemo (Alexander Gould) and carefully watches his every move. Marlin’s wife was killed when a barracuda came to their reef and murdered her and all their eggs of baby clownfish. But there was only one egg that was found hurt. That last egg was Nemo. That left Marlin being the widower and having to take care of Nemo on his own. He learned to become a mother and a father to take care of Nemo. Then, Nemo was on his first day of school. He was taken on a field trip to the drop off, which was a dangerous place that Marlin did not approve on. Nemo was with a bad crowd and their intentions …show more content…
He doesn’t know how to let loose and trust his son on what he wants to do. In order to survive he needs to trust in others and accept
Right in the beginning of the film you can see how Marlin as a father really wants to make sure Nemo is safe from any dangers in the ocean. Nemo accidentally gets himself stuck in some sort of undersea plant. Marlin freaks out and rushes to get nemo to safety. As soon as Nemo gets free Marlin questions him asking if everything is okay. “Nemo, don’t move! Don’t move! You’ll never get out of there yourself. I’ll do it.” He asks him questions like “Are you woozy? Any rushing fluids?” Nemo just answers “No” to every question because he’s annoyed by how overprotective his dad is. In another scene, Nemo is going on a field trip with his school. But Marlin doesn’t know that they’re going to the drop off. He has trust issues with anyone and anything. As soon as he finds out he rushes to find his son once again scolding him for trying to swim out to the open water. Then it seems as if Nemo has had enough of his dad. When nobody is looking Nemo swims out to the boat to touch it. Marlin was protecting his son for way too long and it seems that he’s created a rebel in his
Marlin received the call and took the challenge. When Nemo went to the first day of school he wandered off into the ocean. He went to go touch the boat and he was trapped by a fisher. Marlin didn't
The captivity of large, wild animals is accepted for theme parks all around the world. Tickets are sold for people to come and watch these animals live and even preform in an exhibit that almost resembles their natural environment. It is impossible for parks and zoos that use animals as attractions to provide the same resources and space they would have in the habitat they are usually found in. They can, however, help injured or ill animals that cannot survive in the wild. This is where I believe they should draw the line for keeping animals in captivity. SeaWorld has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years, especially since the Netflix documentary, Blackfish, was released. This film targets the company for the mistreatment of their orca whales. In particular, it told the story of one named Tilikum and shows the problems he and the other orca whales face while living under the care of SeaWorld. Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the director
The man believes his purpose is to guide the boy to safety and to protect his child. He makes his decisions solely based upon the boy’s needs and security rather than his own. One may say his responsibility to the boy is slightly demented by the man’s constant feud with himself regarding the possibility of killing his son to save the boy from pain. However, this only strengthens the point by showing the man is willing to do anything to allow his son to have opportunities with the best outcome, even if that outcome is death. Decisions such as this are nearly inevitable in a world portrayed by McCarthy,
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A motherless tiny clown fish named Nemo who was born with a birth defect, and was raised by his overprotective father, is for the first time allowed to go to school. His friends dare him to swim into the open sea and touch the "butt." Meaning to spite his dad and fit in with his new-found friends, Nemo swims all the way out to the “butt” and touches it forever changing his life. Giving into the peer pressure resulted in a series of unfortunate events that shapes young Nemo’s character forever.
In the movie Finding Nemo, there is a father name Marlin, and a little son named Nemo. The personality of Nemo is he is an off the wall little clown fish that likes to take chances and is what we would call a hyper-active child. He likes to bounce around, take adventures without his dad being around, and somewhat despises his dad for always wanting to be right by his side. Till the day that acting out gets him in trouble. One day heading to school him and his dad, Marlin, get in an argument that makes Nemo want to rebel just like a little child would. So while at school he wants to prove to everyone that he can do everything anyone else could just ...
First, after a hero has had a call to adventure they may refuse it. The refusal to call is usually the 3rd step in the hero’s journey. The refusal to call is when the hero has been called to adventure, but refuses the offer usually due to fear. This part of Finding Nemo is done well. After Marlin sees Nemo taken away by a scuba diver he tries to get him, but is too late. He however stays sad and alone, because of his fear of going out of the safe zone of the ocean. This shows that Marlin wants to get his son back, but he doesn’t want to leave the safe zone. He is having an internal conflict with himself. Should he risk going and getting killed or stay, but never see his son, Nemo again. This quote here can explain his not wanting to go rescue
Finding Nemo is the story of a clownfish, Marlin, who’s only son gets taken by Australian scuba divers. Marlin, even with plenty of grief over losing his wife and other babies, goes through great lengths, fears and people to get his son back. He meets other animals and learns from them the importance of living your life and not worrying about the past as he tries to get his son Nemo back.
In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, pits his strength against forces he cannot control. We learn from Santiago's struggles how to face insurmountable odds with bravery and courage. Though we find an indifferent and hostile universe as Santiago's stage, his unwillingness to give in to these forces demonstrate a reverence for life's struggles. Santiago's struggle is for dignity and meaning in the face of insurmountable odds. His warrior-like spirit fights off the sharks full-well knowing the fate of his marlin. Santiago loses his marlin in the end, but his struggle to keep it represent a victory because of the dignity and heroism with which he carries out his mission. However, as Santiago acknowledges, he is almost sorry he caught the marlin because he knows the animal and he have a great deal in common as fellow beings in nature. However, he only caught the marlin "through trickery" (Hemingway 99). Santi...
For my video paper I chose to do a Pixar movie called Finding Nemo. Although Pixar movies are more aimed for the younger generations, it is becoming more popular for these movies to be introduced in the classrooms. In our DeVito text it shows and explains all the different forms of communication that can be related back to Finding Nemo. Along with other Pixar movies, they all portray many different aspects of communication. Nonverbal communication is presented in the movie by using gestures/movement. Although cartoon characters are not actually real people in the movie, they are created by real people who have experienced nonverbal communication in their lives.
Poseidon, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, is an action-packed adventure thriller that is loosely the remake of the 1970s movie The Poseidon Adventure. It has the same basic story idea, but has completely different characters. And although the characters end up being dull and seemingly useless, the movie is very fun and exciting to watch.
The Old Man and the Sea focuses its plot mainly on Santiago’s struggle against the marlin. Existentialism makes its appearance when Santiago chooses to pursue the marlin, stay with it the entire way, and fight tooth and nail at the end. “My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people,” is how Santiago explains his actions to challenge the fish (Hemingway 50). He mentions how he was born to be a fisherman, and by chasing the marlin, he will give his life the meaning for existence. Santiago also insists on staying with the fish until one of them is dead, which exemplifies his will to fulfill his goals in life. He endures obstacles such as nausea, cramps, and sleep deprivation because he does not want to give up and surrender his fate. When it comes down to the final struggle, Santiago pits all of the pain, strength, and pride he has left against the fish in order to bring it down. Despair begins to creep in when Santiago finds it hard to pull in the marlin, but he overcomes it with every ounce of will he has. He knows that it is up to him to create this important moment in his li...
Santiago went through many turmoil’s in his life and his story is one of wisdom in defeat from the lengthy time of which he could not catch anything to that of his loss of the marlin to the sharks after such a lengthy battle to catch it then attempt to bring it back to shore. Now I could go on and on like any other paper about all the symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea but no matter what I did while reading it, in almost every aspect it screamed out to me as an impersonation or reflection of Hemingway’s own life in a multitude of ways that no one can deny. The Old Man and the Sea was an allegory referring to the Hemingway’s own struggles to preserve his writing i...
The relationship between animal and human in this text shows as a relationship of appreciation and respect. Santiago loves everything about being a fisherman. He is lonely at sea and his sea friends are his companions. He has great respect for the sea as well as the inhabitants that swim and live in it. He does not love all creatures of the deep, blue sea, however, does show respect for each one. Santiago has a particular relationship with the marlin. He comments that the marlin is “wonderful”, “strange”, “strong”, “wise”, and “that is fight has no panic to it” (Hemingway 48 -49). Based on his description of the marlin, Santiago loves and respects him as a worthy opponent and brother, “Now we are joined together and have been since noon” (Hemingway 50). Santiago is not only literally linked to the marlin, but also figuratively because the outcome of this battle will determine both their fates. The old man says, “The fish is my friend too,” he said aloud. “I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars” (Hemingway 75). He starts to imagine impossible feats like killing the moon or the sun and feels lucky that his task, in relative terms, is much simpler. Although he is sad to kill the fis...
In conclusion, Marlin’s quest is rewarded and he is reunited with his son. Through the help of unlikely sources like a whale, a turtle, and a pelican, Marlin regains what is most precious in the world to him. These characters played a key role in Marlin’s journey but it is clear that Dory was the most critical to the pending success of Marlin’s pursuit. This fish that forgets what she is doing every five minutes and finds camaraderie in sharks, whales, and jellyfish is the most significant source of help Marlin has. Marlin and Dory’s interactions are the epitome of finding help where it is least expected.