Analyzing The Movie 'Finding Nemo'

As the years went by instead of detribalizing, film beholds the power to bring people together and unite them. Instead of extending space, movies

Movies have the ability to transport people to different times and places and distract them from ordinary everyday reality. They allow for a range of emotions to be experienced. At their core, movies examine the human condition. There are plenty of deeper truths woven into screenplays and plenty of lessons to be learned, even when an individual is solely seeking entertainment.

My story is a bit on the humorous side for most parties other than myself.

“The most powerful way to reach an audience is through the characters' emotions” (Alderson). Sometimes a producer’s toughest job is to appeal to his or her audience to gain their interest in a film. Two of the movies we watched in class came to mind when I think of this. ‘Three Idiots’ along with ‘A Bronx Tale’ are fantastic examples of how a producer can reach the emotions of an audience. However, I felt that one film was more powerful than the other. Although ‘A Bronx tale’ is a well written story with talented actors, the feel for the viewer throughout the movie is almost a sort of low key melancholy as the drama unfolds. ‘A Bronx Tale’ deals with more complex issues such as the mafia, murder and even racism but the producer almost always gives us what we expect next. Conversely, the lower budget film ‘Three idiots’ with little know actors leads the audience through

Through books, authors often try to communicate messages about society, or predict what will happen to it. Through their literature, they explore the different aspects of what their community is comprised of, and shed light on certain subjects that would otherwise be left untouched by the minds of readers. Similarly, movies share these messages with the masses, and make it more accessible to the community. Oftentimes, directors use the cinema to paint a picture of what life is like, or what life will be like. Through these two different fields, artists are able to share their knowledge with their audience, and audiences are able to soak up this knowledge, and relate to it. In Always Running, a memoir written by Luis Rodriguez, he shares an

On June 24, 100 under-served kids from Ashley HomeStore's Hope to Dream philanthropy and The Salvation Army got the chance to have "a definitive" sleepover experience when they spent the night on the same football field that the Dallas Cowboys play on at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

While one is reading a book or watching a movie, it is very easy to pick up things that might make a viewer’s relate to the themes. Most of these are made not just to entertain the audience, but also to interact with their emotions and help them to relate to the work. There are tons of different examples of books or movies that people can relate to, but there will never be just one that everyone agrees on. Three books or movies that affected me greatly are Brave New World, Harry Potter, and The Blind Side.

Film can have many different interpretations. It can be taken as simple popcorn entertainment that breaks box office records. Or, it can have a powerful moral or message it wants to convey, and have the audience form their own opinions and thoughts. One film that had an impact on me is the film Blackfish. The film gave me opinions on animal cruelty, corporate corruption, and manipulative marketing. All of which are ruining today's society, and had me questioning about what it means to live in a world where these insufferably cruel acts are taken place in a tourist heavy attraction.

With movie prices being around a nickle or dime, many people would spend their time watching movies. Though most movies and movie theaters did not have sound, it was still a place to kind of forget about the reality they lived in, and maybe a place to just hangout for a few hours. Another media mentionable would be radio. Though not everybody had a radio, those who had access to one, could receive information or even just entertainment in the matter of a few clicks and twists. Most movies were comedies. Many were designed to provide hope, or to influence happiness. There wasn't very many films that didn’t have a happy-go-lucky sort of mood to them. Showing feats of perseverance or a comedy, the movie industry took a major step in the bettering of the

The author of the article “Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello” Michael Cieply states that now aday movies are lacking a great line that carries deep meaning, and that they focus mainly on the visuals and less on the actual dialogue. I agree with Cieply that we don’t see those great meaningful lines in the movies these day. However, I want to add to his opinion that it's not just the visuals that's taking the most attention, it also the fact that movies became only for entertainment, meaning that they’re not really for educational purposes whatsoever, and let's face it do we actually sit and watch documentary movies on our for fun?

    Film and literature are two media forms that are so closely related, that we often forget there is a distinction between them. We often just view the movie as an extension of the book because most movies are based on novels or short stories. Because we are accustomed to this sequence of production, first the novel, then the motion picture, we often find ourselves making value judgments about a movie, based upon our feelings on the novel. It is this overlapping of the creative processes that prevents us from seeing movies as distinct and separate art forms from the novels they are based on.

Finding Nemo is an animated film that follows John Campbell’s heroic journey or the common structure he calls “monomyth” (Hamby). This film takes a father, Marlin, on a heroic quest through complications and victories. Marlin is trying to reunite with his son, Nemo. The movie Finding Nemo follows the basic stages of a hero’s journey or monomyth and has various archetypes that are typically found in monomyths (Hamby). An archetype is a “character that has a pattern or circumstance that recurs enough to be considered a universal concept or situation” (“archetype”).

Pixar’s Finding Nemo can surely be considered a modern day classic film. It is films like There Will Be Blood, Inception, and Argo that prove that a spectacular film can be made in a time where Hollywood has obviously run dry on original ideas. But, what happens when you create a sequel to a classic? Can the sequel become a classic as well, or at least be as good as its predecessor? Although some sequels have become classics themselves (The Dark Knight), many have fallen flat and pale in comparison to the original (Return to Oz).

Films and movies hold much than we can guess, they reveal a lot of vices and rots that are happening in society. Others give a history of a particular society, its beliefs, culture and their standard of living in the society. Films are used to disclose the social responsibilities in a given season and customs, moral values, societal worries and other cultural practices.

What would your life be like without cinema? I can guarantee that in some way, shape or form, your life has been changed due to film. Ever since its conception in 1896, cinema has been a magnificent source of wonder to millions of audiences. In particular I want to discuss the idea that great cinema is provocative, with the help of what’s widely regarded as the greatest film of all time- “Citizen Kane”. I believe great films possess the ability to provoke audiences not only through entertainment, but also by being able to reach deeper and inform an audience about what it means to be human, regardless of where you are. Who you are. Where you come from. What you have experienced. The very crux of what makes Citizen Kane, and any film great, is its ability to interact with and provoke its audience.