Finding Nemo, A Generation's Favorite Movie

It all started with one fish who decide to touch the ¨butt¨. One fish at school got challenged to swim out and touch the bottom of a boat. With no fear in mind, Nemo went and touched the boat. Nemo thought he had an easy victory when something happened and changed his life forever. Nemo is the son of a brave dad named Marlin. Marlin suffered a miserable loss of his wife and all their children. Nemo is the only family member Marlin has left so Marlin pledges to keep Nemo safe at all costs. In the film ¨Finding Nemo¨ the author Andrew Stanton uses good and evil through the journey to criticise how we as humans value the love we have for are family members because we share a strong bond with the people we enjoy.

As we analyzed these things that worked and didn’t work, I decided to see what we will change in future collaborative groups. Firstly, we decided as a group that the tower crashing down was a result of us not using our plan correctly. To change this we decided that we needed more communication which we had and needed more of as well. Secondly, as a group I think we need to in the future make sure we are not off topic and to focus on building the tower because that is one of the reasons why our tower came crashing down, it felt like we were working

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”).

As the project manager for this project, here is my plan to address communication barriers for our team and to keep communication flowing in a positive way.

However, despite this, actually working together was extremely difficult to do. Every person did their portion of the work, and were incredibly nice, but it took them far too long to complete their slides. To begin, our group did not have a solid concept for our presentation for quite some time and nobody was pitching any ideas. We started out wanting to discuss women’s clothing as well as part in society throughout time; however, we eventually settled on westernized ideas of Arab women. Yet, even after finally deciding what topic to research, the group was fairly disorganized as well as unwilling to meet. I had suggested meeting times quite often and nobody would respond. However, when we did eventually meet and work on the project, my group members were nothing but efficient and hardworking. I suppose this problem was just based on different work ethics, yet I still wish they were more responsive to my messages and

I feel our discussion was semi-successful and our group worked pretty well together. We followed the standard agenda most of the time, but I feel we did some things that did not follow it. We rushed through the first two steps, task clarification and problem definition, in the standard agenda model most likely because we were all nervous from filming ourselves and could not think of how to start it. We then spent most of the time discussing our research in the fact finding step. We ended after the solution criteria step; however, we did talk about possible solutions throughout the discussion especially in the solution criteria step. I feel that the reason we took so long on the fact finding step and did not get farther was mainly due to

The first day were assigned the project we formed a group. We exchanged names and cell numbers. At first we were unsure of what play we wanted to do, and after reading a few; we decided to do “Behind Closed Doors”. From then we had our first meeting that upcoming Friday. We discussed each other’s jobs, and the information we gathered, and how it would all be put together. Each person did their own presentation board for their assigned job. Each board was done a little differently but all had what was required, which is the visual images, statement of concept and story. There are four members of the group, we all group text each-other from the day we all got the assignment till the day we presented. We text and even Facetime when we couldn’t meet in person (we all have IPhones). We all helped each other out even if it wasn’t our job. After we presented the feedback received was a round of applause from the audience, so I’m guessing that was a response of our group doing good. No questions was asked except from Professor Curry, and at the end he told us “Thank You and Good Job!” After presenting we noticed that several other groups also did the same play. That means that they enjoyed it as much as we did, and even more when we came together as a whole. Overall, I really enjoyed working with my team everyone did

Our small group project was quite effective because with the whole group effort, it made it easier for the team to complete a wide variety of tasks and it helped us establish meaningful connection with each other. Most importantly, it helped us build, and change our sense of self. The positive aspect of working in the small group is that all of our cultural uniqueness aided the group in a creative sense. Everyone in our group contributed equally, clearly presenting our case.

The film I’ve chosen to analyze is the film Finding Nemo, an animated comedy-drama adventure film, directed by Andrew Shanton and Lee Unkrich. Major actors include; Alexander Gould as Nemo, Ellen DeGeneres as Dory and Albert Brooks as Marlin. The film was officially released in May 30th, 2003. This blockbuster film was nominated Best Animated Feature, also winning more than forty different awards. Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist’s office fish tank. It is now up to the worrisome father, Marlin and his new friend Dory, to set off across the ocean to find Nemo. As his epic journey to find his son continues, Marlin and Dory are faced with challenging situations, which put their fears to the test; allowing them to not only create a new great friendship, but also learn valuable lessons. One of the highlighted lessons in

During the process of forming the outline and the PowerPoint, each other’s progress as well as competence was able to be measured and observed. We were able to critique each other’s work and build upon what each member already developed. Yet during the actual performance of the presentation, regardless of how much preparation or practice, what was delivered was what you got. There was no turn around point. This stress of the possibility of making a mistake at that point put not only a higher level of dependence on one another, but trust. Trust allowed the dependence to occur in the beginning. Aside interdependence I would say that synergy amongst the group stayed positive and constant throughout the group and the entirety of the project. Our ability to communicate what main ideas we thought would be pertinent to share in the presentation and who would be sharing which part happened with ease. With regards to equability, this stems back to the level of trust and interdependence the group had when it came to what specific information each group member chose as well as how it would be announced. Moreover, to the topic of openness. This I feel helped the group keep its homeostasis. Granted there was a lot of freedom to how each group member would select their information and how they would present, each member of the group seemed to be open to critique and feedback. We were all able to provide suggestions to each other as well as what we felt best for the presentation without the friction. The concept of groupthink did not affect the group and the overall morale stayed

Finding Nemo was one of the most popular movie in 2003 it was about a dad (Marlin) that lost his only kid (nemo) therefore he was going to do everything he had to find his son which he did. One of the best taglines for this movie is "There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They're looking for one." This movie took habitation in the coral reef, ocean. It was directed by Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich. Andrew Stanton was educated at The California Institute of the Arts (or "CalArts") in Los Angeles, where he studied character animation. He also is a director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor. Main actors were Albert Brooks (Marlin), Ellen DeGeneres (Dory) & Alexander Gould (Nemo). Finding nemo had 49 wins out of their 61 nominations. Finding nemo was mainly about his dad looking for him he passed by so many unexpected things and meanwhile, nemo was stuck at a dentist fish tank. Finding Nemo official came out on May 30, 2003.

Our group cohesion in helping the kids with the eye-spy bottles was very good. We all communicated what we needed and how the others could be of help to us. For example, when a bunch of kids were surrounding Andrea wanting her help writing their lists she was able to just tell us that she needed help and one of us would step up and do it. I feel our “communication skills (pg. 18)” were well developed. When someone was

To struggle is unfortunately an inevitability for the human race. However, one outcome carried by the toil of conflict is adaptability, which is an essential trait one can only acquire through great struggle. As a thirteen-year-old girl whose dreams encompassed nothing more than a house on a hill and a handful of close companions, I could not comprehend being asked to leave the dream I was living in exchange for a city rife with unknowns.

Albert Magnus once said, “In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.” In other words, to live, men must rebel to be satisfied with themselves, but there is a certain limit towards how much an individual must rebel, otherwise there is no point in rebelling. Albert Camus is correct because to get what humans want to live for, they must rebel and go against certain perspectives or else they will live unhappy, but there are limits to how much those individuals have to rebel. In the movie Finding Nemo, Nemo, the main character gets captured and taken from his family for rebelling because he was born with a physical disability, disobeyed his father, and his family was murdered by a shark.

Since the beginning of time, movies have always been a way to display social conflicts in a certain period of time to a large audience. Movies can evoke various emotions from different people, thus making it a great medium for directors to get their point across. For instance, movies can provide a feel good mood, but can also provide a lesson at the same time; Finding Nemo perfected this through a feel good moment when Nemo was able to reunited with his dad. One of the director’s point was to display a father’s love for his son, and that he would fight to the very end in order to find his son. Movies such as Finding Nemo are classics because of the emotions that it can evoke and the important theme it displays. Each renowned director throughout