Finding Nemo: Walt Disney Animation

We all know the popular family movie “Finding Nemo” a kid’s movie that tells a journey of Marlin, a father clown fish, who crosses the vast ocean to find his son Nemo. During Marlin’s journey he comes across many new and scary things, but like any good children’s movie Marlin does eventually find his son Nemo and they go back home and live happily ever after. This all sounds good right? Wrong! Looking at this movie from a psychologist point of view, or in my case a psychology students’ point of view you slowly begin to realize from the moment the movie starts each and every one of the characters in this lovely kids movie is kind of messed up in their own special way.

Marlin finds the mask that has the location where his son was taken. Motivated to find it, Marlin meets with a large school of clever silver fish that enjoys making images with their mass. After the fun of taunting Marlin, they eventually help Marlin by telling him the direction of the fast current that would lead them to Sydney. Marlin and Dory are rescued by sea turtles when shocked unconscious by poisonous jellyfish. When entering the Sydney harbor Nigel, the pelican, assists them scooping them up in his bill to take them to specific area where Nemo is being held hostage, while avoiding the wild seagulls that say nothing but "mine". Also Nigel helps Nemo by keeping him up with information about his father trying to rescue him. Lastly, there are Nemo's tank mates and specifically the mysterious Gill. Gill is the respected fish in the tank that has a mysterious past. He is a tough, yet a strong, altruistic character who personally rescued Nemo while risking his own life.

The hero journey beings with the Departure. The departure I the heros journey has five component. The call to adventure. The refusal of the call. The supernatural aid.

Dory is a mentor and helps Marlin in many ways. During this stage, Marlin also adventures through the ocean meeting friends and even enemies like Bruce the shark. Marlin finally arrives in Sydney, locating Nemo in a fish tank in a dentist's office. Nemo is ultimately saved by Marlin, and they will start the return

he is seeking for Salinger to help him, while Nemo is trying to find his dad, Marlin. Both

One person may prefer comedy movies, while another person prefers horror films, but what if a movie’s genre is ambiguous? Breaking down each movie into specific criteria helps determine which genre suits it best. Movie genres benefit viewers because they give each movie a title that breaks them down into general criteria that similar movies share, rather than describing specific details from the movie. The movies Finding Nemo and The Wizard of Oz are both examples of adventure movies. The first dynamic moment in the movie Finding Nemo is when Nemo swims over the drop off and the scuba diver catches him and brings him to an aquarium. Nemo’s location change creates a conflict because he is no longer with his father in the ocean; he is on land. Throughout the course of the movie Marlin and Dory travel across a vast majority of the ocean and land in hopes of finding Marlin’s son, Nemo. In The Wizard of Oz things change when a tornado strikes Dorothy’s home in Kansas. She wakes up in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people. Dorothy travels through the Land of Oz to a known destination where the Wizard of Oz lives. Dorothy’s goal is not to find anything or anyone and then leave happily. Dorothy hopes that when she meets with the Wizard, he will bring her back to her home in Kansas. An adventure movie is a movie that provides action and excitement through the adaptation and utilization of the setting. There is always a journey in an adventure movie, but there is usually an

Finding Nemo is about a clownfish who sets out on a journey to bring his son home after being captured in the Great Barrier Reef. The propaganda in the film is portrayed when the scuba diver captures fishes like Nemo and gives them as pets to irresponsible little children like Darla, who eventually kills them off. “Conservatives argue that a staple of liberal films aimed at kids is a simple message: Animals good, people bad. And the humans in this film […] are largely portrayed as completely disinterested in the plight of less evolved creatures” (Bond, 2011). The film was successful in relaying it message about the impact we have as humans on less evolved species.

Marlin left the only place he knew and chased after Nemo. While he was chasing him he ran into Dory, she has short term memory loss and can’t remember anything. He faced many trials. Such as running into sharks and almost getting eaten.

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

Although psychology class is most likely not the first thing to come to mind when watching a Disney movie, many psychological concepts can be drawn from them. In Andrew Stanton’s 2003 animated film, Finding Nemo, various psychological concepts are exemplified. Finding Nemo tells the story of an overly cautious clownfish named Marlin who losses his son, Nemo, to a pair of divers. He meets a fish named Dory who together seek to find Marlin’s son. Throughout their journey they encounter a storm of jelly fish, surfing sea-turtles, sharks participating in a “Fish are Friends, Not Food (Graham, 2003)” support group, and numerous other conflicts. Hidden between the lines of their comic misfortunes, Marlin suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, many characters fall to acts of conformity, and altruism is a theme that defines the movie.

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

Both being clown fish, Nemo and Marlin live in the ocean, in the anemone. Marlin is Nemo’s father who is viewed as being overprotective towards Nemo. Marlin portrays the characteristic of being overprotective because while Nemo was in the egg as a baby, one of his fins was damaged. Nemo, tired of his overprotective father decides that he wants to prove himself by swimming into the open ocean. However, things do not turn out very well and Nemo is captured by a scuba diver. Parenting instinct kick in, and Marlin immediately swims after the boat that is now carrying Nemo. Marlin eventually loses sight of the boat, however throughout the duration of the movie, he continues to look for his son Nemo. While on his journey to find Nemo, Marlin meets a blue tang fish named Dory, who suffers from sort term memory loss (Stanton & Unkrich,2003). With the help of Dory, they are able to eventually find Nemo (Stanton & Unkrich, 2003). Come

By the time that Marlin and Dory get to Nemo, he is on his way to being in a bag for the dentist’s granddaughter, she is very mean to her fish and kills them before she can get home. Marlin and Dory finally get to the office, and Nemo is in the bag and playing dead so that he can get flushed back into the ocean. Marlin thinks his son is dead and gives up on trying to save him, little does he know Nemo isn’t really dead. Nemo’s plan actually works and he gets back to the ocean and finds Dory just swimming around because Marlin left her, because he has giving

On his pursuit he meets a blue fish named Dori, who has a memory problem. She undoubtedly is annoying to Marlin and he gets very impatient with her when she continues to repeat herself. Against his better judgment he agrees to let her help him find his lost son. For the next few days, as the movie goes, they have several encounters with other marine wildlife that according to Marlin are dangerous. First they encounter three sharks which are known to be solely meat eaters but they join the sharks and spend some time with them that show them that not all sharks are that way but some feel that fish should be thought of as "friends, not food" as the sharks like to say. With this knowledge he begins to trust more of the other sea creatures that he did before.

The movie then transitions to years later on Nemo’s first day of school. While ecstatic to meet his classmates, teacher, and the independence of going to school, Marlin ceases to let Nemo go smoothly due to his fear of losing his only son and the worry of his “lucky” fin (an injury acquired from the barracuda attack). After such trauma, Marlin is known to be “scared” of the ocean, filled with anxiety,