Movie Analysis: Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo is a family friendly and crazy movie. The movie displays what family should do for each other and are generally willing to go through to save each other. The movie came out in mid 2003 and was a huge hit with just about every family that watched it. Finding Nemo is a great example of a hero’s journey, because the story tells us from the time that Marlin goes on his first adventure all the way to his freedom to live.

Do you like animated films? Well, Finding Nemo is the ninth most grossed animated film of all time. Finding Nemo accomplishes this by being a light hearted, adventure, comedy. Finding Nemo was an adventure and comedy film, that taught the world the importance of teamwork, collaboration, and cooperation in everyday life. Archetypes are used in many films, movies, and/or books to help both enhance and advance the audience’s understanding of the story, whether it be through character, symbolic, or situational archetypes.

While the movie Finding Nemo is a comical children’s story, it has a strong theme of the bond between a father and his son. Throughout the story, Marlin goes through a great deal of events which include fear, but drive him to find his son. Marlin takes Nemo to the first day of school and Nemo is right away identified as an adventurous character. Once Nemo arrives, he is taken away from a diver. Marlin says, “They took him away. I have to find the boat.” Marlin’s comment shows that he is going to do everything he can to find his son. A main theme in the movie is how Marlin is driven by fear. Because the bond between him and his son is so strong, Marlin will do anything to find him. Shortly after, Nemo’s new classmates express that

Director, screenwriter, and producer, Stephen Spielberg, has been often described by critics as being one of the trailblazers who paved the way for the new Hollywood era. In fact, one of Spielberg’s earliest films, JAWS, captured the audience’s attentions so vividly that the movie remains to be a cult classic even decades later. The audience sunk its teeth deep into the enticing combination of drama, thrill, science-fiction, and adventure the film obtained. At face value, JAWS appears to be focused on a giant monstrous fish, but with further analyzation of the plot structure, narration, and original music demonstrates the brilliance and complexity of why JAWS is a well deserving Oscar-winning movie.

Many films that are created have multiple thematic driving forces that are consistent- sometimes hard to differentiate, this can make a film lose a large amount of its emotional impact… Treasure Planet uses a unique method of intervening two separate integral thematic forces. Treasure Planet, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, is an animated science fiction retelling of the famous Treasure Island. We accompany a boy named Jim Hawkins on his journey to find Treasure Planet, a childhood dream that was forced by a fateful encounter with someone bearing a map. A map to the “Loot of a thousand worlds.” Throughout this thrilling adventure, you also learn about Jim’s family situation, his father leaving, and how it affects the way he

Watched by many, the movie Finding Nemo is a good movie for explaining Vygotsky’s theories because there is a wide variety of characters adults, children and even teachers. The adult characters in the movie Finding Nemo portray the adolescence developmental stages, as explained by Vygotsky. Many more of Vygotsky’s theories are found in the movie. Some include the zone of proximal development, egocentric speech, scaffolding, and scientific and spontaneous concepts.

The audience is easily able to identify moments during the film where danger is imminent by studying the patterns. Before every dangerous scene, there is a pause-a stop, of all activity going on around the characters. The makers of the film tried to create a realistic oceanic scene while still adding a little fantasy as well. Realism is a natural style of acting used to make the movie seem 100% possible and real in the eyes of the audience, (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014). The use of underwater sound effects, fish activity, and bright, scientifically accurate color schemes pulls the audience in and begs them to stretch their imagination to accept this new reality. Before every scene, all activity ceases, all music ends, and the colors become dull or even dark

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.

Titanic portrayed sexuality with attraction between a man and a woman. Rose was a beautiful woman whom her fiancée Hockley was the son of a rich and powerful steel mill owner. However, the sexual interest here was actually in the form of business. Rose was marrying him because of the money Hockley would inherit when his father died, a very prominent practice during that time. Men with power and money were shown to be desirable from all of Rose 's companions on the ship. This common theme of sexuality was broken from Jack 's introduction into Rose 's life. Jack was a polar opposite of Hockley, and he took on a different theme of sexuality of being free, seeing a woman as an equal, and not being rich. Jack ' sexuality was expressed in may forms different from Hockley. When he saved Rose from falling overboard, in his folk-style dancing with Rose, and in his chase of Rose which included kissing and having sex with her. Jack’s simple flirtation with Rose and his later aid in her freedom from the gender binds she was in became the cornerstone of the theme of the movie.

Released in 1975, Jaws was probably one of the best adventure, action, and suspense films of that era. Directed by Steven Spielberg with the following staring main cast members Roy Scheider as "Martin Bordy" (chief police officer), Richard Dreyfuss as "Matt Hooper" (marine biologist), Robert Shaw as "Quint" (local fisherman), Murray Hamilton as "Larry Vaughan" (town mayor). "Jaws" the movie, is not like any other any other fish story. The film is about a gigantic 26 foot shark that has an appetite for people; how horrifying is that? The unusual story takes place on the seasides' of Amity Island. When Chief Brody uncovers the partial body of a teenage girl with shark like bites, Chief Brody contacts a shark specialist to verify if the bite

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,

In the movie, Ocean’s 11, upon his release from prison, Danny Ocean seeks to carry out one last job, a 3 in 1 casino robbery. Immediately, Ocean seeks out his smart and trustworthy friend, Rusty, who must help him coordinate the ultimate plan. After carefully running through the concept and evaluating the chances of success, they decide to go with it. Together, the two carefully develop an effective team, selectively recruiting people they personally know, each with different sets of skills and knowledge needed to perform certain critical tasks. More importantly, the two masterminds pitch the idea to Ruben, whom they know loathes Benedict, the owner of the casinos they wish to rob, almost instantly he climbs on board.

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

Ocean’s Eleven is an American heist film (first of the trilogy) and a remake of the 1960 version which features an ensemble cast of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts. For the most part there are three elements to a heist film: Assembling the crew and setting up the scheme, the break in and looting, and then the escape. Ocean’s Eleven covers all of those elements plus more. The plot of the film wasn’t just about robbing the casinos for money for the most part.

Freedom and equalities are the undeniable rights of a person that were confirmed by God and the humanities. However, there is no easy way to have those rights , they are only deserved for the people who fight for it. Let’s take the film Hidden Figures as a good illustration for this point. The movie describes the three brilliant black women--Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan-- who worked in NASA and their fights to gain the respects from the white men with two factors: their talents and their character-traits.