Finding Nemo, as I am sure most of you know, is about a clown fish named Nemo whose mother and siblings were eaten at the beginning of the film and who was raised by his dad. He is captured by a human diver and brought to a dentist who plans on giving him to his fish killer of a niece. His dad Marlin is trying throughout the movie to find and save his son and be reunited and in the process goes through bunch of adventures. The thing that brought real humor and belief into the story was the voice acting. Marlin’s Voice actor did a wonderful job of portraying an over protective father and Dory’s voice actor (Ellen Degeneres) played a very forgetful and borderline psychotic fish. Nemo’s Voice actor did a good job of being a fearful yet still optimistic kid. Marlin wouldn’t let his son do anything fun for fear he would loose him like his mother and so his voice was always whiney the entire film. Dory on the other hand, you couldn’t have an entire conversation with and her voice always seemed loopy and out of it which added most of the humor and some frustration to the movie.
The set in the movie also greatly added to the story. The exec producer John Lasseter had all of the staff get certified to go scuba diving. He wanted the set to be as realistic as possible so he had them all go to the coral reefs and look around to get an idea of what the environment was so they could copy it virtually. They really worked on the water simulator to get the ripple effects and splashes to work right by making the water react with itself. They modified the simulator used in the Monster’s Inc. movie named Fizt used for the fur movement on the monsters and renamed it Splasht for the water effects. At some point during the movie though, the background looked completely realistic while there was cartoon fish swimming in it and the contrast was not necessarily a good thing. There were really only 4 types of fish skins that covered all of the fish in the movie; iridescent, velvet, metallic, and gummy. The colors were just modified depending on the fish they were trying to mimic. There were 2 types of fins in the movie as well; there was Marlin’s type of fin called the rower and Dory’s type called the flapper(because the flap them like a birds wings).
Finding Nemo was a good movie for the most part but lacked believability if you know anything about how sea turtles work and the fact that if the sharks were to not eat fish they would dye. Sorry to say but for the sharks fish are not friends but in fact, food. For any of the ones that have not seen this movie I would recommend seeing it just as a right of passage if nothing else.
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The sharks that did not eat fish would not die in that movie. Remember the line: "fish are freinds not food, except for flipping dolphins!" and in the Jaws films they show a very inovative alternative to eating fish. I also think that it was really a waste to send the animators into the coral reefs to get an idea of what they are animating. They could get a better idea of what the coral reefs looked like from having an all night shark week party. The old tapes of the coral reefs give a much better idea of what the public thinks of when they think of the reefs. Why would they want the animators to see those bleached reefs anyway. Shark week tapes should also be on their list of what the animators should see. I do not think any of the animators actually saw a shark on their dives judging by how fat Bruce was. If I were a Roman Emperor I would not throw the animators to the lions, I would throw them to the sharks (even though the Roman Empire fell before sharks were invented).
I also watched Finding Nemo for my journal and thought that they animators did a really good job especially with the ocean's backgrounds. But like you said sometimes they did too good of a job because the difference between the fish and background was a big contrast.
this is a good movie, maybe is true that this movie is dedicated to kids, but inclusive an adult can enjoy the comedy and graphic in movies like Shrek, Madagascar, and this, adult people can enjoy too to the benefits of Generic Viagra, I recommend to all parents to share a little time with their children to see this movie.
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