Finding Nemo Research Paper

Finding Nemo, by Andrew Stanton, is a film about a clown fish named Nemo who gets taken away from his home in the Great Barrier Reef. The three main characters of Finding Nemo are Marlin, Dory, and Nemo. While traveling along an adventurous journey to find his lost son, Nemo’s dad Marlin, meets one of Nemo’s friends named Dory and undergoes many life threatening experiences. Throughout the film, all three characters undergo character development. Finding Nemo fits into four categories of genre: animation, comedy, adventure film, and family film.
Finding Nemo fits into the genre of animation because it uses computer graphics to portray the story. The producers use different animated characters like Nemo, Dory, and Marlin and make them come to life. “Finding Nemo thus creates a world in which tropical fish are sympathetic lead characters without sacrificing their fishiness in order to become mere human ciphers.” Nemo is an only child who is cared for by his father Marlin. Marlin is very protective of Nemo because he was born with an abnormal fin that causes him to look different. He is also protective because he does not want anything to happen to Nemo and because Nemo is the only family that he has left. Marlin does not want to let Nemo out of his sight. Nemo just wants to be treated like normal but his father treats him opposite. Since Marlin treats him differently, Nemo becomes hateful toward his father. Nemo tries to show Marlin he is normal by disobeying him and touching “the butt” which is a boat, but
Some examples that show how Finding Nemo fits into the genre of comedy is when the sharks say “fish are friends not food.” That is ironic because sharks eat fish to survive. Also, Dory plays eye spy with Marlin but because she has short term memory loss, she keeps spying the same thing over and over. Finally, Dory reminds us to not give up and “just keep