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==Production==
==Production==
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The film was dedicated to [[Glenn McQueen]], a Pixar animator who died of [[melanoma]] in October 2002, seven months before the film was released. Pre-production of the film took place in early 1997. Film production began, according to [[IMDb]], in January 2000 with a crew of 180.

Pre-production of the film took place in early 1997. Film production began, according to [[IMDb]], in January 2000 with a crew of 180.


[[Robin Williams]], who worked for [[Michael Eisner]] and [[The Walt Disney Company]] in ''[[Aladdin (film)|Aladdin]]'', had a falling out out with Eisner and the company after they failed to honor an [[Aladdin (film)#Robin Williams' conflicts with the studio|agreement he had with the studio]]. Williams has since hinted that he refused a role in this film because it would have meant working for Eisner again. Williams has not stated which role he refused.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0086739/ |title=Did Eisner and Katzenberg Bottle Up the Genie for 13 Years? |publisher=Studio Briefing |work=IMDb |date=March 16, 2005 |accessdate=2009-06-24}}</ref>
[[Robin Williams]], who worked for [[Michael Eisner]] and [[The Walt Disney Company]] in ''[[Aladdin (film)|Aladdin]]'', had a falling out out with Eisner and the company after they failed to honor an [[Aladdin (film)#Robin Williams' conflicts with the studio|agreement he had with the studio]]. Williams has since hinted that he refused a role in this film because it would have meant working for Eisner again. Williams has not stated which role he refused.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0086739/ |title=Did Eisner and Katzenberg Bottle Up the Genie for 13 Years? |publisher=Studio Briefing |work=IMDb |date=March 16, 2005 |accessdate=2009-06-24}}</ref>


In an interview, [[Megan Mullally]] revealed that she was originally doing a voice in the film. According to Mullally, the producers were quite disappointed to learn that the voice of her character [[Karen Walker (Will & Grace)|Karen Walker]] on the television show ''[[Will & Grace]]'' wasn't her natural speaking voice. The producers hired her anyway, and then strongly encouraged her to use her Karen Walker voice for the role. When Mullally refused, she was fired.<ref>[http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/megan%20mullally%20dropped%20from%20finding%20nemo Megan Mullally - Megan Mullally Dropped From Finding Nemo]</ref>
In an interview, [[Megan Mullally]] revealed that she was originally doing a voice in the film. According to Mullally, the producers were quite disappointed to learn that the voice of her character [[Karen Walker (Will & Grace)|Karen Walker]] on the television show ''[[Will & Grace]]'' wasn't her natural speaking voice. The producers hired her anyway, and then strongly encouraged her to use her Karen Walker voice for the role. When Mullally refused, she was fired.<ref>[http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/megan%20mullally%20dropped%20from%20finding%20nemo Megan Mullally - Megan Mullally Dropped From Finding Nemo]</ref>

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The movie was dedicated to [[Glenn McQueen]], a Pixar animator who died of [[melanoma]] in October 2002, seven months before the film was released.


==Reception==
==Reception==

Revision as of 17:13, 1 November 2009

Finding Nemo
Original theatrical poster
Directed byAndrew Stanton
Lee Unkrich
Written byStory
Andrew Stanton
Screenplay
Andrew Stanton
Bob Peterson
David Reynolds
Produced byGraham Walters
Executive producer
John Lasseter
Associate producer
Jinko Gotoh
StarringAlbert Brooks
Ellen DeGeneres
Alexander Gould
Willem Dafoe
Brad Garrett
Joe Ranft
Allison Janney
Vicki Lewis
Austin Pendleton
Stephen Root
Geoffrey Rush
Nicholas Bird
Eric Bana
Lulu Ebeling
Barry Humphries
CinematographySharon Calahan
Jeremy Lasky
Edited byDavid Ian Salter
Music byThomas Newman
Robbie Williams
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Bob Bain
Bernard Herrmann
Production
companies
Distributed byBuena Vista
Release date
May 30, 2003
Running time
100 minutes
CountryTemplate:FilmUS
LanguageEnglish
Budget$94 million[1]
Box office$864,625,978[1]

Finding Nemo is a Template:Fy American CGI animated film. It was written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin, voiced by Albert Brooks, who along with a regal tang called Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, searches for his son Nemo, voiced by Alexander Gould. Along the way he learns to take risks and that his son is capable of taking care of himself.

The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was a financial blockbuster as it grossed over $864 million worldwide.[1] It is the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2006[2] and is the highest grossing G-rated movie of all time. In 2008, the American Film Institute named it the tenth greatest animated film ever made during their 10 Top 10. It was also the first Pixar animations studio film not to be released in November.[3]

Plot

Shortly after the Ocellaris clownfish Marlin and his wife, Coral, move into a new home, Coral is eaten by a barracuda along with all of their eggs, except for one. Marlin finds that egg and promises it he will never let anything happen to it, naming it Nemo per Coral's earlier suggestion. The attack has left the egg damaged.

Some time later, Nemo begins his first day at school, but is frustrated and embarrassed by his overprotective and neurotic father. Marlin has constantly warned Nemo about the dangers of the ocean because he himself fears them, and also because one of Nemo's fins—his "lucky fin"—is much smaller and weaker than the other, possibly due to the damage to his egg. Disobeying his father in order to show him that these fears are unfounded, Nemo deliberately swims out to open water; in the process, he is captured by a scuba diver. Marlin races after the diver's boat but quickly loses it. As he desperately searches for help, he bumps into Dory, a regal tang who suffers from short-term memory loss but is nonetheless relentlessly optimistic, in contrast to Marlin. The pair soon encounter three sharks, Bruce, Anchor and Chum, who are members of "Fish Eaters Anonymous," an organization modeled after AA.

Marlin and Dory find the diver's scuba mask and, injured and bleeding due to a scuffle over the mask, inadvertently spark Bruce into a feeding frenzy and are forced to flee into a deep trench, only to be nearly eaten by an angler fish. Dory remembers that she can read and, reading the address on the mask, they discover that Nemo has been taken to Sydney, Australia. Dory surprises herself by being able to remember the name and address written on it. A passing school of fish gives them directions to get there via the East Australian Current, and also advises them to go through, not over, the trench that leads to it. However, only Dory hears the warning, and Marlin, disliking the looks of the trench and distrusting Dory, leads them over it, where both are nearly stung to death by a mass of box jellyfish.

Meanwhile, Nemo is placed in a fish tank in a dentist's office. The dentist, Philip Sherman, the scuba diver who captured him earlier, plans to give Nemo to his niece Darla as a birthday present; the other fish in the tank—Bloat, a puffer fish; Jacques, a Pacific cleaner shrimp; Deb/Flo, a humbug damselfish; Peach, a starfish; Bubbles, a yellow tang; and Gurgle, a germophobic royal gramma—fear Darla greatly, knowing her tendency to handle fish so roughly that they die. Their leader, the Moorish idol Gill, has been plotting a mass escape and calls on Nemo to jam the tank's water filter. The first attempt fails, nearly costing Nemo his life, and Gill apologizes for endangering him for personal gain.

Marlin and Dory are found by a group of sea turtles who are riding the East Australian Current, and they make a full recovery. As Marlin befriends the turtle Crush and his son Squirt, he tells some of the sea turtles about his reason for venturing so far from home. His story travels among the sea creatures, eventually reaching Nemo via a friendly Brown Pelican named Nigel. Nemo is inspired by this account and makes a second attempt on his own to jam the filter, this time meeting with success. The tank begins to get dirty, and the fish hope that the dentist will take them out so he can clean it; once they are in individual plastic bags, they can roll out the window and into the harbor. However, while they are sleeping, he installs a high-tech filter to keep the tank clean automatically, foiling their plan. Then, Darla arrives.

Marlin and Dory are swallowed by a humpback whale, which delivers them safely to Sydney. Confronted by a pelican and a flock of hungry seagulls in the harbor, they are rescued by Nigel, who takes them to the office as the dentist removes Nemo from the tank and puts him in a bag. When Darla arrives, Nemo pretends to be dead, hoping that he will be flushed down the toilet and thus be able to reach the ocean. Marlin and Dory are shocked to see Nemo belly-up and believe he is truly dead. After they and Nigel are thrown out the window, Gill helps Nemo escape down the drain of the dentist's sink to the ocean.

Deeply depressed in the belief that his rescue attempt amounted to nothing, Marlin thanks Dory and tells her he is going home on his own. Dory, however, is reluctant to be left by herself again, claiming that she can remember things better when he is around. Marlin still swims away to go home, leaving Dory hopelessly lost and confused. A chance encounter with Nemo jogs her memory of her adventures with Marlin and the two catch up with Marlin and there is a brief and happy reunion. Moments later, Dory is caught in a fishing net along with a school of grouper. Nemo has an idea to save her by telling the fish caught in the net to swim down, a trick the other fish in the tank had tried to use to save him from being scooped up in the dentist's net. Though Marlin is afraid to let him go out of fear of losing him again, he realizes that he has to let Nemo take this chance. The maneuver works, snapping the winch, freeing Dory and the grouper, and Marlin reconciles with Nemo and apologizes for being overprotective.

Once they have returned home, Marlin is able to let Nemo "go have an adventure" at school with his classmates, including the new exchange student, Squirt. Marlin also impresses and wins the respect of his neighbors for going across the ocean to find his son, especially after his credibility is enhanced by the appearance of the three sharks, who are bringing Dory home from a Fish-Eaters Anonymous meeting. The fish in the dentist's office make their escape, having followed their earlier plan of breaking the filter and rolling out the window, across the street, and into the harbor, leaving them with the dilemma of how to escape their plastic bags.

Voice cast

Production

The film was dedicated to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator who died of melanoma in October 2002, seven months before the film was released. Pre-production of the film took place in early 1997. Film production began, according to IMDb, in January 2000 with a crew of 180.

Robin Williams, who worked for Michael Eisner and The Walt Disney Company in Aladdin, had a falling out out with Eisner and the company after they failed to honor an agreement he had with the studio. Williams has since hinted that he refused a role in this film because it would have meant working for Eisner again. Williams has not stated which role he refused.[4]

In an interview, Megan Mullally revealed that she was originally doing a voice in the film. According to Mullally, the producers were quite disappointed to learn that the voice of her character Karen Walker on the television show Will & Grace wasn't her natural speaking voice. The producers hired her anyway, and then strongly encouraged her to use her Karen Walker voice for the role. When Mullally refused, she was fired.[5]

Reception

Finding Nemo set a record as the highest grossing opening weekend for an animated feature, making $70 million (surpassed a year later in 2004 by Shrek 2). It went on to gross more than $864.6 million worldwide, in the process becoming Pixar's most commercially successful film to date. It was the second highest grossing movie of 2003, behind The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.[citation needed] It is also highly critically acclaimed, as it currently holds a 98% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, an average of 89% on Metacritic and four stars from Empire.[6]

The film's prominent use of clownfish prompted mass purchase of the animal as pets in the United States, even though the movie portrayed the use of fish as pets negatively and that saltwater aquariums are notably tricky and expensive to maintain.[7] As of 2003, in Vanuatu, clownfish were being caught on a large scale for sale as pets, motivated by the demand.[8]

At the same time, the film had a central theme that "all drains lead back to the ocean" (Nemo escapes from the aquarium by going down a sink drain, ending up in the sea.) Since water typically undergoes treatment before leading to the ocean, the JWC Environmental company quipped that a more realistic title for the movie might be Grinding Nemo.[9] However, in Sydney, much of the sewer system does pass directly to outfall pipes deep offshore, without a high level of treatment (although pumping and some filtering occur.)[10] Additionally, according to the DVD, there was a cut sequence with Nemo going through a treatment plant's mechanisms before ending up in the ocean pipes. However, in the final product, logos for "Sydney Water Treatment" are featured prominently along the path to the ocean, implying that Nemo did pass through some water treatment.

Tourism in Australia strongly increased during the summer and autumn of 2003, with many tourists wanting to swim off the coast of Eastern Australia to "find Nemo."[citation needed] The Australian Tourism Commission (ATC) launched several marketing campaigns in China and the USA in order to improve tourism in Australia many of them using Finding Nemo movie clips.[11][12] Queensland, Australia also used Finding Nemo to draw tourists to promote its state for vacationers.[13]

Awards

Main article: List of Pixar awards and nominations (feature films) § Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo won the Academy Award and Saturn Award for Best Animated Film. It also won the award for best Animated Film at the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, the National Board of Review Awards, the Online Film Critics Society Awards, and the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards.[14]

The film received many awards, including:

Finding Nemo was also nominated for:

In June 2008 the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten top Ten", the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres, after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Finding Nemo was acknowledged as the 10th best film in the animation genre.[15][16] It was the most recently released film among all ten lists, and one of only three movies made after the year 2000, the others being Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Shrek.

Music

Main article: Finding Nemo (soundtrack)

Finding Nemo - The Musical

File:NemoTurtle.jpg
Larger-than-life puppets in a scene from the stage adaptation of Finding Nemo at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Entrance.

The stage musical Tarzan Rocks! occupied the Theater in the Wild at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida from 1999 to 2006. When, in January 2006, it closed, it was rumored that a musical adaptation of Finding Nemo would replace it.[17] This was confirmed in April 2006, when Disney announced that the adaptation, with new songs written by Tony Award-winning Avenue Q composer Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, would "combine puppets, dancers, acrobats and animated backdrops" and open in late 2006.[18] Tony Award-winning director Peter Brosius signed on to direct the show, with Michael Curry, who designed puppets for Disney's successful stage version of The Lion King, serving as leading puppet and production designer.

Anderson-Lopez said that the couple agreed to write the adaptation of "one of their favorite movies of all time" after considering "The idea of people coming in [to see the musical] at 4, 5 or 6 and saying, 'I want to do that'....So we want to take it as seriously as we would a Broadway show."[19] To condense the feature-length film to thirty minutes, she said she and Lopez focused on a single theme from the movie, the idea that "The world's dangerous and beautiful."[19]

The forty-minute show (which is performed five times daily) opened on January 2, 2007. Several musical numbers took direct inspiration from lines in the film, including "(In The) Big Blue World," "Fish Are Friends, Not Food," "Just Keep Swimming," and "Go With the Flow." In January 2007, a New York studio recording of the show was released on iTunes, with Lopez and Anderson-Lopez providing the voices for Marlin and Dory, respectively. Avenue Q star Stephanie D'Abruzzo also appeared on the recording, as Sheldon/Deb.

Nemo is notable for being the first non-musical animated film to which Disney has added songs to produce a stage musical. In 2009 Finding Nemo - The Musical was honored with a Thea award for Best Live Show from the Themed Entertainment Association.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Finding Nemo (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  2. ^ Boone, Louis E. Contemporary Business 2006, Thomson South-Western, page 4 - ISBN 0324320892
  3. ^ AFI: 10 Top 10
  4. ^ "Did Eisner and Katzenberg Bottle Up the Genie for 13 Years?". IMDb. Studio Briefing. March 16, 2005. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
  5. ^ Megan Mullally - Megan Mullally Dropped From Finding Nemo
  6. ^ "Finding Nemo (2002)". Rotten Tomatoes.com. Retrieved 2008-02-12.
  7. ^ Jackson, Elizabeth (November 29, 2002). "Acquiring Nemo". The Business Report. Retrieved 2006-11-10.
  8. ^ Corcoran, Mark (November 9, 2002). "Vanuatu - Saving Nemo". ABC Foreign Correspondent. Retrieved 2006-10-23.
  9. ^ Company Warns of 'Grinding Nemo', FoxNews.com/AP, June 6, 2003.
  10. ^ Sydney Water. "Coastal sewage treatment plants operated by Sydney Water". Sydney Water. Retrieved 2006-11-26.
  11. ^ http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-08/18/content_255968.htm
  12. ^ Mitchell, Peter (November 3, 2002). "Nemo-led recovery hope". The Age. Retrieved 2006-10-23.
  13. ^ Dennis, Anthony (February 11, 2003). "Sydney ignores Nemo". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2006-10-23.
  14. ^ Awards for Finding Nemo (Retrieved on February 12, 2008)
  15. ^ American Film Institute (2008-06-17). "AFI Crowns Top 10 Films in 10 Classic Genres". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
  16. ^ "Top Ten Animation". www.afi.com. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
  17. ^ Finding Nemo - The Musical, Walt Disney World Magic.
  18. ^ Hernandez, Ernio. "Avenue Q Composer Lopez Co-Pens Musical Finding Nemo for Disney," Playbill.com (April 10, 2006).
  19. ^ a b Maupin, Elizabeth (2006-11-26). "Swimming with big fish". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
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