Film Theory: Finding Nemo's UNTOLD Story! (Pixar Finding Nemo)

So you see, doctor, sure they found me in the end, but did I ever really find myself? Melissa Nemo. I'm really disappointed in you. Oh no, why, because that joke was horrible. A real pile of tents. I thought you were supposed to be. be a clownfish, okay, good session today, see you next week buddy, thanks for ending with a good joke, but I wasn't kidding. Hello Internet, welcome to

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ing Theory, the home of the Internet's most sophisticated fan series with Pixar back in the news. for his new movie, the

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of two guys living in a gritty urban world full of magic called bright and airy lives, they don't matter today, there's no idea everywhere these days, isn't it?

Oh wait, no, I'm sorry, I confused it with the other movie about two. guys who live in a gritty urban world full of magic, this one is called "Onward", which, I'm honest, is an equally uninteresting, non-descriptive, brilliant title, so really the two movies are pretty much the same thing from everyone Anyway, none of that matters because I haven't done it. I haven't seen it yet, I'm not talking about it yet, no, today we're going back into Pixar's past with a deep dive into the Finding Nemo franchise to explore a plot point that may have some significant implications for our dad duo. and son, as well as for the eventual third.

The movie and the franchise because we all know it's coming now, obviously animated movies with talking animals are expected to take some liberties as the audience understands that not everything in the movie will be one hundred percent realistic, that's why Most of us can see the circle of life seen from The Lion King without a zebra having its throat ripped out by a hungry cheetah; However, there are some people who just can't stand a movie with factual inaccuracies like that and no, his name isn't just Matt Pat or at least I mean I'm not the only example of Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton. who has been very vocal about his need for scientific accuracy in the Finding Nemo movies, when he saw The Lion King, it bothered him.

So in developing Finding Nemo, Stan very intentionally sought to present the truth to the animal king, even when the truth was unfair or brutal. Stam explains the Nemo quote is working with the real world, the real predator world and it was definitely a response to the Lion King which I liked working with. the limitations of the rules of nature are supposed to break the rules and say that everything is there for the circle of life, as a result, the Nemo movies are packed with facts and truths of marine biology, what you want to do is follow the Australian EAC. current, yes, something totally real that exists and that the fish used to migrate, let's name the areas of the song not only too catchy, but also a good way to remember the different areas of the ocean of northern France, even this is found somewhere level of fact there.

There are certain species of sharks that can survive on a primarily vegetarian diet, but how honest was Andrew willing to go because Nemo and Marlin are clownfish and clownfish harbored interesting anatomical secrets that are seen in the absence of a female in the colony. ? The male clownfish will become a female, that's correct, based on everything scientists currently know about clownfish. If Nemo's mother had really been killed by a barracuda as we see at the beginning of the

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in Marlin, Nemo's father would have immediately begun the process of becoming a biological female. Because clownfish are what are known as protandrous hermaphrodites, meaning they are born with immature reproductive organs, the male organs develop first around age 2 and the female organs only develop later, in case they the clownfish colony needs him to step forward because clownfish colonies have them only one female at a time and she only mates with the dominant male if the female dies the dominant male then steps forward and she becomes the dominant female, but that's not the big reveal I'm talking about when it comes to Finding Nemo. no, there is one last twist in the

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with our dominant male, in this case Marlin is now female, she leaves the role of dominant male vacant, which means that one of the immature males in the colony has to ascend to the role of breeding male , but in the Emos colony, there is only one other fish to play that role, Nemo himself, meaning that when Marlin becomes a biological female, Nemo would have to biologically ascend to the role of dominant male, in other words, in a completely realistic version of this movie, Nemo.

She would then procreate with her own father Marlin. I know our unofficial tagline is ruining your childhood, but seriously, this one is really going for that title. No, in all seriousness, surely Disney doesn't intend for its animated family franchise to be interpreted this way, right? We see a lot of Marlin after his wife's death and everyone, including Marlin himself, only identifies him as a man unequivocally a year later, during the events of Finding Dory. Marlin is still known as he and there's certainly no evidence that Marlin and Nemo, you know? Take a paper in the a

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ne to find Dory.

The two still live alone without any sign of little clowns around. I'm sorry. The little clowns led to a terrifying image. Their little underwater clowns are the stuff of nightmares. Let me rephrase that. the two still live alone without any sign of little clownfish around thanks said Andrew Stanton I liked working within the limitations of nature's rules instead of breaking the rules I probably regret making that comment now eh, again Stanton He very, very clearly did his research. In Clownfish he sought to show the animal kingdom in a realistic light and it appears wherever you look.

The corals and marlin embody the typical clownfish family dynamic perfectly, as the most dominant member of their school's female clownfish are those that venture outside the a

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ne. and defend their homes against predators while the male clownfish looks after the children and rarely leaves the anemone. The coral, like the female clownfish, does not back down from the Barracuda and dies defending its eggs. Likewise, Marlin is growing up and is overly cautious about straying too far from home. Clownfish are basically the only fish in the sea that doesn't get stung by an anemone and the movies are sure to include that fact in there too, even when we get to find Dory, the aquarium is full of marine biology facts, so... how far away were they?

They are willing to push the scientific facts of this film. Well, it is a surprise to very few of you and I myself have a

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, a cinematic

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. I think they are doing it. I think this is exactly what is happening in these movies. the part about Nemo would obviously be too aligned, but I think Marlin may, in fact, be biologically changing into a female clownfish right before our eyes. Just hear me out on this, as you might assume it will take some time for the In fact, a 20-19 study found that the organs of a dominant male clownfish can take years to fully develop into female parts, but they also found that male to female starts first in the clown.

The brain of the fish before actual physical changes are detected in its mating organs, which means that the behavior of a dominant male clownfish will become feminine almost immediately as soon as the death of the female clownfish in the colony occurs. , so again to summarize why this is important behavioral changes. happen immediately and that physiological changes occur later, so what does this mean for Marlin's character? Well, it means that Marlin should exhibit feminine behaviors shortly after we watch the corals die and wouldn't you know it? That's exactly what we see happening, we believe. a timeline, should we?

Marlin's transformation begins the moment the barracuda kills the coral. We will call this day 0 at that time. Nemo is an egg that is only a couple of days away from hatching after the Barracuda attack and leaves Marlin with only one viable egg to raise. We jump forward in time to see Nemo as a juvenile clownfish who would be between nine and fifteen months old. At this stage, an efficient Marlins doctor should exhibit a fully developed female brain and we would expect to see Marlin exhibiting female clownfish characteristics. and behaviors such as issuing warning calls or even launching attacks while remaining cautious about venturing too far from the anemone and as the film progresses we see Marlin becoming assertive in completely new ways, he has been backing up sharks and jellyfish of all kinds that cannot. be here, you're sure what it's called, it's some kind of sport fish or something, tuna, nice trout, that's Marlin, the little clown fish of the reef.

I heard he took on three and Marlon certainly remains cautious about venturing too far from the anemone, even all the time. process of

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Dory that occurs a year later, so this means that at the end of

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Dory approximately two years from day zero, approximately 9 to 15 months at the end of the first film plus 12 months in the second film or about 24 months in total, Nemo is now two years old and Marlin has theoretically been undergoing this change process for two years. Does this theory hold up based on the timeline of events? Yes, you see that the two-year mark turns out to be the turning point in time for both Nemo and Marlin. for Nemo, he has reached the end of his adolescence, clownfish reach reproductive maturity after the age of two, so Nemo is on the cusp of this moment when he finds Dory and concludes that this means that the next time we see to Nemo, he will finally be able to take a step forward. in the role of the breeding male, but as we all know, it takes two tangos underwater and, at the two-year mark, Marlin is likely still going through his transformation in that 2019 study I referenced above, Researchers observe the clownfish's change over a three-year period. period in which the study concluded after those three years, only three of the seventeen males had fully completed the gonad and all changed to females, so all this means that when we found Dory, we would not expect the positions of the fish clown and Nemo and Marlin will rub their fins. but we would expect them to start the process in the near future so this seems like a smart place for Disney to end their family franchise because from here on out things are going to start getting awkward with hashtags so there you have it folks, this is it why we will never have Finding Nemo 3 because if the director is truly committed to scientific accuracy in his film then there is no world where Nemo 3 can happen, surely nothing could convince Disney to undermine their commitment to entertaining a wide family audience. with entry-level entertainment, not even money rights, rights, well, how much money are we talking about here exactly because from a financial standpoint, the Finding Nemo franchise is an absolute cash cow, the G duo from Finding Nemo Has Nemo made more money than any other duology and Pixar history?

In fact, when adjusted for inflation, Finding Nemo and Finding Dory are the number one and two highest-grossing films in history, and from a creative standpoint, director Andrew Stanton hasn't ruled out the possibility of a third Nimmo film. Here is another quote from him. I really feel like this was the emotionally missing piece for the first movie. Now I stopped saying never for nothing because there are so many characters that are introduced and we've expanded the universe for this movie again. I'm very used to seeing it. that world continues to open up from the Toy Story movies, so I've learned, it's just saying that as far as I know, I think everything that was born from the first movie is finished, we'll see anyway, but let's take a look look at the last comment.

We, everything that was born in the first film is wrapped up, not quite Andrew. You see, I think the strongest argument for a third Nimmo movie is, from a story point of view, the three main characters in both movies are Nemo, Dory, and Marlin. The first Marlin found. Nemo in Finding Nemo, then Marlin found Dory and found Dory, and then we would naturally expect Marlin to find Marlin. This won't be so much a physical search for Marlin but a story of internal discovery as Marlin takes on new gender roles. His own biologically obligatory role reversal is like the transparent version of a marine biologist, he is discovering himself as a new fish, like the fish he was always born to be.

I mean, it will be a little difficult for China to remove, they are Disney, but thenAgain, some things are bigger than China. Disney could definitely use the PR after being hit in recent years for its lackluster portrayal of LGBT+ characters. Let's face it, a story like this is still rooted in the real-world science that Andrew Stanton founded these movies on in the first place, but hey, that's just a theory, a movie theory and