The Hero's Journey related to Pixar's "Finding Nemo"

It is noticeable in a couple scenes from the movie. The first is on Nemo’s first day of school after Nemo and Marlin are all ready to leave Marlin makes Nemo exit , enter then re-exit the sea anemone three times before Marlin deems it suitable for them to leave. Marlin even goes as far as saying they could do it a fourth time if they wanted to. Marlin believes that if he and Nemo do not do this every time they leave their house they could get seriously injured from someone who is waiting outside for both clown fish to leave.

Humans have always been interested in a good story. Whether we’re in our bed, around a fireplace or in a theater; we want to hear or see about a hero and their journey. There’s something about a hero and their journey that makes us believe that we too can follow our own destiny like Neo in The Matrix. Or we too need to get out of our comfort zone just as Marlin did in Finding Nemo. But what connects this 20th century hacker and an overprotective fish? They both follow the article “Creating the Myth” written by screenwriting coach, Linda Seger. We also see the same similarities in Pixar’s animated movie WALL•E . While on his journey WALL•E (the protagonist) almost exactly follows Seger’s ten steps in a hero’s transformation .

The beloved Disney movie Finding Nemo features both a colorful underwater landscape and a psychologically diverse cast of characters. From the obsessive Bubbles (a fish obsessed with bubbles) and Gurgle (the germophobic fish at the dentists office), to the shark trio that refuses to eat fish, and the confused Deb, who thinks her reflection is actually her twin sister, Flo, most of the characters in the movie seem to exhibit some sort of quirky condition. Nemo himself has a physical disability (his “lucky fin”) that he learns to overcome in order to develop self-confidence. Marlin also exhibits anxiety and trust issues, which he overcomes throughout the course of the movie. One of the main characters, Dory, has a specific disability that she must learn to adapt to in order to complete her journey: short-term memory loss.

Imagine your biggest nightmare facing death. Now imagine the same nightmare but with your life along with your best friends and loved one life on the line. That is how it is for heroes such as Woody. All your decisions leading up to one death defining event. Which you hope all those decisions were the best you could have made. Then, finally at the last moment, while you are tasting death, you escape. This is the type of experiences hero’s go through. Therefore, in the film, Toy Story 3, the storyteller uses the hero’s journey and a mentor to reveal that we as humans want our heroes to be courageous and determined, because society wants our heros to overcome challenges and learn from their past experiences.

In This Essay, I will be doing a semiotics analysis on a film Finding Nemo which is about a clown fish trying to find his son lost in the ocean. The main argument that I am going to discuss is Marlin meeting Dory and travel around the sea made him overcome his fear and a better parent to Nemo. I will also be presenting the Semiotic of scenes and the meaning behind them.

The Hero’s journey, or in its more correct terminology the Monomyth is an object from the area of comparative mythology. Its definition in the most basic of forms, it is a pattern or outline that is used in storytelling, usually the myth. This pattern is found in many famous pieces from all around the world. In the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces from 1949 by author Joseph Campbell, this pattern is described in detail. Campbell describes that numerous myths from different times and areas of the world seem to share an identical structure in their storytelling. He summarized this with a well-known quote found at the intro of his book:

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

Although psychology class is most likely not the first thing to come to mind when watching a Disney movie, many psychological concepts can be drawn from them. In Andrew Stanton’s 2003 animated film, Finding Nemo, various psychological concepts are exemplified. Finding Nemo tells the story of an overly cautious clownfish named Marlin who losses his son, Nemo, to a pair of divers. He meets a fish named Dory who together seek to find Marlin’s son. Throughout their journey they encounter a storm of jelly fish, surfing sea-turtles, sharks participating in a “Fish are Friends, Not Food (Graham, 2003)” support group, and numerous other conflicts. Hidden between the lines of their comic misfortunes, Marlin suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, many characters fall to acts of conformity, and altruism is a theme that defines the movie.

Most fish treat her normally when they first meet her, but only until they realize that she has a problem. In many cases when Dory approaches fish for help, they act civilly, but make no effort to assist her. Some of these cases can be attributed to the fish’s desire to stay neutral and not get involved in other creature’s lives, but others are just made uncomfortable when faced with Dory’s mental illness. When baby Dory is separated from her parents, there is a transitional montage of her looking for help from passersby, but not finding anyone to stop and help her. Some fish swim away before she can introduce herself, and others only listen and feign sympathy for her. Even Marlin, who eventually becomes Dory’s best friend, tries to avoid her after he realizes she is amnesic. “Something’s wrong with you, really. You’re wasting my time. I’ve got to find my son” (Stanton and Unkrich, 2003). On their second adventure together in Finding Dory, Marlin still unintentionally makes her feel inferior due to her illness. “You know what you can do, Dory? Go wait over there and forget. It’s what you do best” (Stanton and MacLane, 2016). It took time and patience for him to get to a point where he could treat Dory as an equal, but even after knowing and interacting with her for over a year, there are still days when he loses his

As an offspring of the 1990s, I long back ago about how often I've seen "Finding Nemo" – and given Pixar's new affinity for spin-offs, an arrival to that richly introduced submerged world was maybe unavoidable. Set quite a while after "Nemo," "Finding Dory" focuses on the cherished blue tang with memory issues, who wanders forward on a transoceanic adventure looking for her departed guardians. Appropriately, "Finding Dory" has to a lesser degree a street motion picture vibe than the first. There's Hank, a delightfully curmudgeonly octopus set on getting exchanged to an aquarium in Cleveland; Destiny, an astigmatic (and marginally ditzy) whale shark; Bailey, a self-tormentor beluga whale, whose endeavors at echolocation are a portion of the film's most clever

The Hero’s Journey can be found in various films including “Big Hero 6”. If you have already seen this movie then you will know how Hiro, our main character, progresses throughout the 12 stages of the hero’s journey. In this movie Big Hero 6, Hiro Hamada shows what it means to be an epic hero throughout his journey with his diverse group of friends to save his world. In Hiro’s ordinary world, Hiro, who graduated from high school at 13 and is very smart, bot fights in a dark alley.

Pixar’s Finding Nemo can surely be considered a modern day classic film. It is films like There Will Be Blood, Inception, and Argo that prove that a spectacular film can be made in a time where Hollywood has obviously run dry on original ideas. But, what happens when you create a sequel to a classic? Can the sequel become a classic as well, or at least be as good as its predecessor? Although some sequels have become classics themselves (The Dark Knight), many have fallen flat and pale in comparison to the original (Return to Oz).

To start off our story, we need to go from the beginning. Marlin and his wife are soon to be parents, with their many fish babies. Before they are born, a shark comes through and eats the wife and all of the babies but one. That last little fish hatches and is Marlin’s only kid, which is named Nemo. One day at school, Nemo was feeling rebellious and swam out into the open water towards a boat. Nemo is taken by the fisherman, which of course freaks out

On his pursuit he meets a blue fish named Dori, who has a memory problem. She undoubtedly is annoying to Marlin and he gets very impatient with her when she continues to repeat herself. Against his better judgment he agrees to let her help him find his lost son. For the next few days, as the movie goes, they have several encounters with other marine wildlife that according to Marlin are dangerous. First they encounter three sharks which are known to be solely meat eaters but they join the sharks and spend some time with them that show them that not all sharks are that way but some feel that fish should be thought of as "friends, not food" as the sharks like to say. With this knowledge he begins to trust more of the other sea creatures that he did before.

Marlin and Dory accidentally run into a bloom of jellyfish that nearly stings them to death; they wake up to see Crush, a surfer turtle, which takes Dory and him on the East Australian Current. In the current, Marlin shares the details of his journey with a group of turtles and his story spreads rapidly across the ocean and eventually reaches Nemo in Sydney.