Find Nemo
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| German title | Find Nemo |
| Original title | Finding Nemo |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 96 minutes |
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| Director |
Andrew Stanton , Lee Unkrich |
| script | Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson , David Reynolds |
| production | Graham Walters |
| music | Thomas Newman |
| camera |
Sharon Calahan , Jeremy Lasky |
| cut | David Ian Salter |
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Finding Nemo (original title Finding Nemo ) is an American animated film by Pixar Animation Studios from 2003 , which was distributed by Walt Disney and Buena Vista . It is the fifth full-length Pixar feature film.
The film opened in theaters in the United States and Canada on May 30, 2003, and grossed about 70 million US dollars on the opening weekend, the best-grossing animation film at the time. The film started in Germany on November 20, 2003. Finding Nemo was released on November 4, 2003 as a double DVD in the United States and Canada and became the best-selling DVD of this year with 28 million copies.
The 3D version of the film was released on September 14, 2012.
The sequel Finding Dory was released in June 2016.
content
The film tells the story of the little clown fish Nemo, who grows up in the Pacific Ocean near Australia . His loving father Marlin has become fearful due to the early death of Nemo's mother and siblings. He therefore tries to protect his son from the dangers of the sea. As luck would have it, he eventually loses it. Nemo is captured by humans, and Marlin sets out for the ocean to find his son.
On the way, the cautious marlin experiences all sorts of adventures that ultimately turn him into a courageous hero. In the fight for Nemo, he grows beyond himself. He was helped by a chance fish acquaintance who was suffering from amnesia , the pallet doctor fish lady Dorie. In their search for Nemo, the duo meets vegetarian sharks , old turtles , jellyfish , cheeky seagulls , gloomy deep-sea frogfish , helpful pelicans and crabs .
action
The clownfish couple Marlin and Cora are overjoyed. They have found quarters in a symbiotic anemone where they can raise their young. But their luck is suddenly interrupted by a barracuda . It devours Cora and almost the entire clutch. Only one egg, including Nemo, remains almost intact. Nemo is growing up well protected, not only because he is Marlin's only child: He also has a weaker right fin, called "lucky fin" by his father.
On his first day of school, Nemo and his father Marlin make their way to school. The father finds it difficult to let the son go. No sooner has he left the fish children alone with their teacher than he learns that they want to swim to the slope of the coral reef , which he considers far too dangerous. Marlin swims after them and finally finds Nemo away from school when he and his new friends curiously admire a boat floating on the sea. As a kind of test of courage, the young fish outbid each other in getting closer and closer to the boat. Marlin and Nemo get into an argument, and Nemo angrily swims towards the boat. He touches it defiantly and is suddenly caught by a diver who disappears with him in the boat and drives away. Marlin panicked and tried to swim after the boat, but soon lost sight of it.
The desperate marlin meets the dory, who is suffering from short-term memory loss . When he tries to get rid of them, the two are intercepted by a shark named Bruce who invites them to a party. There learns Marlin that Bruce and the sharks hammer and hard a kind vegetarians - support group founded in which they eat their inclination, other fish that want to overcome. In the middle of this meeting, Bruce rediscovers his appetite for meat because he smelt blood. Now he's targeting Marlin and Dorie, so that the two of them run away in panic. During the escape, Marlin discovers the diving mask of Nemo's kidnapper, on which the address of the owner "P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney ”.
From now on the goal is clear, Marlin has to go to Sydney , where Nemo is in all probability. When diving for the mask, however, Marlin and Dorie swam deeper and deeper, and suddenly a large deep-sea frogfish appears, which they escape in another escape. The two learn from a school of fish that they have to follow the “OAS”, the East Australian Current , to Sydney .
Meanwhile, Nemo has reached his new home. In a dentist's office he ended up in an aquarium , where he made friends with the other fish. They soon learn that Nemo is intended as a present for Darla, a niece of the dentist who is considered a fish killer. The aquarium inhabitants are desperately looking for a way to save Nemo from his fate. The halterfish Khan takes the escape plans as an opportunity to save the other residents and explains to Nemo that their only chance is to block the aquarium filter with a small stone so that the aquarium becomes dirty and the dentist breaks them all down Have to pack water bags. Then they should roll out the window and across the street into the nearby sea.
The first attempt to escape fails, Nemo narrowly escapes death in the tube of the aquarium filter. The second time, the plan succeeds and the aquarium becomes visibly dirty. But when the fish wake up the next morning, the aquarium is clean again. The dentist had installed a self-cleaning system that night and the escape plan failed again.
Marlin and Dorie, on the other hand, are lucky in the ocean. They fight their way through a field of dangerous jellyfish , at the end of which they meet the OAS directly, where they wake up in a colony of sea turtles, where they are taken in by Crush and his son Racker. This is where Marlin begins to understand for the first time that instead of always being careful, you have to take risks occasionally. With the help of the turtles, they make good progress with the ocean current and, shortly before Sydney, get inside a large whale that brings them to the coast. With the help of the pelican Niels, they get to the dentist's practice in good time, where Nemo has already been taken out of the aquarium to be handed over to Darla soon.
When Darla finally arrives, Nemo plays dead to be flushed into the toilet that would have brought him to freedom via the sewer, but the dentist wants to dispose of him in the trash. At that moment, Pelikan Niels storms in and tries to save Nemo. Marlin sees his son pretending to be dead and believes it was all in vain. The doctor finally manages to chase Niels out of the window with Marlin and Dorie in his beak. At that moment, Khan catapults himself out of the aquarium with the help of the aquarium volcano. He lands on the dentist's set and manages to maneuver Nemo into the sink with a mouth mirror . Nemo swims down the drain and is ultimately saved as all drains end in the sea. Khan is put back in the aquarium by the dentist.
At the same time, Pelikan Niels puts Marlin and Dorie back in the sea. The mood is clouded. Marlin breaks up with Dorie. He swims back towards home with a school of other fish. Shortly afterwards, Nemo comes out of a drain pipe into the open sea, where he meets Dory, who doesn't seem to remember Marlin anymore. Unsuspecting, the two look for Nemo's father. By chance, Dorie reads the word “Sydney” on the sewer pipe and it all comes back to her. She excitedly tells Nemo that Marlin must still be around, and there is actually a reunion between Marlin and Nemo shortly afterwards.
But the three of them get caught up in a school of fish that swims straight into a fishing net. The fish can free themselves from the net with a trick. But Nemo took a blow and is now lying motionless on the ocean floor. For a moment, Marlin thinks he has lost his son for good, but then realizes that Nemo is alive. Marlin, Nemo and Dory swim home to their coral reef. After they return home, Nemo goes to school with Crush's son Racker and his friends, accompanied by the rays, and Marlin and Dorie watch. Marlin is no longer so concerned about Nemo, and Nemo is more patient with his father.
At the end of the film, the other fish also manage to escape from the dentist's aquarium. They do get into the harbor basin, but there they find that they have not considered how to get out of the plastic bags.
background
Production history
After the successful Pixar films Toy Story and Monster AG , Finding Nemo should top it all. The team began drafting the first story three and a half years before the film was released in May 2003. Almost half of the entire production time was spent working out the story down to the smallest detail and refining it in an animated story reel .
The fact that the plot of this animated film is laid out in the sea turned out to be a previously unknown CGI challenge . John Lasseter , the producer of the film, knew about this difficulty and ordered intensive research. He sent his entire crew on diving vacation to collect video and photo material in the reef in preparation for the animation work. Furthermore, the makers traveled to Sydney , because the city featured in the film should be depicted very realistically so that the viewer would be familiar with it straight away. The agenda also included visits to museums in order to take a close look at the specimens of fish exhibited there. For further studies, an aquarium was set up in the studio in California with all the ornamental fish relevant in the film . Above all, the movement, but also the behavior of the fish should be examined.
However, the first attempts at walking on the computer proved to be difficult. The problem was to realistically represent the underwater world with its own optics, the first sequences were more reminiscent of milky fog. Satisfactory results were only achieved when the sea was modeled in all its complexity through many details such as the particles floating in the water, numerous overlaps of light and the individual currents. Now the sequences looked so realistic that the look had to be scaled back a bit in order to correspond to the ideas of a fantasy world that it should still be with all accuracy. To show the different water consistencies, different underwater colors were used in the film. When Nemo leaves for his first day of school, the water is a crystal clear turquoise green that gets darker and darker as the film progresses. The color changes from black to blue more and more into the harbor green of Sydney, the further the story progresses.
Another challenge was the representation of the fish. How do fish with language , emotions and human-like gestures appear believable? A middle ground turned out to be the optimal solution. On the one hand, the figures received a lot of eyebrow mass , with which they can express every imaginable emotion, on the other hand, first attempts at walking, in which the fish used their fins as people used their hands, were discarded and reduced to the bare minimum. The crew also found that they couldn't do much with side eyes and instead equipped all figures with an eye area in front. New considerations also had to be made in the animation of the movements. The Pixar smithy already had many years of experience with two-legged (Toy Story) , insect-footed (The great crawling) and monster-like (Monster AG) figures, but the shallow movement of fish in weightless water initially proved difficult. The first successes came with animations that were modeled exactly on existing video material.
The concept worked, but through the perfecting of the plot, the intensive research and the unimaginable density of details in fish, scenes and marine plants, the 90 million US dollar budget was exceeded by four million US dollars. The start date, which was originally planned for 2002, was also not met.
Finding names for the characters
In the production of their films, Pixar Studios usually make use of various allusions, including the naming of their characters. It is Z. For example, it is conceivable that the name Nemo is modeled on the character Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea . It is also possible that the clown fish, also known as anemone fish, was its own name model due to the "nemo" contained in this name. What is certain, however, is that Darla, the dentist's niece, got her name from an allusion to the Pixar producer Darla K. Anderson . Bruce, on the other hand, may have been named after the mechanical shark of the same name, which Steven Spielberg used for his box office hit Jaws (1975).
In the English original, the aquarium fish with dissociative identity disorder is called Deb and Flo. On the one hand, these names are common English short forms of Deborah and Florence, typical representatives of British older women. At the same time, the short forms allude to the English words for ebb and flow, ebb and flow . For Nemo's father Marlin possibly the family stood marlin Pate. The two turtles are called Crush and Squirt. They were obviously named after two lemon shower brands of the same name in the USA.
Many of the role names have been replaced in the German dubbed version. The spelling of the main role "Dory" has been adjusted to "Dorie". The German dubbed version of the character Lee & Luv is featured in the dentist's aquarium. This naming was probably an allusion to the two terms from the sailor's language , windward and leeward . The baby turtle is called Squirt in German. A more detailed overview of the differences can be found in the list of voice actors.
Soundtrack
Danny Elfman was initially in discussion for the film music for Finding Nemo , but he and Hans Zimmer canceled. Producer John Lasseter finally hired Thomas Newman , Randy Newman's cousin , who had composed the music for all Pixar films up until then.
Thomas Newman, who was usually engaged more for adult subjects like In the Bedroom (2001) or The Salton Sea (2002), contributed the music to an animated film for the first time. Robbie Williams added his 39-piece soundtrack to the song Beyond the Sea , originally sung by Bobby Darin , which Williams extracted from his 2001 album Swing When You're Winning .
synchronization
FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich was responsible for the synchronization . Peter Stein wrote the dialogue book and the dialogue was directed by Frank Lenart .
useful information
In the credits, Mike from the Pixar film Die Monster AG has a cameo as he swims through the picture. But Nemo also has a brief appearance in Die Monster AG . When Sulley brings the child back to his room at the end of the film and says goodbye, there is a Nemo cuddly toy on the floor.
In the sequence in which Khan explains his escape plan, a Pizza Planet truck drives past on the street , which first appeared in Toy Story and can be seen in almost every Pixar film. The car appears again towards the end of the film, followed by a yellow Fiat Nuova 500 as it appears in Cars as the character Luigi .
Finding Nemo is the first film from Pixar Animation Studios , in which there are no more animated outtakes after the end credits - unlike its predecessors such as Das große Krabbeln or Monster AG .
Finding Nemo is dedicated to Glenn John McQueen , who died of black skin cancer on October 29, 2002 . He was an animator at Pixar and senior staff for Toy Story , A Bug's Life , Toy Story 2 , and Monsters, Inc. . When Nemo looks out of the aquarium and looks into the dentist's waiting room, you can see some toys from "Toy Story" in the corner, Buzz Lightyear is particularly easy to recognize.
Re-release in 3D (2012)
Originally the film was released on May 30, 2003. The VHS and DVD came out on November 4, 2003. Following the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King , Disney and Pixar announced a 3D re-release of Finding Nemo on September 14, 2012 . In Germany and Austria, however, the film celebrated its return to the cinema screen on February 14, 2013.
The German Blu-ray was first released on March 7, 2013. The film is evaluated in both 2D and 3D. The film was also released again on DVD.
reception
success
With its budget of 94 million instead of the originally planned 90 million US dollars (about 79.8 million euros compared to 76.4 million euros, not adjusted for inflation), the film aroused immense expectations from the start, which it largely fulfilled. He grossed 70 million US dollars (59.4 million euros) on his starting weekend in the United States alone. No other animated film had done that before. Finding Nemo brought in a total of around 867.9 million US dollars and became the most financially successful Walt Disney film to date , even before The Lion King (see also list of successful films ). With the re-release of the film as a 3D version in 2012, worldwide grossing is $ 936.7 million, making it the second best-selling Pixar film after Toy Story 3 .
Finding Nemo is currently ranked 52nd in the list of the world's most successful films of all time (as of August 8, 2020).
The film's success continued in DVD sales. Due to the enormous popularity of the characters and through clever marketing, the film achieved another 950 million US dollars in profit with 28 million copies, which no other DVD release had achieved before it.
The radio play version of the film also sold successfully. With around 1 million copies sold, the radio play cassette was ranked 25th among the best-selling cassettes in a radio play series / artist.
| sales | Net income in US dollars |
Profit in euros |
Gross profit in Swiss Francs |
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| ... on the starting weekend in the United States | 70.251.710 | 59.299.156 | 63,811,822 |
| ... in the United States as a whole | 339.714.978 | 286.751.902 | 308,573,721 |
| ... abroad in total | 528,179,000 | 445.833.544 | 479.761.477 |
| ... all over the world | 867.893.978 | 732.585.446 | 788.335.199 |
| ... additionally worldwide for the 3D republication | 54.128.283 | 45,689,443 | 49.166.410 |
In the German free TV was Finding Nemo for the first time on Sunday, March 4, 2007 at the program of the TV station ProSieben shown. The first broadcast was followed by an average of 4.97 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 13.5%.
In 2016, Finding Nemo was ranked 96th in a BBC survey of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .
Reviews
The film service found the film to be "coherent down to the smallest details, moving due to the nuanced individual characterization and extremely amusing". “You can't get enough of it,” said Die Zeit . Focus saw "a feast for the eyes".
"[...] Of course, humor [is] not neglected in Finding Nemo, even if in principle all gags are based on shifting typical human habits and institutions below the surface of the sea. […] The core of the film [is] […] the father's symbolic search for his son, the educationally […] valuable message of having to give his children space to grow up (but without being irresponsible) and of course that eternal themes of cohesion, friendship and family. "
“With» Finding Nemo «, the Pixar animation studios are once again proving their keen sense for both touching and humorous trick stories. The father's search for his son, which is also symbolic, is lovingly staged, spiced with subtle (film) allusions and, thanks to the fine drawing of figures, also a spiritual pleasure. “Finding Nemo” is perhaps less comedy-heavy than its predecessor, but all the more lovable in its story, ”judged the film mirror .
influence
The prominent cinematic use of clown fish encouraged children in the United States in particular to want a clown fish as a pet, although keeping such fish is portrayed in the film as complicated and expensive. In 2004 the quota for clownfish was increased in Vanuatu in order to meet the increased demand .
At the same time, the film claims that all drains lead into the sea. So Nemo escapes his captivity in the aquarium by reaching the sea through a drain. Since wastewater is usually treated before it is returned to the water cycle, the company JWC Environmental teased that a more appropriate title for the film would be Grinding Nemo , in German about Nemo . Children in particular initiated the supposed liberation of their ornamental fish by releasing them in the drain, which ended in certain death for most animals. In Sydney itself, on the other hand, the sewer system actually ends in the open sea without having received any significant treatment, apart from some filtering and pumping procedures.
The film also caused a significant increase in tourism in Australia during the summer and fall of 2003 . The vacationers mainly visited the east coast featured in the film. The Australian Tourism Commission then launched various marketing campaigns in China and the United States to further boost tourism in Australia. Finding Nemo also used Queensland in Australia to promote its attractiveness as a vacation spot.
The French children's author Franck Le Calvez accused Disney of having taken the plot and characters from his book Pierrot Le Poisson-Clown . Le Calvez had his idea protected in 1995 and published the book in November 2002. With the help of a lawyer, Le Calvez tried to claim a share of the merchandising income achieved in France and went as far as the French court. He lost the lawsuit on March 12, 2004, but appealed on October 5 of the same year. According to the judgment, Pixar should have fixed the idea for the film back in 2000. In addition, the similarities of the figures could not be used as an argument, since z. B. in the figure of a clownfish is not reached the necessary height of creation . Franck Le Calvez and his publisher Flaven Scene had to pay a five-digit amount as compensation and pay the court costs.
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continuation
In 2005, Disney's Michael Eisner and Pixar's Steve Jobs had a disagreement over the distribution of the Pixar films. In the course of this, Disney announced that with Circle 7 Animation, a specially created animation studio should create the sequels of Disney's own Pixar films (the films between 1995 and 2006 would have been affected). The studio began developing Toy Story 3 and Die Monster AG 2 ; Laurie Craig was also commissioned to draft a screenplay for Finding Nemo 2 . After Eisner was replaced by Robert Iger as CEO at Disney and the purchase of Pixar by Disney was arranged, Circle 7 was closed.
In July 2012, it was reported that Andrew Stanton was working on a sequel called Finding Dory , with Victoria Strouse writing the script and slated to open in 2016. In April 2013, Disney confirmed the sequel and that Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks would re-enact their roles as Dory and Marlin, respectively. The film should first come to the cinema on November 25, 2015. On September 18, 2013, Pixar announced that the theatrical release of the sequel had been postponed to June 17, 2016 in American cinemas, in order to give the production more time. The original launch date on November 25, 2015 was occupied by the Pixar film Arlo & Spot . The film was finally released in US cinemas on June 17th.
Web links
- Finding Nemo in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Finding Nemo atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Find Nemo in the online film database
- Official website for the Disney film
- Official Pixar Movie Website
- Critique of the FAZ
- Information on the story, cast and crew on filmmag.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Finding Nemo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2003 (PDF; test number: 94 446 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Finding Nemo . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Mike Snider: DVD continues spinning success. In: usatoday.com , USA Today , May 1, 2005.
- ↑ Special Edition DVD Finding Nemo
- ^ "Finding Nemo," Alex Sandell, 2003
- ↑ Trivia in the IMDB
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Find Nemo. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Grady Smith: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Finding Nemo,' 'Monsters, Inc.' get 3-D re-releases . In: Entertainment Weekly . October 4, 2011. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
- ^ Finding Nemo (2003) - Box Office Mojo. In: www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved June 12, 2016 .
- ^ Pixar Movies at the Box Office - Box Office Mojo. In: www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved June 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Top Lifetime big things. Box Office Mojo, accessed August 8, 2020 .
- ^ Edition "50 Years of Cassette" of the ultimate chart show by RTL, broadcast on December 27, 2013
- ↑ Find Nemo 3D at BoxOfficeMojo.com (English); Retrieved February 9, 2013.
- ^ "ProSieben:" Finding Nemo "even beats" Die Flucht "" ,quotemeter.de, Alexander Krei, March 5, 2007
- ↑ filmspiegel.de
- ↑ "Acquiring Nemo" ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Business Report, Elizabeth Jackson, November 29, 2003
- ↑ "'Nemo' triggers a run on tropical fish" , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Andreas Platthaus, November 18, 2003
- ↑ "Company Warns of 'Grinding Nemo'" ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fox News Channel , June 6, 2003
- ↑ "Coastal sewage treatment plants operated by Sydney Water" ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sydney Water
- ^ "Nemo-led recovery hope," The Age, Peter Mitchell, June 3, 2003
- ↑ “Tourism authorities hope 'Nemo' will lead Chinese tourists to Australia” , China Daily , August 18, 2003
- ↑ "Sydney ignores Nemo" , The Sydney Morning Herald, Anthony Dennis, August 12, 2003
- ^ "Disney 'copied my idea for Nemo' claims French author" , The Daily Telegraph , Kim Willsher, December 28, 2003
- ↑ "Author loses against Disney's 'Nemo'" , USA Today, March 15, 2004
- ↑ Jim Hill: The Skinny on Circle Seven. August 7, 2005, accessed March 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Josh Armstrong: Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney's Circle 7 Animation. March 5, 2012, accessed March 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Disney: Finding Dory is coming to theaters November 2015. Facebook, April 2, 2013, accessed September 27, 2013 .
- ↑ 'John Carter' Helmer Andrew Stanton Dives Back Into Animation With 'Finding Nemo' Sequel. Deadline.com, accessed July 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Bory's Kit: Andrew Stanton to Direct Pixar's 'Finding Nemo' Sequel. The Hollywood Reporter, July 17, 2012, accessed July 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Bory's Kit: Andrew Stanton to Direct Pixar's 'Finding Nemo' Sequel. The Hollywood Reporter, July 7, 2012, accessed April 2, 2013 .
- ↑ Christopher John Farley: Ellen DeGeneres to Star in 'Nemo' Sequel 'Finding Dory'. The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2013, accessed April 2, 2013 .
- ↑ Germain Lussier: Pixar Skips 2014 as 'The Good Dinosaur' Shifts to 2015 and 'Finding Dory' to 2016. / Film, September 18, 2013, accessed September 27, 2013 .
