Monday, October 1, 2007

Nemo equals Perfecto

The family film, Disney and Pixar's Finding Nemo is a wonderful and brilliantly told story. Directed by Andrew Stanton, this film is one of the year's best.

Nemo, a small clown fish in a huge deep blue sea is captured by a diver off the Australian coast. His father, Marlin, voiced by Albert Brooks, goes looking for him, but doesn't know what lies ahead as Marlin's big adventure unfolds. Soon Marlin meets up with Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, who is an oblivious and forgetful little fish. They venture out to find Nemo but run into small problems here and there.

The cinematography used in this movie is outstanding, for an animation film. The colors on the fish and shadows of the dark, deep sea where Marlin and Dory mistakenly go seem like it's real. A steady cam seems to be used as you can follow the fish throughout the sea.

Nemo meanwhile, is in a fish tank in a dentist's office in Sidney, Australia where he meets new friends, yet still misses hi dad, even after being mean to Marlin and thinking Marlin is over protected of him. The personal conflict between Nemo and his dad sets the main conflict, Marlin looking for Nemo, up perfectly.

The cinematography wasn't the only thing that was great in Finding Nemo. The editing was great too. There were many montage scenes of the fish in the ocean as well as dissolves that tied each scene together perfectly.

With such a heart-warming story line and the perfectness of the cinematography and editing, no wonder this is one of the best films of the year.

2 comments:

PaddyC said...

Finding Nemo is a pretty baller movie. I agree that the Cinematography was superb. The fact that animation has gotten so crazy good almost scares me sometimes.

black cat(sam) said...

nice title first off. but i watched this with you and i know we were both almost in tears after watching the cinematography. nice job describing