![]() The spread of information isn’t from the prisoners to the guards, but from the guard to the prisoners. At a critical conspiratorial moment, he’ll overhear the wrong conversation and our heroes have to decide how far they’ll go to shut him up.įinding Nemo incorporates this element of the movement of information outside the prisoner’s circle in an alternative way. Oh no, the snitch! Every prison has a snitch, a weaselly character who gives information to the guards in exchange for cigarettes. He regrets enacting the plan and loses hope of escape. Angel reconsiders his motives and the cost Nemo almost paid for their attempt at escape. Of course, Nemo nearly gets dismantled by the tank filter’s fan when the fish enact their plan. And if the plan goes off, the broken filter will mean the dentist has to clean the tank, and the fish will have a chance to escape out the window. ![]() Crucially, Nemo is small enough to play the linchpin role in shutting down the tank’s filter. Angel has long wanted to get back to the ocean, and with Nemo’s impending fate, Angel sees a new opportunity to enact his long-imagined escape plan. This is the impetus to move the plot forward quickly. The fishoners soon learn that Nemo is going to be gifted to the dentist’s niece Darla, a infamous killer of fish. ![]() The new guy has gained the lifer’s trust. The group initiates Nemo through a dramatic ritual in which they give him his prison nickname: Sharkbait. Nemo accomplishes this, and the act ingratiates him to Angel and the rest of the group. When Nemo gets sucked up into the water-intake for the filter, the other fish move to pull him to safety, but Angel shoos them away, telling Nemo how to swim out of the tube on his own. He’s the gruff, scarred lifer who recognizes the potential in Nemo. Angel, like Nemo, is a fish of the ocean. The other fish in the tank are “lifers” – they were purchased from pet stores and have spent their lives in captivity. The prison in Finding Nemo is an aquarium in an ocean-side dentist’s office. Nearly always, the plan is fortuitously just days away from fruition, which is a writer’s trick for confining the action to a short stretch of time. The lifer will then hip the fresh meat to the escape plan and introduce the conspirators. The Big Idea: Prison movie protagonists are almost always the new guy, who on his first day does something to gain a lifer’s trust. The tropes of the prison break are quoted from the excellent TV Tropes website. Forefront in my mind was The Shawshank Redemption. Watching it last night with my toddler, I was struck by the similarities in structure to prison break films. I had been a dead rumor for so long.įinding Nemo presents parallel story lines following A) Marlin’s journey to find his son Nemo, taken by a dentist for his aquarium, and B) Nemo’s life and then attempted escape from that dentist’s aquarium. I apologize for being part of the supposed problem, I guess.Įven knowing it was on the slate, I could barely believe it when the Finding Dory trailer dropped. Sequels that can be shared with a younger sibling. Emotional vocabulary stuff that’s stickier for younglings than Inside Out. And Finding Nemo demonstrated persistence. It’s scary and intricate and basically nonstop action. Finding Nemo was more than a decade old when we watched it. So when this bombshell dropped last month, I threw my arms up in fiero.īut not just because of Cars 3. We own Cars 2 and it’s at least as good as the first one. Our toddler’s favorite characters vroomin’ more often.įlash forward to today. They took everything that was endearing out and overlaid a spy plot, or so I hear. I ceded my critical perspective, at least with regard to children’s fare, to our toddler, gave it eleven thumbs up and allowed that it was superior in almost every respect. It’s been more than a year since I turned in my disaffected cynic card and posted “ Monsters University and the Sequel Solution.” It was a short review and comparison with the original.
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