Finding Nemo (2003) is an animated adventure/comedy genre movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is directed and written by Andrew Stanton. The movie characters are voiced by Albert Brooks (Marlin), Ellen Degeneres (Dory), Alexander Gould (Nemo), Willem Dafoe (Gill), and many more.
Finding Nemo (2003) tells the story of a timid clownfish and his adventure to rescue his only son “Nemo” who got captured at the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, Australia.
The movie has won several awards including an Academy Award in Best Animated feature category. Finding Nemo (2003) was released on 30th May, 2003 and earned close to 1$ billion on its theatrical run. Let’s have a quick look about the interesting facts and details about movie Finding Nemo (2003).
16. Finding Nemo (2003) surpassed The Lion King (1994) to become the highest-grossing animated film at that time. The Lion King (1994) producer Don Hahn called director Andrew Stanton to congratulate him and said, "It's about time".
- Finding Nemo and The Lion King
15. Director Andrew Stanton did the voice of Crush the sea turtle (lying on his couch) in his office. Squirt the sea turtle is voiced by Nicholas Bird, the young son of Pixar director Brad Bird.
- Marlin, Dory, Crush and Squirt
14. The look and feel of the underwater world was essential to the film's success. To achieve that, the production crew were all exposed to visits to aquariums, diving stints in Monterey and Hawaii. They attended study sessions in front of Pixar's own 25-gallon fish tank and even a series of in-house lectures from an ichthyologist.
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13. Rendering a frame which lasted about 1/24th of a second in the film Finding Nemo (2003) could take up to four days. It was because of the complexity of the underwater environment with sunlight coming through the water and hitting fish scales.
- Marlin and dory
12. Kids would try releasing their pet fish by flushing them down a drain. A company that manufactures equipment used by water filtration and sewage treatment plants released a warning the Thursday after the film came out saying that, even though drains do eventually reach the ocean, before it got there the water would go through equipment which breaks down solids, and went on to say that in real life the movie would more appropriately be called "Grinding Nemo".
- Marlin and dory finding nemo
11. Though never mentioned in the film, it is revealed by the directors in the commentary that Crush and his crew of thrill-seeking turtles are headed for Hawaii.
- Sea Turtle Drive
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