With Nemo on a separate path throughout most of the film, Stanton described the innocent and childlike Dory as the "surrogate child" who forces Marlin to evolve as a parent by the time he (spoiler!) reunites with his son at the end of the story. You almost are compelled to try to express this thing you're going through." That's always the best place to be as a writer. "I could see back in time, as equally as I could see forward in time, to being a son and a father. And I felt like I was in the middle of a telescope," Stanton said. "I was at this place where I was a father of a newborn, but my dad was still very much alive and very healthy. As such, he's pretty obnoxious a lot of the time – but also more relatable than I care to admit."įor Stanton, that layered father-son relationship was "the last jigsaw puzzle piece that really put it all together". The 2003 fish film follows a sprightly Dory and an uptight clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) as they "just keep swimming" through the ocean on a desperate mission to locate the latter's missing son, Nemo.Īs Chang previously noted: "Marlin may fail in the dad-joke department, but he is nevertheless the ultimate helicopter parent. And then I started to think, 'Well, why not? Why can't it be a female? And why can't it be a platonic relationship?" voice out of my head, and suddenly all the writer's block I had just unloaded. "And a light bulb went off that was an appealing, progressive way to be able to do short-term memory that wouldn't get old really quick. "I heard (DeGeneres) change the sentence – the subject of a sentence – five times before she got from beginning to the end," Stanton said. "And it just didn't work for about six months to a year."Įnter DeGeneres surfaced on Stanton's radar while his wife was watching the comedian on TV. "To be honest, I had this really dumb, male, naive view that the guide that should take the father through should be a male fish," Stanton told Chang. In conversation with film critic Justin Chang recently, Finding Nemo mastermind Andrew Stanton revealed that the franchise's beloved blue tang with short-term memory loss was almost a male fish – until he discovered DeGeneres.Ĭhang had a virtual sit-down with the writer-director as part of The Times' #UltimateSummerMovieShowdown, which saw Finding Nemo claim the Week 5 crown over 15 other blockbuster contenders including Big, Poltergeist, Sister Act, Wonder Woman, fellow Pixar phenom Up and runner-up Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban. The prequel to Finding Nemo and Finding Dory should be called Finding Ellen DeGeneres.
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