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Hello USP students! Welcome to not-so movie theories. A program so confusing you will find yourself lost in the MC's explanation, BUT DON'T WORRY.. Because I'll find you just like how Marlin found Nemo.
Two weeks ago we have covered about Lion King and how the movie is not based on the reality of the lion society. HOWEVER, tonight, we will move on from Lion King
and dive deep (haha, get it? Dive deep? Because it's about fish?) into a movie that is actually based on factual accuracies. It is Finding Nemo!
Finding Nemo's director wanted to make a movie that is actually based on scientific accuracies (he sounds like Renjun but he is NOT), well except the fact that in reality, fish can't talk.
He wanted to show the viewers about the reality of how life in the animal kingdom actually works, although it might appear to be sad and brutal (you can't tell me a barracuda singlehandedly murdered Nemo's whole family is not brutal for a kid's movie).
Thoughout the movie, you can actually find a lot of marine biology facts. Like the song that the Mr. Ray sang when he picked up Nemo to school, "Mesopelagic, bathyal, abyssalpelagic, all the rest are too deep for you and me to see". The song is based on the zone of the ocean.
But one thing that is worth mentioning and will be the main focus on today's episode of Not-so-movie Theories is, in the begining of the movie when we see Marlin and Coral watching over their soon-to-be offsprings and discussing names, they did not specifically mention:
'If this one is a girl, her name would be Karen, if this one is a boy, his name would be Chad.', instead of doing that, they went 'Let's name this half Marlin Jr., and half Coral Junior'. Now how is this one specific scene become very relevant for our theory today?
WELL.. SIT BACK because it will require a lot of thinking. They did not name the boys and the girls on purpose because clownfish are all born with an undifferentiated gender. The male organs developed first around the age of two,
while the female organs develop later when the colony needs them to be a female. But what's crazy about this is that they can actually switch back and forth between male and female!! In one colony, there's only one dominant male and one dominant female at a time,
so when the dominant female dies, the dominant male will turn into a dominant female. Please note that the dominant female only mates with the dominant male.
Now that we have understand the science about clownfish, we should take a look at how this thing might turn the tide (hehe, get it? Turn the tide?).
We have seen that Coral, the dominant female, has died before Nemo even hatched. Marlin, the previous dominant male, became a female and left the dominant male spot vacant. Which mean..
Yes, baby. You guess it right. Nemo will be the dominant male because there are only two fish, Marlin and Nemo, in the colony. Nemo would become the new mating partner of the dominant female, Marlin, his father. EUUGGHH YIKES. Now you see why Marlin wanted to find Nemo so bad? :[
Finding Dory takes place one year after Finding Nemo (when in reality it takes 13 YEARS!!), and in Finding Dory, Marlin is still reffered as a HE. Which mean he hasn't fully turned into a dominant female yet
because it actually takes time for him to biologically change his organs to female. However we can see the behavioural change in Marlin as soon as Coral dies because behavioural changes happens right away.
Let's assume Nemo's age was around 9-12 months when Finding Nemo happened. So if we put it in the timeline, Nemo is TWO YEARS OLD in Finding Dory, which means he is exactly on the age where his male organs have developed fully and ready to mate with the dominant female.
Now if you're waiting for Finding Nemo 3, why don't you try Finding a New Movie To Watch because if the director is persistent with working with the limitation of factual accuracies, then you would see little clown fish swimming around Marlin and Nemo in Finding Nemo 3.
And those, my friends, are their babies. But then again, HEEEEEEY.. it's just a theory, a movie theory. AAAANNND CUT!
