No.025　《Finding Nemo》　海底总动员　有些事情值得去冒险

英文导读

Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy film written and directed by Andrew Stanton, released by Walt Disney Pictures, and the fifth film produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

Andrew Stanton, who helped write Toy Story and Monsters, Inc., co-wrote and directed this computer-animated comedy-adventure about finding a very small fish in a very large ocean. Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks) is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son, Nemo (voice of Alexander Gould), the only survivor after an undersea predator swallowed up Nemo's mother and her other offspring. It's not Marlin's nature to explore unfamiliar waters, but when he and Nemo are accidentally separated near the Great Barrier Reef en route to Nemo's first day of fish school, Marlin gathers his courage and sets out to find his son. What Marlin doesn't know, however, is that while Nemo was looking at a boat passing on the surface, he was caught in a net and given a new home in a dentist's aquarium. As Marlin searches for his son, he makes friends with a friendly but absent-minded Regal Blue Tang named Dory (voice of Ellen DeGeneres), a Great White Shark named Bruce (voice of Barry Humphries) who is trying to cut fish out of his diet, a beach-rat Sea Tortoise named Crush (voice of Andrew Stanton), and Nigel (voice of Geoffrey Rush), a Pelican who can take Marlin's search from the ocean to dry land. Finding Nemo's impressive voice cast also includes Willem Dafoe, Allison Janney, Eric Bana, Stephen Root, and Brad Garrett.

Finding Nemo is Pixar's first film to be released in cinemas in the northern hemisphere summer. The film was re-released for the first time in 3D on September 14, 2012, and it was released on Blu-ray on December 4, 2012. A sequel is currently in development, set to be released in 2016.

The film received extremely positive reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was the second highest-grossing film of the year, earning a total of $921 million worldwide. Finding Nemo is also the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2006, and was the highest-grossing G-rated film of all time before Pixar's own Toy Story 3 overtook it. It is also the 22nd highest-grossing film of all time, as well as the 3rd highest-grossing animated film. In 2008, the American Film Institute named it the tenth greatest animated film ever made during their Top 10.

获奖情况

2004年第76届奥斯卡：最佳动画长片奖，并荣获最佳原创剧本提名、最佳原创配乐提名。

影片信息

导演：安德鲁·斯坦顿、李·昂克里奇

编剧：安德鲁·斯坦顿、鲍勃·彼德森

主演：艾伯特·布鲁克斯、艾伦·德杰尼勒斯、亚历山大·古尔德、威廉·达福

类型：喜剧、动画、家庭、冒险

制片国家（地区）：美国、澳大利亚

上映日期：2003-05-30（美国）

片长：100分钟

又名：《海底奇兵》《寻找尼莫》

剧情简介

在澳大利亚大堡礁的深海中，生活着一对可爱的小丑鱼父子。他们本来有一个幸福的家庭，但在一场意外中，母亲珊珊和大部分孩子都被鲨鱼吃掉，只剩下父亲玛林和唯一的儿子尼莫。在那场打击后，鱼爸爸玛林一直小心谨慎，行事缩手缩脚，成为远近闻名的胆小鬼。因为这一点，儿子尼莫常常与他发生争吵，甚至有一点瞧不起自己的父亲。突然有一天，尼莫被一条鱼网捕走，被辗转卖到一家牙医诊所。

而在大堡礁的海底，心爱的儿子突然生死未卜的消息，对于鱼爸爸玛林来说，无异于晴天霹雳。尽管胆小怕事，但是为了救回心爱的孩子，它决心跟上洋流，踏上寻找自己儿子的漫漫征程。虽说是已下定决心，但这并不代表他可以在一夜之间变得不胆小。途中与大白鲨布鲁斯的几次惊险追逐，很快让他有了退缩的想法。但幸运的是，玛林遇到了来自撒马力亚的蓝唐王鱼多莉。多莉是一只热心助人、胸怀宽广的大鱼。虽然严重的健忘症常常搞得玛林哭笑不得，但是有多莉在身边做伴，却也渐渐令玛林明白了如何用勇气与爱战胜自己内心的恐惧，也懂得了一生中有一些事情的确是值得自己去冒险去努力的道理。

就这样，在遭遇了各式各样的危机之后，玛林终于克服万难，与儿子团聚并安全地回到了自己的家乡。过去那个让自己儿子都瞧不起的胆小鬼玛林，经过这次的考验后成为了儿子眼中真正的英雄！

制作花絮

鲨鱼布鲁斯喊的那句"Here's Brucey!"，源自杰克·尼克尔森在《闪灵》中用斧子破门时那句大名鼎鼎的台词"Here's Johnny!"。

逼真的水下特效是本片取得成功的关键。为此，制作团队参观了水族馆，到夏威夷潜水并摄像，还在鱼类学家的指导下观察一个25加仑（约95升）的鱼缸。最后制作出来的结果对于动画来说似乎过于逼真了。

为制作水母的场景，皮克斯动画工作室开发了一款叫“transblurrency”的着色软件，使水母看起来半透明，这个效果有点像朦朦胧胧的浴室窗户。

在海龟一幕中，背景里大约有200只海龟。

重点学习

Marlin gathers his courage and sets out to find his son

我们都知道，gather作为及物动词使用时，有“使聚集，使集中，使集合”的意思，courage作为名词使用时，有“勇气，胆量”的意思，所以文中的gather his courage是“鼓起他的勇气”的意思，比如：I closed my eyes for a moment—a reflex that sometimes happens when I need to gather my courage.（我把眼睛闭上了一小会儿——每当我需要鼓起勇气做些什么的时候，我总是会习惯性地这样做。）

Is that while Nemo was looking at a boat passing on the surface

在英语中，surface作为名词使用时，有“表面；表层；外观”的意思，文中的on the surface是一个固定短语，是“表面上，外表上，在外表上”的意思，比如：On the surface, things will look much as they do now, but everything will move at a more rapid clip.（表面上，事情看起来就像他们现在做的一样，然而所有的一切将会以更快的速度向前移动。）

单词时间

survivor[səˈvaivə] n. 幸存者；生还者；残存物

undersea[ˈʌndəsi:] adj. 水下的；海面下的

predator[ˈpredətə] n. 捕食者；食肉动物；掠夺者

swallow[ˈswɔləu] vi. 吞下；咽下

offspring[ˈɔfspriŋ] n. 后代，子孙；产物

aquarium[əˈkwεəriəm] n. 水族馆；养鱼池；玻璃缸

absent-minded[ˈæbsəntˈmaindid] adj. 心不在焉的；健忘的；出神的

shark[ʃɑ:k] n. 鲨鱼；骗子

tortoise[ˈtɔ:təs] n. 龟，乌龟

pelican[ˈpelikən] n. [动]鹈鹕

hemisphere[ˈhemiˌsfiə] n. 半球