![]() ![]() It was a huge epiphany and discovery to have, so then we probably spent another year or so trying to figure out how to solve that problem. And when you rob a character of that, people can’t connect. ![]() ![]() ![]() They have an ability to self-reflect, and can say, “I felt sad yesterday, but today I feel better because someone talked to me,” or whatever. Something I’ve always taken for granted when telling a story is that any character you’re focusing on in any story you’re reading about or telling has the ability to express how they’ve changed. No matter how funny we made her and how clever we made her journey, we’d watch the rough draft of the film and we never felt that connected to her emotionally. It sounds easy to identify that problem, and we can present it so simply in interviews like this, but the truth is that it took us probably two years into development for us to realize that this was why the film felt limited. Was that something you had to work around in creating the movie’s narrative? There has to be some extra difficulty in telling a story from the perspective of a character that forgets everything a few seconds after experiencing it. If it wasn’t for her there would be no sequel. It was this emotional, personal obligation to resolve her that made me want to go farther with another story. She has this fear of forgetting everyone. She was physically with a family and happy with them, but she still doesn’t know where she’s from and she still blames herself for why she’s alone. I created her, I knew her backstory, and I kind of felt a parental obligation that she should be at peace. I walked out of the theater feeling very concerned that Dory’s issues weren’t resolved. Digital Trends: Of all the colorful characters introduced in Finding Nemo, why was Dory the one to get her own film?Īndrew Stanton: The only reason I made a sequel is because I was watching Finding Nemo about eight years later - I hadn’t watched that movie in a very long time - and it gave me a level of objectivity I probably never had with the film before. ![]()
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