Pixar animator reveals how one last-minute change to Finding Nemo stopped the studio making its "first bad movie"
Finding Nemo's heartbreaking opener 💙was a last-minute addition

Finding Nemo is one of Pixar's most beloved movies, but one of the animators behi🥀nd the 2003 film has revealed that it was almost the studio's "first bad movie" – until one last-minute change was made.
"Originally you found out [about Nemo's mother's death] through flashbacks. We all went to the last screening before it was going to be finished, and we all walked out the theater and no one was saying anything," 𒆙🍎Pixar animator Jason Deamer told . "[We thought] 'Did we just just make our first bad movie?' We were a little concerned, and [co-director] Lee Unkrick said 'Let me try something', and he took those flashbacks and he recut them all in the beginning."
The animated classic follows clownfish single father Marlin (Albert Brooks) who teams up with forgetful Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) in an attempt to find his missing so🐼n, Nemo, after he's captured by scuba divers in the Great Barrier Reef.
"When you didn't know [about Nemo's mother's death] in the beginning, you thought Marlin was an🌳 overprotective, annoying character," Deamer continued. "It was the same footage. We didn't animate anything new. [Unkrick] just told the audience that sooner. I know it's heart-wrenching, but otherwise you 🌟just didn't empathize with [Marlin's] overprotective behavior."
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