She had learned how to survive in the wild by being the best co-pilot, ever, but that meant she was always dependent on somebody else to be successful. She was always going to be unsettled until she experienced what it was like to succeed on her own, completely. The premise ultimately became, you’re not at peace until you can truly accept who you are. Stanton always knew that the film would be about Dory’s self-acceptance, but it took a long time to nail down the specificity of that.You can watch the films in either order and still have an enjoyable experience. Because a lot of kids will likely be seeing Finding Dory first, they didn’t want to rely on the history of Finding Nemo. Ellen DeGeneres, who first voiced Dory for Finding Nemo, campaigned for years for a sequel, never realizing that the sequel would turn out to be Dory’s story.And then, suddenly I was watching the movie again in 2011, when I had to see the 3D version, and I walked out very worried about Dory and couldn’t stop thinking about how she needed closure.” “Four years with fish is a long time to work on a movie, and I thought Nemo was a closed circuit. Image via Pixar Finding Dory comes 13 years after Finding Nemo, and director Andrew Stanton said that’s because he just wasn’t expecting to ever go back.

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