Finding Nemo (2003)

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DZ-119: Final Character Choices & Great Endings

How do you dramatise a protagonist's internal journey through their final decision?

AI✦Examines how the climactic choice between risking Nemo’s life or losing Dory crystallises Marlin’s internal journey, using narrative POV to ensure the audience witnesses both the stakes and the moral weight of his decision.✦

⏱ 1h 52m

Character · Structure · Theme | 18 JUN 2025

Listen if you want to understand how to better dramatise a character's internal journey

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In this episode, Stu and Chas focus solely on the final choices made by protagonists and how that reflects their character journey and successfully, or not, dramatises the internal… →

Films: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) , Finding Nemo (2003) , Michael Clayton (2007) , Promising Young Woman (2020) , Talk to Me (2022)

Character: Final Choice , Internal Journey , Choices & Decisions , Character Agency , Character Arcs , Moral Complexity

Structure: Narrative POV , Stakes , Endings , Climax , Thematic Question

Theme: Theme , Emotional Truth

"We see the choice which is either: He doesn't risk Nemo's life, and he loses Dory. Or he risks his son life, potentially saving Dory."

— stu | DZ-119: Final Character Choices & Great Endings