I came upon this amazing discovery in one of my recent English lessons in school. We were each given a whole booklet, containing extracts of 19th century literature for us to analyse and after the usual moaning and groaning, we reluctantly picked up our pens. Okay, it wasn't that dramatic.
It was then that we came across- actually, out teacher pointed it out- an extract from 20000 Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne (1870), in which Professor Aronnax is invited to a banquet where all the foods are 'products of the sea', by Captain Nemo, who is the son of an Indian Raja and a scientific genius. Then at the very end of the extract, there was a small writing in the bottom right corner of the page, which said,
'Latin: nemo means "no one." Ed.'
Suddenly, the animation, Finding Nemo, comes straight to my head. I was like, ' OMG! Finding Nemo is actually Finding No one.' WOW! So I came up with two theories.
THEORY 1: maybe the clown fish dad never actually found Nemo. It was all an illusion- there was no way he could have got his son back. He was looking for 'no one'.
THEORY 2: maybe the name Nemo was meant to be metaphorical and meant to represent how hard it was for the clown fish dad to find his son because, it would have felt like he was looking for 'no one', which seems like an impossible thing to do.
Actually, there is a THEORY 3: Not many kids would not have known latin so would have been completely oblivious that Nemo means no one. Therefore, Disney didn't bother thinking all this through but just randomly chose it because it was a good name.
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