Mendelson
11-02-2012, 09:20 AM
So now that my son is old enough to start watching movies, I've seen Nemo about 100 times in the past couple of months and am noticing things I might have let pass before. I have issues with one particular character....
MR RAY IS A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING TEACHER!
Imagine if a first-grade teacher took a bunch of students on a field trip near the most dangerous part of town, let a few of them wander off, and then one gets kidnapped and nearly killed. Would that guy keep his job??? No! Yet at the end of the movie, there he still is, putting little fish at risk every day.
Other things that annoy me about him: after Marlin shows up and finds the kids at the drop off, Mr. Ray wanders over...does he think to apologize? Is he horrified? No. In fact, he says, inexplicably, that Nemo is "safe with me." ??? He also says to Marlin when he sees him and Nemo arguing, "Is there anything I can help with? After all, I am a scientist." ?? Non-sequitur!
Also when Nemo first gets to school Mr. Ray says that before getting on board he has to answer a science question. Then he asks him what kind of home he lives in. Not science!
In short, an irresponsible, distracted, tone-deaf, careless, [edited per TOS] shipwreck of a teacher! In the sequel I hope he ends up in someone's soup.
(This is all, I hope you recognize, tongue-in-cheek.)
MR RAY IS A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING TEACHER!
Imagine if a first-grade teacher took a bunch of students on a field trip near the most dangerous part of town, let a few of them wander off, and then one gets kidnapped and nearly killed. Would that guy keep his job??? No! Yet at the end of the movie, there he still is, putting little fish at risk every day.
Other things that annoy me about him: after Marlin shows up and finds the kids at the drop off, Mr. Ray wanders over...does he think to apologize? Is he horrified? No. In fact, he says, inexplicably, that Nemo is "safe with me." ??? He also says to Marlin when he sees him and Nemo arguing, "Is there anything I can help with? After all, I am a scientist." ?? Non-sequitur!
Also when Nemo first gets to school Mr. Ray says that before getting on board he has to answer a science question. Then he asks him what kind of home he lives in. Not science!
In short, an irresponsible, distracted, tone-deaf, careless, [edited per TOS] shipwreck of a teacher! In the sequel I hope he ends up in someone's soup.
(This is all, I hope you recognize, tongue-in-cheek.)