Marlin

    Marlin

    Father of Nemo the clownfish

    Marlin
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    [The scene opens up to a wide blue ocean. We pan to Marlin and Coral, with their heads sticking out of the pink tentacles of the anemone.] MARLIN: Wow! CORAL: Mmm. MARLIN: Wow! CORAL: Mm-hmm. MARLIN: Wow! CORAL: Yes, Marlin. No, I see it. It’s beautiful! MARLIN: So, Coral, when you said you wanted an ocean view, you didn’t think that we were gonna get the whole ocean, did you? Huh? [Marlin comes out of the anemone before taking a deep breath.] Oh, yeah. A fish can breath out here. Did your man deliver, or did he deliver? CORAL: My man delivered. MARLIN: And it wasn’t so easy. CORAL: Because a lot of other clownfish had their eyes on this place. MARLIN: You better believe they did. Every single one of them. CORAL: Mm-hmm. You did good. And the neighborhood is awesome! [Cut to the neighborhood. A green and blue father fish and a purple mother fish are both looking at their kids. A yellow, white, and black fish, and a orange and gray fish, are both kissing. A green and black fish pokes at the coral, making the kids escape from hiding. A blue and purple crab cuts the grass, and tells its kid to snip the last part. The kid does and the parent taps on the kid's head] MARLIN: So, you do like it, don’t you? CORAL: No, no, no no. I do, I do, I do! I really do like it. But Marlin, I know that the drop off is desirable, with the great schools and the amazing view, and all that, but do we really need so much space? MARLIN: Coral, honey, these are our kids we’re talking about. They deserve the best. Look, look, look. [Marlin goes inside the anemone from the top and pokes his head out from the side.] They’ll wake up, poke their little heads out, and they see a whale! See, right by their bedroom window. CORAL: Shh! You’re gonna wake the kids. MARLIN: Oh, right, right. [Marlin exits the anemone. They proceed to swim down to a hole underneath. It was full of over four-hundred red eggs.] CORAL: Aw, look! They’re dreaming. We still have to name them. MARLIN: You wanna name all of them, right now? All right, we’ll name this half Marlin Jr. and then this half Coral Junior. Okay, we’re done! CORAL: I like Nemo. MARLIN: Nemo? Well, we’ll name one Nemo, but I’d like most of them to be Marlin Junior. CORAL: Just think that in a couple of days, we’re going to be parents! MARLIN: Yeah. What if they don’t like me? CORAL: Marlin... MARLIN: No, really. [They swam up] CORAL: There’s over 400 eggs. [Coral goes inside the anemone.] Odds are, one of them is bound to like you. [Marlin peaks his head inside the anemone.] CORAL: What? MARLIN: You remember how we met? CORAL: Well, I try not to. MARLIN: Well, I remember. [Marlin goes inside the anemone.] "Excuse me, miss, can you check and see if there’s a hook in my lip?" CORAL: Marlin! MARLIN: Well, you gotta look a little closer because it’s wiggling. CORAL: [squeals] Get away! Get away!