Characters:
- Hero: Marlin
- Villian: People
- Helper: Dory
- Victim : Nemo
Functions:
- No. 2. : Marlin warns Nemo never to swim over the drop off out into the ocean
- No. 3: Nemo swims out over the drop off into the ocean and is captured
- No. 11: Marlin leaves the reef to find Nemo
- No. 14: Marlin meets Dory who reads the adress on the goggles and they leave for sydney
- No. 15: Marlin and Dory are swallowed by a whale, who transports them to Sydney
- No. 25: After failing to swim out of the tank, Nemo manages to be flushed down the dentist's sink and escapes to the ocean
- No.26: Marlin and Nemo are reunited
- No. 30: Humans lose all of their fish
Criticisms of the theory
- The theory is based on folklore, and may not be as relevant to more recent stories
- There are very few stories that feature all 8 characters and all 31 functions
- It follows a very rigid structure. Most stories are much more complicated than the theory suggests, for example in Always Outnumbered, instead of the film ending with him getting a job, it ends with his best friend dying of cancer on a public bench while he gets on a bus to go and contiue his life as normal
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