It dangles back and forth like a pendulum near the back of the whale's throat as Marlin, Dory, and the water inside the whale's mouth is moved around and swallowed.“ 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water.

And finally, the whale's massive uvula (the grape shaped structure seen dangling in the back of the whale's throat above) acts in the film as a sort of chandelier-like structure to give the whale's otherwise gaping and vast mouth a touch of decoration and class.

Second, there is the whale's gigantic tongue, which in real life pushes water out of the mouth's baleen plates before being used as an aid to swallow krill, is mainly Marlin and Dory's final place of refuge inside the whale in the film, when Marlin believes they will get eaten alive and die if they let go of it.

First, there is the whale's baleen, which in real life filters water out of the whale's mouth, trapping the krill inside, is shown in the film being rammed desperately by Marlin as he attempts to escape form the clutches of the whale's mouth.In Finding Nemo, after Marlin and Dory are swallowed by the Whale, they end up inside its mouth.īefore they escape from the whale via its blowhole, much of the whale's inner workings and mechanisms are seen on screen through Marlin and Dory's eyes, such as its uvula, tongue, baleen, and throat. The whale then leaves, and Marlin thanks it for helping them. Fortunately, they are carried to Australia's Sydney Harbour in the process (revealing that the whale was actually trying to help them). Marlin reluctantly trusts Dory and allows himself to be ejected from the whale's blowhole at the risk of being eaten. While Marlin struggles to get out, Dory tries to speak to the whale again. But then slowly (and rather ominously) he swims up behind Marlin and Dory (also scaring some Krill, who tell the two fish to swim away), and swallows Marlin and Dory whole it really did not want to eat them, it was giving them a lift to Sydney in its mouth. Dory starts speaking whale to try and ask him if he can help them find Nemo, but the whale ends up swimming away. When Marlin and Dory first see the whale, it is first seen from a distance before he reveals how large he is. They seem doomed to become his dinner.' Finding Nemo 'Looks can be deceiving under the sea, and this 'little fella,' as Dory calls him on first sight, turns out to be the biggest living creature in the ocean! The beautiful blue whale is grazing on some krill and swallows Marlin and Dory, too.

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