Thursday, May 25, 2017

Waving Goodbye by Lauren Mitchell

Living in the beautiful ocean with a loving family, not having a care in the world; how could life be any better? Tito, Kiki, Finn, and Splash love their lives and each other unconditionally. Unfortunately, this family of dolphins doesn't know what is coming there way and things take a turn for the worst.  What used to be a wonderful and happy place to live, gets destroyed and becomes a polluted, dirty mess.  The dolphins do not realize why their home is changing so detrimentally; however Waving Goodbye displays the human activity that is causing all of the negative change. As a result of the ocean pollution, the family is forced to say goodbye to their old lives and find a better part of the ocean to live in.  This breaks apart what was a happy family and we watch as these dolphins struggle to live completely different lives, and even lose a member of their family. Happy, funny, sad, this movie will leave an impression of everyone who sees it.

Waving Goodbye is much different from most animated movies.  It is a call to action that reveals the harsh reality of innocent marine animals and the recklessness of the actions performed by humans. The animation and family relationships are pleasing for the younger demographic, the adults of the future, as they are the intended to hear the message and are the ones who need to make the change.  Who is happy to hear about a family of dolphins getting split apart and heartbroken? No one, especially younger children. Although this movie is a tear jerker, there is a happy tone in the beginning that juxtaposes to the rising action and climax.  This shift in tone will make the audience sympathize for the once happy dolphins and start to feel the hardships they start going through.  Seeing this problem, ocean pollution, from the perspective of innocent dolphins, will shock the audience and everyone will leave the theaters wanting to make a change.  See Waving Goodbye in theaters June 24th, 2017.


Ideal Cast 
Ellen Degeneres as Splash
Josh Gad as Finn
Kristen Bell as Kiki
Leonardo Dicaprio as Tito
Betty White as Grandma Coral 
Amy Adams as Nelly
Tom Hanks as Gill
Jason Earle as Jack
Mitchel Musso as Ralph
Mitchel Musso as Ralph










19 comments:

  1. Lauren did a great a job with her first intention. Showing how the humans are ruining the environment of where the animals live show the harsh impact on negative animals.

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  2. Lauren did a really good job with her narrative. She showed the effects of the environment on animals and made it very interesting to the audience!

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  3. Lauren you did a great job with your first intention. Your screenplay was fun to read and it was an awesome story. It was a great and interesting topic that I enjoyed reading about.

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  4. Lauren did a great job accomplishing her intentions with this screenplay. I especially liked her last intention to create a more open ending where the audience has to decide for themselves what really happens. This worked really well and was a great idea.

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  5. This was adorable! Lauren did such a great job accomplishing her screenplay goals. I though the overall concept was interesting.

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  6. I liked how Lauren was able to write about situations that are going on now in our oceans and did a good job at accomplishing her goals.

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  7. Lauren's intentions all worked well together, so when they were all met in the screenplay it made a great story!

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  8. you did a great job accomplishing you intentions! i think the topic was very interesting and fun to read!

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  9. You did a great job writing a screenplay that had more of a meaning than just a story. This screenplay revealed wild animal harm (specifically dolphins) and how the families are effected. Great Job!

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  10. This screenplay reminds me of Nemo because humans were destroying fmailies by catching Nemo for a short period of time. I really like how you had Ellen as Splash, you can really picture the movie with her in it.

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  11. I love this idea and I love that Ellen is Splash, it mirrors the idea of finding nemo. You accomplished your intentions thoroughly and you brought attention to something that the world needs to pay attention to.

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  12. I like how different this story is from the other screenplays. You met all of your intentions.

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  13. I thought that it was very creative. I really liked the names that you gave a lot of the characters. They really fit the story well. You also "did a great job at accomplishing your intentions". ;)

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  14. This screenplay reminded me of finding Nemo and really accomplished all of the listed intentions.

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  15. This was a great screen play that not only was enjoyable to read, it also taught readers a lesson.

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  16. This screenplay is not just for entertainment but sends a message, making it unique and important. having ellen as splash will also attract lovers of finding nemo/dory, which increases the target audience.

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  17. The intentions were all met. I overheard you always talking about your screenplay in class and i was skeptical of how the screenplay itself would look and sound. After reading it i got the feeling of a Disney movie very enjoyable. Finn is my favorite.

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  18. You did such a great job with your intentions. Not only does it entertain the audience, you had a very powerful message behind it. Great job.

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  19. I love how you took real issues going on with the ocean and turned it into a fun screenplay! Not only does this screenplay keep the audience entertained, you were able to make a strong point and convey a powerful message.

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