3 act-structure (Finding Nemo & The Mandalorian)

 My Film Journal 

What is a 3 act structure?
The three-act structure is technically beginning, middle and end.                                                                                  The 3 act structure helps keep the beginning separated from the middle and helps the middle separated from the end. You could also call this a "Narrative Model" that divides stories into 3, which are called Act 1 and Act 2 and Act 3.  

for more understanding watch this video  https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/three-act-structure/ 

• Act 1, Setup: during the beginning characters has been introduced, and the characters set up their goals
• Act 2, Confrontation: during the middle a rising action has been kicked in, stakes gets higher
• Act 3, Resolution: during the ending falling action where there's a plot twist and the characters failed or even maybe a happy ending where the characters achieve their goals and the audience would feel satisfied. 

The Mandalorian 

Act 1:

• Setting: The film starts off with a long shot of the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda in a desert, and it included a close up shot on lizards and the characters didn't react to them, which shows it's normal for them. 
• Character Intro: they present The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda in a journey/mission.
• It begins with no dialogue between the two characters.
• Inciting Conflict: The Mandalorian comes across the small people and starts attacking them, as he tries to grab onto the 'big car', he fells off.
• He failed the attack and on trying to grab onto the 'big car'. He headed back to his ship which was founded damaged. 
• Additionally, he went off with Baby Yoda, and A man has entered in the scene and brings them to the small people trading post, where they trade things and this is when dialogue was introduced between the man and the Mandalorian. And the small people agreed and with that trade the Mandalorian has to retreat an egg. 
• And the Mandalorian went off to get the egg.

Act 2: 

• Conflict arise: In my opinion the conflict occurred when the Mandalorian tries to get the Rhino's egg, where's Baby Yoda is at the back watching him fight off the Rhino. 
• The background music has increasingly enhance, which created a very intense feeling. 
• Suddenly the Mandalorian quickly took his dagger, which shows his hopes were low.... in a sudden baby Yoda in the background raised his hands and appeared with power and started using his powers and lifted the mud horn and the Mandalorian acted shocked as he never new he had those powers, and he pushed his dagger into the Mud horn.
• And he retrieved the egg.

Act 3:

• Resolution: They got the egg and traded the egg to the small people as a trade of some ship parts to help fix his ship back.
• Than they went to their abandoned ship and repaired the broken ones with the new ones. 
• The Mandalorian Thanked Baby Yoda for his help in return.
• And they went off to space

Finding Nemo

Act 1: 

• Set-up: The inciting incident occurred when Nemo wanders into the deep water and is captured by divers. 
• Within this first act, the audience senses the strain on the father-son relationship, Nemo and Marilyn, whereas Marilyn is overprotective to Nemo. Due to his past where his wife and all the baby fish eggs has been captured except for one, Nemo. 
• This first act is introduced the protagonist Marilyn
• The mini climax occurs when Marilyn decides to go after his son into the deep blue ocean.
• The plot point of the first act is the transition to the next act - act 2.

Act 2:

• Conflict arise: This act rises to complications into which is rising action.
• For a few hours the audience will meet their new protagonist, Dory. Where she is caught in a whirlwind of the new surroundings of the new world. 
• In the rising action, Marilyn and Dory fighting the sea partake, the major plot point two exists when Darla ( The dentist's niece who loves to torment fish) arrives; Where Nemo decides to play dead.
• However, his father Marilyn just came in the dentist in a wrong time where he thinks his son is dead.
• This plot twist turns the film and makes the audience feel into hopelessness by thinking Marilyn has 'failed'. This mini climax takes place when the audience learns that Nemo is not dead and is flushed down the sink.
• Interestingly, however, Marilyn in the 2 act learns to take control of his future. This is a key point of the 2 act - in which Marilyn's character is building just as the action is building.
• The mini climax propels the action into the third act when Nemo escapes. 

Act 3:

• Resolution: The act-3 partakes just at the point when it seems all is failed. The climax is the thrilling chase between father and son.
• Nemo is searching for his dad only to find out that Dory is caught in a fish net. The climax takes on when Marilyn learns to trust his son to save Dory.
• During this act, it also consists of a resolution. When Marilyn is reunited with Nemo for life. This resolution creates a "feel good" moment for the audience. Which makes it worth watching for the audience. 
• The 3-act structure gives the audience the sense of closure to a film. 
• In each act of Finding Nemo, a question was asked, and then answered in the next act. Although finding Nemo had a fresh new take. 
• Pixar strategically used the 3-act structure to capture the attention of audiences for years to come. 

 Ratings:

The Mandalorian: 7/10

The Finding Nemo: 8/10