Filipino references in Finding Nemo
There were a lot of Filipinos working on the movie “Finding Nemo” and they decided to make references to their culture in the movie.
- P. Sherman is actually “fisherman” in a heavy Filipino accent.
- The small hut in the aquarium tank where Nemo sleeps in is called a “kubo,” a nipa hut commonly found throughout farms in the Philippines.
- Philippine’s Mount Mayon was the inspration for Mount Wannahawkaloogie (the mountain in the fish tank)
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