Their show is meant to capture Coraline’s heart, so she will give up her eyes/soul to the Other Mother. Spink and Forcible, in the Other World, are supposed to transform from their boring, Real World selves into what they used to be (the posters on the walls of the Real Spink and Forcible’s apartment show them as young and beautiful). In the book, Coraline has been exploring outside for weeks, and is only trapped in the house because it’s raining–and her parents are doing their best to entertain her while still working on the things they need to do. In the movie, Coraline’s parents are shown to be exasperated with her. Coraline, inquisitive and easily bored (as most children are), find them dull. In the book, they have simply fallen prey to their real world duties, making money to put food on the table. In the movie, they are portrayed as workaholics who barely have time for their daughter. The contrast between Coraline’s Real Parents and her Other Parents is a lot bigger in the movie. Her Other Mother never looks exactly like her Real Mother–she is taller and more pale right from the start. She admits that the Other World is more interesting, but is never fully convinced. In the book, Coraline knows something is off from the start. There are things that don’t add up, for Coraline, through her whole Other World experience, and the button eyes event is just the thing that determines that. In the movie, it is a sudden change after she finds out her Other Parents want to sew buttons on her eyes. The contrast between the two worlds is a lot more pronounced in the movie, and so is Coraline’s change of heart. Coraline realizes a lot more quickly that she would rather be back in the Real World.
#Int he book and film coraline how to
In the book, the scene with the button eyes comes in the first third, and the rest of the book is Coraline figuring out how to get her parents back safely.
In the movie, Coraline spends more time in the Other World before realizing that she doesn’t want to be there, and the competition with the Other Mother takes up the last half (or maybe even third).
#Int he book and film coraline movie
The movie has a lot more flashbang things, but the book stays with you. Things don’t jump out at you in the book–they sit, sadly and awkwardly and creepily, and tell you things you didn’t want to know. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.”), and the general atmosphere of the Other World from the beginning is kind of strange and not quite right.
“I swear it on my own mother’s grave.” “Does she have a grave? asked Coraline. The Other Mother has some really creepy dialogue that was left out of the movie (“I swear it,” said the other mother. Gaiman gives us just enough to feed our imaginations, but not so much that they are strangled. There’s more show: the Other Father’s metamorphosis, Wybie’s sewn-up smile, the transformation of the Other Mother into a creepy metal spider thing, the garden turning against her, the creepy mice-rats in the circus.īut I think the book is actually a lot scarier. The movie version is a lot ‘scarier’ than the book. This is going to be a sort-of comparison of Coraline the movie to Coraline the book–I am going to talk about bits of each, what I liked and disliked, and probably some other stuff. The movie came out a couple years ago (2009) the book came out in 2002.
I devoured it in a night, and that’s how I got into Neil Gaiman. I actually saw this book first at a book fair in Denver–it was in one of the booths, and it looked interesting, so I wrote it down in my notebook and when I got home I ordered it from Amazon.
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