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May 29, 2020 · Coraline pulls a curtain away to reveal a creature that resembles bread dough, yet it is also vaguely familiar. Gaiman writes: Coraline made a noise, a sound of revulsion and horror, and, as if it had heard her and awakened, the thing began to sit up. Coraline stood there, frozen.
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- The movie opening with this scene
- When Wybie found a very old doll at his grandma's that looked exactly like Coraline and left it on her doorstep
- When said doll started moving around on its own
- AND THEN when she finds out that Other Mother was spying on her through it all along
- Better: Coraline Knows Something's Up in The Book
- Worse: Their Personalities Are Completely Different
- Better: The Dangers Are Different
- Worse: Her Parents Are More Hands-Off in The Film
- Better: There's No Wybie in The Book
- Worse: Little Character Differences
- Worse: Coraline Hates It When You Mispronounce Her Name
- Worse: The Dialogue
- Better: The Other Mother Is Scarier in The Book
- Better: The Endings Are Different
Book-Coraline is much more astute than movie-Coraline, who desperately wants something new and exciting to happen in her life. Movie-Coraline is quick to embrace the new world that the Other Mother has created for her, finding it much more vibrant and fun than her own dull life, but book-Coraline is suspicious right away. She knows something is wro...
In the film version of Coraline, the titular character is sassy and sarcastic, pretty much rolling her tween eyes over every adult comment she hears at the beginning of the film. It's not until she loses her parents and has to save them that she fully appreciates the life she found so dull only days before. RELATED: 15 Things You NEVER Knew About C...
Most of the scenes that feature dangers in Coraline differ widely from book to screen. The basement scene in which Coraline has to blind the Other Father, who looks like a big grub, and quietly escape so he can't hear her, which is frightening, is replaced by the less scary (but still creepy) garden scene with the Other Father on the back of a pray...
To be fair, Coraline's parents are not negligent in either version of her story. They are just busy people who have to work, move into a new home and do all of the things adults have to do to create a home and maintain a family. Much of Coraline's alone time is healthy for her; it allows her to utilize her imagination and creativity. Children don't...
One of the most annoying things for many readers was the addition of Wybie, a character that's not found in the book at all. His presence seemed as if it were forced in to appeal to more male viewers, or to take away a bit of Coraline's "tricky, brave and wise" characteristics, giving him more credit in directing her in how to free herself when boo...
There are lots of little character differences that aren't much on their own but, when added up, point to entirely different pieces of media. Mr. B. is named Bobo and not Bobinski in the book, for example, and he raises rats instead of mice. Coraline is naturally English in the book, like Gaiman himself, and the door she uses to enter the other wor...
While movie-Coraline only mildly corrects people when they mispronounce her name as "Caroline," book-Coraline gets much more incensed over the mispronunciations. It makes sense since a kid's name is always the most important word to that child and getting it wrong feels like breaking the law. It's such a bone of contention for Coraline that it's pr...
As with any adaptation, the dialogue varies a lot once it's been translated to the film. Part of this is just due to Coraline's more refined manners and inner dialogue with herself in the book, but she's not the only person whose dialogue is different. Much of what the Other Mother says is different, as are many of the quotes from other characters....
LAIKA's version of the Other Mother, who is voiced by Teri Hatcher, is definitely a scary monster who will give you nightmares, but Neil Gaiman is famous for being scary by NOT telling us certain details or describing them in ways that just make us shiver. For example, when Coraline asks the Beldam to keep her word, the Other Mother says she swears...
The ending of the Coraline book is thought to be much more appealing by many fans. In it, Coraline already knows that the Beldam's hand crossed over into her world, so she sets a trap to catch it by setting up a tea party of sorts on top of the well. It's another example of her being "brave, tricky and wise," and she even does it days after her big...
Sep 9, 2021 · The psychology of Coraline has been analyzed by scholars and laypeople alike. Coraline's growth as a single character is already ripe for analysis, but her relationships with her mother and the Beldam are perhaps even more so. Hungry for attention and affection, a newly uprooted Coraline is restless and lonely.
Jul 2, 2022 · The night after finding the door, the rats sneak out of the other world and into Coraline’s bedroom and sing: “We are small but we are many. We are many we are small. We were here before you rose. We will be here when you fall.”. Later, during the finding-things game, Coraline encounters the rats in an apartment.
Sep 15, 2024 · Clifford first published the story in an 1882 collection of children’s tales called The Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise. The New Mother has popped up in different forms, with a readaptation even appearing in the popular Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series. The story revolves around two sisters who meet a strange girl with a peculiar ...
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Aug 19, 2023 · Nearly 15 years later, the imagery of buttons for eyes remains one of the most unsettling of any horror story. It’s particularly poignant because Coraline, Neil Gaiman ’s classic book adapted ...
