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ScribdTranslationsYou must believe that this world is a dream come true, but it is not.
Coraline is a short book of the fantasy genre, mystery, and a bit of
terror. It was created by the writer Neil Gaiman and published in 2002. In
In 2009, director Henry Selick created the film using the stop motion method.
motion, which consists of taking and arranging consecutive photos to create a
animation.
The story begins when Coraline, a curious 11-year-old girl,
moves to an old house of almost over 100 years, which was divided and
rented in apartments. As their parents are very busy
working, in the movie they specify that in gardening books,
Coraline decides to explore her new home. She meets her neighbors, the
Ladies Spink and Forcible, 2 retired actresses who are already very elderly, and
Mr. Bobo, in the movie is known as Mr. Bobinsky or the
Mr. B, a man of advanced age who trains mice to
the circus. When they created the movie, they added a character that
accompanies Coraline on her adventures, Wybourne (Wybie) who in the
the book is mentioned only once. He also meets a cat that lives
There, he is black in the book, his eyes are green, and in the movie, they are blue.
In her new apartment, Coraline discovers a door, in the book it is
described as a normal door but in the movie it is 50 cm high
approximately. When Coraline finds the key to this door and
he opens it, discovers that it is closed with a brick wall. In the
that night Coraline goes back to the door with the hope of discovering
something. When she opens it, she finds a tunnel and on the other side she finds a
room is the same as where it was, the only difference is a painting that
he was once a boy with an ice cream cone and in this painting he had
fallen snow and it is crying. While exploring the house, Coraline finds her
Another mom, a lady similar to her mom but a little more
spooky since instead of having eyes, it has black buttons.
In this world, the black cat is found, but Coraline takes one.
surprise when he talks to her. She thinks he must be the other one
cat but he explains to him that he exists in both worlds, there is no 'other'
like him, since the other mom doesn't like animals. Meanwhile
Coraline spends more time with her other mother, she tries to convince her.
to have her eyes taken out and buttons put in, but Coraline refuses and she
got angry. From that moment on, the other mom would get furious quite often and
once he locked her in a mirror that is a hidden door, in the
the movie pushes him and passes through him as if he were water. Inside the mirror
it's a very dark and gloomy place, after being there for a while
Coraline starts hearing voices, they are the voices of the ghosts of some.
children. They explain to him that the other mother was with them at the beginning very
Linda convinced them to put buttons as eyes, until one day
She got fed up with them and devoured their souls, leaving them locked away.
Coraline, scared, manages to get out of the mirror, in the movie Wybie helps her and
return to the real world. When he walks through the door, he starts to look for
his parents but he can't find them, he decided to wait for them all night but
they never returned. Coraline realized that her other mother had
kidnapped. Determined to save her real parents and the souls of
the children of the mirror, Coraline returns to the other world accompanied by the
black cat.
Back in the world of the Other Mother, Coraline proposes a game: She
will hide the souls and their parents in objects but Coraline must
find them before time runs out and if he loses he will be left with
she for forever and will put buttons on him. The other mother gives her a clue
You will find a soul in each of the wonders of this world.
Determined to win, Coraline goes in search of it. First, she goes with the
Ladies Spink and Forcible, in this world they are young and thin.
When he arrives at his theater, it is full of dogs, which is not the case in the book.
It happens. In the center of the stage, there is a giant candy wrapper and
inside him are the ladies. With the help of a stone that
the real ladies Spink and Forcible gave her, Coraline discovers that
the ring where a soul is found, is in the hands of the ladies.
The second soul is in a small ball of one of the mice that
Mr. Bobo trains. The third soul is different in the book and in the
movie. In the book, she is in Coraline's room with her
toys but in the movie he finds himself in the gigantic garden where
the other dad, who has now turned into a white worm
giant, helps her and gives her the soul. Coraline returns with the other one.
mother but time is almost up, everyone is
removing, it falls like paint from the old wall. It just needs
finding her parents, Coraline goes to the living room with the other mother but
she hides the cat in her bag so that he doesn't see it. While Coraline talks
with the other mom, she manages to see her parents locked in a
crystal ball, she remembers that the cat warned her about the other mom
she doesn't like to lose and always cheats. Coraline tricks her by telling her
that their parents are in the closet and while the other mom is
Distracted, she grabs her parents and starts running to the door.
world. In the movie, Coraline throws the cat in his face and tears it off.
the button eyes as Coraline flees.
In my opinion, both the movie and the book are very good. They are very
similar in many ways, the things that changed are very
small and do not affect the story much. In the book, there were details that
they seemed unimportant but in the end they achieved great
importance, also some phrases that later made sense. One
One of the most important changes in the film is the character Wybie.
Coraline's friend.