Coraline

[james_davis_nicoll]

Huh. I see that in the book

SPOILERS



Coraline saves herself with cunning and pluck. In the movie, she gets saved by the boy next door, a character I do not think exists in the book.

The 3D option gave me stabbing pains in my right eye within about five minutes so we watched the 2D version.

Comments

[andrewducker]

She's also saved by the cat, the Other Father, and I think by someone else as well. I didn't see the addition of Wybie to the list as being a massive change, although I believe some people did.

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

*nod*

I figured it was an ensemble effort to save Coraline. Still, it is different from the book.

[raycun.livejournal.com]

Same here.

As others have said, Wybie is in the movie as someone to talk to. He's also, for most of the movie, someone who is not as smart, brave, or competent as Coraline. The fact that he helps out at the end means they can be friends on a more equal footing afterwards, which is a happier ending.

[rosefox]

He's also, for most of the movie, someone who is not as smart, brave, or competent as Coraline.

Which meant, for me, that most of the movie involved him being a completely uninteresting character, and her being obnoxious to him, which made her a much less interesting character.

[rosefox]

I see a big difference between the "parent sacrifices self for child" storyline and the "when girl is in trouble, boy appears completely out of nowhere and for no discernible reason to save her" storyline.

[andrewducker]

Interesting. I didn't see either the Other Father as a parent figure at all.

[rosefox]

My sense of it was that by sacrificing himself, he paradoxically proved his genuine suitability for parenting and longing to be a real father, as opposed to the Other Mother, who was purely psychopathic in her desire to obtain children.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

This nicely sums up why I mostly liked the ending of Veronica Mars season 1, and hated hated hated the ending of season 2.

[daev.livejournal.com]

Boys were not the only thing to appear completely out of nowhere at the end of season 2. The writers must have been wearing easy-access underwear considering how many plot elements they pulled out of their asses in the last episode.