So Whyborn wasn’t in the book? I thought he was the most sympathetic character on the other side- poor guy got his mouth sewn shut. Always loved the cat too- Keith David’s the man!
Coraline reminds me of the story of Hansel and Gretel. They were both tricked into believing the illusion of this perfect home with everything they could ever want and end up tricking the witch whether it’s putting her in the oven or down a well.
@Abigail Chaiyasate damn, fuck you. That's not how ocd is alike at all. It's not perfecting it's having a part of your mind being off and giving you suicidal thoughts and making you think things you never wanna think. SERIOUSLY stop thinking that everything is so simple
I personally feel Coraline physically escaped of course where she can see her friends, family, and live a normal life afterwards. However, overall, in terms of her mental and emotional attributes, the Beldam will always have memory in Coraline.
They (especially her grandkids) would probably just dismiss it as an old lady telling them a scary story to trick them into behaving. I know this because that's how I was to my parents and especially grandparent 😐 To them it would ultimately be that "Your grandfather had to walk 6 miles without any shoes to get to school" story that virtually every parent tells.
Still to this day,two of the scariest movies I saw as a kid 😭.Coraline always just got to me tho....something about it and everyone else feels it but can’t describe it as well and that’s what so good about the movie I guess
In the books, coraline was fascinated with the other world, but she didn’t show very much excitement like she did in the movies. The whole time she was calm and kept being cautious, especially after her parents went missing.
This man forgot about the most interesting part of the story. When Coraline escapes the other mother and is walking through the hallway she senses the presence of another creature more ominous and ancient than the Beldum.
SHE WHAT NOW I need to read the book lol. My new favorite theory is that the Beldam and Pennywise are the same kind of creature that just have different hunting strategies. Perhaps there’s a kind of matriarch that’s stronger than both of these two, and that that matriarch is what Coraline felt in the tunnel as the tunnel may be a kind of special path from the matriarch’s power. Theories are fun
@@songbird6414 it makes sense that penny-wise and the beldam are similar. Penny-wises true form is a spider and he can shape shift. The other mother is very similar as she takes the form of a spider and she can shape shift. I would love a book and a movie where pennywise and the beldam work together!
English teacher: Why is Coralines hair blue? Me: Idk is there a reason? English teacher: It symbolizes her sadness when her parents have gone missing Also English teacher: *asks the author* Author: Idk it was the first color that came to mind
Of course lol as english teachers always do .. always tryna dig deep into things that never had a hidden meaning and claim it's a definite that there is and it's important to dig into in general .. and it's always over stupid ass small things like ... Hair color lol .. I mean yea there's times where small things symbolize something but when the f is it so important shit needs to be made up to dig into lol when it's not obviously there ..like the majoy of the time and if it isn't .. it's not super important to notice ..
Well, the only thing I can come up that sounds like what a English teacher would say, in the movie. If you looked in the real world, all the colors are washed out and gray, but Coraline has blue hair and a bright yellow raincoat. Maybe it's because to symbolize that Coraline is different than the real world in a way, and it would lead to her wanting to explore the other world as the passage way is this bright galaxy color. I'm sorry if I sounded like a English teacher,
Hey did y’all know that on the cake that the other mother gave coralline, when she gets there the first time, it says “welcome home” but it’s in cursive right? In the ‘O’ in welcome there is only one loop in it but the ‘O’ in the home.. there is two loops. If you didn’t know when someone puts two loops in their O it means they are lying. So that means that the other mother was hinting that coralline was welcome but not home :)
I thought that the other father or one of the ghosts wrote it because they seemed to be trying to help her. The other mother probably doesn’t want her to leave.
Coraline is one of the greatest movies ever made and one of the greatest books, it’s crazy who thought that buttons could scare us? But now I hate buttons lmao
The real story of Caroline is way scarier: (btw it’s just a myth) one day these two little girls, Blue Eyes and Turkey, were walking home one day when they say this woman playing a drum. Every time the girl would play the drum little people would come out of it and dance. The little girls thought this was so amazing and they wanted the drum so bad. But the woman told them the only way she would give them the drum is if they were naughty. So the girls went home and started doing things bad to get the drum. They’re mother started to get upset bc they were misbehaving. The next day the little girls went back to the spot the woman was playing the drum on. She was still there and the little girls told her abt how they were bad so they could get the drum. The woman told them they weren’t bad enough so when they got home they were even more bad. They’re mother told them that if they continue to be naughty she would leave and horrible new mother with a wooden tail and glass eyes would come and be they’re new mother. The girls didn’t take her seriously and they went back to the spot the woman played the drum at. She said they still weren’t naughty enough. So they went home and were the absolute most horrible they could be to their mother. The next day the woman said they STILL weren’t naughty enough to get the drum. So they went home and when they walked in their mother was gone and all that was there was a horrific, terrifying woman with a wooden tail and glass eyes......,( this is the version I heard maybe a few things are different abt this story, this is just what I heard)
im 11 years old but i watched this when i was 6 or 7 and my brother forced me to watch it and it creeped me out and i couldnt sleep in my own bed for a month and i threw away all my toys with button eyes and im still terrified of that movie and i think that freddie krougar (sorry dont know how to spell lol) and pennywise isnt as scary as coraline
Fan fact: that scene with the wasps happended in real life with Gaiman while he was strolling with his kids and was a major inspiration for the messege and concept of the book. He took almost 40 stings, and was terrified of going back to get his glasses, which he lost while trying to shake the wasps out of his hair. It is a pitty they didn't put it in the movie, since the event had such an impact in the author himself, to the point that he basically copy pasted it in the book.
@@inotdarkness8438 again your comment doesn't have to do with anything I said lol also I said it's just wierd how you said a specific age when you could just say she only take kids and even then it doesn't have to do anything with my comment
I thought Coraline was at least 12 with that dyed hair cause the picture of her in her parents room her natural hair color is brown and she looks younger
The Coraline movie is one of those adaptations that are so good I love it despite some changes from the book. I'm still a little meh about giving her a sidekick - I thought one of the really awesome themes in the book was that she did it/ HAD to do it herself (other than The Cat of course!). But they did at least do some neat things with his character so eh, there's that at least.
I think Wybee mostly helps us as the audience see into Coraline's mind. A lot of books show us the internal monologue but thats a lot harder in a movie if you dont have a person to bounce these thoughts off of. Also gives the other world an extra treat for Coraline as in it she has a friend (and she has one in her world by the end of the movie too which is a satisfying end imo). Frankly though I love both the movie and the book for what they are.
If it weren't for wybie, coraline would be alone a lot of the time. I know that she was alone in the books, but having a character constantly alone/talking to themselves doesn't make a very good movie. I also liked that they added that wybies grandmother's sister was taken by the other mother
Another great moment: My Coraline cosplay was retweeted by none other than Neil Gaiman on Halloween a few years back- I was so extremely ecstatic that I think I cried
As a kid, I grew up being raised by a huge covert narcissist. I just realized that the other mother is kind of a big metaphor for people like that and I'm realizing why I loved this story so much as a kid.
What I find interesting is, the story of coraline seems like an interesting relatable story for a lot of kids, they have parents who are busy a lot and they see two sides of their parents, when they are able to give them attention. Which may be less often, hence why the ones who were not busy were bad and creepy. A new normal that she experiences sometimes with the other world is creepy.
something that scares me is that the well and the tunnel look almost identical. so what if the well is another way of entering or exiting the other world
I’ll tell you a scary fact 1. The ghosts faces are like that cuz that’s the face they made when the other-mother sewed the buttons in their eyes 2. The wall paper is simple- the wallpaper has bugs as the wallpaper 3. The pictures are the ghosts 4. The other-father warning song That’s the end of the scaryfacts
Toga himiko Painer girl:screaming Boy: oh no oh nooh no oh nooh no no no no no nooooooooooo oh no oh no oh nooh no oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooo no please Wybies grandmothers sister:oh sh*t Other mother when she's done:potions each kid and takes pictures and edits them black*
Okay but can we talk about how well done this horror movie was? It was angled towards kids but didn’t attempt to hold off on the fear factor, meaning that it couldn’t rely on gore, torture, and even jump scares to scare the audience because it WAS such a young audience. Despite this, though, it’s a legitimately terrifying movie. It’s so well done in the atmosphere, characters, and visuals. Honestly, I believe this movie should be studied in film classes. There are so many different elements that come together to form an absolutely brilliant piece.
Imagine if they made another coralline movie but it was about her kids and the other mother and coralline trying to keep them away from the other mother.
She's old but she's isolated. She can only learn from the two weeks of watching the kids before she lures them in. She doesn't read or talk to anyone but the victims.
@Vex yeah it depends on if her birthday was after school season starting like September, October November etc but other than that if that was not the case that mean she failed. You’re supposed to start kindergarten at 5 & graduate high school at 17
Coraline is a masterpiece in animation. It’s as sweet and as charming as it is creepy. And I really appreciate the extensive work you’ve done analyzing different aspects and characters of this iconic movie. A lot of hard work. Respect.
Oh my gosh I loved monster house! I literally watched it yesterday with my sister and we commented on how chowder was similar to us. Mainly because we make jokes and do dumb stuff all the time.
Coraline’s mom seemed more loving towards Coraline in the book. In the movie they portrayed her as impatient but she really does care for Coraline, as does her father. You can also tell Coraline, though often pushed to the side by the both of them, loves both of her parents. You can tell this because she cries when they are missing, and puts herself in great danger to save them. The relationship between Coraline and her parents isn’t in your face, but it’s definitely there; they all love one another, even though her parents are often busy with other things and leave her with herself as company.
I used to LOVE this movie when I was like 4-5 but when I got older I realized how creepy and weird this movie is like the theater scene lol it's good though but I it creeps me out
When you watched the movie coralline did you notice when coralline telling her parents about her going into the other world that there’s was a clock on the oven and it said 1/17/94?
the book and the movie clash a lot like little details to a whole character it’s weird because he’s explaining the book but the visuals are the movie also isn’t his name bobinski not bobo
Bravery to face the beldam- Gryffindor Resilient/ hardworking, she doesnt give up even when things take a turn - Hufflepuff Smart enough to find the marbles and curiosity- Ravenclaw Cunning enough to trick the bedlam twice- Slytherin
You... Couldn't be anymore right! I used to be spooked by visiting the site they had, It sorta resembled the click point PC games in a way and it intrigued my interests for the movie. But that's not even the end of it, Does anyone remember the toys Hardee's/Carl's Jr used to give out? I had that one blueish key with her face, I loved that key... A LOT, There was something special about that key out of all the stuff I had was the one I always had in my pockets the most... But I don't remember where I left it sadly... So I made a key myself with the alphabet stickers I could conjure (I was very young back then mind you.) But if I find it again on some flea market I'll get it again man. But yeah that movie after finally getting it on the McDonald's Redbox, despite the creepy stuff I do remember it fondly. HECK at the time Blockbuster was still with us I remembered getting the game off the movie on the PS2 for a limited time (Because Blockbuster.) In Christmas, good shit let me tell you and I only got to the pre-other world stages until I needed to return it... You could say I was also the lad that genuinely had similar dreams like the chick myself, she even mostly appeared in the mitts of things, But given they were long gone dreams how they ended is unknown.
Very intriguing video! The amount of editing and research in this is why RU-vid was created. Keep up the good work! I never thought that I would be so engrossed for 16 whole minutes! 😊
They do this in the movie because of the 100 year old taffy the real old women feed her in their apartment, I think it has to do a little bit with them being emotionally stuck in their past
I think that the old women were made out of relevant materials by the other mother. The other father was made out of pumpkin, Wylie looks like hes stuffed and the old women are made out of taffy.
When he was talking about collecting the three eyes, saying he can’t list how many games do the same thing..I seen my all time favorite game from when I was a kid lol
I feel like around it was more common for parents to be divorcing so when they told her everyone had two sets of parents so if she asked about it at school people would think nothing of it
Fun fact: Niel Gaiman actually had the thing with the wasps happen to him IRL. (Note: He was the father in this situation, not Coraline. I would hope that was obvious.)
I actually read coralline last year in 7th grade for literature. We took a pretty long time to understand what the other mother and father were doing but once we understood, we all got nightmares. I never finished the book I just read all my friend’s answers and understood the book without actually reading the complete book (sorry for that useless rant) Also love your tie
I think the reason why the Beldam hates cats is because her own cat (the talking black cat), who'd be been loyal to her for a long time, betrayed her when it tried to help one of the children (who became a ghost). She's so hurt by this because it's the only creature that she trusts. I also agree with the commented who said the cat was her familiar, that's why it can go to the real world whenever it wants to.
What if at the end of the movie her mom was waking her up and coraline realizes she was dreaming and the other mother didn’t exist, those kids souls didn’t get stolen, and she didn’t eat that good food👁👄👁...
Meh I think they shouldn't just because every remake of animations are usually like really bad and the original version should be the the only film just because of how amazing it is
Dude idk if this is like a sign or something- But im in bed watching this and im like sweating hot- I just got FREAKING CHILLS DOWN MY SPINEEEE.. WTHHHHH
When wibe said if you fell and looked up you’d see a sky of stars in the middle of the day I think it is the other world cause it is always night in there
If so, it was probably one of the places she sealed up. I know what people are saying, oh she could have gotten the key using the well, but she likely knew that well was a portal of sorts, so she sealed it up so the cat wouldn’t be able to go through it, if he knew how to open it...
I remember reading this book waaaay back when I was thirteen, just on a whim because the cover looked weird but interesting. Months later I found out about the movie and my mom decided to take me for my birthday since it came out that month. When I tell you I was scared shitless and gripping that theater chair so hard during the entire film...
This happens a lot,if you look at a movie and then see the book,you’ll see that the book wither has more or less information than in the movie,and example of this is Matilda by Roald Dahl,in the movie,there’s a scene where Matilda and her parents’ television breaks magically,but in the book,it’s nowhere to be seen,similarly,in the book,there’s a scene where Matilda borrows one of her friend’s parrot by bribing him,in the movie,there’s no such scene. In Coraline,there’s a lot of stuff in the movie that’s not in book too,like Wybie,the directors added him as a side character in the movie so Coraline wasn’t talking to the air the whole time,in the book,those scenes were cut out as the cat takes place of Wybie,talking about more important subjects like how the world is all fake
@@mayeda. I really think these differences are because of copyright. Not everything in an adaptation picks all events in book or series. They sometimes alter events or even disregard them so that they don't copy the entire book or series.
momnadal You’re incorrect, Coraline was released in 2009 while Strangers Thing was released in 2016 and is currently ongoing with hints of a season 4 being released soon. Stranger Things probably used the “Other World” from Coraline as a reference to create “The Upside Down”.
This movie has literally been my favourite since I was a kid and I even loved the book! I still cannot believe it didn't creep me out more because those book descriptions are pretty creepy. Awesome video btw!
I just realized. When Coraline and Wybie throw the other mother's hand down the well you can look at how the inside of the well looks and the inside of the little door in comparison.
