What is coraline based on

The original publication year is or If you check the release info for the movie, it came out in 20 Check the publication date for the book.

If you check the release info for the movie, it came out in Emily Yeah, I was responding to "long" not you : I believe your answer : Yeah, I was responding to "long" not you : I believe your answer Write a comment Caylie The book was written first then the movie was made.

Jo the movie was based on the book. I think the book was better but for once there was a good movie too. View 1 comment. Samantha The stop-motion film "Coraline" was based on Neil Gaiman's book of the same name, which was published in In my opinion, the book is nearly always better than the movie, and this was no exception.

The film was well received, generally garnering 4 out of 5 stars, but I personally didn't like it at all--in fact, I didn't even bother to finish it.

The book, on the other hand, has become one of my all-time favorite Halloween reads. Ferret Fox yes the movie is based on the book. Britney Yes the movie is based on the book. But they are each pretty different from each other. The book is really good and the movie is really good. The movie served more as an "adaptation" and modernization of the book. Rachel Denham-White They are both very different, but both incredible in their own way.

The Amazing Bobinsky, or Mr. B, is one of the most loveable characters in the film, but there is something certainly odd about him. His bright blue skin and eccentric demeanor certainly stand out. If a viewer pays attention, a bit of backstory is revealed through the medal Mr. B wears on his chest. It resembles the same ones given to the participants of a very specific cleanup campaign; the 4A3C indicates the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the three lines on the drop of blood represent the level of radiation.

With his blue skin and curious quirks, he does certainly raise an eyebrow. Could the Russian rodent enthusiast possibly be a nuclear fallout survivor? The Other Father is certainly charming, and definitely the most musical member of the other world, thanks mostly to John Linnell of They Might Be Giants providing his golden pipes and Coraline's Song. It's a marvelous performance, but we can't help notice something odd about the lyrics What many first time viewers neglected to notice was the foreshadowing hidden in the lyric, "she's as cute as a button in the eyes of anyone who ever laid their eyes on Coraline.

It was certainly a clever move on Linnell's part. Honestly, Selick's biggest selling point for the movie was the tagline "From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. We don't mean it was hidden in an easter egg, we mean hidden in a literal egg. Tim Burton may not have had anything to do with the film himself, but his most famous character certainly did. If one looks closely while the Other Mother cooks an omelet for Coraline, they can see the head of Jack Skellington himself appear in the egg yolk.

This one was a clever wink at the fans from Mr. Selick for sure. After all, who doesn't like seeing the familiar grin of the Pumpkin King? Most are pretty far-fetched, but on rare occasions, there are those theories that are not only interesting but plausible. With the recent remake of Stephen King's It, there has been speculation that Pennywise and the Beldam are the same creature.

Both of them lure children to their doom with friendly facades, inhabit other dimensions, and have a giant spider-like true form. Could the creepy clown also reside in the Pink Palace? It's certainly an interesting and entertaining notion. It's strange how art can imitate real life, isn't it? When asked about the origins of Coraline , Neil Gaiman has cited that his daughter, Holly, would ask him to write out stories she made up as a child. These stories would often be about her mother being replaced by a witch and how she escaped said peril.

What began as a word short story for his daughter evolved into a Newberry Award-winning novel. This fact is not only fascinating but relatable to anyone who has ever been an imaginative child. We've all fallen into a fictional land to set our minds free at some point in our lives. Gaiman said it best, "[Fiction] can be a way of showing you that the world that you live in is not the only world.

When pitching the adaptation of the book, Gaiman said he only had two people in mind, Tim Burton and Henry Selick. But for some bizarre reason, fans mistakenly give Tim Burton the credit. Perhaps it's the weird and whimsical style of the film, the use of colors and shades, or maybe the creepy stop-motion puppets that keep tying the famous director to the project, but there is no ounce of Burton on the material. That being said, it does look and sound like something he would create.

We can only hope he picks up one of Gaiman's other works sometime in the future. Zach is an aspiring writer from East Tennessee who enjoys his fandoms with a loving passion. When he's not hacking away at his keyboard, he enjoys a night of retrogaming or curled up with a vintage fantasy novel. He enjoys writing about his fandoms and interests but hopes to one day fulfill his dream of writing for Walt Disney Pictures.

We are many but we are small. We were here before you rose. We will be here when you fall. Is it because the Other Mother is scared of the Rat Beast she is living in and doesn't want to upset it by allowing the cat to run around and kill the rats?

The next part of the theory suggests that the Other Mother used to be human, and when she got trapped in the Other World, she only had her sowing room to hide in. When she realized she was getting old and dying, she used items in her sewing room to keep her looking young hence the button eyes.

But the Other Mother also needs to feed, and a child's soul can keep her sustained for years. Remember her cracked porcelain face?

The Other Mother hasn't had a child to feed on for a while and her porcelain face is chipping away. What's more, the Rat Beast is also feeding on the Other Mother's life force. And she is stuck in this world just like Coraline is. So, Coraline didn't make it out of the Rat Beast limbo world.

But she was able to get away from the Other Mother. Without Coraline, the beldam died. This next part is truly terrifying. With the beldam gone, the Rat Beast will need to feed on something else. This theory concludes with the idea that Coraline will now become the next beldam, and she will have to lure in children to feed on. Coraline becoming the next witch was subtly hinted at by her father calling her his "twitchy, witchy girl. But this is by far the most terrifying one. Battlefield is now in Early Access, and players are reacting to the game with a mixture of high-octane enjoyment and disappointment.