According to Henry Selick, Wyborne's chief purpose for inclusion in the film is that the original novel has Coraline basically alone, but a girl walking around and talking to herself for most of the narrative doesn't really work in a film medium. Even so, it's important that he not upstage Coraline's active and independent qualities, so his is a struggle for acceptance rather than dominance. As for Miss Spink and Miss Forcible's over-the-hill theatrics, the artistically savvy viewer will note that the scene is a burlesque of renaissance humanism (and implicitly, its ideological descendants) nearly ending in a chaotic Dada disaster. Also, Henry Selick may here wish to implicitly reference Whatever Happen To Baby Jane?, a horror film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford long past the peak of their beauty and fame that makes an ambiguous commentary about the sexual objectification of Hollywood glamour and the cinematic apparatus. So while not entirely pleasant, these shots are still important to the narrative of the film.Warrior 4 Jesus (post: 1338985) wrote:I've just returned from seeing Coraline. Brilliant detail and atmosphere, great story and interesting characters - what more could you want?
I thought the movie was excellent! In most respects it's even an improvement on Neil Gaiman's original novel (on which the movie is based).
Deliciously creepy and highly imaginative. My only complaints: the boy seemed a bit useless at times and the fat woman's almost naked bosoms were WRONG.
Still a great movie but not for the really little ones. I give it a 9/10.
You think so? Myself, I thought Wyborne is creative and morbid enough to be quite interesting.Warrior 4 Jesus (post: 1339332) wrote:Oh, okay, thanks mate. I understood the renaissance humanism part (she was obviously meant to be re-enacting Venus from the classic painting) but I totally missed the Dada moment.
Yes, Wyborne's role was necessary for the movie but still he wasn't that great a character.
Zyborg22 (post: 1339521) wrote:Coraline is yet another movie that I'd like to see but probably won't. I'm not sure I want to see the giant boobs, though, despite being a heterosexual male.
I have to agree with those who said that The Nightmare Before Christmas is overrated. It's still good, but it wasn't nearly as good as I went in expecting it to be. It seemed rather short and anticlimactic, and most of it was comprised of musical numbers. Then again, there are at least one or two other musicals that I liked pretty well, so I'm not sure that has anything to do with it. Well anyway, I actually liked The Corpse Bride better.
Warrior 4 Jesus (post: 1339672) wrote:Scarecrow, I'd say that would be a bit more extreme than what's actually in the movie. Don't scare people away.
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