While to the changes made in the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, I for one am pretty excited about the film. Well, at first I was iffy about the thought of it being an animated film (I personally imagined it as a live action similar to Mirrormask or Pan's Labyrinth), but I changed my mind after seeing the trailer.
While I'm fully aware of the difference between the visuals in the original book and the film (Dave McKean's illustrations are things that I would describe as "brilliant, but seriously creepy"), I'm not going to complain about the cartoony-style used in the film. I think that Coraline is a story I would like to share with children, but I don't want to scare their little pants off with things like a real human being with buttons instead of eyes (for some reason, that reminds me of The Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth, who gave me nightmares for a while).
And come to think of it, that "... Coraline the book is much creepier for adults than it is for kids, who tend to read it as an adventure. I suspect that this will be true of the film as well." I guess what I'm trying to say is that it'd be interesting to see Coraline the way kids see it (i.e. minus the creep-factor automatically generated by my presumably grown-up brain).
...not that I don't like creepy things (note: creepy things, not scare-me-witless things), but it'd be a nice change.
Coraline hits theaters this week (February 6, 2009), but I'm not sure if it's coming to the Philippines on the same date. Ah well. Here's to hoping I manage to actually watch it when it does make it here.
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