Coraline Book Vs Movie Essay

A general misperception is that when movies that are based on a novel, or graphic novel, are made with have the same storyline, characters and archetypes. However, it is my humble opinion that movies made from books are drastically different to the original. The graphic novel Coraline was written by Neil Gaiman. As it was extremely popular, it’s no wonder, Henry Selick later turned it into a movie. There are so many different literary devices in the two versions that it provides an opportunity to convey that these changes have been made in order to appeal to the target audience. Furthermore, the changes made in the supporting characters of Coraline’s dad and the two retired actors Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, who assisted Coraline on her …show more content…
Coraline’s dad had played a huge role in the movie as to lead the reader into the main plots. To fit the theme of Halloween, the movie had made major changes to their dad. Coraline’s dad in the graphic novel looked like a normal dad in work and trying to help Coraline. He had a normal body size, blonde hair like a typical dad. In the movie, the dad was very thin and had a long leg like he’s been looking at the computer for a long time. His eyes were big and it looked like he hasn’t got lots of sleep. He also seems to have black greasy hair that is really not attractive. These changes that are made is so that it can fit the personality of the dad in the movie as a dad who doesn’t spend so much time wit h her daughter and lots of time at work. This also emphasizes on how much Coraline doses’t like the situation she is in right now and how she wants to go to the other world. This helps fill in the unexplained parts of the movie and makes the movie more reasonable. This major character was able to fit the scenes together as well as fit in gaps in the graphic