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Scary? No, although the occasional shiver did run up my spine when I least expected it, I had no fear for Coraline or her safety. More surprising was the humor in the book. Coraline is a funny funny book. It's the sweet, dry humor, and the beautiful illustrations that give this little, creepy tale a unique life of its own.
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...just don't think about the eye-button tapping at 3 in the morning, or the parents blowing on the other side of the mirror to make fog to write on, or a hand scuttling about in the...well, you get the eye-dea.
Loved it. Totally loved it. Totally.
AND was extra, extra excited to see in the FAQ that Henry Selick has expressed interest in making it into a film. I bunched myself up with glee in my computer chair, and whispered through my grin, 'oh thank you thank you thank you!!!' when I read THAT tidbit of possiblility!
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The other mother tapping on her black button eye was a bit creepy. Great story, but you have to remember it is for all ages, therefore cannot be to scary. http://www.jameshash.com |
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| Posts: 3485 | Location: Valhalla | Registered: May 26, 2002 | |
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Crushed Beetles are sometimes found in the stuff that turns your food red. At least thats what I heard.
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Several years ago I'm thinking when my son was preschool aged we had gone to the Renaissance Faire in Bristol Wisconsin. They have a daily event, usually towards the dusky end of the day, called the Parade of the Dead and in it they had a button-eye man. He was fully dressed in black, cloaked, reaaaallly tall and his face was covered in a black almost executioners hood. His only features were two white button eyes. This button eye man became the epitome of what fear was to my son and well, being sensitive parents, whenever he attempted to get in trouble we threatened him that the button-eye man would come to get him. He grew out of it, I think. Coraline brought back these memories to me [i[though he[/i] hasn't read the book yet. I think the button eyes and the marbles were the creepiest part of the book. Good effect. Has anyone just done the Button-eye Man? If not it's tiiimmee! Coraline was good, Neverwhere was better. Croup and Vandemar were nightmarish. Imagine them with button eyes!
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I hate pseudo html feh!
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well it wasn't as scary as the reviews on the back cover said it would be, but it's mildly freaky in an interesting way - nothing too appaling I guess...or it wouldn't be a children's book ^^ On the whole... it's OK  (I couldn't think of any way it would've been better written other than how Neil himself would) I do wish it was just a wee bit cheaper tho ^^; [font=tempus sans itc][SIZE=3] "I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies"[/SIZE][/font] - [u]Samantha Black Crow, from American Gods[/u] |
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The film details are a while back. Relevant excerpts:
October 7:
"A couple of years ago I was approached by a nice man from the Sci Fi channel who was putting together a series of short films. He wanted to know if I wanted to make a short SF film that they'd finance, and I said yes, and went off and wrote one. Then I got an apologetic message from the nice man at the Sci Fi channel explaining they'd changed their short film policy and they only wanted something that could be turned into an ongoing series, which my film certainly wasn't. So I tucked it to one side and forgot about it.
"And then I had a conversation a couple of days ago about a feature film I'm meant to be directing, which seems to be edging rather close to reality. And, as Dave McKean pointed out, I ought to direct something first. Partly as a gentle way in to the process, and partly to make sure this is not an enormous mistake. So I pulled the script for the short film from the dusty and cobwebbed place on the hard disk where it was resting and sent it to a couple of friends who could help me get it made. It looks like I'll need to find a couple of weeks between now and the end of the year to make my small film... I'll try and keep a running account of what happens up on this journal."
October 24:
"So the way things are looking, I'll be going to the UK for a few weeks in late November to make "A Short Film About John Bolton". Had a transatlantic conversation yesterday with my producer and his team which was really fun. Time to start thinking seriously about casting."
And that's what's going on for this few weeks -- Neil's in the UK directing this short film (for which he's also the scriptwriter, but it wasn't planned that way when he wrote it).
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| Posts: 759 | Location: Boston, MA, US | Registered: February 11, 2002 | |
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A Film About John Bolton. The artist. Hmmm...
Wonder if it's gonna be any good. Will it have a plot, a narrative, or is it going to meander like a Peter Greenaway movie?
I may be way off on this, but I reckon the thing that would be scariest about Coraline to a child is the idea of someone (sinister) replacing his/her parents. And being powerless to stop it.
It's actually not about the real John Bolton, iirc. It's fiction, it just happens that there's a John Bolton in it, and the real John Bolton is doing some art for it. Maure ______________________________ eurydice underground: a miscellany Obfuscations and Inconsequentials: a journal |
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