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We'll be counting down our picks for the top ten things you never knew about Coraline
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For this list we're taking a look at interesting trivia regarding this 2009 stop-motion animated film
Number 10, there's a Chernobyl reference, and I am the amazing bobinsky
Sergei Alexander bobinsky is one of the strangest characters in the film, which is saying a lot. Call me mr.
B corolines upstairs neighbor is something of a mystery although you can piece his puzzling past together based on his appearance mr.
B wears a medal that reads 4A3C which indicates Chernobyl sky nuclear power plant the text additionally states
participant in the cleanup campaign. This particular medal was awarded to individuals who helped deal with the fallout of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster
The radiation from this disaster might explain why Mr.
B has blue skin not to mention why his personality is so eccentric the mice
asked me to give you message
It goes to show how the littlest details can tell a character's whole back story. Number 9
The movers are based on two real people
The two men that help Coraline's family move into the Pink Palace had a much greater impact than you might have realized
Their van reads ranft brothers moving company which is a reference to Jeremy Ranft and Jo Ranft the movers are even modeled after these
real-life brothers who worked with director Henry Selick on The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach
Joe's life was tragically cut short when he died in a car accident in 2005
Selleck described Joe as the story giant of our generation and Tim Burton's corpse bride was even dedicated to his memory
Jeremy meanwhile works as a character sculptor and voice actor at Pixar. Number 8 Laika auctioned off all their puppets in
2015 from Coraline to ParaNorman and the boxtrolls laika has dished out one stop-motion success after another in
2015 one year before the release of Kubo and the two strings the
Production company auctioned off the puppets set and props from the first three feature films Coraline's evil other mother was a top seller
going for just above
$50,000 another other mother puppet sold for over
$25,000 while a blue star sweater, Coraline went for almost
$24,000 overall the collection brought in over 1 million dollars a portion of which was donated to the Art of Elysium a charity that
Encourages artists and communities in need to join together and emotionally triumph over their circumstances through art
number 7 time and materials whether it's 2d, or 3d
Animation is always a lengthy arduous process you have to be especially patient when it comes to stop-motion though
Coraline took 18 months to shoot and that's not even including the two years that went into pre-production
To create a single puppet a team of 10 people worked for 3 to 4 months
it's not like there's just one puppet per character either for the film's titular heroine the
Filmmakers had to create 28 different puppets of various sizes although the one that was primarily used stood at nine and a half inches
Plus over 130 sets were constructed across 52 stages spanning
183 thousand square feet which broke a record for a stop-motion animated feature
number 6 the shopping scene was almost cut
The scene where Coraline and her mother go uniform shopping stands out as one of the few moments that take place outside of the Pink
Palace because of this the producers originally wanted it scrapped from the final product
But Selleck fought to keep the scene in while it had already been established that Coraline and her mother have a somewhat strenuous dynamic
Selleck felt the scene added something extra to their relationship put them back
My other mother would get them
It's also one of the final moments the two shared together before Cora lines parents
Go missing furthermore the scene has a nice payoff later on when Coralines mom buys her daughter
the glove she wanted demonstrating the loving bond between them number 5
Where did that ketchup stain come from?
While the shopping sequence ultimately made it in another notable scene ended up on the cutting room floor
When Coraline is finally reunited with her real parents the family spent some quality time together as Coralines father plays with his daughters
Octopus it's easy to overlook the ketchup stain on his shirt the stain has given no explanation in the finished film
Although a deleted moment offers us an idea. It's briefly mentioned that the family had pizza for dinner, which means mr.
Jones must have spilt a little tomato sauce either that or he helped himself to a mustard ketchup salsa rap
Number four real-world sets were designed to be flat
You know how the Wizard of Oz starts off in a sepia tone, but transitions to Technicolor when Dorothy opens the door to Munchkinland
Coraline did something similar to create a contrast between the real world and the other world the production team
purposely made coralines round flat and
depressing when Coraline travels through the small door however were thrust into a seemingly more inviting world full of color and
wonder
This is especially apparent when you watch the film in 3d
Putting an even greater emphasis on the other worlds. I popping visuals the shift made it clear that Coraline wasn't in Kansas anymore, though
She comes to learn that there's no place like home
number three Wybie never appeared in the book
Coraline is based on a 2002 children's novella by Neil Gaiman as with virtually any
adaptation the film made a few changes
From its source material in the book the entrance to the other world is large and wooden here
It's shrunken down to the size of that door from being John Malkovich the filmmakers also added several
Elements such as the ragdoll the other mother creates to spy on Coraline
Perhaps the most significant addition is wyborn Lovat who didn't appear in the book
But who the filmmakers felt Coraline could play off of to avoid having her talk to herself for much of the movie
Let me guess you're from Texas or Utah someplace dried out and barren right number two they might be giants wrote an unused soundtrack
Bruno coulais x' musical score played a key role in setting the film's creepy yet whimsical tone initially though
They might be giants were enlisted to work on the soundtrack for Coraline the alternative rock group wrote numerous songs
But Selleck felt their music didn't quite fit the tone
He was going for while most of their songs were cut the other father's piano solo was used in the finished film
And member John Linnell even provides the character singing voice They Might Be Giants have expressed interest in releasing all the unused songs from Coraline
As a matter of fact the song careful what you pack actually came from their work on the film?
Before we get to our top pick here are a few honorable mentions
He's spied on our lives through the little dolls eyes
Number one it was originally going to be live action
While Dakota Fanning was attached to play Coraline pretty much from the beginning the film was going to be done in live-action
Before like I entered the mix Selleck felt the project would work better as an animated feature
Part of this had to do with the black cat which Selleck thought might come off as too gimmicky and scary in live-action
When it was decided that the film would take the animated route Selleck had his heart set on utilizing
stop-motion with CG animation dominating the market
Stop-motion would get Coraline a distinctive look
Fanning was excited by the idea of voicing an animated character and watching the finished film proved very rewarding for her
It's not just you know certain things that you know pop out at you it's kind of the whole thing
You feel like you're kind of in it, and I really really like that
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