Coraline

Coraline (2009)

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Corrected entry: At the end Coraline is passing out glasses of lemonade from a tray. There are two glasses left when she presents Mr. Bobinsky with the tray. He takes one, leaving one. But when Coraline turns around to greet Wybie's grandmother there are two glasses on the tray again.

Phixius

Correction: Actually, as she's talking with Mr. Bobinsky before he takes a glass, you can see the straw of a third glass; it's just mostly obscured by her body due to the angle of the shot.

Morgana

Corrected entry: Mr Bobinsky is supposedly Russian (he calls the new cheese "novy syr", the mice "myschka" etc.), still the flag hanging from his window is Macedonian (a two-headed eagle on red). He might be royalist, however the traditional standard of the Russian Tzars is a two-headed eagle on golden background.

Orsi

Correction: It's not a Montenegrin flag, but a Russian coat of arms.

Correction: Displaying a Montenegrin flag doesn't mean he's Montenegrin. There's no reason why someone could not be displaying another country's flag at their home. In Canada, I have seen numerous flags flown at people's homes including British, French, German, Russian, etc. It doesn't necessarily mean the people flying the flags are from that country. Bobinsky can be Russian, but may choose to display the Montenegrin flag if his family, or he, were originally from Montenegro, for example.

rswarrior

Corrected entry: When Coraline first enters the other world and enters the kitchen, notice on the table in the kitchen is a vase of yellow flowers, in the middle. When the mom says "Bu-bu-bu- buttons?" the vase is on the far left side of the table.

moviedude345

Correction: When Coraline enters the kitchen, the vase of Narcissi is in fact in the middle of the table and you see the back of a chair behind it. When the Other Mother says "Bu - bu-bu-buttons" (00:17:10), she is in closeup and the flowers can be seen at her left elbow, in the middle of the table and in front of the chair, where they were a second before.

Orsi

Corrected entry: When Coraline first arrives in the other world, she walks past a table with three chairs. Notice the one at the far right: it is straight. When she opens the door and says, "Mom?" the chair is now crooked.

moviedude345

Correction: When Coraline walks past the table we can see only two chairs, one in the middle and one on the right (00:16:48), as the opening door blocks the view. Then she opens another door leading to the kitchen, and while she talks to the Other Mother (00:16:55) we in fact see the third chair behind her, but you cannot tell it is crooked or not, as we couldn't see the third chair previously.

Orsi

Corrected entry: When Coraline wakes up after her first visit to the Other World, the Coraline doll sits straight up on a chair on the right hand side of her bed. A second later the doll visibly leans on the left. (00:22:00)

Orsi

Correction: The doll, or rather mostly its head, leans toward the viewer's left side (the doll's right side) in all shots.

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Continuity mistake: During the other father's song, notice the red record player by the door and the position it's in, with the lid facing Coraline when he says, "making up a song". When the camera angle changes and he says, "she's a doll", the record player's position changes completely, with the lid now facing the wall.

moviedude345

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Mr. Bobinski: The problem is my new songs go 'ooompa, ooompa' but the jumping mice play only 'toodle toot' like that. It's nice but not so much amazing. So now, I switch to stronger cheese and pretty soon, WATCH OUT!

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Trivia: In the dream sequence at the end, when the ghost children (now golden angel-like figures) thank Coraline, watch the background - it is a nice visual compliment to Vincent Van Gogh, the great Dutch painter, whose masterpiece "Starry Night" inspired the swirly blue and yellow lights. What makes the compliment a bit quirky: Van Gogh painted "Starry Night" while he was a patient at the mental asylum in Saint Rémy, and he committed suicide 13 months after completing the painting. (01:28:40)

Orsi

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Question: I know Coraline's parents are lured to the other world with the doll... but how exactly? The Beldam couldn't have lured them the same way she did Coraline, her parents are too mature to just go exploring and be fascinated by their new parents.

Answer: The Beldam lures victims by offering them something they want. In Coraline's case it was more attentive parents. It's not said what exactly was used to lure the parents but it must have been something they both wanted.

BaconIsMyBFF

Answer: I suspect that you need the doll to be granted access to the world, at least at first. The parents would have been worried about Coraline, so my guess is that they went through the door looking for her. Or perhaps the Beldam did offer something else that they wanted.

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