What's the Difference between Coraline the Book and Coraline the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Coraline Jones
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Coraline Jones
Portrayed by: Dakota Fanning
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This Character does not appear.
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Wybie Lovat
Portrayed by: Robert Bailey, Jr.
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This Character does not appear.
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Wybie's Grandmother
Portrayed by: Carolyn Crawford
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the ghost children
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This Character does not appear.
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Other mother
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The Bedlam
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In the Movie |
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Mr. B's last name is revealed to be Bobo. |
That name is Bobinski. |
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Coraline is from England. |
She is American.
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This character doesn't exist. |
Wilbourne Lovat is a character that Coraline interacts with. |
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Mr. B has rats. |
They are mice.
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Coraline faces off against her Grub like Other Father in a basement. |
She is in the garden where she goes against an enchanted pumpkin. |
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Coraline has a dream where she has a picnic with the ghost children. |
They appear in the dream like a ghost, no picnic.
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The bedlam hand chases Coraline until she tricks it into attacking her while over a trap. It falls in. |
Coraline struggles with the hand and Wybie comes to save the day. |
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The door to the Other world is a normal sized door. |
It is very small.
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The dogs at the theater talk. |
They don't. |
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The cat has green eyes. |
They are blue.
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Coraline has to find her parents....she ends up finding them in a small snow globe, and that is how she tricks her "other mother." |
There is no snow globe containing her real parents. |
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Haymitch, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible's dog is attacked by the other mother's hand. |
The other mother's hand never attacks anything.
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no doll identical to her parents so the other mother can watch them. |
there's a doll similar to Coraline's where the Other Mother watches them and guides them to the door. |
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The ghost children ask Coraline to help find their souls. |
They ask her to help find their eyes.
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Coraline has black hair. |
She has blue hair. |
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The Other Mother is tall and has long fingers from the start. |
She changed into this form later.
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Coraline usually talks to herself. |
The director created her friend, Wilbourne,so she wouldn't talk to herself. |
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This feature does not exist. |
There is a doll almost identical to Coraline which Wybie finds and gives to Coraline.
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blue raincoat |
yellow raincoat |