26th May, 2013
You know, I’ve a very old friend who — when I mentioned, by SMS, what I was watching, tonightª — raised an interesting point.
“If you’re going to start watching films based on the work of Neil Gaiman, why start with what’s basically a kids film?”
There’s possibly a couple of good answers, there.
1) When I rented it from iTunes, Coraline was the only adaption of Gaiman’s work that I knew about: frankly, I wasn’t going to faff about looking for another, unless I had more time.
2) The other answer, the one I just thought of, making a cocoa while I was mulling over this post? Was simply that we expect kids to start with kids films. Some of which can be scary, if they’ve not been too Disneyfied‡.
I’m thinking, here that Coraline might well not be as scary as — say — The Wizard Of Oz* or The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey†.
But certainly isn’t Disney … !
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