“Coraline and the Secret Door” is a film that attracted a lot of attention due to the excellent way in which the story based on the book tells us. If it’s one of your favorite movies, you’ve arrived at the right place, because here you can find the best curious facts about Coraline and the Secret Door.
While the same story of the film has some very interesting secrets and curious details, here we want to tell you about some of the curious facts that are related to the development of the film, those development ideas that gave life to the film and some winks that its creators embodied in it.
Work on the characters
It is clear that the characters of the films of Stop-motion are really important pieces, so in Coraline and the Secret Gate worked groups of 10 people for 4 months for the development of each of the characters.
The slippers that the other parent uses
The slippers with animal faces are not very strange, but if we look carefully at the slippers of the other father (as you can see below) they are a nod from the creators to the film “Monkey Bone” by Henrey Selick, in which Brendan acts Fraser
The materials used in the dress of the characters
It needed a very fine leather for the shoes of the characters, so they had to use the gloves material of the Victorian era. This can be seen in Mr. Bobinsky’s boots.
Filming the film
It is no surprise that the filming of the films lasted several months, in this case the shooting lasted 18 months, but in the case of pre-production, it lasted 2 years as the first stereoscopic 3D production made in Stop -motion.
The discs of the other dad
In the other parent’s office you can see the album of The Rockets, which is the band of Harry (who also gives life to the voice of a character), the son of Henry Selick. The other record is from The Sharks, in addition to Travis Knight playing the role of “Chilly T”.
PS: Look at your slippers
The appearance of Jack Skellington
When the other mother is preparing some eggs in the kitchen, when she breaks an egg and drops the yolk on the pan, the figure of Jack Skellington, protagonist of the film “The strange world of Jack”, is formed.
The hair that the characters have
Normally the characters in the Stop-motion movies use “sculpted hairstyles”, but Henry Selick wanted to be the first in the history of Stop-motion movies to use real hair in his characters, so he tried with human hair, animal hair and with tinsel.
The decision to make a Stop-motion movie
Henry Selick and Bill Mechanic always had the idea of making a stop-motion movie, but they also thought about making a digital movie or even a live-action movie.
The voices of ghost children
To make the voices of ghost children the director asked their children for help.
From the book to the movie
Although the stories are not very different do have some changes, such as the fact that the grandmother and Wybie Lovat do not appear the work of Neil Gaiman. These characters were included by Henry Delick so that Coraline could better share her feelings and thoughts.
A movie for children?
The fact that it was a stop-motion movie without adult content caused many parents to take their younger children to see the movie; but when faced with a film with dark tones, the parents had to leave because the children did not stop crying.
Work in the trees
A total of 40 trees were made by hand for the film garden.
Work in the garden
To create the incredible garden that the other mother does, matrials were used as wire and ping-pong balls (inside the flowers).