Differences Between Coraline And Alice In Wonderland

The main plot difference in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Disney’s 2010 film adaptation is the role of the character Alice. In the text Alice is a little girl and in the 2010 film, she’s a grown woman about to get married. In the text Alice explores Wonderland more than anything and just encounters different people and situations. In the movie, Alice falls into a rabbit hole and she learns she’s some kind of prodigy that is destined to defeat the beast known as the jabberwocky, which is owned by the Red Queen. The 2010 movie gets rid of that childlike innocence that the book gives. Although, the movie does hint that Alice has been to Wonderland when she was really young. The movie does still contain some of the psychedelic

In the movie adaptation, the character of Wybie is added. He’s Coraline’s age and he becomes her friend and helps her escape the Other Mother. In the book, there is no other character Coraline’s age that she’s friends with. However, this character being added to the movie doesn’t seem so affect the original plot of the book much. The character of Wybie just seems to give Coraline more of a companionship throughout the plot of the movie, but he doesn’t cause much of a change from the movie plot to the book plot. One character that I think changed the plot the most from book to movie was the Other Father. In the book there is no garden that some of the events would take place in in the movie version. One of those events is the Other Father in the movie uses an enchanted pumpkin to try to attack Coraline in the garden in the Other World. However, in the book the Other Father becomes creepier and attacks her in a completely different location, which was a dark basement. These two changes contribute to understanding the text differently because it makes the text seem creepier. Each adaptation presented its own creepy quality, but it seems like the movie tried to soften up the text. Instead of Coraline being alone, besides the help of the cat that appeared in both adaptations, she now has a friend her ago who she hangs out

For example, in the book there’s a backstory to the characters that viewers never find out in the movie. Viewers never know why the characters want what they want or how they came to be. But, in the text the characters, such as Aunt Em, Dorothy, Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow each have a backstory. This makes the text easier to understand because the reader can get a better sense of the characters and why they’re part of the story. The movie was understandable but persoanlly I think it makes more sense now after reading the book because i know those back stories. Also the book describes very violent events, whereas the film barely has anything of that nature. The film included the Wicked Witch tormenting Dorothy throughout her travels, but it did not include the graphic resolution to those encounters. In the book, wolves are sent to attack the group and the Tinman ends up cutting off all the wolves heads. The movie adaption made the book adaption a lot more gruesome and that put the book in a new perspective. The movie also ends with Dorothy just realizing everything was a dream, but in the book everything was real. The end plots in the movie and the book are completely different. This changes how to understand the text differently because in the story the storyworld is real and Baum actually goes on to make spin off stories about the story. With the movie, the storyworld ends