“When I worked on the first draft of the script, I consulted with Neil all the time and the script was horrible. It was too close to the book, it wasn't a movie," director and screenwriter Henry Selick said of the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 2002 children's novel Coraline. In 2009, the award-winning hit served as the soundtrack for an adaptation cinematic. Typically, films based on books tend to bend the plot to make the film more engaging and appealing to viewers; however, as a result, the films usually fall short of the original “Coraline” book, however , is not one of those films. Like any film adaptation, the book and the film are not identical While changes have certainly been made to the book, in most cases the film remains extremely faithful to the book and its original story however; , there are some radical changes to the main themes that many readers agree tamper with the tenets of the story. Characters As I said before, many elements of the film have been kept almost identical to the book, and the characters are no exception. All existing characters in the book have been preserved, as have their personalities and roles in the story. These characters consist of the following: Coraline, her parents, the Other Parents, the cat, and Coraline's neighbors (Miss Spink, Miss Forcible, and Mr. Bobo). Be that as it may, the characters of Coraline and her parents still withstood some changes. In both the book and the film, Coraline is a young explorer who is easily bored as her parents are very distracted and dismissive of her. However, in the film, Coraline is depicted as more whiny, grumpy, and self-centered. Even his parents... half of the paper... ral. In the book, Coraline sees very quickly that the Other World is not all it seems; but the Other Mother makes escape very difficult, which has already caused the death of numerous other children (the ghost children). However, in the film, the children are depicted as naive and naïve. For example, Coraline and the ghost children were lured into the Other World with the illusion of a perfect world. In fact, the ghost children explain that their deaths were caused by their own greed. This turns the film's main theme into more of a "lesson" to be grateful for what you have, even if they may not be "dream parents." This change can give audiences a more familiar theme and even teach children valuable life lessons; but be that as it may, these changes likely tamper with the integrity of the original story.