i can’t get over how everyone in fma just accepted that alphonse was a ten year old boy in a big ol suit of armour. he would actually have to be huge to even fit inside and control the armour with any dexterity so i guess when he told people “oh yeah i’m a child that’s why my voice sounds like i just came out the womb” they had no alternative but to accept that there was an extremely jacked six-foot ten year old in there, just chillin
In my humble opinion, Coraline is one of the best movie adaptations out there because it actually strays away from the book a lot and adds/changes several different things, but it does so all for the sake of a visual medium which is exactly what a movie adaptation should do!
There’s nothing showing the Beldam making the doll but darn it if that’s not the most aesthetically pleasing scene in stop motion animation:
The appearance of the tunnel is never described (other than it being musty and her feeling a force behind her) so they made a psychedelic tube:
In the book, she meets the three ghost children at a generic picnic but the movie, for reasons I will always love, decided to show them against an animated, interconnecting, version of the Starry Night:
The blue hair, the garden, the world falling apart—
Everything is tweaked to be more visually pleasing.
Which is the point of turning a book into a movie in the first place!
The thing abouth all these Disney remakes is that most of them, it feels like if someone once said, “I’m going to make a live action remake of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and then he just took a photo of some random bald guy screaming on a bridge. I mean all the elements are there but he changes all the expressionist elements in favor of “realism” loosing most of the things that made the scream one of the most important, if not the most important pieces of the Norwegian expressionism, maybe just keeping the general comossition and maybe making some little changes, just enough to make it feel kind of different, but not enough to be relevant. Change the long sleeves for shorter ones, or maybe even add a new character in the back who will be there, but, at the end of the won’t be really important. But loosing the colors, the shapes, the brush strokes, the style.
IT’s just a bland looking photo of a guy screaming, that is only really relevant mostly because of the audience being already familiar with the original artwork.
