Law Of Physics in Coraline-Outline

1. Introduction:

1. Introduce Coraline (stop motion, 2009 1:40:00)
2. Thesis- While the physics in the real world are usually accurate, there are several laws that are broken in the other world giving the feeling that it is in fact not reality.

      2. Speed slowed down and reduced force: The rate at certain jumps and throws throughout the film are done, it feels as if it things are slowed way down.

1. Cotton Candy cannon’s in the other Bobinsky’s house blows out candy rather softly the first time but when used to decoy Coraline from escaping the blows are sped up
2. Speed at which the women swing from the trapeze is slowed down.
3. Rate at which the hummingbirds and paper dragonflies wings move
4. When the other mother’s hand is jumping object to object to get to Coraline
5. rate at which the rock falls down the well (seems to float down)

3. Gravity at times seems to have no effect

1. Gravity of women on the trapeze (appear to be floating sometimes)
2. The cat jumping from tree branch to tree branch

4. Some arcs weirdly being off

1. Other Wybie throws a rose to Coraline
2. Mr. Bobinsky when tossing himself over Coraline.
3. arc at which Coraline throws the cat towards the other mother

5. Conclusion:

Due to it being stop motion, there are some setbacks that the animators may have had due to the fact that they are dealing with actual puppets instead of drawings or controlling them on a computer. However, the majority of the issues defying physics always seem to involve, whether purposely or not, “The Other World”, which makes it feel quite unrealistic.