Twilight & Coraline Fan Theory Brilliantly Connects Two Movies
A TikTok user has made a connection between the plot of The Twilight Saga and Coraline that provides a whole new lens to view the films through. Both the Twilight films and Coraline are based on popular young adult books first published in the early to mid-2000s, written by Stephanie Meyer and Neil Gaiman, respectively. Both received film adaptations, with the first Twilight film releasing in 2008 and Henry Sellick's adaptation of Coraline releasing shortly thereafter in 2009.
Coraline and The Twilight Saga share some similarities in genre. While the Twilight films are focused on young adult romance and Coraline is more like a contemporary fairy tale, both draw on supernatural and fantasy elements to tell coming of age stories set in the present. The Twilight Saga tells the story of Bella, as she falls in love with Edward, a vampire, before ultimately becoming one herself and joining his family of peaceful vampires, the Cullens, in the fifth film. Coraline follows Coraline Jones, a precocious young girl who discovers a tiny door in her new home that leads her to an alternate world where she meets versions of her parents who have buttons for eyes. Despite initially seeing this realm as an idealized version of her life, Coraline soon discovers that her «Other Mother» is a demonic entity hell bent on claiming her soul for her own.
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While these stories may seem radically different, TikTok user corinnieeeee recently laid out some eerie similarities between Edward's wooing of Bella and the Other Mother's attempts to steal Coraline away from her real family. In the video, Corinne states that Edward, much like the Other Mother, possesses the supernatural gift
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