The writers really wanted that line to stand out. I'm wondering if anyone here has a thought as to why it was included in the script. Was it a bit of sublimation? Was it intended simply to mock western prudish culture? Or...?
Try to think back...what was your reaction when you first heard the line?
That's the most you'll ever get out of me Wordman. Ever. -Eddie Wilson
The joke was, that Coraline was to young the understand the double meaning of the theater posters in the basement. Namely that Spink and Forcible had starred in lewd theater productions.
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And adult would immediately get it, but to a child they would look like ordinary posters. So to Coraline it came as a surprise the two would be practically naked when they went on stage.
Shakespeare always manages to elude me.
That's the most you'll ever get out of me Wordman. Ever. -Eddie Wilson
Shakespeare always manages to elude me.
That's the most you'll ever get out of me Wordman. Ever. -Eddie Wilson
Or for those of us who have common sense and watched the movie, the makers obviously just intended for Coraline to have some child-like innocence, despite her precociousness. A little kid (especially about twenty years ago) would likely be shocked at this sort of display. (I read the word "heck" in an Archie comic when I was 8 and worried that my mother wouldn't let me read them any more if she found out it had such bad words in it!)
shareOh I'd say more decades ago than that.
shareThe second outfit was the more 'lewd' one.
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