«Coraline» nominated for Best Animated

«Coraline» is getting a Oscar, or at least the Neil Gaiman movie have been nominated for the upcoming Oscar. This have been my write-about-Neil-Gaiman-week, and I'll end it with this blog about the nomination.

Watch the trailer here.

Just a few minutes ago my favorite animated movie of the year, «Coraline», got nominated to the category Best Aminated Movie. Of course «Coraline» have to beat the popular animated «Up», and several other. One is Roald Dahls «Fantastic Mr. Fox». «Up» beat Neil Gaimans story about Coralines adventures in the Globes. Lets not hope that the history repeat itself.

I will tell a little story about when my daughter, Maria, and I saw the movie together. I was uncertain if this was a movie for her, but I remembered Neils own words (or something like) «its good to get scared.» In his book «M is for Magic» he writes in his foreword that he often got scared when he was a child.

So i decided that Maria could see the movie with me, and hopefully have a good and healthy sceary time.

I couldn't have hit jack pot better.

She saw the whole movie, and she didn't say a world during the entire film. And she didn't say a word after the film. Actually she didn't say a word until she was in bed.

Then she said something - loud. Maria refused to sleep with the door closed for three weeks, and she still talks about the button eyes and the Other Mother. She was scared allright, and now she have this love/hate relationship to the movie. The cover is in the livingroom, and every time she see it, she turns to me and say:

«Maybe when I get older, we can see The Button Film again?»

Well. I loved the movie, and I'm gonna root for it the night of the Oscar. I hope you win, Neil Gaiman. I hope you win this time.

Best animationsmovie:
«Coraline»
«Fantastic Mr. Fox»
«Princess and the Frog»
«The Secret of Kells»
«Up»

In favour of Neil Gaiman

This is the first blog I have ever written in english, and I do hope that the ones that speak and write this complex language, take that into consideration.

After reading Neil Gaimans blog this morning, I felt the urge to write some words in his defence. Not that the famous writer needs it, but Ill still do it.

One thing that I have been thinking about for a long time, was the critique of Gaiman and his likings of the famous Junglebook-writer, Rudyard Kipling. Telegraph was a newpaper that wrote about this. Gaiman got what was near to resemble a hate-mail after professing that Kipling was one of his literary heroes. Gaiman has also based his award winning, Graveyard book, on Kiplings Jungle book.

Why should Gaiman not have Kipling as a literary hero. Is Gaiman a facist, just because Kipling was accused of beeing that, after writing If and Gunga Din? I have read Kipling, and he is a wonderful storyteller, and Gaimans Graveyard book understates just that.

One of my literary heroes is Knut Hamsun. His book Victoria, is one of the most sensible work of love one can read. But Hamsun met Adolf Hitler. Hamsun was positive to the nazi-regime. Hamsund never regretted his flirt with the nazism, and wrote a book in his defence after WW2, his trial and the house arrest, called Overgrown Paths. But I love his books, and admire his work as a writer. Does that make me a nazi?

I think not!

Gaiman, 49, said: "I definitely don't write like Kipling but he was a literary hero as a kid, to the newspaper. Is that enough to receive hate-mail?

I think not.

Well. As a journalist, i try to my very best to write the trouth and as exact what the source say. Gaiman recently was the receiver of female hatred after The New Yorker quoted him; I "wasn't anyone's bitch". The best part is that according to @neilhimself (username on Twitter), he never said those words. Still he apologised several times, but the critique went on.

Well Neil Gaiman is my most favoured writer, and I follow him and his family and friends on Twitter. I cannot understand why so-called fans of him, now claims that all his good work is futile because something they have read in a newspaper. Shame on you.

I have a cat, and I love it. Neil Gaimans cat, Zoe, is dying, and the Gaiman-family is about to loose a member of their family. Thats sad, and should be respected, even if its a cat. For some, as for me, the cat is a equal member of the family, and the sorrow when my cat travel to the other world, will be overwelming.

Thats my speach of the day. As I said, Neil Gaiman can take care of himself, but I wanted to write some words even though.

This is my cat, Neil. Best of wishes for Zoe. Will think of her in the days to come.

Kai