ParaNorman
Appearance
ParaNorman is a 3D stop-motion animated adventure horror film produced by Laika, distributed by Focus Features and was released on August 17, 2012. It is the first stop-motion movie to use a 3D color printer to create character faces.
It's all fun and games until someone raises the dead(taglines)
Norman
[edit]- [about his dead grandmother] She's in the living room.
- THE DEAD ARE COMING!
- I didn't ask to be born this way.
- Everyone in the real world thinks I'm a freak, and you know what? Maybe they're right! Maybe I am a freak, but I never asked for your help... just go! GET OUT!
- [telling Aggie's ghost the story about her] Once upon a time, long ago, there was a little girl. (Aggie: What?) A little girl who was different… Who was different from the other people in her village. (Aggie: I'm not listening!) She could see and do things that no one could understand, and that made them scared of her. (Aggie: I don't like this story!) She turned away from everyone, and became sad and lonely, and had no one to turn to! (Aggie: STOP IT!) The more she turned away from people, the more scared they were of her. And they did something terrible! They became so scared that they took her away and they killed her! (Aggie: NO!) But even though she was dead, something in her came back. (Aggie: STOP!) And this part of her, wouldn't go away. Not for 300 years! (Aggie: SHUT UP!) And the longer it stayed, the less there was of the little girl.
- [while confronting Aggie's ghost] They did something awful, but, that doesn't mean you should too! All that's left of you now is mean and horrible! (Aggie: That's not true!)
Neil
[edit]- Don't make me throw this hummus! It's spicy!
Courtney
[edit]- I love my big booty, only my friend can squeeze it, and not Alvin.
Dialogue
[edit]- Alvin: [seeing the witch's spirit in the clouds] What is that?
- Norman: It's her.
- Judge Hopkins: Do you have anything to say for yourself?
- Aggie: [weeping] I was only playing.
- Judge Hopkins: Aye, with fire! You were speaking with the dead! [in unison with Norman] I will not risk damnation on these good people.
- Norman: [in unison] Wait! No! No, you can't do this!
- Aggie: I didn't do anything wrong!
- Judge Hopkins: You are to be taken to the place of execution where you will be hanged by the neck until you be dead!
- Aggie: Stop! Leave me alone or I'll make you sorry! I'll make ALL OF YOU SORRY!
- Norman: Uh… Hello?
- Aggie: You're not welcome here. Go away.
- Norman: I really need to speak with you.
- Aggie: Who are you?
- Norman: I'm Norman. Norman Babcock. You don't actually know me, but I know you. We're actually kind of the same, you and I.
- Aggie: You're not dead.
- Norman: Well, no, apart from that.
- Aggie: And you're a boy.
- Norman: Well, yes, that too.
- Aggie: You're not like me at all.
- Norman: Well, I know how you feel.
- Aggie: No, you don't. You don't know anything about me.
- Norman: I know your name is Agatha Prenderghast.
- Aggie: What?
- Norman: And I know you're probably tired, right? Because, I mean, it's really late and it's been a long night and we're, like, only eleven years old, and...
- Aggie: [whispering into Norman's ear; coldly] I don't want to go to sleep, and you can't make me.
- Aggie: I'll make you SUFFER!
- Norman: Why?!
- Aggie: Because… Because…
- Norman: Because you want everyone to hurt just as much as you are. So whenever you wake up, you play this mean game, but you don't play fair!
- Aggie: They hurt me!
- Norman: So you hurt them back?
- Aggie: I wanted everyone to see how rotten they were.
- Norman: You're just like them, Agatha.
- Aggie: No, I'm not.
- Norman: You're a bully!
- Aggie: No, I'm NOT!
- Norman: They did something awful, but, that doesn't mean you should too! All that's left of you now is mean and horrible!
- Aggie: That's not true!
- Norman: Then stop! This is wrong and you know it! [walks a little closer to her] You spent so long remembering the bad people, that you forgot the good ones! There must have been someone who loved you and cared for you. You don't remember them?
- Aggie: Leave me alone!
- Norman: But you're not alone! You have to remember!
- Aggie: Keep away from me! [turns away from him to flee]
- Norman: Remember! [grabs her hand]
Taglines
[edit]- This summer, you don't become a hero by being normal.
- It's all fun and games until someone raises the dead.
Cast
[edit]- Kodi Smit-McPhee — Norman
- Tucker Albrizzi — Neil
- Anna Kendrick — Courtney
- Casey Affleck — Mitch
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse — Alvin
- Leslie Mann — Sandra
- Jeff Garlin — Perry
- Elaine Stritch — Grandma
- Bernard Hill — Judge Hopkins
- Jodelle Ferland — Aggie
- Tempestt Bledsoe — Sheriff Hooper
- Alex Borstein — Mrs. Henscher
- John Goodman — Mr. Prenderghast
External links
[edit]- ParaNorman quotes at the Internet Movie Database
Categories:
- 2012 films
- 2010s American animated films
- American children's animated comedy films
- American children's animated fantasy films
- American children's animated horror films
- LGBT-related animated films
- Comedy horror films
- Stop-motion animated films
- Ghost films
- Zombie comedy films
- Zombie films
- Animated films about revenge
- Gay-related films