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Synopsis: Cat People is a 1982 American erotic horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell. Jerry Bruckheimer served as executive producer. Alan Ormsby wrote the screenplay, basing it loosely on the story by DeWitt Bodeen, the screenwriter for the acclaimed original 1942 Cat People. Giorgio Moroder composed the film's score, including the theme song which features lyrics and vocals by David Bowie
Director(s): Paul Schrader
Production: Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
R
Year:
1982
118 min
874 Views


OLIVER (cont'd)

Mm. Nice.

IRENA:

That's Lalage.

OLIVER:

Lalage?

IRENA:

The perfume I use. I like it,

perhaps too well. Maybe I use too

much of it, living alone like this.

OLIVER:

Oh, I like it all right. It's hard

to describe...not like

flowers...it's like something warm

and living.

As he goes on into the room, she closes the door.

DISSOLVE OUT:

DISSOLVE IN:

INT. IRENA'S LIVING ROOM - TWILIGHT

MED. CLOSE SHOT of statuette. The figure is silhouetted

against a window dim with twilight. As the CAMERA HOLDS on

the statuette, a light appears in a bay window across the

street, bringing the figures of horse, king, and cat into

dramatic focus. Over the shot we hear Irena's voice humming

"Berceuses du Chat" by Stravinsky.

The CAMERA PANS to show Irena and Oliver seated together on a

couch near the window. Because of the dim light in the room

they can barely be seen. Oliver is listening to her sing. She

ends her song, and they sit quietly for a moment. Suddenly,

as sometimes happens, there is a lull in the traffic outside.

In this momentary stillness, this stillness in which a great

city seems to catch its breath, Oliver hears the sound of

distant roaring, muffled and yet full of savage

reverberation.

OLIVER:

(looking toward Irena)

What's that?

IRENA:

It's the lions in the zoo. One can

hear them here often. Many people

in this building complain. The

roaring keeps them awake.

OLIVER:

And you don't mind it?

IRENA:

No. To me it's the way the sound

of the sea is to others, natural

and soothing. I like it.

She looks out the window, then turns back to Oliver.

IRENA (cont'd)

Some nights there is another sound.

The panther. It screams... like a

woman. I don't like that.

Oliver strikes a match to light his cigarette. He looks at

Irena's face in the dancing match light. She smiles at him.

IRENA (cont'd)

I hadn't realized how dark it was

getting.

She rises and goes over to a lamp. She speaks in a sighing

breath of ecstasy.

IRENA (cont'd)

I like the dark. It is friendly.

She turns on the lamp. Now, in the light, we see her

apartment � a nicely proportioned living room with a little

fireplace set under a neat Georgian mantel. Doors at either

end of the room lead off into small bedrooms. Behind a

fantastic three-part screen on which is painted the long,

sleek figure of a black leopard against a background of

jungle foliage, is concealed the two-burner stove, tiny sink,

and old-fashioned icebox which make up the kitchenette. In

the other corner, under the wide window, are a drawing board

and a desk, littered with crayons, brushes, bottles of

discolored water, and papers. On one side of the wall, in

neat frames, hang three of Grandville's amusing studies of

cats dressed as humans. Over the mantel hangs a beautiful

reproduction of Goya's sinister portrait of Don Manuel Osorio

do Zunlga and the cats. In front of Oliver, on the coffee

table, are the remnants of their tea. Irena comes down to

pick the tray up to take it into the kitchenette. Oliver

starts to help her, but she stops him.

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DeWitt Bodeen

DeWitt Bodeen (July 25, 1908, Fresno, California — March 12, 1988, Los Angeles, California) was a film screenwriter and television writer best known for writing Cat People (1942). more…

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