Cat People Page #3
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- Year:
- 1982
- 118 min
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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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