
Cat People
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- 1942
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You won't believe this,
you've probably heard it before...
...but I've never known any artists.
I am not an artist.
- Well, what's all this?
I do sketches for fashion drawings.
May I see it?
- Oh, no, it's not good.
If I let you see it, you might not
want to know any artists, ever.
I'm afraid it would have to be pretty bad
to do that. Besides, look:
'Let no one say,
and say it to your shame...'
Irena Dubrovna, is that a Russian name?
No, I'm from Serbia.
- Oh, I see.
Would you mind spelling it?
Want to know how to spell my name?
Are you going to write me a letter?
- I'd like to write you a letter.
What about?
- I would say in this letter:
'Dear Miss Dubrovna...'
I would say, 'Will you have tea with me?'
In that case, I'd just have
to write you another one. I'd say...
Here's my house.
Perhaps, Mr. Reed, you would like
to have tea in my apartment?
Oh, Miss Dubrovna...
...you make life so simple.
You know...
...I never cease to marvel at what lies
behind a brownstone front.
Well, what's the matter?
- Nothing.
But you...
You looked at me in such a funny way.
You're the first friend I met in America.
Oh, I know lots of people in business.
Editors, secretaries,
other sketch artists, you know.
But you might be my first real friend.
- Thank you.
Nice.
- That's Lalage.
Lalage?
- The perfume I use. I like it.
Perhaps too well. Maybe I use
too much of it, living alone like this.
It's hard to describe.
Not like flowers, exactly. It's...
It's like something warm and living.
What's that?
It's the lions in the zoo.
One can hear them here often.
Many people in this building complain.
And you don't mind it?
- No.
To me, it's the way the sound
of the sea is to others:
Natural and soothing. I like it.
Some nights there is another sound,
the panther.
It screams like a woman.
I don't like that.
Oh, I hadn't realized how dark
it was getting.
I like the dark. It's friendly.
No, no, keep still, please.
Are you admiring my statue?
- Not exactly.
Who's it supposed to be?
- King John.
Oh, King John, the Magna Carta
and all that stuff?
No. King John of Serbia.
He was a fine king.
He drove the Mamluks out of Serbia
and freed the people.
Well, why have this around?
- Well, perhaps you have in your room...
...a picture of George Washington
or Abraham Lincoln.
Well, what does it mean?
Why is he...? Why is he spearing that cat?
- Oh, it's not really a cat.
It's meant to represent the evil ways
into which my village had once fallen.
You see, the Mamluks
came to Serbia long ago...
...and they made the people slaves.
Well, at first, the people were good...
...and worshipped God
in a true Christian way.
But little by little, the people changed.
When King John drove out the Mamluks...
...and came to our village...
People bowed down to Satan...
...and said their Masses to him.
They had become witches...
...and were evil.
Well, King John put some of them
to the sword...
...but some...
...the wisest and the most wicked...
...escaped into the mountains.
Now do you understand?
Well, I still don't see
what it has to do with you.
Those who escaped,
the wicked ones...
...their legend haunts the village
where I was born.
Boys who come to tea
can't expect to stay to dinner.
Some other time perhaps.
Tomorrow?
Well, what time tomorrow?
Dinner?
A little more to the left, Harry.
Easy. Just a hair.
I'm afraid she's gonna be all right, Alice.
- She's got what it takes, commodore.
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