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 Catwoman |
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| SUMMARY |
Opening credits roll over a montage of what appear to be Catwomen throughout history, accompanied by the same Egyptian Mau. The silhouette of a woman floats underwater as a female narrator explains, "It all started on the day that I died," and hints that there is more to the story. |
| ANALYSIS |
Even in its opening credits, Catwoman demonstrates a remarkably dynamic narrative; in a movie called "Catwoman" about cats and women who become Catwomen, this montage reveals images of cats and women, asking us to draw explicit connections between them. While this sequence initially seems to argue only that cats have existed throughout history, it becomes apparent that the same cat has been involved in centuries' worth of Catwomen. Indeed, it appears the exact same cat has been photoshopped into several of these images. |
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| "It all started on the day that I died. If there had been an obituary, it would have described the unremarkable life of an unremarkable woman, survived by no one. But there was no obituary, because the day that I died was also the day I started to live. But that comes later."
-- Narrator, providing several facts followed by reasons they don't matter |
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This opening montage argues that the same cat has been associated with Catwomen throughout history. The following screencaps demonstrate just how literal this trend is:
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