Post by stefancrosscoe on Jun 22, 2017 13:05:04 GMT
I know some people didn’t like the fact that this interpretation of Selina Kyle/Catwoman seemed ‘deranged/mad’, but I think it was just Burton’s own unique spin on the character and it worked for his movie. I don’t think it’d work in some other version, though.
Everything about her portrayal in the movie is memorable, from how she starts off in the film (I actually felt really bad for her – even before she was thrown out a window) to how she develops as a character, finding confidence/strength and holding her own against the male characters (though I felt sorry for her again when Penguin hooked an umbrella around her neck and sent her into the sky), to the end when she takes out her would-be murderer and proves she *does* in fact have nine lives, rising into frame to let the audience know she’s still out there.
I never realized the ‘cat’s eye mask’ shadow/lighting that was a nod to the comics character when I first watched.
I really liked how they played the Catwoman/Batman ‘relationship’. I think they did a good job of walking that line between them wanting to be with each other and at the same time being ‘enemies’. I liked their complexity.
It was interesting reading about all the work she put into learning to use the whip, and I also read about her having ‘had to put a live bird in her mouth. They had bird puppets on set, but Pfeiffer thought they all looked too fake.’ in the trivia section for the movie on IMDB. The fact that they achieved this (without CGI) is quite impressive. Pfeiffer was ferocious in this role. When she’s not in costume and you see her wonderful hair – it’s like a lion’s mane almost. Then at the end, with bits of it sticking out – she was certainly a force to be reckoned with. I love how she went into that ‘little girl’s voice’ for a part of her rhyming bit when she’s cracking the whip and coming towards Schreck as he shoots her. She was so unnerving. For me, she *made* this movie what it is (though the other parts weren’t too bad either).
Michelle did come off as a bit of a victim throughout the film, and I did feel sorry for her, as she keeps on having a bad run when it comes to getting involved with all of the three main male leads in the movie, even after getting her act together, it just does never work out like she hoped or wanted it to be and as a kid, I always wanted Bruce and Selina to get together,: "live all happily ever after in his huge mansion" but over the years I think the open ending was the right one.
Again, great information and I had no idea she did put a live bird into her mouth.
That is impressive, as I am no expert on that, but it could have panicked and gotten stuck in her throat or something like that, but my respect went up several levels, and I have to re-watch this film, and even though released as a summer film, I tend to enjoy watching it most around christmas time."Don't you see, we're the same!"
The scene with Selina and Bruce, where they unmask each other, was great stuff and it was a bit of "shock", seeing it for the first time as it sure came as a bit of a surprise, but a real good one. I thought it was one of the most powerful moments in both of Burton's Batman movies, as it felt like there was some hope for the both of 'em, and Danny Elfman's haunting music fits so damn well in when Bruce reveals himself.