The Slow Roll :: Catwoman

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		TITLE
		Catwoman
		CLIP IN
		00:00:00
		CLIP OUT
		00:04:00

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.

MEMORABLE QUOTES

"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

MEMORABLE HEADLINES


5 seconds after this photo was taken, this Catwoman landed her showboating ass in jail.	Somehow, this human interest story loses some of its punch when compared to the actual news on either side.

DOUBLE TAKES

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:


Cat sighting...	...cat re-sighting (upper middle).

Cat sighting...	...cat re-sighting.