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Actors: Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Catwoman |
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Patience Phillips is an ad writer for a beauty product company. She is a very shy person. She keeps herself covered up and avoids people. Her best friend Sally uses one of the companie's creams, even though it has not come out yet.
At work her boss calls her in and tells her she needs to change the ad that he wants a different shade of red. He tells her she has by tommorow at midnight.
One day while painting she hears a meow and see's a cat outside the window. She wipes her hands and looks out to see the cat is up on a ledge. She says "Your gonna make me come out there aren't you?" Shes climbs out. Then a guy driving his car sees her and thinks shes a jumper. He tells her hes a cop and she shouldnt jump. She tells him there is a cat and when she looks the cat is not there anymore. And he says yes and its a very pretty one now please come down.he runs up and saves her before she"jumps". He's talking to her when she says shes gonna be late for work. she runs around grabbing her things and runs down the stairs. She drops her wallet. At work he coems by and gives her her wallet. He asks her out to coffee and her cubicle buddies urge her to say yes.
She works all night on the ad she has to fix, and calls for someone to pick it up. They can't so she has to deliver it to the place where they make the creams and such. She goes in hearing people talk. She sees a screen where a girls is turning her head and there are what look like 3rd degrees burn scars on her face. The guy who made the cream is saying he doesnt want to put the cream out if it does this to woman. She gasps and knocks into some glass and the people yell "whos there" she starts to run and they corner her. They see her shadow and tell her they just want to ask a few questions. She says sorry they the other guy shoots at her. They chase and shoot till she goes into the waste pipes. They are told to close it and flush the pipes they dont know who she is and what she heard so to be better safe then sorry. They flush them and she drowns. Laying on a rock the cat that she went on the ledge for meows and all thses cats come around in a circle. Then dramatic music plays as the cat walks up and breathes on her. Her eyes were open and they twitch and go slanted like a cats. She lives and the cats are gone. She sees seagulls and suddenly they look close and she cringes. Then she chases a spider. She makes it back to town somehow and jumps up on her balcony and breaks throught the window.
--Raindrop Iceflower, Resident Scholar
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A woman working in the ad department of a beauty supply company stumbles onto the secret that the new beauty product causes headaches, fainting spells and disfigurement. Because of what she knows, she's killed.
A magical egyptian cat breathes life back into her, thus turning her into a catwoman and giving her special powers.
She vows to bring the company down. She thinks the man who owns the company is responsible, but she finds that his wife is behind it.
The wife kills her husband and frames the catwoman.
A cop who's been dating catwoman's alter ego finds out that she's catwoman and goes to arrest her. She goes without a fight.
The cop believes her story and goes to arrest the woman, but she tries to kill him. Catwoman escapes from jail and returns to the company building. She rescues the cop and fights and eventually kills the evil woman.
She returns to the jail before anyone noticed her absence.
Eventually, her name is cleared and she goes back to being a hero.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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A super shy woman turns superhero in Catwoman. Halle Berry is passive Patience Phillips, an artist who works at a cosmetic company which harbors a deadly secret about one of its most popular products. One night when Patience inadvertently discovers the secret, she is murdered but gets new life breathed into her by a powerful Egyptian cat named Midnight. As Catwoman she seeks revenge on her murderers. Benjamin Bratt is the detective fascinated by both her personas and Sharon Stone plays a perfect comic book-esque adversary.
--Fay Rose, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Catwoman |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- fantasy story on present day Earth
Superhero movie?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- is very quick
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- Slightly see-through clothes
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- Very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- business executive
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- average (female)
Ethnicity
- White
Intelligence
- Average Intelligence
Physical condition
- very athletic
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century (1970's to Present)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Big cities?
Yes
Misc settings
- mansion
- bar/restaurant
- lab
Kind of city
- Dirty, crime-ridden (like NY)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vauge references only
- kissing
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- comics
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