Cat People

Cat People (1942)

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Alice Moore: Could I have my robe, please?
Blondie: Sure. Gee whiz, honey! Its torn to ribbons.

Dr. Louis Judd: I'm not afraid of you. I take you in my arms. So little. So soft. So warm. Perfume in your hair, your body. Don't be afraid of me.

Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: You know, it's a funny thing. I've never been unhappy before. Things have always gone swell for me. I had a grand time as a kid. Lots of fun at school and here at the office with you.

Irena Dubrovna: I don't feel you can help me. You're very wise, you know a great deal, but when you speak of the soul, you mean the mind, and it is not my mind that is troubled.
Dr. Louis Judd: What a clever girl. All the psychologists have tried for years to find that subtle difference between mind and soul, and you've found it.

Irena Dubrovna: I envy every woman I see on the street.
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: They can't match your little finger.
Irena Dubrovna: I envy them. They're happy. They make their husbands' happy. They lead normal, happy lives.

Alice Moore: Could you squeeze a coffee pot for me, Minnie?
Minnie: I sure could! Only this coffee's been workin' so long, its got muscles.

Irena Dubrovna: Perhaps, Mr. Reed, you would like to have tea in my apartment?
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: Oh, Miss Dubrovna, you make life so simple.

Irena Dubrovna: I like the dark. It's friendly.

Irena Dubrovna: What should I tell my husband? Naturally, he's anxious to have some word.
Dr. Louis Judd: What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

Irena Dubrovna: That's Lalage - the perfume I use. I like it, perhaps too well. Maybe I use too much of it, living alone like this.
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: It's hard to describe. It's not like flowers exactly. It's - it's like something warm and living.

Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: Boys who come to tea can't expect to stay for dinner.

Mrs. Plunkett: I can't imagine.

Alice Moore: I know what love is. Its understanding. Its you and me and let the rest of the world go by. Its just the two of us living our lives together, happily and proudly. No self torture and no doubt. Its enduring and everlasting. Nothing can change it.

Dr. Louis Judd: You were saying, the cats.
Irena Dubrovna: They torment me. I wake in the night and the trail of their feet whispers in my brain. I have no peace. For they are in me.

The Commodore: Look at that woman. Isn't she something.
Doc Carver: Looks like a cat.

Irena Dubrovna: I like to be liked.
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: That ought to be easy - real easy.

Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: What's that?
Irena Dubrovna: Its the lions in the zoo. One can hear them here often. Many people in this building complain. Their roaring keeps them awake.
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: But you don't mind it?
Irena Dubrovna: No. To me its 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.

Irena Dubrovna: Oliver, be kind. Be patient. Let me have time. Time to get over that feeling there's something evil in me.
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: Darling, you have all the time there is in the world if you want it. And all the patience and kindness that's in me.
Irena Dubrovna: Only a little time, Oliver. I don't want more than that.

Irena Dubrovna: He's beautiful.
Zookeeper: No, he ain't beautiful. He's an evil critter, ma'am. You read in your Bible. Revelations. Where the book's talkin' about the worst beast of 'em all. It says, "And the beast which I saw, was like unto a leopard."
Irena Dubrovna: Like unto a leopard.
Zookeeper: Yes, ma'am. Like a leopard, but not a leopard.

The Commodore: Oliver's bride seems to be a very nice girl. A very pretty one too. Carver tells me she's a bit odd.

Factual error: Irena, the central character of Cat People, says she is of Serbian ancestry, and that her ancestors fought the Mamluks for their national freedom. Serbia was part of the Islamic Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Mamluks were a military caste who ruled Egypt between 1250 and 1517. To say the Serbs fought the Mamluks for freedom would be comparable to saying that the USA fought the Vikings for independence in 1776.

Rob Halliday

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