The cat.
In 1992 an original Stephen King screenplay "sleepwalkers" brought us the story of one Charles and Mary Brady who had an incestuous mother / son relationship...capable of becoming huge bipedal werecats who fed off of the life force of virgin women (yes..I felt silly having to write that bit out)....Now a lot happens there's a girl named Tanya, and Otto from Beetlejuice (Glenn Shadix representing) pops up...There's creepy music dancing...But we don't actually get to the meat of it all till we get to practically the end.
Having mortally wounded a deputy, the deputies cat (clovis, who is always by his side) attacks Charles leaving him clinging to life.
Charles, having killed the Clovis's owner and thus his "father" is now the subject of sweet sweet revenge.
Clovis proceeds to rally various other cats
They stalk the Brady family
station themselves menacingly in the front yard
And wait
See the cats posses a knowledge known to only one other person (s)
the Brady's
See....Their one weakness is cats
Granted it's a convenient plot device (perhaps too convenient?) that they should be killed by the one thing they resemble. Huge hulking six foot tall cats killed by Baxter.
Not as much of a stretch I mean...In cinema isn't the antagonist always killed by their own? Nancy to Freddy, Laurie to Michael etc. etc. etc.
Presenting the story of Clovis as such is an interesting experiment but I would rather see it as being the story not told. Some of the more interesting things in life are things that we don't get all the pieces for...in life you're not often given a full script..only what part you play in it all.
The story of Clovis is your classic revenge story with all the thematic elements present...We just can't speak cat and therefore aren't presented with rousing speeches convincing cats to abandon their plush lives and risk certain death in an effort to help exact revenge.
Personally I would rather see the revenge story from the cat's perspective.
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