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The Cat Piano

409 statements
80 feature instances
15 referencing feature instances

The Cat Piano	type	TVTItem
The Cat Piano	label	The Cat Piano
The Cat Piano	page	TheCatPiano
The Cat Piano	comment	The Cat Piano is a 2009 Australian animated short film (running about eight minutes) about a New York-style city inhabited by anthropomorphic cats. The narration, written by Eddie White in the style of 1950s beat poetry and read by Nick Cave, describes the plight of a lonely writer who falls in love with a beautiful singer. The mass abduction of all the singing cats and the resulting mass hysteria causes the town to fall apart. After struggling with despair, the writer sets out to rescue his beloved.It can be watched in its entirety here.
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The Cat Piano	processingComment	Dropped link to AClockworkOrange: Not a Feature - ITEM
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The Cat Piano / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Cat Piano / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: After the female cat singer disappears, the narrator enters a brutal one, and the city similarly enters a collective state of combined gloom, terror, and paranoia, with all music being banned and violent fights breaking out in the streets.
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The Cat Piano / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The Cat Piano / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Presumably, after the white feline songstress is rescued from the lighthouse courtesy of the writer gathering a mob to confront the catnapper, she falls in love with him as evidenced by her gently caressing his chin in his apartment at the end of the film.
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The Cat Piano / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Cat Piano / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Twice. When the poet becomes suspicious of the nature of the cats' disappearances, he recites the verse quoted on the top page. And then after the human is killed, the cats are rescued, and the city comes to life once more:
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The Cat Piano / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Cat Piano / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Its beatnik styling as well as the feline cast brings to mind the term, hepcat; referring to jazz aficionados, especially within the beatnik subculture.
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The Cat Piano / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Cat Piano / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The Cat Piano is an instrument of torture.
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The Cat Piano / int_27a40541	type	Furry Confusion
The Cat Piano / int_27a40541	comment	Furry Confusion: Drawings of non-anthro cats appear in the diagram of the cat piano.
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The Cat Piano / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Cat Piano / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: During the verse where the poet narrates the torment of the imprisoned cats, the word "cat piano" is recited four times in German, French, Japanese and Chinese as a sort of Madness Mantra.
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The Cat Piano / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
The Cat Piano / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: The protagonist wakes up in a cold sweat after he has a night terror of the human about to drive a sharp nail towards Le Chat Blanc.
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The Cat Piano / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
The Cat Piano / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: A poster advertising the female cat singer bills her as "Le Chat Blanc", French for "The White Cat".
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The Cat Piano / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Cat Piano / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: The cat city starts banning music and destroying musical instruments after many cat musicians are kidnapped by the mad human piano player, leaving everyone fearful of becoming the next target.
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The Cat Piano / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Cat Piano / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The mad human pianist who is the main villain of the film.
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The Cat Piano / int_3e848d5c	type	Cast of Snowflakes
The Cat Piano / int_3e848d5c	comment	Cast of Snowflakes: Even background characters have unique designs
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The Cat Piano / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The Cat Piano / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: The female white cat singer is kidnapped by a human for him to use in his cat piano.
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The Cat Piano / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
The Cat Piano / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The lighthouse, which is the highest and most noticeable of buildings in the entire city, stands isolated on a small island in the bight and serves the mad human as a hideout. At first, when the kidnappings start, the light goes out, and when the piano starts playing, a red light goes on instead. This is when the poet takes action and storms the lighthouse with a mob of citizens. Nevertheless, the trope is justified as the tower is heavily symbolical rather than anything else.
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The Cat Piano / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Cat Piano / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: A human drives nails into cats' tails to make them scream.
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The Cat Piano / int_4371a515	type	Beatnik
The Cat Piano / int_4371a515	comment	Beatnik: Apart from the narration being recited as an epic beat poem, the city itself is also populated with them. Some cats can be seen wearing berets, playing the bongos, dancing to jazz music and the like. The narrator may be one as well, though his appearance is a bit more laid-back. Also, a rather prominent cat is sporting a beret, square-framed glasses, and sweater during several shots in the climax.
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The Cat Piano / int_443774b4	type	Narrative Poem
The Cat Piano / int_443774b4	comment	Narrative Poem: He is recording the events, and he narrates the whole thing as he types it.
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The Cat Piano / int_505ff63	type	Bag of Kidnapping
The Cat Piano / int_505ff63	comment	Bag of Kidnapping: The piano player is seen carrying one over his shoulder after the poet realizes that his love interest has become the human's final victim.
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The Cat Piano / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Cat Piano / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The protagonist is sitting alone at a window working at a typewriter. At the end of the movie, he is seen sitting at the same spot as he finishes his story... and starts courting the female cat singer.
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The Cat Piano / int_544f9e3c	type	Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises
The Cat Piano / int_544f9e3c	comment	Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: The cat poet's reaction when he finds a book detailing the creation of the cat piano.
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The Cat Piano / int_56b8b4f1	type	Lean and Mean
The Cat Piano / int_56b8b4f1	comment	Lean and Mean: The cat pianist is tall and spindly, befitting of a wicked man.
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The Cat Piano / int_5926057a	type	Cat Concerto
The Cat Piano / int_5926057a	comment	Cat Concerto: This anthropomorphic variation has them as 1950s lounge singers and beat poets.
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The Cat Piano / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
The Cat Piano / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: The poet definitely makes it look that way. Then there's this one line which goes, "smoky hookahs and smoking hookers."
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The Cat Piano / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
The Cat Piano / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: One scene had the narrator poetically telling "There was a hole in my heart and everything fell out of it...", while the background animation features another cat getting messily stabbed in the heart during a brawl.
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The Cat Piano / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Cat Piano / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: "...[the human] stumbled, fell through the window screaming into the indigo waters below."
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The Cat Piano / int_5e7e75dc	type	Furry Female Mane
The Cat Piano / int_5e7e75dc	comment	Furry Female Mane: In effect for the most part, but also inverted a few times.
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The Cat Piano / int_63baeeb2	type	Lightning Reveal
The Cat Piano / int_63baeeb2	comment	Lightning Reveal: Before the climax, a flash of lightning reveals the human's face, who for the most part is always portrayed in Sinister Silhouette. Eek!◊
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The Cat Piano / int_655d406a	type	Instrument of Murder
The Cat Piano / int_655d406a	comment	Instrument of Murder: The aforementioned Cat Piano, a horrible piece of work that drives a sharp nail into a cat's tail to make it scream in pain whenever a key is pressed.
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The Cat Piano / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
The Cat Piano / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: A variation. To illustrate tensions in the city running high during the kidnappings, the cat in the turban seen at the beginning is later shown fleeing from an off-screen crowd hurling glass bottles at him.
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The Cat Piano / int_66cce83e	type	Colour-Coded Emotions
The Cat Piano / int_66cce83e	comment	Colour-Coded Emotions: While played straight with the protagonist, who is colored blue to symbolize his loneliness and calm nature until the end, every cat colored blue is seen partying and playing music. Then played straight with everyone after a string of kidnappings sends the musical city into a depression.
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The Cat Piano / int_67f88923	type	Noodle People
The Cat Piano / int_67f88923	comment	Noodle People: Skinnier cats are drawn this way, most especially the narrating poet.
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The Cat Piano / int_68a74d49	type	No Music Allowed
The Cat Piano / int_68a74d49	comment	No Music Allowed: After numerous cat singers are mysteriously kidnapped, including Le Chat Blanc, the city bans all music and musical instruments to protect everyone. The ban is lifted after the singers are rescued from the mad human keeping them in his cat piano.
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The Cat Piano / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Cat Piano / int_6bda9a30	comment	Le Chat Blanc is the only cat in the entire film with actual color, being given white fur and striking green eyes.
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The Cat Piano / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Cat Piano / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: At one point, the protagonist mimics the act of shooting himself. "Snap."
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The Cat Piano / int_6f679180	type	Reclusive Artist
The Cat Piano / int_6f679180	comment	Reclusive Artist: In-Universe. The poet is implied to be a solitary cat though he momentarily averts this when he rallies a mob to rescue the imprisoned cats and defeat the human in the lighthouse. Afterwards, the poet invokes at the end of his poem that he'd rather go back to his solitary lifestyle with one exception that he and the cat singer he fell in love with are now seeing each other.
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The Cat Piano / int_71538259	type	Token Human
The Cat Piano / int_71538259	comment	Token Human: Humans apparently exist in this universe, considering the identity of the kidnapper is indeed a human.
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The Cat Piano / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Cat Piano / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Dark shades of "night" blue represent the cats and their city, while an ominous red wash colors the human and his lighthouse.
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The Cat Piano / int_77dd4ff0	type	Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
The Cat Piano / int_77dd4ff0	comment	Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty: The female singer is pure white with green eyes and glows visibly in the blue-toned atmosphere.
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The Cat Piano / int_7c889239	type	Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal
The Cat Piano / int_7c889239	comment	This was even lampshaded much earlier when the narrator mentions "foot-prints from human shoes" despite the fact that every cat is a Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal, shoes and all.
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The Cat Piano / int_7d2f46e3	type	Furry Lens
The Cat Piano / int_7d2f46e3	comment	Furry Lens: Possibly an inverted example. When the cat mob storms the lighthouse and discover the imprisoned citizens inside the titular piano, the cats are non-anthropomorphic. The mob also become non-anthropomorphic (as in, go feral) when they pounce and claw at the mad human till he falls to his doom. As with everything so far, it's mostly symbolic. This was even lampshaded much earlier when the narrator mentions "foot-prints from human shoes" despite the fact that every cat is a Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal, shoes and all.
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The Cat Piano / int_7ee61bec	type	Mature Animal Story
The Cat Piano / int_7ee61bec	comment	Mature Animal Story: It clues you in immediately with panning shots of the poet's ashtray and empty liquor bottles strewn across his apartment that this is gonna be a gritty tale.
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The Cat Piano / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Cat Piano / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: When the city starts to ban playing music in public due to the string of kidnappings, a shot of a mother cat pulling her child away from the window is overlaid with the line "All music forbidden, keep your lullabies hidden, and your A and E minors off the street after dark."
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The Cat Piano / int_856a425a	type	TheFifties
The Cat Piano / int_856a425a	comment	The '50s: The aesthetic is largely derived from Film Noir and stars a Beatnik cat.
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The Cat Piano / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Cat Piano / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: The poet narrating the story is never named.
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The Cat Piano / int_8c9e724c	type	Big Beautiful Woman
The Cat Piano / int_8c9e724c	comment	Big Beautiful Woman: One such she-cat can be seen briefly near the beginning as a background character in a dancing crowd.
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The Cat Piano / int_8f7532c3	type	Cargo Envy
The Cat Piano / int_8f7532c3	comment	Cargo Envy: While watching Le Chat Blanc perform, the protagonist narrates this:
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The Cat Piano / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Cat Piano / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The mad human pianist who had been kidnapping and torturing cat musicians to make his music is attacked by those same cats and sent falling to his death.
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The Cat Piano / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
The Cat Piano / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The cats suddenly stop being anthropomorphic when they attack the mad human in the lighthouse.
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The Cat Piano / int_91d3ab1e	type	Ominous Pipe Organ
The Cat Piano / int_91d3ab1e	comment	Ominous Pipe Organ: Made of cats.
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The Cat Piano / int_98e87f7	type	Sinister Silhouettes
The Cat Piano / int_98e87f7	comment	Sinister Silhouettes: The human villain is always portrayed as an ominous shadow.
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The Cat Piano / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Cat Piano / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: The poet is mostly a lonesome cat that keeps to himself, but when Le Chat Blanc is kidnapped and has a nightmare of her being terrorized by the kidnapper, he leads a mob to storm the lighthouse, kill the human, save the prisoners, and finally, burn the cat piano to ashes.
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The Cat Piano / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Cat Piano / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: After killing the human and freeing the imprisoned singers, the cats incinerate the piano with Molotov cocktails.
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The Cat Piano / int_9d137658	type	The Chanteuse
The Cat Piano / int_9d137658	comment	The Chanteuse: Le Chat Blanc, the beautiful white-furred singer and the protagonist's object of affection.
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The Cat Piano / int_9e4ed124	type	Mundanger
The Cat Piano / int_9e4ed124	comment	Mundanger: Even if you're a cat musician, getting yourself kidnapped by some random stranger without warning while not knowing what'll happen to you is a very real fear.
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The Cat Piano / int_a1d3ebd7	type	Furry Reminder
The Cat Piano / int_a1d3ebd7	comment	Furry Reminder: So much so, that some cats literally revert to their feral forms when they attack the human pianist to pounce, scratch, and bite him. Before that, some cats are seen scaling the walls of the lighthouse rather than take the spiral staircase. It's very fast, but when the city bans music for everyone's safety, you can see a cat grab a regular-looking songbird and shove it in their mouth.
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The Cat Piano / int_a698ad42	type	City with No Name
The Cat Piano / int_a698ad42	comment	City with No Name: The city which the poet sings its praises to in the beginning has no name.
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The Cat Piano / int_ac0827be	type	Private Eye Monologue
The Cat Piano / int_ac0827be	comment	Private Eye Monologue: Averted. Although this is a Film Noir, the narrator is neither a private detective nor does he narrate in an appropriate "Private Eye" manner. He narrates an epic beat poem.
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The Cat Piano / int_b0155044	type	Always Night
The Cat Piano / int_b0155044	comment	Always Night: Or perhaps this is because of the blue tone...
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The Cat Piano / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
The Cat Piano / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: 95% pure Film Noir.
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The Cat Piano / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Cat Piano / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: The poem does this occasionally with lines such as, "parlours paraded purring glamorous songstresses", and at one point, the poet describes the cat piano as a "harpsichord of harm."
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The Cat Piano / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Cat Piano / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The female cat singer goes out alone at night, during a time when a mysterious kidnapper is known to be snatching cat singers off the streets. Predictably, she gets kidnapped.
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The Cat Piano / int_bbb3a5a0	type	Splash of Color
The Cat Piano / int_bbb3a5a0	comment	Splash of Color: Everything is blue-toned, but several things stand out by being colored a vivid red, including the lighthouse where the mad human pianist is keeping the cats, the blood dripping from a cat's heart after he's stabbed in the chest, a cricket being squished under someone's shoe to represent the city banning all music, and the narrator's hallucination of a giant trail of piano keys that leads to the kidnapper, holding his love interest in a cage. The coloring switches entirely to a Red Filter of Doom when the cats storm the lighthouse. Le Chat Blanc is the only cat in the entire film with actual color, being given white fur and striking green eyes.
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The Cat Piano / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Cat Piano / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: The human. A Lightning Reveal shows him grinning maniacally towards the camera when the cats finally see him.
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The Cat Piano / int_bf58b6f5	type	Stock Audio Clip
The Cat Piano / int_bf58b6f5	comment	Stock Audio Clip: A specific sound clip of yowling cats is heard twice in the short—once when the poet is reading the book about the cat piano, and again when the mob ascends the tower and finds the mad pianist among the horde of imprisoned cats.
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The Cat Piano / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Cat Piano / int_c5249b29	comment	The Nice Guy who saves the fascinating singer from a sadistic sociopath shows clear references to Blue Velvet.
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The Cat Piano / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Cat Piano / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A bar in the city serves milk instead of alcohol, possibly a reference to A Clockwork Orange. The Nice Guy who saves the fascinating singer from a sadistic sociopath shows clear references to Blue Velvet.
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The Cat Piano / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Cat Piano / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: No one in the short is given a name. The white female cat singer is seen on a poster that calls her "Le Chat Blanc", although that's almost certainly her stage name and not her real one.
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The Cat Piano / int_d0a46264	type	Red Filter of Doom
The Cat Piano / int_d0a46264	comment	Red Filter of Doom: In the climax of course. The fact it's justified by the lighthouse is anyone's guess.
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The Cat Piano / int_d3e3e878	type	Love at First Note
The Cat Piano / int_d3e3e878	comment	Love at First Note: The female cat singer had a voice so beautiful that it made "all the angels of eternity sound tone deaf", which was one of the reasons why the protagonist falls in love with her.
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The Cat Piano / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
The Cat Piano / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Well, what else would you call a man who creates a piano designed to produce the sounds of hundreds of live screaming cats?
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The Cat Piano / int_e0e52562	type	Loves the Sound of Screaming
The Cat Piano / int_e0e52562	comment	Loves the Sound of Screaming: The human who created the cat piano, a gigantic machine designed to drive nails into cats' tails to make them scream. Delightful.
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The Cat Piano / int_e144beb6	type	Everything Is an Instrument
The Cat Piano / int_e144beb6	comment	Everything Is an Instrument: As the title hints.
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The Cat Piano / int_e329a741	type	Stock Animal Diet
The Cat Piano / int_e329a741	comment	Stock Animal Diet: During the opening shots of the city, a neon sign can be seen that reads "The Milk Bar". Quite an appropriate choice for a city full of anthropomorphic cats.
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The Cat Piano / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
The Cat Piano / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: The kidnappings and ban on music are accompanied by a shift in the seasons from summer to winter.
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The Cat Piano / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
The Cat Piano / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: The mob of angered cat citizens that is led by the writer to the lighthouse. This is, however, notably done without torches or pitchforks to keep the gritty atmosphere. Instead, the cats pounce at the mad human and claw him violently before he manages to fall out a window to his death.
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The Cat Piano / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Cat Piano / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: According to the production blog, they owe a little something to the character Blacksad, for the cat poet's design. If you squint, you can see a bit of the resemblance there. Especially when you see him smoking a cigarette and could come off as a skinnier version of said character—minus the fur color and the detective part.
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The Cat Piano / int_eb99df21	type	Funny Animal
The Cat Piano / int_eb99df21	comment	Funny Animal: Everyone but the human piano player.
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The Cat Piano / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Cat Piano / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of the movie, all the cats have been rescued from the piano, the mad human is dead, the city is happily playing music again, and the protagonist is seen courting the female cat singer he fell in love with in the beginning.
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The Cat Piano / int_fb7faf98	type	Exhausted Eye Bags
The Cat Piano / int_fb7faf98	comment	Exhausted Eye Bags: The narrator has these as part of his design.
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The Cat Piano	hasFeature	Beatnik / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	Cat Concerto / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	City with No Name / int_b022138
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The Cat Piano	hasFeature	Damsel in Distress / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	Everything Is an Instrument / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	Feline Fiction / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	Hidden in Plain Sight / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	Mature Animal Story / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	No Music Allowed / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	No Name Given / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	Private Eye Monologue / int_b022138
The Cat Piano	hasFeature	Short Film / int_b022138
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