cat person

Just heard there’s a Cat Person movie! It stars two ppl I’ve never heard of which is perfect (for me) and I’m weirdly psyched to see what it looks like as a movie. I’d imagine it’s going to be REALLY uncomfortable 😀

damn, Greg the Egg getting done dirty with this casting.

Cat Person - Official Trailer (2023) Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Thriller Movie pic.twitter.com/on9gU0QU4q

— Movie Coverage (@MovieCoverage_) August 24, 2023

Lol what the fuck

Isn't it a truism that a longish short story is the perfect length for a movie? So what the fuck is going on there? Why does it continue? They don't think that's enough for a film, they've got to amp up everything? Such a shit decision, whatever you think of the original short story.

What’s wrong w a cat person movie? I think it’s an appropriate length/level of complexity

the trailer has the whole original story as just setup for some stalker / thriller thing.

One of us has to die

if I was in charge of the marketing for this movie I would change the name from 'Cat Person' to 'The Ick', gotta move with the times

The Horrible Twin

lol the poster art directly references the photo that accompanied the NYer story (with a font that feels very late 90s)

https://people.com/thmb/D-Z4q769sW6zWUTo7T4bf2GJS5Q=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2)/cat-person-poster-082323-288b858191b0498fb2d084fde6581d6d.jpg

this person still sucks

damn, Greg the Egg getting done dirty with this casting.

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, January 20, 2023 10:42 PM (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm was very OFFTM with this one in retrospect. Knowing what we know now about Nicolas Braun, it's kind of like when Chris D'Elia played a celebrity who groomed teens on YOU.

Reading over my posts on this thread, I understand why some people don’t like me.

we all love you

it’s better to read your own old posts and realize personal growth than it is to read them and consistently think “this guy? otm”

kind of nice to do the latter a bit, too

if I was in charge of the marketing for this movie I would change the name from 'Cat Person' to 'The Ick', gotta move with the times

from a studio bottom line $$ perspective, this is a A++ idea

I can’t believe there is nearly 1,000 posts in this thread. Who says ILx is moribund?

One of my coworkers heard the word moribund for the first time last week! So if people are calling things moribund maybe they just learned that word.

I didn't really like this story but somehow I never got around to saying so in the 1,000-post thread about it

It needed more stalking and murder imo

people who use the word moribund sound bad. they are like cat person, who is bad

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Moribundmusic.jpg

xp Like Philip Parsons in the Times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lAQHCpbUDw

Idk why but for some reason when I think about cat person I think about bad art friend why is this

Both short stories controversial for twisting real life stories without asking permission

Both short stories controversial for twisting real life stories without asking permission

― Zelda Zonk

as someone who doesn't write professionally, i have wondered for a while how professional fiction works... i'm definitely a "write what you know" sort of person. everything i write is rooted in my real-life experience, whether i mean it to or not. anything "original" i come up with in terms of characters is just combining different qualities of different people i know, or looking at someone i know and using them as a kind of basis for a character... not drawing from actual incidents but thinking of a person and asking myself "what would this person say in this situation?" and then as i keep writing the character diverges from the real-life person i originally modeled them on. or if i am writing about an incident that happened, i feel like it's something that happens often enough and in enough different ways that basing a story on that situation is more or less "original". where's the line, i guess? i don't mean this as "discourse", i'm just trying to refine my process as a writer!

people who use the word moribund sound bad. they are like cat person, who is bad

― imago

how about "moribundity"

i use that word

it’s better to read your own old posts and realize personal growth than it is to read them and consistently think “this guy? otm”

kind of nice to do the latter a bit, too

― mh

future me hates me

well, i guess not "hate", but a lot of my "personal growth" has come from reading my old writing and realizing "wow, i have said and done some genuinely awful shit"

it's pretty hard for me to read my old posts sometimes. i have a tendency to be ashamed of myself, which isn't helpful to anybody, particularly me... idk, sometimes it almost feels like the whole "so a fool returneth to his folly" thing is a form of digital self-harm, like when you log on to facebook and see old pictures of you with your ex (or in my case, see old pictures of just plain _you_ in the before time)... i've never understood why social media believes that people want to be reminded of their pasts...

I’m about halfway through the movie — has anyone else seen it??

I haven't---please give us your take when you've seen it all, or as much as you can take.

so far the only point at which i said omg noooooo out loud and with genuine horror was when i heard the opening notes of "enjoy the silence"

ok so "based on the story Cat Person" only goes about 2/3 of the way through the movie. there is an entire section at the end after he texts her calling her a whore in which many completely insane events occur, including a fight scene and a massive fire and a return of the dog i don't remember from the story.

the parts that were actually based on the story i thought were pretty good and true to life, somewhat subversive in their unvarnished truth. the scene you imagine being borderline unwatchable with cringe is just as bad as you're imagining it. i like the dissociated self talking to the real self parts. the ending though? idk wtf was going on there. i did enjoy the small role of the woman from The Bear as the cop.

A movie about the author’s shitty ethics and the subject killing himself would be far more interesting.

xp yeah the movie is better than i expected.. i think the end kinda works in its own odd way… i think the movie needed a way to get margot and robert face to face again outside of the end of the short story.. yes it is slightly absurd but not outside of the (mostly)truth of the characters