ok so what I have to articulate RIGHT NOW before I see Cats and have my whole life fucking changed is that anyone who says โwell they look just as creepy as they did in the stage showโ is a liar and is avoiding some hard truths which I will detail below:
The cats in the STAGE MUSICAL Cats are very obviously not meant to look like real life cats. I would argue that some of them donโt even look like people-dressed-up-as-cats. Theyโre, like, an abstraction. A stylized 80s version of the sexy cat costume. You are meant to recognize them as human dancers wearing very pretty feline makeup and human clothes. The cat part is mostly portrayed through their movements and body language (itโs a ballet, itโs jazz, itโs interpretive danceโliterally whatever, but you can tell theyโre being cats)
There is no attempt to make their outfits look like extensions of their bodies, and I think this is whatโs throwing people off. They donโt have fur all over them, they have patterned bodysuits. They donโt have paws, they have legs warmers. They donโt have tails coming out of their asses, they have cute belts with โtailsโ on them. Hell, they hardly have EARS, their very human haircuts are stylized to have TUFTS which kind of look like EARS. They donโt move, they donโt twitch, it doesnโt look like they have flesh and blood ears rotating on top of their craniums, itโs all diagetic.
Basically: the stage cats look like people dressed as cats, while the movie looks like cats dressed as humans. I get very strong skinwalker vibes from looking at it because thereโs no attempt at makeup or costuming. Thereโs nothing there. These motherfuckers really went and tried to make them look like the Cat Homunculi that God Forgot when they were supposed to be stylized jazzercise dancers!!!!
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