Cats Movie Analysis

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The movie I watched is CATS. I watched it in my home around 3:45pm on 21st September 2015. The movie is about a tribe of cats call “Jellicle Tribe”, who meet once a year at the Jellicle Ball, where they rejoice with their leader. Only one cat will be selected by the leader to go to the Heaviside Layer to be reborn and come back with a different life during the ball. My favorite scene is where they find Mr. Mistoffelees, where he does all the magic and then eventually bring back their leader: Old Deuteromy. It’s a cheerful song and somehow addictive to me. My least favorite scene would be the scene where Jellylorum sings about Gus: the theatre cat. I do not hate the scene, it is just after so many scenes of introducing the cats, I’m a little bit …show more content…

Mistoffelees. The song is sang by The Rum Tum Tugger. He had a rather smoky tone in his voice, I can’t tell if he is a tenor or a bass, because the song doesn’t has very high pitched or low pitched notes. The piece has a bright tone, the instruments used were brass, percussions, and even electronic instruments: there electric guitar in the background. The music basically has 4 beats in each measure, which can be heard clearly when they are singing the chorus. The song has a homophonic texture, where all the music supports the main melody. Macavity: The Mystery cat, would be another composition I would like to discuss. Even though he is the main antagonist in the movie, I still think they did a pretty good job on introducing him. The piece is sang by two female cats. The instruments used were the brass, percussions . They give out a mysterious feeling or tone. They are normally softer between the verse, and got louder as they go to the chorus, which lyrics is “Macavity, Macavity…..” There are 4 beats in each measure, which is a quadruple meter. They did stress some notes which I think that the notes are receiving a dynamic

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