Believe you me, I’ve read everything I can find on here since before I was a mere “guest” with search “privileges,” just from nerdiness.
Spill, geniuses. Watched again last weekend. How the fuck did they get the cat to behave – did Brando have some StarKist up his sleeve?
I want deets. It’s truly incredible to me that it was not an animatronic cat. Did they starve the kitty so it would do FFC’s bidding? WTH?
Do you mean its playfulness towards the Godfather? I just assumed it was random and that when they’d first decided on him holding a cat they’d envisioned it just sitting there. What resulted was a happy accident.
from the trivia section of the IMDB page:
Even if it hadn’t been a random happy accident, is it so hard to believe that they could get a well trained cat? There are cats on TV and movies all the time doing more complicated tricks than just sitting there and enjoying being petted.
Well, sure. As I saw again the flick for like the whateverth time, it struck me that the cat was pretty well choreographed to “VAITO CORLEEAWN”'s movements. My last cat (who lives with a horrible adopted surrogate woman now) wouldn’t even do that, not for Fancy Feast or any Feast.
Maybe, if I may advance a theory – Brando adjusted his gestures to match the cat’s tendencies. If it was a playful, well-socialized cat, he or she might well have been playing along just out of habit.
Admit, though, it’s a bit uncanny how well the cat plays into the scene, responding to all of Brando’s moves – and, as I allow, maybe vice versa.
ETA have to listen for the ADR – I’m used to it being a big Orson Welles fan, but I only caught a few BIG scenes where “looping” was used in I & II