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UNITED STATES · 1988
Puss in Boots
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Synopsis
Following the death of their miller father, his eldest son inherits the mill, the middle one a donkey, and the youngest a cat. While initially disappointed, the lad soon learns not only that the cat can talk but is quite resourceful.
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Director Chris Miller watched Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly obsessively, studying the extreme close-ups on gunslingers' faces—the squint, the sweat before violence. He mapped Leone's visual language directly onto an animated cat, using split-screens and extreme facial close-ups to build comedic tension. What emerges is a family film that moves like a Spaghetti Western.
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