The potté Cat

the Cat potté is a character of cartoon film Shrek 2 and Shrek the third .

Its name

Its name marks a clear filiation with the Cat boot of Charles Perrault. In the original version of film, it keeps besides its name of Puss in Boots , as in the english language version of the Conte.

The pun in French is a wink with his large hat. At the time of its first meeting with Shrek and the Ass, the cat their fact knowledge his name by signing a P on a tree, detail which has constrained, in the French version, to find to him a name starting with the P. letter.

Its role

In the tale of Perrault, the Cat boot faces a Ogre, which it handles at the point to convince it to change into mouse in order to eat it.

In Shrek 2 , the potté Cat is thus quite naturally the enemy of Shrek, which is the ogre of the history. He is initially recruited by king Harold to assassinate Shrek. But rather than to put it at the challenge to transform itself into mouse (Shrek does not have the capacity to be metamorphosed), the potté Cat will try apitoyer for deceiving best. In spite of their difference in size, it will be caught some directly with him, but Shrek ends up having the top and thinks one moment to kill it. It leaves him finally the safe life, the potté Cat becomes to him indebted then, estimating to have a debt towards him.

In Shrek the third , the potté Cat became the friend of Shrek, at the sides of the Ass. These two last accidentally permute body on an error of Merlin the enchanter, who ends up returning to each one his appearance in film end, with a detail close…

Its character

In spite of its small size, the potté Cat appears excellent with the combat, able to hold head with several adversaries at the same time, even when those are of number. Endowed to the sword, it gives the impression to dance around its enemies who cannot anything against him. To defend oneself, he likes to play of his tenderizing nature: he takes off his hat then, holds it under the chin with his front legs, his eyes swells and blackens himself, he beseeches glance while literally making melt his rivals. When the latter end up yielding by pity, it becomes again immediately wild.

The technique has its limits however, and twice fails in Shrek the Third. It initially tries to tenderize Shrek of behind the window of its room, but the Ogre is satisfied to draw the curtain under the nose to him. He tests again later whereas he is in the skin of the Ass, but that disgusts its enemies so much that those want to kill it at once.

Individualist and charmer, the potté Cat is a Don Juan, as a scene of Shrek suggests it the Third, attracting her congeneric fair sex, promising the love eternal to them but escaping as soon as they seem to want to stick to him. He does not like the cumbersome and tumultuous company children of the Ass when those are thrown on him, whereas they take it for their father.

Arrogant and smooth talker, it is also astute and far-sighted, always having an artful thrust, as a hidden knife being used to him to escape when it is retained prisoner in a net, or a purse filled with money when it is necessary to make speak Pinocchio.

Analyzes

The scenario of Shrek takes a malicious pleasure to chip conventions of the folk tales. The roles are redistributed and the character of the potté Cat is thus in shift with that of the character of origin:

the ogre of Perrault is an auxiliary character. In Shrek , he becomes the central figure of film;
the role of the altruistic animal, held by the Cat boot, is camped by the Ass in Shrek and Shrek 2 ;
as for the potté Cat, he is not the hero but the antagonist and ends up failing in its company in Shrek 2 .

Doubling

It is the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas which lends its voice to the character in the english language version and the Spanish version. The choice of this actor in the original version is explained by its Spanish accent and its role previously held in the film the Mask of Zorro . The character of the potté Cat returns largely to Zorro because of his black clothing (although the hat of Zorro does not have a broad edge nor of feather) and of his great skill in the sword. Its signature out of P is a homage hardly buckled to the signature in Z which Zorro uses.

In the French version, it is the actor Boris Rehlinger who lends his voice to the character, by also giving him a Spanish accent to stick to the original version.

Spin-off

The potté Cat will be the central figure of cartoon film of the same name, derived from Shrek and produced by DreamWorks. Its exit is envisaged in France in 2011.

See too

List of the cats of fiction

External bond

Image of the Cat potté

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