Am I Crazy? (Question About the Ending)
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Dave1136 — 13 years ago(July 31, 2012 05:31 AM)
Hi J McClane, and yes, I did read your previous post. Isn't this an intriguing subject? Sure seems to be!
OK, Lets start by taking this from another angle: Three short stories revolves around a cat that sees a little girl in trouble that needs help. She says "only you can find it" (we find out later that it's a little troll that's menacing her). Now Stephen King is a great horror writer and he doesn't go into the twist ending you suggest. What you see with Mr. King is usually what you get. He may intensify the ending but doesn't fool the audience. That's just his style.
This your quote "This cat travels across America to help this girl as it heard her cries for helpso I'm not talking "realism". I just fail to understand why it came all that distance just to take her breath. Were there no people to steal breath from where it originally was?" and it's that that makes perfect sense of this whole discussion.
There are 2 items you say that are very possible in your best argument on this subject. First is the freeze frame shot but who do you think would do this? Stephen King? He never has done this in all his previous films. I know some DVDs have two possible endings but this film was produced in 1985 which I believe that practice was not really participated in that much. Your best argument of course is different people remembering the cat stealing the little girl's breath. OK, this is my counterpoint opposing that theory- People all over the world have claimed to be abducted by aliens. They describe exactly the physical nature of the people, what tests were done and all this have been documented and they all claim they never seen anybodies results or testimony of their experience. Also people in different parts of the country claim they saw flying saucers without anyone else's knowledge of what they reported. With all these cases 98% of the time it was proven that something else was the cause. So, I guess you do have a legitimate case (2% is unexplained) but even unexplained doesn't prove it happened. It just mean a reasonable explanation has not been found. -
DannX68 — 13 years ago(August 16, 2012 04:20 PM)
Old post, but I've always only seen the version where the troll starts stealing the girl's breath, the cat shows up and makes troll-chow and later we see the cat walk up to the girl's face and starts licking her and she wakes up and hugs it.
Are you guys sure you don't get those two scenes mixed up?
In the Danish tv-series Matador, a woman is talking about locking her husband out on the balcony one night. it is never seen, just told, but 98% of those who watched Matador, will tell you they saw it happen. Just like in the examples the poster further up mentioned.
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LaBlueEyes — 13 years ago(September 23, 2012 06:57 AM)
I can see where the OP is coming from as I also thought the cat took the the girl's breath away at the end. I don't remember actually seeing the breath come out of her mouth, it was just the suggestion that this was what was going to happen. My memory is of the cat creeping up to her face ominously and freeze frame. For years I was convinced that's how it ended but my brother kept telling me there was more and we finally sat down to watch it again and he was right. I think what must have happpened in my situation is that, since I saw this movie on regular TV, they either cut the end for time, cut to commercial or I just wasn't paying attention.
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medialuvr — 13 years ago(November 24, 2012 01:53 AM)
Sorry, I also have to weigh in here. Cat's Eye popped up today and I went to IMDB to refresh my memory on the overall plot. I saw it during the first run and the ONLY thing I remember is the scene where the cat actually stole some of Drew's breath. I remember it vividly because the cadence and rhythm of the choreography was jarringly at variance with the rest of the film, ushering in a very unsatisfying ending.
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Littlebitsofgaming — 12 years ago(April 11, 2013 06:39 AM)
This get curiouser and curiouser (said Alice).
More people seem to remember this ending.
As I said previously, I only recall the "proper" ending with the cat being hugged, no breath stealing there.
But I still can not discount that fact others remember the cat stealing the breath, not just random peeps on the interwebs, but people I actually know.
Not everyone can remember the same ending wrongly and describe it the exact same way.
Make me wonder if there was a TV/VHS edit made years ago that people are remembering.
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kngtmat — 12 years ago(April 23, 2013 08:58 AM)
I have seen Cat's Eye on the original VHS in the 80's 90's & 2000 WB VHS as well as the dvd and I have never seen the cat steal anyone's breath unless Canada or some other Country has that scene. Lewis Teague doesn't mention it in the commentary either.
I have also read most of the stuff related to this & all SK based films never mention it either. In fact the original prolog is the only thing that I have ever heard about that was cut after the test screenings.
But if everyone that had to do with the film tells us that it's true I would like to see it.
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boredskater2000 — 10 years ago(September 25, 2015 08:23 PM)
Ok, so I used to watch a VHS copy of this when I was younger all the time, and I remember the ending being different than the DVD release BUT, what I think everyone is mis-remembering, is the cat doesn't steal the child's breath, but actually gives it back! That's the scene I remember, and it makes total sense with the plot of the movie. The troll tried to steal all of the child's breath, but only got some, and the cat jumps on top of her at the end, putting everyone on edge with what's going to happen, but then the cat breaths back into the girl. This would also explain why the rumor started that cat's steal children's breath, because people found cat's sitting on top of their child, breathing close to them, but really they were just restoring breath that was taken from a previous troll.
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jamieflor — 12 years ago(June 05, 2013 07:16 AM)
Yeah,
I think you just made a mistake. I just saw it last night, and I have vague memories of the movie from when I was young. At the end, it seems like the cat is going to steal her breath, but it doesn't. You probably saw it a long time ago, and misinterpreted the scene. -
mmcashan-1 — 11 years ago(September 06, 2014 12:14 AM)
I was in the same boat as you, I saw this movie first when it came out on video and the troll started stealing her breath, the cat fought the troll off and the mom came in and thought the cat was causing the problems (and in one scene at the bird? It's been a long time). But no, the cat never stole her breath, the whole vignette is based on an old wives' tale that cats steal the breath of children, and it was meant to subvert that myth.
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jamjohnx3 — 11 years ago(November 28, 2014 01:10 AM)
The movie is almost 30 years oldI figure someone would have found the alternate ending by now if it existed.
Not that I believe that it does. The cat stealing the girl's breath would be a shocking twist but it doesn't make any sense and goes completely against the cat's personality and portrayal in the movie. I mean, if his end goal is to protect the little girl from the troll and get a loving home as a result, stealing her soul would kind of ruin that, wouldn't it? -
macemace — 11 years ago(December 18, 2014 09:47 PM)
I saw this movie at the theater when it came out, and the ending as you describe did not happen. We see scenes of where troll tries to steal her breath, and you see the "visual effects" of it coming out of her mouth. Later on the cat jumps up and it makes us think at first the cat was going to steal her breath too, but it never actually does anything that would indicate that was the intention. It seems to be implied that the movie makers wanted you to think that, but the cat was actually just checking on the girl.
If the ending you suggest does exist, it would be interesting to find out.
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iancw1 — 10 years ago(June 06, 2015 11:20 PM)
I just watched this film for the first time in 30 years on dvd. I first saw it in the theater, and I also remember the cat stealing Drew's breath at the end. It stuck out in my memory because of how "off" it seemed, and it was really the only part of the movie I remembered.
When I re-watched just now, that scene was not there, there was just the "happy ending." So I check the IMDB, and, sure enough, there are others who remember it that way as well.
My theory is that it may have been released that way and then changed for home video, as the movie didn't make much theatrically and may have had poor word-of-mouth.
There was originally a prologue shot, and subsequently cut, that set up the cat and the troll and a dead girl. Maybe the twist was supposed to be that the cat was the villain all along, but after the prologue was cut, the movie's ending didn't compute and had to be changed later.
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karstenschmieder — 10 years ago(June 30, 2015 10:53 AM)
I dont know where you guys are from but I am from Germany and watched it yesterday on Amazon Prime and was stunned by the ending. I was so sure that the cat would steal her breath like I imagined from seeing this movie some 15 years ago. For a moment I also thought I confused it with Tales From The Darkside butno
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wqxyzcj — 10 years ago(July 01, 2015 01:51 PM)
There is no alternate ending.
You probably just watched the movie long ago, the memory faded and you came up with that ending because the ending scene was extremely suggestive and cat's true intentions weren't revealed until the last several seconds.
The people who feel the same way probably had the same experience. It isn't that improbable. This movies doesn't seem to be popular.