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The Cure inspiration
The Lovecats is inspired by the Walt Disney film The
Aristocats . It is the single tenth . It launched as an independent single ,
both the song 's title simple as "Speak My Language" were later
included on the compilation of singles Japanese Whispers .
The single was the first band to reach the
"Top 10" in the British singles charts , reaching seventh place and
becoming the most successful of The Cure until now. It also reached number 6 in
Australia .
The History
In Paris in 1910, mother cat Duchess and her three kittens, Marie,
Berlioz, and Toulouse, live with retired opera diva Madame Adelaide Bonfamille,
and her English butler, Edgar. One day while preparing her will with lawyer
Georges Hautecourt, Madame declares her fortune to be left to her cats until
their deaths, and thereafter to Edgar. Edgar hears this through a speaking
tube, and plots to eliminate the cats.
Therefore, he sedates the cats by
sleeping pills in their food, and enters the countryside to abandon them.
There, he is ambushed by two hounds, named Napoleon and Lafayette, and the cats
are stranded in the countryside, while Madame Adelaide, Roquefort the mouse,
and Frou-Frou the horse discover their absence. In the morning, Duchess meets
an alley cat named Thomas O'Malley, who offers to guide her and the kittens to
Paris.
The group briefly hitchhike in a milk cart before being chased off by
the driver. Later, while crossing a railroad trestle, the cats narrowly avoid
an oncoming train, but Marie falls into a river and is saved by O'Malley;
himself rescued by two English geese, Amelia and Abigail Gabble, who accompany
the cats to Paris. Edgar returns to the country to retrieve his possessions
from Napoleon and Lafayette, as the only evidence that could incriminate him.
Travelling across the rooftops of the city, the cats meet O'Malley's
friend Scat Cat and his musicians, who perform the scat song Ev'rybody Wants to
Be a Cat. After the band has departed, O'Malley and Duchess converse on a
nearby rooftop while the kittens listen at a windowsill. Here, Duchess' loyalty
to Madame prompts her to decline O'Malley's proposal of marriage. Duchess and
the kittens return to Madame's mansion, but Edgar places them in a sack and
prepares to ship them to Timbuktu; whereupon they direct Roquefort to retrieve
O'Malley.
He does so, and O'Malley returns to the mansion, ordering Roquefort
to find Scat Cat and his gang. This done, the alley cats and Frou-Frou fight
Edgar, while Roquefort frees Duchess and the kittens. In the end of the fight,
Edgar is locked in his own packing-case and sent to Timbuktu himself. Madame
Adelaide's will is rewritten to exclude Edgar, with Madame expressing surprise
at Edgar’s departure. After adopting O’Malley into the family, Madame
establishes a charity foundation housing Paris' stray cats (represented by Scat
Cat and his band, who reprise their song).
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