Monday, February 21, 2011

The soundtrack list of The AristoCats

1.The Aristocats by Maurice Chevalier
2.Scales and Arpeggios by Liz English, Gary Dubin and Dean Clark
3.Thomas O'Malley Cat by Phil Harris
4.Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat by Phil Harris, Scatman Crothers, Liz English, Thurl Ravenscroft,
Lord Tim Hudson, Paul Winchell, Vito Scotti, Robie Lester
5.She Never Felt Alone by Robie Lester

The characters of The Aristocats

Duchess
Duchess is very elegant and ladylike, being the pet to an aristocrat. She is very devoted to her owner, Madame Adelaide Bonfamille. She is kind and friendly to everyone. She is both caring and protective towards her children. She also tries to encourage her children to develop into proper ladies and gentleman.

Berlioz

Berlioz has blue eyes, a small and skinny black furred body with a lighter grey stomach. He also wears a small red ribbon around his neck that is tied. Being a kitten, he's fairly small.

Marie
Though Marie is kind, she can also be somewhat prissy and spoiled. She is also prone to tattling on her brothers. Marie thinks of herself as a lady, despite her brothers' protests and tries to act ladylike. She seems to be somewhat danger-prone.


Toulouse
Toulouse wishes to meet tough alley cats, and often tries to appear tough. He is known for puffing up and attempting to hiss when trying to show how tough he is. Toulouse is fairly laid-back and easy-going otherwise. He apsires to be a painter and practices his painting daily.


Thomas O,Malley
Thomas appears after Edgar kidnaps and gets rid of the cats. He is instantly attracted to Duchess because of her appearance, but is put off when he learns she has children. However he soon realises that he is being a jerk, and helps her and the kittens get back to Paris safely. During their return to Paris, he becomes attracted to Duchess once again, becoming fond of her children as well as her. In the big battle scene he and the Alley cats battle Edgar as he tries to send Duchess and the Kittens to Timbuktu. He saves the kittens and becomes a part of the family.

Roquefort the Mouse

Roquefort is hungry, comical, serious, alert.
Scat Cat


Alley cats

Ally cats are the characters and they are friends of Scat Cat.

Frou Frou
In the movie Frou Frou is the horse of Madame Adelaide Bonfamille and a friend of Duches and her kittens. In the beginning she gives Madame, Duches and the kittens a ride back home from town and she allows one of the kittens to ride on her back to which Berlioz thanks her for when they arrive at home. When Edgar the butler realizes that the cats will get Madame's fortune when she dies he kidnapes them and takes them out into the countryside. When Madame wakes up in the middle of the night and discovers the cats missing she runs screaming Duches! Kittens! They're Gone! This wakes Roquefort the Mouse up and he goes out to search for them. When Roquefort returns he goes to see Frou Frou in the barn and she asks them if he found them to which Roquefort replies that he didn't. Frou Frou also informs him that Madame didn't sleep after she found out that Duches and the kittens were gone. Then Edgar comes in and reveals to Frou Frou that he's the catnapper because he made the headlines in the newspaper. But then Edgar realizes that he lost his hat and umbrella behind and that could lead to evidence with him being the catnapper and that he needs to get those things back tonight. After Edgar leaves Frou Frou and Roquefort come with a plan that ROquefort will hop on Edgar's motorcycle and ride along with him to get his hat and Umbrella back and that will lead Roquefort to where Duches and her kittens are but when Roquefort hops on he accidently bounces off as Edgar rides away as a maniac. The next day when Duches and the kittens return home with the help of an alley cat named Thomas O'Malley Edgar traps Duches and the kittens in a box and prepares to ship them to Timbuktu but when he's about to push them outside O'Malley jumps on him and Frou Frou grabs his shirt but he manages to pull away from her but she manages to block him from pushing the box out. Then O'Malley's friends Scat Cat and his gang of Alley Cats show up and help free Duches and trap Edgar by throwing a bucket and rope on him and then Frou Frou kicks Edgar with her back feet sending him into the drunk. Then Frou Frou and the cats watch as Edgar is shiped off to Timbuktu. In the end when Madame opens up her house for all the alley cats including Scat Cat and his gang of Alley Cats Frou Frou appears singing Everybody wants to be a cat.

Abigail Gabble and Amelia Gabble

Abigail and Amelia are first seen swimming down the river, when they spot O' Malley attempting to get to shore by hanging on to a tree branch. They mistakenly think that he is attempting to learn to swim, despite his attempts at an explanation, and cut the branch with their beaks. When O' Malley sinks, the two geese dive and rescue him.
On shore, they meet Duchess and her kittens. Amelia and Abigail introduce themselves, explaining that they are twins from England and are touring France, with the intention of going to Paris. O' Malley is still annoyed at them, and makes a sarcastic comment, but the geese are oblivious. The geese initially think that he is Duchess's husband, and are scandalized to find that he is not, They immediately whisper between themselves about various features that suggest that O' Malley is untrustworthy. However, the geese offer to travel with the cats to Paris. They place the cats in a V shape, similar to how geese fly, with O' Malley at the rear end, and set off.

Uncle Waldo

Uncle Waldo first appears as Duchess, O' Malley, the kittens, and Abigail Gabble and Amelia Gabble are returning to Paris. As the group passes by a restaurant, Waldo comes flying out. The twins reveal the goose to be their uncle, and immediately notice that his tail feathers are gone. Waldo leads the group to a menu on display. The menu reveals the dinner special to be Prime Country Goose, basted in white wine. Waldo had apparently had the misfortune of being the intended meal before escaping the chef. Waldo notes that, being British, he would have rather been basted in sherry. O' Malley remarks that he must have been marinated rather than basted, as the goose is visibly drunk.
Waldo then begins getting very loud, so his nieces say goodbye to the cats, and begin leading him away home to bed. As they leave, O' Malley and Duchess both note that they like him, especially when he's marinated. Waldo appears again in Madame's Mansion at the end where he is still drunk and sings the song Everybody Wants to Be A Cat.

Napoleon and Lafayette

Napoleon and Lafayette are a classic double act. Napoleon is the cleverer of the two and is often aggravated by Lafayette's stupidity. He always reminds Lafayette of his superiority, although he usually takes Lafayette's advice anyway. He has very good hearing and can discover various details about something just by listening to it.
Lafayette is the stupider, dopier of the two. He usually trips over his ears and has to lift them with his paw to hear things properly. He's also annoyed by the way Napoleon always bites an intruder on the butt while all he bites are the intruder's tires on his vehicle. Lafayette sometimes speaks before he thinks. He once asked Napoleon what colour a pair of shoes were, not knowing not even Napoleon can hear colours. He also makes light of the fact that they've been outsmarted twice by Edgar, causing Napoleon to beat him on the head.


Madame Adelaide Bonfamille

Madame Bonfamille, often simply called Madame, is an elderly, wealthy woman, who apparently was a famous opera singer at one point. She is very kind, and generous. At the time of the film, however, she had no living relatives, thus she doted on her cats. Her other friends included her lawyer Georges Hautcourt and her butler Edgar Balthazar.
Madame has white hair, usually put up in a bun, and wears a violet and red dress.

Georges Hautcourt

Georges Hautcourt is an old man, a lawyer, and Madame Adelaide Bonfamille's buddy.


Edgar Balthazar

Edgar is portrayed as a polite and sophisticated butler, yet underneath his exterior belies a scheming, greedy man.

About the movie

Retired madame Adelaide Bonfamille enjoys the good life in her Paris villa with even classier cat Duchess and three kittens: pianist Berlioz, painter Toulouse and sanctimonious Marie. When loyal butler Edgar overhears her will leaves everything to the cats until their death, he drugs and kidnaps them. However retired army dogs make his sidecar capsize on the country. Crafty stray cat Thomas O'Malley takes them under his wing back to Paris. Edgar tries to cover his tracks and catch them at return, but more animals turn on him, from the cart horse Frou-Frou to the tame mouse Roquefort and O'Malley's jazz friends.