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"Felidae" is (c) Akif Pirincci. Feel free to correct me if something is wrong or missing.

ATTENTION! DANGER! MANY SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK AND FILM!

So Pascal wanted Francis to become his successor who continues the Felidae breeding programme. His strategy: Having a paper chase of clues with Francis, this makes Francis slooowly unterstand. Many clues are mutilated corpses of cats who stood in Pascal's way. Yo, compelling arguments - NOT.
Pascal is presented to us as oh so clever, but then he slips up like this. Using Francis original sympathy and thus guiding him "gently"into the role of the successor would have been way more reasonable. Though I hope Francis would have refused even then.

As long as word of god doesn't state anything differenty I don't believe in the argument "Well, Pascal did so because he was simply crazy". Imho book and movie depict him as, erm, very excentric but in the end sane.

We deal with questions how the old, dying Pascal was able to slaughter younger cats like this or how -many- cats are living around Francis to make such a breeding programme possible or why Pascal didn't just simply get to Egypt to the African wildcats and finito ... another time.

Bitch bitch backbite. There are lots of things I like much about "Felidae", book and film, would I write them all down this comment would be thrice as long as it already is. P.e. just the German dub is already gorgeous - imho definitely better than the English dub, and I am usually pretty critical with German dubs. Especially Ulrich Tukur as Francis and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Pascal are a league of their own, but the rest is also pretty damn fine.

Yet when I saw the movie recently again, the "WOOOAH" fascination I had as a teenie was gone. Now as an adult it sadly rankles me that the story doesn't seem to fully believe in its strenghts, so it considered it necessary to add more than a few pretty heavy gore scenes and some national socialism allusions as scandalous cherry on top. It's like with a woman who is blessed with beauty by nature, but doesn't believe in her beauty and thinks she's improving herself with lots of make up and vulgar clothes - but it's actually a change for the worse.

Description
"Felidae" is (c) Akif Pirincci. Feel free to correct me if something is wrong or missing.

ATTENTION! DANGER! MANY SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK AND FILM!

So Pascal wanted Francis to become his successor who continues the Felidae breeding programme. His strategy: Having a paper chase of clues with Francis, this makes Francis slooowly unterstand. Many clues are mutilated corpses of cats who stood in Pascal's way. Yo, compelling arguments - NOT.
Pascal is presented to us as oh so clever, but then he slips up like this. Using Francis original sympathy and thus guiding him "gently"into the role of the successor would have been way more reasonable. Though I hope Francis would have refused even then.

As long as word of god doesn't state anything differenty I don't believe in the argument "Well, Pascal did so because he was simply crazy". Imho book and movie depict him as, erm, very excentric but in the end sane.

We deal with questions how the old, dying Pascal was able to slaughter younger cats like this or how -many- cats are living around Francis to make such a breeding programme possible or why Pascal didn't just simply get to Egypt to the African wildcats and finito ... another time.

Bitch bitch backbite. There are lots of things I like much about "Felidae", book and film, would I write them all down this comment would be thrice as long as it already is. P.e. just the German dub is already gorgeous - imho definitely better than the English dub, and I am usually pretty critical with German dubs. Especially Ulrich Tukur as Francis and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Pascal are a league of their own, but the rest is also pretty damn fine.

Yet when I saw the movie recently again, the "WOOOAH" fascination I had as a teenie was gone. Now as an adult it sadly rankles me that the story doesn't seem to fully believe in its strenghts, so it considered it necessary to add more than a few pretty heavy gore scenes and some national socialism allusions as scandalous cherry on top. It's like with a woman who is blessed with beauty by nature, but doesn't believe in her beauty and thinks she's improving herself with lots of make up and vulgar clothes - but it's actually a change for the worse.