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"Aside from being one of the very best films of this awards season, the Coen brothers&amp;#039; lovely, melancholic Inside Llewyn Davis also features one of the very best performances from a cat we&amp;#039;ve ever seen on the big screen.  In honour of the wonder that is Ulysses the Cat, we&amp;#039;ve picked out eleven more of the movies&amp;#039; greatest felines. We only had one rule: these had to be domestic cats. Sorry Simba, Aslan, Richard Parker et al.  Thomas O&amp;#039;Malley (The AristoCats)      At first glance, Thomas O&amp;#039;Malley comes across as a bit of a douchebag, the self-assured charmer who you wish wasn&amp;#039;t hitting on you in a bar (or, in the modern age, a box on the Internet). He&amp;#039;s even got his own theme tune full of talk about how he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;duke of the avant-garde&amp;quot;, for crying out loud.  Ultimately, though, Thomas proves to be pretty handy in a jam, saving Duchess and her kittens and winning their hearts in the process. He also deserves bonus cool points for the fact that he seems to know where all the best hipster parties are in Paris. KG Cat (Breakfast at Tiffany&amp;#039;s)      Breakfast at Tiffany&amp;#039;s is one of those surprising films that sounds like a happy jolly rom-com but turns out to be a lot darker than you expect. Holly Golightly (played by the magnificent Audrey Hepburn) is actually a supremely tragic figure, alone and sad. One of her only comforts comes from her cat \u00E2\u20AC\u201C\u00C2\u00A0brilliantly named Cat \u00E2\u20AC\u201C and yet she can&amp;#039;t even commit to the pet (&amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t belong to each other&amp;quot;).  It&amp;#039;s a desperately sad moment at the end of the film when she throws Cat into the rain from a cab as she&amp;#039;s determined to run away to Brazil, but at least we get a happy ending. Not only does she change her mind and find Cat again, but it&amp;#039;s this moment that gives us a big romantic climax as Holly kisses Paul, the three of them in a huge soppy group hug. Excuse us, we have something in our eye. CW Blofeld&amp;#039;s Cat (James Bond series)  Until 1967&amp;#039;s You Only Live Twice finally revealed the face of 007&amp;#039;s nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld, all we got to see of the malevolent head of SPECTRE was a pair of hands stroking a docile white cat. Ernst couldn&amp;#039;t bear to be parted from his feline friend, even gifting his own doppelg\u00C3\u00A4nger with an identikitty in 1971&amp;#039;s Diamonds Are Forever. MJ Sassy (Homeward Bound)      Enough of the dogs stealing all the buzz. Sure, Shadow and Chance are adorable, but Sally Field&amp;#039;s appropriately named Himalayan, Sassy, is the glue that holds this adventurous animal trio together.  After she gets washed away over a waterfall (sob), the canines can barely fend for themselves in the wild, and when they get dognapped by some well-meaning forest rangers it&amp;#039;s Sassy who sneaks in and frees them, like a boss. ED Mr Bigglesworth (Austin Powers)      Sure, Mr Bigglesworth started life as little more than a rip-off of Blofeld&amp;#039;s fluffy partner in crime, but he really began to forge his own path after losing all his fur in a cryogenic freezing accident.  Proving the old idea that pets really do start to look like their owners, Mr Bigglesworth rocked the bald look throughout sequel The Spy Who Shagged Me, and his absence from the third film is a large part of why it&amp;#039;s so rubbish. ED Puss in Boots (Shrek series)      You could have guessed from the get-go that Antonio Banderas&amp;#039;s take on this sly fairytale feline would be a silky-voiced Mediterranean lothario, and that he&amp;#039;d fit in perfectly alongside Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy&amp;#039;s established Shrek and Donkey. What nobody could have predicted is just how adorable his &amp;#039;manipulative begging&amp;#039; face would turn out to be. Puppy dog eyes went instantly out of fashion. ED Jones (Alien)  In space no-one can hear you scream\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 or in the case of Alien&amp;#039;s resilient ginger tom, let out a distressed meow. Sigourney Weaver&amp;#039;s Ripley might be the heroine of Ridley Scott&amp;#039;s sci-fi horror classic, but Jones the cat deserves special mention for managing to make it out alive. As the terrifying Xenomorph picked off crew members one by one, Jones was left to fend for himself in the grimy corridors and air ducts of the creaking vessel. How many of his nine lives were extinguished during the ordeal is uncertain, but the very fact he survived is a testament to a cat&amp;#039;s ability to always land feet first. SR Tiger (Over The Hedge)      There were many great animal characters in the underrated animation Over the Hedge, including Prince Tigerius Mahmoud Shaboz. Voiced brilliantly by Omid Djalili, Tiger, a high-class Persian cat is a bit of a diva. Usually rather surly, he falls in love with Stella the skunk, who disguises herself as a cat while her friends steal food from his house.  Despite Tiger&amp;#039;s love for fine things, he throws it all away in order to stay with his love, after being overawed by her ballsiness (and the fact that his sense of smell disappeared after his so-called years of &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot; evolution). A great example of the fabulous and spoiled cat, as they often can be. TE Figaro (Pinocchio)      Geppetto and Pinocchio&amp;#039;s little black and white cat Figaro was such a standout in 1940&amp;#039;s Pinocchio that he went on to star in several cartoons of his own. The above Figaro and Cleo, in which Figaro wreaks playful havoc for Geppetto&amp;#039;s housekeeper by going after unsuspecting goldfish Cleo, sums up the character&amp;#039;s mischievous charm. ED Treacle Jr (Treacle Jr)      Jamie Thraves&amp;#039;s gentle, too-little-seen drama from 2011 sees a midlife crisis-stricken man abruptly leave his suburban family behind and take to the streets of London, finding comfort in a motor-mouthed stranger (Aidan Gillen) and an utterly adorable kitten named Treacle Jr.  You can tell a lot about people from how they treat their pets, and Treacle ends up revealing volumes about the film&amp;#039;s otherwise opaque characters. ED Crookshanks (Harry Potter series)   Harry Potter&amp;#039;s snowy owl Hedwig is a tough act to follow, and Crookshanks doesn&amp;#039;t get off on the best foot after Hermione acquires him in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, trying repeatedly to kill Ron&amp;#039;s pet rat Scabbers.  But as it turns out, Crookshanks is just a fantastic judge of character, and Scabbers is actually the treacherous Peter Pettigrew in animal form. Score one for the tomcat. ED Ulysses (Inside Llewyn Davis)      Oscar Isaac&amp;#039;s down-at-heel folk singer Llewyn isn&amp;#039;t easy to warm to \u00E2\u20AC\u201C he&amp;#039;s abrasive, callous, self-defeating and at one point heckles an elderly lady. But there&amp;#039;s a wounded quality beneath it all, and a warmth that comes through both in his songs and in his grudging interactions with a ginger cat called Ulysses.  It&amp;#039;s possible to spend a long, long time debating what deeper meaning Ulysses holds in the Coen brothers&amp;#039; script, but what&amp;#039;s indisputable is that he&amp;#039;s one of the finest cats to grace the big screen this decade. ED What great movie cats have we overlooked? Leave your favourites in the comments below. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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