Continuity mistake: In Schreck's department store, when Catwoman is doing her cartwheels, her heels collapse. (00:53:40)
Batman Returns (1992)
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Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton, Michael Gough
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Selina Kyle: Ok, Intimidate me, bully me if it makes you feel big. I mean it's not like you can just kill me...
Max Shreck: Actually, it's a lot like that.
Trivia: Annette Bening was cast as Catwoman but after becoming pregnant was replaced by Michelle Pfeiffer.
Question: After she falls, what exactly makes Selyna Kyle go nuts? And what is she trying to do to her apartment?
Chosen answer: She just died, and came back to life. The shock drove her mad. She really isn't doing anything but destroying it.
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Answer: The film keeps it ambiguous. There are two ways to look at it. Scenario A- She literally died and is brought back to life by the alley-cats somehow, adapting some of their traits. Or... Scenario B- The trauma of falling and sustaining a head-injury, along with her paranoia after Schreck tried to kill her, has driven her mad, and she uses her connection with cats to build a new persona. (Which is supported by the fact that all the things she claims "kills" her with each of her "nine lives" wouldn't actually have killed her. Ex. Her one fall is broken by the kitty-litter truck. Max doesn't hit her in any vital organs when he shoots her. Etc.) Her destroying her apartment is her lashing out at all the things she used to hold dear- her vision of a normal life, etc. It's symbolic of her purging the past and embracing the future. (Plus, oftentimes when people throw fits, they'll smash stuff up).