#13 Hello Leeloo Dallas Multipass
Anyway, we're in love.
The Fifth Element is easily one of my top 10 favorite movies. It is aboslutely ridiculous in the best way possible. I’ve been trying to remember the first time I saw it, and I think it was introduced to me by a high school English teacher who shared a clip in her class Writing for College, a course for seniors that was part how to write an admissions essay but in reality mostly creative writing exercises. For one of our assignments she went to Walmart, dug through the $5 DVD bin for the most random movie1, and then we all had to write papers about it. It was fabulous. I would go on to shoehorn pop culture into many of my college papers so this class actually served me very well. I have to give Mrs. Tombs credit, she introduced us some really great movies we probably should not have been allowed to watch in public school — The Goonies, Say Anything, probably Galaxy Quest, and of course, The Fifth Element.
Because I love that movie and all its weirdness, I’ve said for ages that if I ever got a second cat, I wanted to name her Leeloo Dallas Multipass, after this scene when Mila Jovovitch’s character pretends to be married to Bruce Willis:
Cut to last weekend and my parents finding a litter of kittens in their backyard. I think you know where this is going.
Yep, I brought home a new kitten! Say hello to the very tiny and adorable Leeloo Dallas Multipass:
She’s real cute but is also so small that she can fit in all the most ridiculous places in my apartment. I didn’t even realize there was a space between the refridgerator and the wall in the kitchen until I saw the backend of a beanie baby size kitty trying to squeeze herself into it. I did tie a little bell to her so I could at least hear her.
Matilda is doing really well, considering it’s only been a few days and she as a rule dislikes it when anyone invades our home. She hid under the bed the first day and was furious with me but is coming closer and closer and can be in the same room with the kitten, as long as they’re not too close. But she’s trying! My hope is that they’ll eventually be friends and snuggle up together, but that’s definitely going to take some time. We’ve lived 9 years just Matilda and I and it’s going to be an adjustment.
There are for sure moments when I think what have I gotten myself into!? but then she sits on my lap and purrs like mad and it feels wroth it. If only I can convince Matilda.