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Oh, and while I'm thinking of it, did any of you, way back in elementary school, learn a song about Senor Don Gato? (Oh, Senor Don Gato was a cat, on a high red roof Don Gato sat, he was there to read a letter - meow meow meow, where the reading light was better - meow meow meow) Well, chances are some of you are now humming the tune. Anyhow, my point is, this very tune shows up in Spirit of the Beehive, played on a guitar, no singing. I'm going to guess it's a traditional Spanish melody, and the silly Don Gato lyrics were added by elementary music textbook publishers. but it means that at a particularly lyrical moment in the film, I was singing to myself - "Oh Don Gato jumped so happily, he fell off the roof and broke his knee, broke his bones and all his whiskers - meow meow meow, and his little solar plexus - meow meow meow, Ay Caramba cried Don Gato." I've got to guess this was not what the filmmaker had in mind.
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