The blink-and-you-miss-them film references in 'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'

More to what meets the eye: The cinematic influences and foreshadowing hidden in the Oscar-nominated 'Puss in Boots' The Last Wish.'

The DNA of “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” is less 16th century Italian fairy tale than it is 20th century Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa. Several shots in the animated sequel are directly inspired by some of those masters’ most famous images. It’s all part of how the “Puss” filmmakers used cinematic foreshadowing to convey that “characters chasing the future are oblivious to what’s right in front of them,” director Joel Crawford says.

The film opens with a bright musical number as superhero Puss takes down a giant adversary — and dies, crushed by a massive falling bell. He seems fine in a subsequent doctor visit, though the doctor informs him he has now lost eight lives and has only one left, something that never occurred to the overconfident feline who always assumed he was immortal. He goes to a dimly lit bar and meets the mysterious Wolf .

Puss, of course, is armed with a rapier, not a pistol, but the point is taken — as was the inspiration, directly from Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Eli Wallach’s head is framed by a noose in the 1966 Sergio Leone film “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

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