On the island of Cyprus lived a very talented sculptor, Pygmalion. Pygmalion lived for his sculptures and was always most content while sculpting ivory blocks. Pygmalion decided he was going to carve a sculpture of a woman one day, and he worked tirelessly on it. By the end, his sculpture was so lifelike and beautiful that he began to fall in love with it, even going so far as to give her a name, Galatea, which means "sleeping love". Pygmalion had no time for a real girlfriend, he vow to swear woman off in order to focus solely on his work. Besides, the woman of Cyprus had not paid homage to Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Aphrodite punished all of the woman of Cyprus to a loveless life of prostitution. During a festival honoring Aphrodite, Pygmalion went to the temple of Aphrodite to pray for a wife like his own sleeping love, Galatea. His prayers were so fervent and heart-felt that Aphrodite had to see what all of the fuss was about. After seeing Galateas beauty, Aphrodite felt it necessary to bring Galatea to life. Pygmalion and Galatea got married and had a few kids, and all was good.
If I could bring someone to life like Pygmalion did, it would be the possessed cat from the Japanese movie HOUSE (Hausu). I really only pick this because a lot of other things have been picked and I don't feel like going through them all and I figured this will be a safe bet. Anyway, the cat from HOUSE is possessed by some sort of demon that just causes everyone to have looking-down-the-barrel tunnel vision. This cat also makes weird 80's laser sound effects every once and a while, so that would be pretty interesting. If I had to have a cat it would be the HOUSE cat, it would certainly be a conversation starter. It wouldn't all be fun and games with the possessed cat though, it will try (frequently) to make chandeliers fall and crush me to death or make me fall down the stairs to my death. But really, don't all cats do that anyway?
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