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The movie Ladyhawke, directed by Richard Donner, with Rutger Hauer and
Michelle Pfeiffer, tells the story of a french couple in love, Captain Etienne
Navarre and Isabeau Dante, subject to a terrible curse set upon them by the
jealous Bishop, also in love with Isabeau: they only live in human form for
half the day, he during the day, and she during the night. The rest of the
time, he is a wolf, she is a hawk, and they only meet for brief instants
during the metamorphosis, at dawn and in the sunset.
Jorge Candeias, 12 march 2002
by Jorge Candeias
In the movie, there's a long battle sequence, in the end, that takes
place inside an abbey or a church, which is decorated with 10 or more
identical flags hanging from poles mounted on the columns, with an
inclination of some 30º or so. The flags are black and white, horizontally
divided, in a pattern similar to rays, or flames. Unfortunately, since the
display is interior, all the flags are folded in a similar fashion and
never unfold, so that they are never seen clearly enough to count the
number of rays, check their dimensions, or accurately determine what
percentage of the flag is black and what percentage of it is white. the movie is a nice love
story, and this flag is very adequate to represent the whole of it, even if
it only appears in one sequence.
Jorge Candeias, 12 march 2002