Thankfully, most of that money is up on the screen: Ladyhawke is a beautiful looking film.
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Ladyhawke was shot in Italy, and Donner and Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro ( Apocalypse Now and The Last Emperor) took full advantage of the lush Italian countryside to make Ladyhawke look as visually impressive as possible. The film was a major release for 20th Century Fox who plowed almost $20m into the film, a huge amount for 1985 and an almost unheard amount for a fantasy film. The film was a passion project of Donner’s and overall he does a decent job: the film moves along at a fair clip, the action scenes work well (especially the sequence in the monastery) and it’s all jolly good fun. Ladyhawke was directed by Richard Donner ( The Omen, Superman The Movie) and co-written by Tom Mankiewicz ( Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun). Luckily just such an eclipse is imminent and so the pair face-off against the Bishop, the curse is lifted, evil is vanquished and the pair are reunited. They engage in a few adventures before discovering that the curse can indeed be broken: if Navarre and Isabeau stand in the presence of the evil Bishop during an eclipse (on a day of both night and day) the curse will be lifted.
With the help of Navarre and Isabeau in her hawk form, he narrowly avoids arrest and accompanies the pair hoping to aid them in their quest to lift the curse. Thrown into the story is Gaston (Matthew Broderick), a petty thief who has escaped from the dungeons of Aquila and is being pursued by Captain of the Guard, Marquet (Ken Hutchison). The lovers are doomed to be together in their natural state only during the few seconds of sunrise and sunset - always together, but eternally apart. The curse is devastatingly simple: during the day Isabeau turns into a hawk, only to assume human form at night, while Navarre turns into a wolf at night and only regains his humanity in the morning.
Set in 14th Century medieval Europe the film centres on Navarre and Isabeau (played by Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer), two star-crossed lovers labouring under a curse placed upon them by the jealous and obsessive Bishop of Aquila (John Wood).
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However, this week it’s the turn of a movie that isn’t strictly a Fantasy film, but is still well worth a closer look - Ladyhawke from 1985.
Emery and Roman find each other again in a school and a society that distrusts everything about the Atrians. While the world around them rages with anger and prejudice, their bond becomes increasingly strong and increasingly dangerous.I’m a big fan of Fantasy movies, especially those from the 1980’s, and over the last few months I’ve been taking a closer look at some of my favourites. Ten years later, the Atrians have been acclimated to life on Earth, but they are interned in a heavily-guarded camp known as the Sector to keep them separate from humans. Now, for the first time, a group of Atrian teens will enroll in a suburban human high school, with the goal of testing the feasibility of human/alien integration. Whether they came in peace or with more sinister intentions didn't matter: a fierce battle erupted as humans fought for control over their new rivals, an alien species called the Atrians. In the midst of the conflict, Roman, a 6-year-old Atrian boy, found his way to a shed behind Emery's house, where she temporarily protected him from harm, bringing him food, comfort - and friendship. When Emery was 6 years old, an alien spacecraft crash-landed in her small town.
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