Charmed thinks Ladyhawke is an awesome movie

[meganbmoore]

I'm up to the second episode of season thre of Charmed and I'm laughing my head off-but not in the good way-at this episode.

Here's the basic plot Ladyhawke, a medieval fantasy romance from the 80s: A corrupt bishop who practices black magic desires a beautiful lady. She refuses his advances, and when he learns that she's the lover of a renown knight, he curses them so that he's a man by day and she's a falcon, and by night, she's a woman and he a wolf.  (Then one day a young thief escapes the bishop's  supposedly inescapable prison and the knight sets off to find him so the thief can  get him back in so he can kill the villain and break the curse)

Here's this episode of Charmed:  A warlock desired one of his female employees, but she rejected him because A) creepy, and B) she was in love with a coworker.  So the warlock cursed them so that he's an owl by day and she a human, and he's human by night and she a wolf.

I kid you not.

Also, one of the more powerful scenes in Ladyhawke is a scene at daybreak, where they're both in human form for a few seconds, but not long enough to touch, and it focuses on the eyes a lot.  Exact. Same. Scene. in Charmed(only indoors)  Also?  Ladyhawke, Navarre(the knight) uses a crossbow when he saves the thief(and at other times) and the villain's minions use them too, and it's the preferred weapon of the bad guy's minions in Charmed.  

OMG!!! The bird-cursed lover also gets shot with a crossbow in both...

AND AN ECLIPSE!!!!  THEY'RE USING AN ECLIPSE TOO!!!  And I swear what Phoebe is chanting right now is EXACTLY the wording Navarre used when saying what it would take to break the curse on them.

I HIGHLY doubt this is the kind of crack the Charmed TPTB intended when they made this episode...

Comments

[chomiji]

That's not fair!!! I remember Ladyhawke - one of a whole series of nifty fantasy movies (and some not-so-nifty ... Dragonslayer, anyone?) to come out around then. How dare they rip it off?

(Hmmm ... I need to make a good outraged icon ... )

[foenix.livejournal.com]

They Landed a movie!

[ilysanth.livejournal.com]

O_o I wonder if they asked first. Can you sue for plagiarizing a movie? :P

[jennawaterford.livejournal.com]

I'd be more inclined to think it was on purpose and intended as an homage. CHARMED did riffs on existing stories all the time.

from Wikipedia:
The storyline is practically a copy of the movie Ladyhawke, hence Piper's comment: "I swear I've seen this in a movie."