Ladyhawke: Deep Thoughts About Romance, Gender, and Looking for Realism in a Film About a Cursed Bird

Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast

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On this week’s episode, Tracie traces some of her earliest ideas about romance to the 1985 Richard Donner film Ladyhawke. Although both contemporary and retrospective reviews are scornful of the anachronistic, Alan Parsons-produced, synthesizer-heavy soundtrack (so unrealistic in a film about a woman cursed to live as a hawk during the day!), Tracie and Emily are more interested in why the film takes away the leading lady’s agency when it otherwise gets a lot right about equitable romantic relationships.

If you are neither flesh nor spirit but sorrow, listen and laugh along with the Guy girls.

Our theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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We are Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our family as the Guy Girls.

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We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, and analyzing pop culture for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, and whatever else we find.

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1. Ladyhawke: Deep Thoughts About Romance, Gender, and Looking for Realism in a Film About a Cursed Bird (00:00:00)

2. Love Against All Odds (00:00:18)

3. When Love Loses Agency (00:12:09)

4. ] Faith, Power and Authentic Christianity (00:18:16)

5. ] Final Thoughts on Romance and Agency (00:50:50)

6. Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit (00:52:11)

7. Childhood Memories of Ladyhawk (01:23:51)

8. Gender Dynamics in Medieval Fantasy (03:24:01)

9. Music, Anachronisms, and Filmmaking Choices (05:17:08)