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 Comedy 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.

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

We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find.

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Kapitel

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 (00:00:41)

3. When Love Loses Agency (00:12:32)

4. ] Faith, Power and Authentic Christianity (00:18:39)

5. ] Final Thoughts on Romance and Agency (00:51:43)

6. Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit (00:53:04)

7. Childhood Memories of Ladyhawk (01:24:44)

8. Gender Dynamics in Medieval Fantasy (03:24:54)

9. Music, Anachronisms, and Filmmaking Choices (05:18:01)