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Post by vandergraafk on Jan 12, 2007 19:39:34 GMT -5
Magic Hour is another strong episode to begin Season 3, although it, too, features another seemingly interminable eclipse of the sun and a lengthy freeze of an entire hallway that lasts long enough for the sisters to debate the appropriate course of action, i.e., to save an innocent or to use the opening provided by the eclipse to marry Piper and Leo in secret.
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Post by laiste on Feb 22, 2007 2:50:31 GMT -5
It would have been a much better episode if it hadn't been so exactly like a certain movie. Inspired is one thing but this episode amounts to a total rip off.
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Post by vandergraafk on Feb 23, 2007 18:30:02 GMT -5
What movie would this be? I must not get out much!
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Post by laiste on Feb 23, 2007 18:58:30 GMT -5
Ladyhawke. A classic 80's movie and one of my all time favourites.
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Post by vandergraafk on Feb 23, 2007 19:11:59 GMT -5
I vaguely recall the title. I don't think I've ever seen it. So, was it an homage to Ladyhawke or a blatant rip-off? Is there a difference?
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Post by laiste on Feb 23, 2007 19:16:00 GMT -5
I think it tips into blatant rip off. However, in true Charmed style one of the sisters comments on the fact that its all a lot like the movie. But they don't mention the movie by name.
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Post by vandergraafk on Feb 23, 2007 19:23:33 GMT -5
Boy, does that sound familiar? Do you mean they forgot to assign rights to the name Ladyhawke in order to mention it and thus indicate that the writers were aware how much they were copying?
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Post by laiste on Feb 23, 2007 19:30:09 GMT -5
oh yeah, the writers fully knew how much they were using the story of Ladyhawke. From the line "a night within a day, a day within a night" which is word for word from Ladyhawke. To the fact the two lovers are turned into wolf and bird. In the movie the bird is a hawk and it is the woman (Michelle Pfiefer(sp?) character (hence the title  ) Even the bit were the lover see each other at dawn- that is lifted wholesale from the movie. In the movie it is an evil bishop who wants the love of the woman and who casts the curse. Then theres hunter who is after the man, though in the case of the movie he is hunting wolves. It goes on but I think thats the main points. |
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Post by Scott on Mar 14, 2007 12:39:27 GMT -5
So, do you conclude that this is a rip-off or an homage?
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) Even the bit were the lover see each other at dawn- that is lifted wholesale from the movie. In the movie it is an evil bishop who wants the love of the woman and who casts the curse. Then theres hunter who is after the man, though in the case of the movie he is hunting wolves. It goes on but I think thats the main points.