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Ladyhawke (movie)

Introduction
Unidentified flag
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Introduction

The movie Ladyhawke, directed by Richard Donner, with Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer, tells the story of a french couple in love, Captain Etienne Navarre and Isabeau Dante, subject to a terrible curse set upon them by the jealous Bishop, also in love with Isabeau: they only live in human form for half the day, he during the day, and she during the night. The rest of the time, he is a wolf, she is a hawk, and they only meet for brief instants during the metamorphosis, at dawn and in the sunset.
Jorge Candeias, 12 March 2002

Unidentified flag

by Jorge Candeias, 12 February 2007

In the movie, there's a long battle sequence, in the end, that takes place inside an abbey or a church, which is decorated with 10 or more identical flags hanging from poles mounted on the columns, with an inclination of some 30º or so. The flags are black and white, horizontally divided, in a pattern similar to rays, or flames. Unfortunately, since the display is interior, all the flags are folded in a similar fashion and never unfold, so that they are never seen clearly enough to count the number of rays, check their dimensions, or accurately determine what percentage of the flag is black and what percentage of it is white. the movie is a nice love story, and this flag is very adequate to represent the whole of it, even if it only appears in one sequence.
Jorge Candeias, 12 March 2002

I came to the conclusion that I made a couple of errors. First and least, the number of identical flags visible in the sequence is far greater than 10. There's a whole and rather big atrium separated by two rows of columns from lateral cloisters, each row containing maybe more than 10 columns, and one flag being flown from each column. Last, but not least, the flag's division doesn't seem to be wavy after all. Most flags *look* wavy because they are folded, but one or two of them are seen with enough detail to see what looks like a simple black and white zigzag. I still couldn't count the number of "zigs", so I used the same as before (4), which is also the one that seems more likely considering the aspect of the flags.
Jorge Candeias, 12 February 2007

I have the impression the points are narrower. Also, I would have guessed five black points. Well, that would go together, I guess. Two other points:

There's some red at top hoist, but the flags move to fast past the camera [relativity] to be sure whether it's on the flag or has something to do with the staffs.
I'm not sure the points all reach equally far, or whether the top points are further towards the fly than the bottom ones. It might be the angle of the flags, though.

The colours black and white are worn by the guards, so these should probably be considered the colours of Aquila.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 4 January 2008

Unidentified banner

by Jorge Candeias, 12 February 2007

In addition to the other flags, I now noticed a triangular vertical flag being held by an acolyte of the evil bishop close to the throne, hanging from a crossbar. Also black and white, the black occupies the left part and the white the right one, and the overall proportion seems to be something like 2:1.
Jorge Candeias, 12 February 2007

I actually though it was whiter dexter. I wonder whether there were matching banners on both sides, or whether it just went by to fast.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 4 January 2008