Eyes for Ladyhawke

[primsong]

I recently had an interesting afternoon in which a lady at our church who is essentially blind asked if I would watch Ladyhawke with her - she had never seen it and wanted to know what it was about. It's a perennial favorite, but I hadn't seen it for a while; it was fun to revisit and intriguing to try to act as someone else's eyes, narrating and describing anyplace there wasn't dialogue. She wants to 'see' it again now, so I guess I did okay. ^_^

Our church "Trunk or Treat" went very well, we had a great turnout and even with all the extra candy we bought we still nearly ran out - lots of little kids in adorable outfits, my Starbells made a great mermaid and our car looked very under-the-sea-ish. My son just carried a stuffed rabbit and a towel around and told people he was a "Hare Dryer". Rain started to sprinkle just as we were taking everything down, so the timing was perfect even for the weather. Hope it went well for everyone else too!

Comments

[linaewen]

I haven't seen Ladyhawke for ages, I should watch it again!

I imagine it would be interesting to describe something like that to someone who can't actually see it. Fun, in fact! It's less fun trying to figure out if we have what it takes at our Center to teach a blind woman how to speak English. We're all so used to using pictures to guide the process, I'm not sure what to do! ;-)

Love the Hare Dryer idea, lol!

[primsong]

Now that would be a challenge - I suppose if you had something with raised images or small objects for some of them...? Hoom.

[travels_in_time]

Bwah! Your son's costume! :D

[primsong]

He was quite pleased with himself, especially as it was very last minute. ;-D

[senmut]

Wow, coincidence! I was just trying to find a sound clip of "Walk on the Left side" yesterday from LadyHawke.

[primsong]

Definitely one of the classic lines - hee! "I'm a monk, not an architect!"

[ex_bel786]

Ladyhawke is a gorgeous movie; that would be fun to do... it sounds like you did a good job! I'm glad your Halloween went well. We stayed in and watched "Shaun of the Dead." :)

[primsong]

It really is - I am amazed all over again at how beautiful the cinematography was. Preeeetty!

[jhumor]

OMG! I LOVE no really I need to say it again: L-O-V-E Ladyhawke

and yes, I do own it in DVD :P

[primsong]

Who wouldn't? I mean.....really!! I have it on dvd but all she had was a vhs player, so I even had to go raid another friend's collection to show it, but it was totally worth it.