© 2007 David Poe

IF: La Llorona

EDIT: Illustration Friday week of 01.25.08

La Llorona

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“close up on a woman standing by a horse. The fog swirls around her.Horse feet clomp against the dirt. Pan up the horse to the woman’s foot, then leg – all the way up to her face; her black hair hanging down so that we cannot see her face.Portrait shot of her, on the horse. There is a strange glow coming from above her. We have pulled back, she sits on the horse, above her (floating) is herself in white, glowing. The black ground and dark purple sky presses against the fog.CUT TO BLACK.
[end.]“From a script I am writing for a short.La Llorona is sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman is a figure in North American folklore, the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children that she drowned. Her appearances are sometimes held to presage death and frequently are claimed to occur near bodies of water, particularly streams and rivers. There is much variation in tales of La Llorona, which are popular in Mexico and the United States (especially in Mexican American communities), and to an extent the rest of the Americas
-David

7 Comments

  1. Posted January 25, 2008 at 10:22 am | #

    Interesting interpretation-I’ve never seen her depicted over a horse.

  2. Posted January 25, 2008 at 2:44 pm | #

    Your work is ethereal…amazing…brilliant!

  3. Posted January 26, 2008 at 4:57 am | #

    very striking! i like the legend you chose to illustrate – I really enjoy north american folklore as well : )

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    Posted January 27, 2008 at 1:50 am | #

    This is really cool- very dreamlike.

  5. Posted January 29, 2008 at 10:54 am | #

    This is an interesting interpretation!

  6. Posted January 30, 2008 at 1:02 am | #

    this is a fantastic interpretation of this tale! love the horse (i’d never heard of a version that involved a horse).

  7. Posted January 31, 2008 at 1:19 am | #

    Striking image and a great interpretation of the legend.

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