DeathTheCrow : GreatestFilmEver?

Ramblings

wow... how do i start to write a web page about "the crow", my favourite film of all time, that i must have seen over a hundred times by now...

eric draven and shelley webster are killed by a gang consisting of t-bird, tin tin, funboy and skank. their boss is called top dollar (who sleeps with his stepsister!).

after filming all the main shots, they went back to do the close ups, it is the closeup of the scene where eric comes back to the flat with some shoppig and is shot, where brandon lee actually dies; due to an old bullet being lodged in the blank bullets casing. the scene was changed for one where he is killed by a throwing knife.

after they are killed, eric is reborn and returns to their top floor appartment. he used to have a jesters mask, so he paints his face to resemble it. white face, with black around his eyes and vertical black lines coming from his eyes.

he kills tin tin (knife thrower) in an alley, then funboy in bed, where he was with darla the mother of a girl called sarah. eric and shelley used to look after sarah, darla is a total junkie. he then kills t-bird by taping him into his car and making his car drive off a pier. he goes to a hot dollar "meeting" to kill skank.

he kills top dollar on a rooftop...

at the end, he is reunited with his soul mate shelley...

Images

you can read the script here and here's some more photos of brandon lee.

Synopsis

the film opens with the crime scene, where eric draven has fallen from a 4th floor building and shelley webster is dying and taken away by ambulance...

"who the fuck gets married on halloween anyway..." - policeman
"nobody... - albreight

we then see the crow and sarah by the gravesides...

"what are you looking at watchman?" - sarah

after albreight buys sarah a hotdog we see the crew about to blow up a building. then... eric... brought back to life, climbs from his grave. eric stumbles around and takes off his wet clothes. it is raining hard. the crow shows him to some boots and clothes...

"bad people on the streets tonight..." - albreight

the buildings blows up... eric tears the police tape and goes back to his appartment and finds his cat gabriel.

"abashed the devil stood and saw how awful this goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how good this pornography is" - t-bird

eric first sees that his wounds heal almost immediately. thw crew meets in a bar, swallowing bullets with shots of alchohol.

"fire it up! fire it up! fire it up!" - the crew

eric paints his face to match the mask he owned... here we see the classic crow face...

eric jumps across building tops with the crow... he then falls from the top of the building into some trash, no pain, and laughs...

"i shagged her pink ass and she loved it" - tin tin
"i'd like you to meet two buddies of mine, we never miss" - tin tin

eric throws the knives back into tin tin, after dodging them...

"victims, aren't we all" - eric

...more soon...