The Crow is a 1994 American supernatural superhero film directed by Alex Proyas, written by David J. Schow and John Shirley. The film stars Brandon Lee in his final film appearance. The film is based on James O'Barr's 1989 comic book The Crow, and tells the story of Eric Draven (Lee), a rock musician who is revived from the dead to avenge his own death as well as the rape and murder of his fiancée.
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Directed by | Alex Proyas |
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Based on | The Crow by James O'Barr |
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Music by | Graeme Revell |
Cinematography | Dariusz Wolski |
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Production company | Dimension Films |
Distributed by | Miramax |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $23 million |
Box office | $50.7 million (US) |
The lead actor, Brandon Lee, was accidentally wounded on set during filming by a defective blank and later died in hospital during surgery. Only eight days left of production, unfinished scenes that were to feature him were dealt with a re-written format in the script, a stunt double and digital special effects. The film is dedicated to both Lee and his fiancée, Eliza.
Despite the several production setbacks due to Lee's death, The Crow was well-received critically for its unique visual style, premise, emotional depth and its tribute to the deceased actor. The film opened at the top of the box office and attained a strong cult following. It is the first installment of a franchise, which includes three sequels and a television series.
Screenplay
On October 30, Devil's Night in Detroit, Police Sergeant Albrecht investigates a crime scene where Shelly Webster has been brutally beaten, raped, and left for dead while her fiancé, Eric Draven, has died on the street outside after being stabbed, shot, and thrown out the window. The couple were to be married the following day on Halloween. As he leaves for the hospital with Shelly, Albrecht meets a young girl, Sarah, who says that she is their friend, and that they take care of her.
One year later, Sarah visits the graves of Eric Draven and Shelly Webster. After she leaves, a crow lands on Eric's grave stone and taps it; later that night, Eric comes back to life and claws his way out of his grave. Meanwhile, a low-level street gang, headed by T-Bird, blow up a video arcade. Eric goes to his old apartment and finds it derelict. He has flashbacks of the murders, remembering that those responsible were T-Bird and his gang: Tin Tin, Funboy, and Skank. Eric soon discovers that any wounds he receives heal immediately. Painting his face to resemble a harlequin mask and guided by the crow, he sets out to avenge his and Shelly's murders by killing the perpetrators.
The crow helps Eric locate Tin Tin, who stabbed him the year before. Eric finds Tin Tin in an alley and the two begin to fight. Eric subdues Tin Tin, kills him with his own knives and then takes his coat, leaving a crow symbol drawn in Tin Tin's blood. He then goes to the pawn shop where Tin Tin pawned Shelly's engagement ring. Eric forces the owner, Gideon, to return the ring. He pours gasoline on the shop's floor, and as Gideon shouts curses at him as he leaves, shoots the gasoline puddle with a shotgun, destroying the store and nearly killing Gideon. Eric then runs into Albrecht and obliquely explains who he is and why he is here before vanishing. Later, Funboy and Sarah's drug-addicted mother, Darla, are caught by Eric in the midst of their drug session. Before killing Funboy with a fatal overdose of morphine, Eric talks to Darla, expelling the drug from her arm and making her realize that Sarah needs her to be a good mother. Eric later visits Albrecht, at his house, and Albrecht tells him what he knows about Shelly's death and that he watched as she suffered for thirty hours before dying. Eric touches Albrecht and receives from him the pain felt by Shelly during those hours. As T-Bird and Skank stop at a convenience store to pick up some supplies, Eric arrives and kidnaps T-Bird in his own car. Skank follows the pair in a stolen car to the docks where Eric and T-Bird have arrived. Using duct tape, Eric ties T-Bird to the car, which is full of explosives, and primes a grenade inside before putting the car in drive, forcing T-Bird to drive it off the edge of the pier when the grenade explodes and sinks the exploding car into the harbor, killing T-Bird as Skank watches on from afar, while Eric leaves a burning crow symbol behind.
The next day, Sarah and her mother begin to repair their strained relationship. Sarah goes to Eric's apartment and talks to him. She tells him that she misses him and Shelly. Eric explains that, even though they cannot be friends anymore, he still cares about her. Skank frantically informs Top Dollar, a top-level criminal who controls all the street gangs in the city, about Eric. Top Dollar and his lover/half-sister Myca have become aware of Eric's actions through various reports from witnesses (including Gideon, whom Top Dollar killed afterward). Top Dollar holds a meeting with his associates on Devil's Night where they discuss new plans for their Devil's Night criminal activities. Eric interrupts the meeting looking for Skank. After Top Dollar refuses to give up Skank, he has his men shoot Eric, unaware of his invulnerability; Eric seizes several guns and engages the men in a gunfight, fatally shooting every one of Top Dollar's henchmen. Top Dollar, Myca, and Grange (Top Dollar's right-hand man) manage to escape during the gunfight, while Eric kills Skank by throwing him out a window before evading police capture. While Top Dollar reflects on Eric's prowess, Myca (who is a follower of mysticism) explains how Eric can be defeated - by killing his crow guide.
Eric, having finished his quest, returns to his grave, where he finds Sarah waiting. He says goodbye to her and gives her Shelly's engagement ring. She is then abducted by Grange, who takes her into the church where Top Dollar and Myca are waiting. Through the crow, Eric realizes what has happened and goes to rescue her. Grange shoots the crow as it flies into the church, making Eric lose his invincibility. Myca grabs the wounded crow, intending to take its mystical power. Albrecht arrives, intending to pay his respects to Eric, just after Eric is shot and wounded. Top Dollar grabs Sarah and climbs the bell tower as a fight ensues; Grange is shot and killed by Albrecht. When Albrecht is wounded, Eric climbs to the tower where he is confronted at gunpoint by Myca. Before Myca can shoot Eric, the crow escapes Myca's grip, pecking her eyes out and causing her to fall down the bell tower to her death. Eric climbs to the roof of the church, where he is confronted by Top Dollar, holding Sarah hostage. There, Top Dollar admits ultimate responsibility for what happened to Eric and Shelly (setting the actions of T-Bird, Tin Tin, Skank and Funboy in motion at the beginning). Top Dollar tosses Sarah to the side, and Eric and Top Dollar fight on the roof. In their fight, Eric is fatally stabbed in the back. Before Top Dollar can kill Eric, Eric grabs Top Dollar's head and gives him the thirty hours of pain from Shelly he absorbed from Albrecht. The sensation sends Top Dollar falling from the roof of the church, where he is fatally impaled on the horns of a gargoyle. As Albrecht is taken to the hospital, Eric is reunited with Shelly at their graves. The film ends with the crow returning Shelly’s ring to Sarah before flying off into the night.
- Brandon Lee as Eric Draven/The Crow
- Michael Wincott as Top Dollar
- Ernie Hudson as Sergeant Albrecht
- Rochelle Davis as Sarah
- Bai Ling as Myca
- David Patrick Kelly as T-Bird
- Angel David as Skank
- Jon Polito as Gideon
- Tony Todd as Grange
- Sofia Shinas as Shelly Webster
- Michael Massee as Funboy
- Laurence Mason as Tin-Tin
- Anna Levine as Darla
- Bill Raymond as Mickey
- Marco Rodríguez as Torres
Brandon Lee died of a gunshot wound on March 31, 1993, after an accidental shooting on set at EUE Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina.
In the scene in which Lee was accidentally shot, Lee’s character walks into his apartment and discovers his fiancée being beaten and raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee's character fires a .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 629 revolver at Lee as he walks into the room. A previous scene using the same gun had called for inert dummy cartridges fitted with bullets, but no powder or primer, to be loaded in the revolver. For close-up scenes which utilize a revolver, where the bullets are clearly visible from the front, and do not require the gun to actually be fired, dummy cartridges provide a more realistic appearance than blank rounds, which have no bullet. Instead of purchasing commercial dummy cartridges, the film's prop crew, hampered by time constraints, created their own by pulling the bullets from live rounds, dumping the powder charge then reinserting the bullets. However, they unknowingly left the live percussion primer in place at the rear of the cartridge. At some point during filming, the revolver was apparently discharged with one of these improperly-deactivated cartridges in the chamber, setting off the primer with enough force to drive the bullet partway into the barrel, where it became stuck (a condition known as a squib load). The prop crew either failed to notice or failed to recognize the significance of this issue.
In the fatal scene, which called for the revolver to be actually fired at Lee from a distance of 12–15 feet, the dummy cartridges were exchanged for blank rounds, which feature a live powder charge and primer, but no bullet, thus allowing the gun to be fired without the risk of an actual projectile. As the production company had sent the firearms specialist home early, responsibility for the guns was given to a prop assistant who was not aware of the rule for checking all firearms before and after any handling. Therefore, the barrel was not checked for obstructions when it came time to load it with the blank rounds. Since the bullet from the dummy round was already trapped in the barrel, this caused the .44 Magnum bullet to be fired out of the barrel with virtually the same force as if the gun had been loaded with a live round, and it struck Lee in the abdomen, mortally wounding him. He was rushed to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, NC, where he underwent six hours of surgery. However, attempts to save him were unsuccessful, and Lee was pronounced dead at 1:03 pm on March 31, 1993, at the age of 28. The shooting was ruled an accident.
After Lee's death, the producers were faced with the decision of whether or not to continue with the film. Lee had completed most of his scenes for the film and was scheduled to shoot for only three more days. The rest of the cast and crew, except for Ernie Hudson, whose brother-in-law had just died, stayed in Wilmington. Paramount, which was initially interested in distributing The Crow theatrically (originally a direct-to-video feature), opted out of involvement due to delays in filming and some controversy over the violent content being inappropriate given Lee's death. However, Miramax picked it up with the intention of releasing it in theatres and injected a further $8 million to complete the production, taking its budget to approximately $23 million. The cast and crew then took a break for script rewrites of the flashback scenes that had yet to be completed. The script was rewritten by Walon Green, René Balcer and Michael S. Chernuchin, adding narration and new scenes. Lee's stunt double Chad Stahelski was used as a stand-in and CGI was used to digitally superimpose Lee's face onto the head of the double. The beginning of the movie, which had not been finished, was rewritten, and the apartment scene remade using computer graphics from an earlier scene of Lee.
Box office
The Crow was a sleeper hit at the box office. The film opened at number one in the United States in 1,573 theaters with $11,774,332 and averaging $7,485 per theater. The film ultimately grossed $50,693,129, above its $23 million budget. It ranked at #24 for all films released in the US in 1994 and 10 for R-rated films released that year.
Critical response
The Crow has an approval rating of 81% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 52 reviews and an average rating of 7/10. The critical consensus states: "Filled with style and dark, lurid energy, The Crow is an action-packed visual feast that also has a soul in the performance of the late Brandon Lee." The film also has a score of 71 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 14 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews."
Reviewers praised the action and visual style. Rolling Stone called it a "dazzling fever dream of a movie", Caryn James writing for The New York Times called it "a genre film of a high order, stylish and smooth", and Roger Ebert called it "a stunning work of visual style". The Los Angeles Times praised the film also.
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