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the film
The Crow is a 1994 film adaptation of the comic book of the same name by James O'Barr (who makes a cameo in the film). It was directed by Alex Proyas and starred Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee). The film gained instant notoriety even before its release when Lee was accidentally killed during filming.
the story
People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right...
Set in a dark, nightmarish landscape of a dreamland Detroit, rocker Eric Draven and his fiancée Shelly are brutally murdered the night before their wedding by thugs working for the city's crime lord. A year later, the Crow brings Eric's restless soul back from the realm of the dead.
With the crow as his guide and borne by the love for Shelly and the despair and rage for their deaths, Eric embarks on a dark journey to seek revenge and exact brutal, unforgiving justice for his death and the death of the woman he loves.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on, is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
Music
A Tribute to Brandon Lee
Soundtracks
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Original Motion Picture Score - Graeme Revell
composed by Graeme Revell
"The Crow: City of angels" Soundtrack
"The Crow: City of angels" Score
composed by Greaeme Revell
"The Crow: Salvation " Soundtrack
The Crow: Salvation" Score
composed by Marco Beltrami
"The Crow: Stairway to Heaven" Soundtrack
This soundtrack is not available for purchase. It was given as a gift to the cast, crew, and friends of the show. So please do not ask about obtaining a copy of it, or ask for for CD-R, Cassette, or mp3's of it.
Trust Obey
Trust Obey's most recent recording is the Fear and Bullets Remix. This is a collection of remixes and re-recorded versions of material from the original 1994 Crow Comic Book Soundtrack. Included on the new album are new songs and previously unpublished drawings of The Crow by Crow-creator, James O'Barr.
"As far as I was concerned, the comic book was the biggest factor in the look. I think people who know the comic absolutely recognize it in the film. Eric is a very believable, strong, avenging character. I think that everything that was powerful about that character in the comics comes through. For our purposes his motivations were always the underlying influence on the look."
----Production Designer Alex Mcdowell
"The gloom of the film is very important, no sunlight essentially. Right from the very first meeting we discussed eliminating greens and blues and controlling the palette completely. We really tried to create a monochromatic palette, but with red. The idea is that Eric's vision, when he comes back from the grave, is totally bleak. He's got nothing to look forward to at all. And the addition of red I saw as color of revenge. I thought it was used that way in the film and comic."
----Production Designer Alex Mcdowell
Television
"They said, if the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live forever is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever..." ~ Sarah ~
Directed by: Alex Proyas
Written by: James O'Barr
Summary: Eric Draven and his fiancée Shelly Webster, are murdered the night before they are suppose to get married, Halloween Night... A year later, Eric comes back to avenge their death.
Filming Locations: Wilmington, NC, USA & Nacogdoches, Texas, USA (for the Halloween Midnights)
Taglines: Believe in Angels.
In a world without justice, one man was chosen to protect the innocent.
Real love is forever.
Darker than the bat.
Trivia: Everybody know that Brandon died after being accidently shot on the set.
» Cameron Diaz was offered the role of Shelly but she turned it down because she didn't like the script! (Oh, she must've regretted that one)
» River Phoenix (who died in October of that year from an overdose) and Christian Slater were both offered the role of Eric before Brandon.
» Top Dollar, Myca and Grange are never referred by name in the movie.
» Michael Berryman plays the role of the Skull Cowboy, a character that didn't make it in the final cut of the movie.
» T-Bird's final words are from Book IV of Milton's "Paradise Lost". When Lucifer is found in Paradise by two Cherubs, he rebukes them for not recognizing him. They rebuke right back saying that his appearance has changed from being in Hell. "So spake the Cherub; and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible: Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined His loss"
» The poem that Eric Draven quotes when he breaks into Gideon's shop is "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.
» The order in which Draven hunts down the four killers is the same order in which they attack him in the apartment.
» The scene in Albrecht's apartment was ad-libbed by Brandon Lee and Ernie Hudson. The line about Shelley ("Believe me, nothing is trivial") was not in the script.
» Eric Mabius, who starred in The Crow: Salvation, had auditioned for the role of Funboy in the first film.
The Crow is a comic book series created by James O'Barr. The series was originally written by O'Barr as a means of getting over his girlfriend's death at the hands of a drunk driver. It was later published in 1989, and became an underground success, with some movie studios seeking the rights to adapt it to film. It was adapted into a film in 1994 starring Brandon Lee, spawned three sequels, and a television series have also been made.
The first four issues were published by Caliber in 1989, and are collectors items now, because they are very hard to find. Tundra publishing released the conclusion in 1992 and Kitchen Sink Press followed with the graphic novel containing a more complete story with previously unpublished material. Definitely a must own for any true fan of The Crow.
Hardback Edition
Paperback Edition
He avenges the innocent dead. He stalks the crimson road of the slain. He mourns lost love so ardently that desire and death become one. He is the dream-carrier of holy retribution. And in the name of love he delivers justice to the wicked."--From the Introduction
With this chilling collection of stories and poems, J. O'Barr--the creator of The Crow--and Ed Kramer host an ominous array of interpretations of the gothic phenomenon by acclaimed writers well acquainted with the dark side, including Alan Dean Foster, Ramsey Campbell, Gene Wolfe, Storm Constantine, Nancy Collins, Andrew Vachss, Iggy Pop, and Henry Rollins.
Featuring original artwork by such top artists as Ron Walotsky, Rob Prior, Tom Canty, Tim Bradstreet, Don Maitz, and Bob Eggleton, The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams evokes a modern night-world and its tormented denizens ensnared by unspeakable evil, enslaved by unquenchable longing, engulfed by the thirst for revenge, and enfolded by the enigmatic, eternal wings of The Crow.
Here a resurrected gunslinger gets a final showdown with his archenemy. . . . A murder victim and a dying boy mete out poetic justice to a sadistic criminal. . . . A serial killer turned government assassin takes three abused children under his savage wing. . . . A tormented rogue cop literally fights fire with fire. . . . A wise talking crow guides the vengeful hand of a murdered girl's lover. . . . and much more.
For both the confirmed fan and the curious newcomer, this spellbinding, shocking, darkly sensual collection offers passage to an extraordinary literary realm: a place of macabre morality tales and existential adventures, of terror and tenderness--from which no reader can hope to leave unchanged. For when you take flight with The Crow, there is no turning back.
At our human limits, when we've gone as far as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way -- and beyond.Five, four, three, two...Jared Poe counts the days on Louisiana's Death Row. The controversial S&M photographer has been condemned to die for killing his lover. He doesn't know who did it. Only that he didn't.Can he clear..
The Eternal One
At our human limits, when we've gone as far as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One.
The Crow
Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way - and beyond.
Clash By Night
A crazed militia has planted a bomb in a day-care center, and a dedicated teacher discovers it just in time to get herself and the children to safety.
Almost. For we are in the dark universe of the crow, where the innocent must die so that justice can triumph.
Where a woman devoted to peace must don camouflage as she prowls with her black-winged familiar through the tangled underworld of hate on a search and destroy mission that leads her from gun shows to the rubble of the disaster.
A rubble that is stirring with new and hideous life...
William Blessing is obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe. Like Poe, he is a writer of dark fantasy. And like Poe, he has powerful enemies. One of them pretends to be a friend, even as he plots to murderWilliam and steal his wife. Blessing's only hope is to learn the truth about his "friend" before... But this is the realm of the Crow, where the grave is the doorway to the truth. William must walk through it to discover Poe's final secret. Then, and only then, with the help of a dark-winged "Raven," can he return to feed on the human carrion who raped his wife and slaughtered his soul.
At our human limits, when we've gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One.
The Crow.
His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way-and beyond.
Temple of Night
Turn-of-the-century Bangkok is a glittering modern city where high-tech industry and ancient mystery meet. It is a powerhouse of international finance by day ... and a playground of depravity by night. The Klong Toey shantytowns are home to shadowy eroticemporiums, where millionaire celebrities act outtheir darkest sexual fantasies, protected by money, influence, and American diplomacy.
Enter a young American journalist, assigned to expose the latest cover-up. Stephen is about to break he two cardinal rules of journalism: Don't fall in love. And don't get killed....
At our human limits, when we've gone as far as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One.
Immemorially old and inconsolable , he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way-and beyond. On a coal-black night, on a desolate stretch of Arizona highway, two last-chance lovers die badly.
In these, the final, cruelest moments of his earthly existence, Dan Cody watches as the lifeblood of his lady is sucked down by the thirsty desert sands. In an instant , his heart and his redemption have been blown away by a postmodern witch and her sadistic goth-giant companion on their gor-soaked joyride to immortality.
But even as one life ends in pain and anguish for Dan Cody, another begins . He is about to join those chosen to walk beneath the shadow of the Crow's wing. Revenge will be the sole reason for his return; revenge on tow who are speeding into the night in a '49 lamb's-blood Mercury on the fast track to Hell..or Nevada. And thought Kyra Damon and Johnny Church have embraced evil with a zealor's fervor, they underestimate the power of what's pursuing them from beyond the grave-the rough beast that's now slouching toward Vegas with murderous rage in its dead eyes.
A demon named Dren is looking for salvation. Satan's fiery underworld has become a foreign place to him. He feels he is different from the other souls. He's changed over time. He's ready for redemption. But getting out of hell is no easy task. Escaping was the easy part. But now, alone in a world unfamiliar to him, Dren must save a single soul in order to pass on to the heavens above.
Billy is a young hoodlum working for a big-time mobster. Like Dren he has also changed. He wants out of the seedy underworld he calls his home. Just, one more run, one more big payday, and he's finished with it all. He'll, get his cash, grab the woman he loves, and be gone forever. But the mob doesn't look kindly on deserters.
Satan has sent two rogue demons from hell to stop Dren. The mob has hired a conjurer named Nadja to kill Billy. In the end, the two must call on the powers of the Crow to, save them both -- waging a full-scale war on the mobsters of Earth above and the lord of darkness below.
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A Life Worth Remembering "I don't know if I was destined to play this role, but I feel very fortunate to be doing so" -Brandon Lee
We shall never forget and never Forgive. And never, EVER fear.
Fear is for the enemy.
Fear and Bullets.
Many of you may know that it all began when James O'Barr lost his fiancee' to a drunken driver. He was only 18 years old at the time, still too young to have such circumstances laid at one's feet. What began with his pain and loss, eventually culminated in a story that none of us who have been touched by the story shall ever forget. It is a testament to the inevitability of tradgedy, and the ability to overcome it. James began work on the comic in 1981 while stationed at an Army base in Berlin, and he hoped it would help ease some of his grief. However, instead of becoming a catharsis, the project merely rubbed salt in unhealed wounds. In O'Barr's own words: "...all I was doing was intensifying it--I was focusing on all this negativity. As I worked on it, things just got worse and worse, darker and darker. So, it really didn't have the desired effect--I was probably more f*cked up afterwards than before I started." In 1989, the first volume was released by Caliber. However, the sales fell short of the company's expectations, and they cancelled the title. Tundra eventually picked it up 3 years later and finished out the volumes. Later still, the rights would go to the now-defunct Kitchen Sink Press. I was among the many who saw the film first. I have spoken of its power over me already. Shortly after seeing it, I purchased the trade paperback version of the comics. Unlike in previous situations, I had absolutely no problems with the differences between it and the film. Instead, I embraced them. The comic is a bit darker, and reflects O'Barr's mood at the time. One can also see the evolution of his artwork from beginning to end, since its completion took nearly a decade. For those of you out there who have seen only the film, please, by all means I urge you to get the trade paperback (easy now, since its back in print). Buy it, or borrow it from someone who has it if you have to, but read it. Even if you havent read comics for years, or have never even picked one up in your life. Take that step. For as the film can be considered a testament to the life of Brandon Lee, the comic is the pain of James O'Barr, made substance for our purview. Do not deny the possibility of tradgedy, open it up and learn what you have to loose. You may take far less for granted afterwards.
The Crow Written and Illustrated by James O' Barr
Hard-working construction-worker/Car-Repairman Eric and his fiancee' Shelly are brutally killed by a gang of thugs on a Detroit back-road for the simple crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. One year later, Eric reappears as an invincible instrument of vengeance, guided by a talking, ghostly Crow, that apparently only he can see. Guided by this specter, Eric goes on to destroy each and every punk responsible in any way for the death of Shelly and himself.
the story
People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right...
Set in a dark, nightmarish landscape of a dreamland Detroit, rocker Eric Draven and his fiancée Shelly are brutally murdered the night before their wedding by thugs working for the city's crime lord. A year later, the Crow brings Eric's restless soul back from the realm of the dead.
With the crow as his guide and borne by the love for Shelly and the despair and rage for their deaths, Eric embarks on a dark journey to seek revenge and exact brutal, unforgiving justice for his death and the death of the woman he loves.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on, is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
the film
The Crow is a 1994 film adaptation of the comic book of the same name by James O'Barr (who makes a cameo in the film). It was directed by Alex Proyas and starred Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee). The film gained instant notoriety even before its release when Lee was accidentally killed during filming.
Moody, Dark, and filled with pain in every single page, "the Crow" is J. O' Barr's masterwork. In many ways it is quite different from the movie it would later spawn. It is darker, more violent, and filled with less hope. Unlike the film, the Crow is a guide that only Eric can see, and it could be argued that it is a figment of his troubled imagination. A masterpiece that took several years to complete, "The Crow" is a must-have for any serious fans of comics, or of dark-dramas in general. The art is a treasure, as you get to see O'Barr's work advance through the time it took to render these books. It goes from good to excellent, and seeing the progression of an artist's work in this fashion is always something special.
James O'Barr
"After someone very close to me was killed by a drunk driver, I joined the Marines. I just wanted to stop thinking and have some structure in my life. But I was still filled with such rage and frustration that I had to get it out before it destroyed me. One day I just began drawing The Crow; it came pouring out. My character Eric is able to return from the grave because some things just cannot be forgiven; and I believe that there could be a love so strong that it could transcend death, that it could refuse death, and this soul would not rest until it set things right."
"Writing The Crow didn't help at all," he says. "I thought it would be cathartic, but as I drew each page, it made me more self-destructive, if anything. There is pure anger on each page, little murders. I was more messed up by the time I was done with the book. There was a rumor going around when there was a delay between the third and fourth issue that I had committed suicide. I was annoyed by that, because God's had his elbow on my neck for this long, I feel I can stick it out. I'm not ready to put a period on that sentence yet."
One day you are going to lose everything you have. Nothing will prepare you for that day. Not faith... not religion... nothing. When someone you love dies, you will know emptiness... you will know what it is to be completely and utterly alone. You will never forget and never ever forgive... ...so, if anything, at least take this lesson from The Crow: think about what you have to lose. If you are someone who has nothing to lose, then you are already here... and your lesson is a much more difficult one.
-- John Bergin, from the Introduction to The Crow --
A year ago... A cold October night...
A broken down car on a dirt road...
A man... a girl... maddness... pain... and the shadows...
my god, the shadows...
__________
FEAR
He screams and screams and pounds his head
against the wall until wailing phantom firetrucks
paces across his vision.
Pain, pain is all he wants.
And hate, yes hate.
We shall never forget and never forgive.
And never ever fear.
Fear is for the enemy.
Fear and Bullets.
__________
IRONY
The tides of sin draw tighter and brighter,
The hours become heavier and weighted,
And the shadows smile, dark and wild.
This is when hope and desire collapse,
The arc of the dream descends into despair,
When innocent lovers dance
Like angels on fire.
This is when the night comes down,
A hammer on an anvil,
And the only absolution accepted
Is a legacy of brutality.
A single note rings on and on and on.
__________
DESPAIR
Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles long
Coiled, one thousand miles deep
Eyes like candy, it has eyes like candy
Hard and blue, but soft as kittens feet
Out of sight or in the element of light
It could be a devil, it could be an angel
With spiders inside a vision from hell
Its spine is a vertical scream
Slow as concrete, blurred as a dream
It spins round and down on an axis of atrocity
Fueled by inertia, depth, radius, and velocity,
Its soul - a twisted wreckage of despair and pain
And the spiders inside are just praying for rain
Killing time killing time
And praying for rain
One thousand miles deep
__________
DEATH
It's not death if you refuse It...
It is if you accept It.
James O'Barr conceptualized The Crow in the early '80s as a response to a personal tragedy. A self-taught artist, O'Barr first began the series while in the Marines stationed in Germany, where he was on loan to the Army illustrating hand-to-hand combat manuals. Inspired by such diverse sources as the works of French poets George Bataille and Anton Artaud, the music of punk artists Ian Curtis and Iggy Pop, and the stories of Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe, James O'Barr conceived the character of The Crow as a supernatural force driven by equal parts of love and revenge.O'Barr credits his distinctive visual style to studying classical Renaissance sculpture, film noir, and his two years of medical training. He currently lives in the Detroit area where he is working on a new graphic novel and screenplay entitled Gothik (to be made into a feature film produced by Jeff Most).
J.Obarr Presents:
The Crow (1991/Series1)
Based on the story of Eric Draven
This is the story of a young man named Eric who along with his fiancè, Shelley is murdered on an abandoned road, by a gang of junkies, led by T-Bird. Due to the pain suffered by their souls, Eric is sent back to put the wrong things right. This is the ultimate 'The Crow' comic, as it is the one that started it all. It is a real sinister dark adaptation and overall the best Crow comic you'll ever encounter.
The Crow Created By:James O'Barr
J.Obarr Presents:
The Crow:Author's Edition #0 (1999)
This is James O'barr's first ever author edition to The Crow. It features 48 pages of all new stories and art by James O'barr,Alexander Maleev, Charles Adlard, Phil Hester, M.A Castrillo, Christopehr Golden, John Wagner, Jerry Prosser, and James Vance. It also includes a promo picture of the next O'barr Crow series.
Contents
"The Crow and October"-Script and Art by J.O'barr
"Shadowplay"-by J.O'barr
Dead Time:"Spirit Guide"-Script:John Wagner and Art:Alexander Maleev
"She Smiles In Pain And Glory"-by:J.O'barr
Flesh and Blood:"Pick Your Nightmare"-Script:James Vance and Art:A.M Castrillo
"Spine Of The Snake"-by:J.O'barr
Wild Justice:Prologue-Script:Jerry Prosser and Art:Charles Adlard
Waking Nightmares:"Ghosts"-Script:Christopher Golden and Art:Phil Hester
"Three Dreams from The Book of Dreams"-by:J.O'barr
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Hey i just found out that The Crow Innocence is the name for The Crow
Remake for me being a huge Crow Fan i am not going to watch it because
Stephen Norrington is going to direct the movie and Jason Statham is
going to play as Eric Draven and Stephen Norrington thinks all movies
suck and thinks he can make the movies better that fag has no heart and
no soul so this crow remake is going to suck i hope no one watches is
if they do the are not true fans of the movie or the comic book.
thanks for the add and our friendship too as a fan of the crow and nickname is crow i thank u tons and also u made my top 40 cause u love the crow as much as i do love in vein your new friend crow
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