This movie came out a year after I had to stand between the coffins of my younger brother and little sister. This one hit hard, and more so with the loss of Brandon while filming it.
An absolute tragedy that we lost Brandon Lee during the making of this. He could’ve been a great talent like his father. No remake will ever duplicate the original Crow with Brandon Lee. It can’t rain all the time - RIP Brandon Lee
I am going to go with, he was a great talent, just a shame his story got cut short. And I agree whole-heartedly, while I get the appeal of doing remakes, some movies just should not be redone, and this is one of those.
As much of a fan of Both Brandon and Bruce i will have to say that this movie isn't exactly a true rendition of the story "The Crow" which is based on a Graphic novel series of the same name. The remake coming out actually looks to be following the story a little closer if I'm being honest, with that said this is still one of my favorite movies of all time but I'll gladly watch this new one with no bias.
Note that everything Eric picked up were from his life. Tin-Tin was wearing his jacket(as shown on the hangmans joke poster), the guitar (rock &roll boyfriend), the ring of course and finishing an unfinished guitar riff. He was disconnecting all connections to his previous life (destroying all old pictures, the guitar and whatnot). Only after making all guilty parties CONFESS did he end them. Truly a Gothic tale....
I never knew that. Thanks for sharing. Too bad Bruce and Brandon passed away too soon. I love Bruce Lee movie they made of him in the 90s. Michael Massee that killed Brandon by accident quit acting for a while because he felt so bad of his death. Michael was an amazing actor as well. R.I.P. to him as well
@@MaryCherryOfficialSomeone at work told me Brandon died. When I got home, I watched the news to confirm - obviously this was before smart phones. It cut me deeply for reasons I don’t want to get into but, for a while, I sat in delusion thinking it was the worst April Fool’s joke (Brandon died March 31st) or some movie marketing in poor taste. Of course, it was true and I’ve never been the same since. “[Dad] said, childhood’s over the day you know you’re gonna die,” has a kind of symmetry for how I felt that day. RIP Brandon.
Michael Massey never fully recovered from the guilt he felt in shooting Brandon, where it was totally NOT his fault in any way. He carried that guilt all his life and it ate him up. Poor man.
@Zodiac_Mack die hard with a vengeance was originally a script called Simon says and it was written for Brandon. Wachowskis wanted Brandon for neo when they first started writing Matrix. I think Lee was considered for Johnny Cage as well
That is not true. 1. The Movie the Wraith came out, THAT is what is this story, as a movie is based on. This came out in 1996. 2. After The Wraith came out. The Graphic Novel came out in 1989, though it was developed from 1987-1989. This was based on the movie The Wraith. 3. Once Alex Proyas took became director of The Crow, THAT is when the story you told was melded into the movie. The Graphic novel had nothing to do with a Drunk Driver, Alex Proyas is who lost a love one and did what he did for the Movie. This movie is what is to The Wraith is to what Shawshank Redemption is to Escape From Alcatraz.....
@@WillMuny That is complete bullshit. James O'Barr has said many times he wrote the graphic novel as a way to cope with the death of his girlfriend by drunk driver. It's literally in the intro of the collected graphic novel that came out before the movie. This also came out in 1994, not 1996.
The people wearing black, growing their hair long and painting their faces were already a thing so well-established that this film found a solid following.
@shoujahatsumetsu yeah, the goth scene was well established by this time. I saw this opening night, and the sea of black outfits was massive, but oh it was such a fantastic and magical viewing.
There's actually a cinematic connection between The Crow and The Matrix. Stuntman (and future John Wick director) Chad Stahelski worked as Brandon Lee's body double on The Crow. After Lee's tragic on-set death, they used CGI to overlay Lee's face onto Stahelski's body for the remaining shots that needed to be filmed. Stahelski would later be Keanu Reeves' stunt double on The Matrix films and even has a small on-screen role in The Matrix Resurrections as "Chad".
We were all doing that just hearing that the movie was being made and that it was Brandon Lee... It was hard to wait so long to watch it. But yeah, after it came out there was a surge.
"Why was there a freeze shot?" I don't know if there's every been talks about it, but that entire shot with the slow-mo and the music ending with the freeze frame has always felt like a "in loving memory of Brandon Lee" type of moment to me.
Allegedly, The Matrix was written for Brandon and was almost scrapped when he died. He was also signed on for Mortal Kombat. The cool shit he was gonna do…
The Quote Eric said as he entered the Pawn Shop; "Suddenly I heard a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping on my chamber door." Is from Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven.
Perfect 90's vibe. Killer soundtrack. Brandon Lee quote during the making: "Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And, yet it all seems limitless." ❤
Also I could be wrong, but isn't the mask a death mask, probably from a day of the dead celebration. Represents when someone died and you put a mask on the shrouded corpse?
Generally speaking, the character was an artsy guy. Frontman for a band and a showman. He was being intentionally dramatic in the way only a musical theatre kid would.
T-Bird's death was always so impactful to me. Because of all the evil dudes, he was the most normal. For him, it was just a job. A way to make some cash. He didn't believe in anything but the world he existed in and didn't believe in the afterlife. So seeing Eric come back he realizes there is an afterlife, and the weight of his sins means he's not going to a happy eternity when he dies. He knows that, and that's why he panics and denies what's happening.
I enjoyed how the very poem he mocked while he was killing Eric and Shelly is what he's quoting when he's scared out of his mind knowing he's about to die.
The girl who played Sarah is a friend of mine. With the tragic passing of Brandon, she was so emotionally affected that she quit acting. I've been trying to help her get back into it by bringing her scripts. Unfortunately nothing has cought her fancy yet, but I'm glad she's open to trying. The cop character is played by an actor with whom I've worked. I miss the conversations we had at the crafts table between takes. Oh, and the sound engineer for the amazing soundtrack was my audio professor when I was in film school. This is such a great movie.
Even if she never acts again she can feel good knowing that she gave an amazing performance in this movie that a lot of people love despite the tragic accident. She really gives the movie heart. “Can’t rain all the time” ❤
This is one of my favorite movies, and her performance is a big part of it. But I also can't blame her for being affected so strongly. It was a freak accident, but the loss was pretty massive and tragic. And that was her first production. I would probably have stepped away from it, too.
Please give Rochelle a big hug, it maybe from some stranger on the internet, but it is heartfelt. I was 15 when the fim premiered, i was amazed when i got out of the theater. It remains one of my favourite movies to this day, i whatch it one or two times a year. Cheers to you.
I met Rochelle a few years back. She came to a horror/movie con in our little town in Virginia. Super gracious and talked movies with a bunch of us nerds. One of the few autographs I've ever gotten.
I wouldn't say he repents because it comes not from a place of redemption, but pure fear from realising the dead man walks -- and if that's so, what is in store for him...? But I get what you're saying. "Kind of repents". Abashed the Devil stood....
A fun fact for the movie: While the crow is uninjured, Eric's face paint stays pristine despite the fighting and the rain. When the crow is shot and injured in the church, Eric's face paint washes off in the rain during his fight with Top Dollar (signifying that he was mortal again.)
This is my favourite movie of all time, I watched it once when I was quite young and thought it was a cool film. Then I rediscovered it many years later after my own fiancé was killed when a drunk driver crossed the lines and their vehicles collided, I then found out that the original creator of The Crow also lost his love to a drunk driver, this film has become...something special to me ever since. I really enjoyed your reaction and I'm glad you enjoyed this special film, Thank you for the great video.
After Brandon passed the few shots left for him had a stand in, that stand in was Brandon's stunt double, Chad Stahelski the director of the John Wick movies. The Crow was Chad's first movie as a stunt double and he was picked because he and Brandon both trained together in Martial Arts at the Inosanto Academy, so they knew each other extremely well, Chad therefore knew how Brandon thought and moved. Dan Inosanto was an instructor of Jeet Kun Do at one of Bruce Lee's gyms before Bruce's untimely death, Dan became the main spokesman and historian of Jeet Kun Do. The final shot "For Brandon and Eliza" was for Brandon and his fiancée Eliza Hutton, Brandon passed away on 31st March 1993, they were due to get married on 17th April 1993... I don't know which is more tragic, the film or the facts behind Brandon's passing...
The accident with Brandon happened filming one of the flashback scenes with Funboy. Another failure by whoever was the armorer on set. The actor who played Funboy was so traumatized that he didn’t act again for a while.
Michael Massee, just a few years before he died in 2016, in a rare comment about the incident admitted that he still had nightmares about it and it made it hard for him to sleep.
It actually wasn't the armorer. The firearms specialist had been off the set for several days because the scenes involving 'actual' gunfire had been filmed. So for the last couple of days, the weapons were handled by prop assistants who had no firearms training. Also, the production company had tried to save money by purchasing real bullets and emptying them of powder rather than buying prop bullets. Brandon was killed because the production company wanted to cut corners.
Incorrect. A few years later he was in SEVEN. He kept working and by all accounts he was cordial and professional. But he never got over the guilt despite it was not his fault it happened.
Chad Stahelski Director of John Wick films was the body double of Brandon Lee in this film. That scene after Lee puts on his makeup was Stahelski but with Lee's face CGIed on his face.
'Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door...'
Miss Cherry being an Aussie, I couldn't help but wonder if she caught and understood this reference to The Raven. (Poe originally planned for the poem to be about a crow.) How many people outside the States know who Edgar Allen Poe was, and his significance to literature?
@@bobblethreadgill4463youngs today know Poe like your generation did. Stop the old fart talk. The old farts of your youth years said the same crap and they were wrong. And so are you now talking like an old fart. Break the cycle.
True. Brandon Lee, God rest spirit, died making this movie. The fact a reboot is coming out is an insult to his memory and Lionsgate should be ashamed of themselves!
I don't know if you heard the story of his death but it happened during the scene where he comes back home and is surprised by the gang waiting for him and holding his girlfriend. While appearing early in the film, that was one of the last scenes shot and after his death they reshoot the scene (the one that appears in the movie) with a double and did the remaining shoots with a double and CGI. In the original scene where he died, Funboy shoots him while he's carrying a grocery bag. He was supposed to fall on his face but instead he sat with the back on the wall, looking in pain. They didn't understand immediately this was not part of the shot and when they did, he was taken to the hospital but the piece of bullet tore some blood vessels and he died from internal bleeding. The magnum used by the actor playing Funboy (Michael Massee) shot him with a gun that had been used several hours before to shoot practice live rounds. In the shooting of the real bullets, one was defective and broke apart, a part of it staying lodged in the beginning of the barrel. Later on, when the gun was prepared for the shoot, the responsible for weapons safety made sure all the live bullets were taken off and blanks were used. Now a blank is in fact a cartridge without the bullet attached to it. The cartridge is filled with a little bit of explosive so when you shoot, it still produces the explosion but no bullet comes out. A blank is still something dangerous, because there is the explosion it does produce a shockwave and if you shoot someone at point zero with a blank, you can still do damage. In fact, an actor died when mimicking someone shooting themselves in the head with a gun loaded with blank. Funboy was at a certain distance from Brandon Lee, that wasn't the problem, the problem was that because blanks DO produce explosions, it and the shockwave dislodged the piece of bullet that was stuck in the barrel and this piece penetrated his abdomen doing the injury he would die from. This was a very stupid death, when you verify a gun for safety, you don't just check the chambers, you look through the barrel to see if nothing is in it. This simple check, that takes one second would have alerted that the gun is unsafe and Brandon Lee would still be alive. Terrible tragedy. Actor Michael Massee was obviously very upset by what happened and he stopped acting for at least a year. The performance of Brandon Lee was superb and riveting and I would not be surprised at all if Heath Ledger and Christopher Nolan were inspired to some extant by The Crow when they made The Dark Knight.
This is not entirely dissimilar to Alec Baldwin’s RUST incident (in terms of accidental death on-set), although that one had elements of negligence involved.
@axr7149 no the rust shooting was live rounds. Wasn't supposed to be at all. Someone brought live rounds on set for target practice which is sgsinst safety standards and due to negligence, the guns weren't checked properly. There were live rounds in Alecs gun as well as jensen ackles gun. WHo plays dean on supernatural. It was jensen that was about to film that scene with alec and it could've been him. I watched the court proceedings. The armorer is in prison now because she was negligent.
Thanks! I'd read it was the scene where Fun Boy and Darla were in bed. It's so interesting how many stories, true or not, make the rounds after a tragedy of this caliber.
I met James O'Barr, creator of the original comic, at a convention two years ago and he was a pretty nice guy. He signed my Crow blu-ray and drew a little halo over Brandon's head on it.
not to be too morbid, but i'm genuinely surprised james o'barr made it through the 90s. in the interviews with him on my old DVD copy of the crow, he seemed...haunted. i'd just kind of assumed he'd long since passed. good to know he's had a life after everything after all.
@@ravenofroses If it's that one interview of him on the DVD, that lasts about a half hour, as he's at a drawing table in a basement, I know exactly what you mean. But yeah, he seemed to be a lot more normal nowadays, and was just a regular guy. Not exactly happy-go-lucky, but decent enough.
@@ravenofroses having read the OG Comics a few years ago while knowing, I am not surprised by him being haunted. The comic might be the most haunting, visceral thing I ever read. You can FEEL so many raw emotions, the sadness, despair and the rage at the unfairness of the world oozing from the pages. I had to take a few breaks because it was almost too much sometimes. This felt like a man kneeling all alone in the rain, screaming and cursing at the heavens for his loss, and knowing what inspired the story, I am happy to hear the man managed to go on with his life despite this tragedy.
This film was proof that the late Brandon Lee could act, and well as having cool fight scenes!!! You feel the pain of his loss, and root for him to avenge his wife's death. RIP Brandon Lee
The film originated as an indie comic book series at a time when indie comics were extremely fringe. It became a legend in its own time and inspired at least 2 generations of comic artists. Eric was originally a zombie, but in the movie, they changed him to a revenant, which made him more of a goth superhero. Michael Wincott is Canadian, that's the source of his accent. Bai Ling is Chinese, so that's the source of hers. I had Goth friends in the 90s and this movie was practically sacred, the soundtrack especially. As much as the film's presence stands out in mainstream, the underground presence it has is so vast that it might as well be the underground's very shadow.
It's actually funny that you should mention Joker and Gotham vibes. Because this movie was one of the influences for The Batman. This was an incredible movie. So dark, cool, and emotional. And yes, the villains are incestuous half siblings.
Detroit has a years long tradition known as Devil's Night hundreds of fires are set Oct. 30 resulting in terrible property damage and sometimes deaths.
Brandon Lee was going to be a star. His performance here is sensational. The sadness in his voice, the (occasionally) dead eyes., yet the moments of tenderness with Sarah, and the flashbacks with Shelly...
In case you haven't picked up on this - this is Detroit. In the scene where they are swallowing bulets, T-Bird calls his gang "Motor City Motherfuckers"
Thank you! No one picks up on it. It’s a quintessentially Detroit story. James O’Barr (the author of the graphic novel on which the film is based) is from Detroit, as am I. I met him at a convention and we talked about the city and its rebirth (which has been ongoing for years now) for a while. It was fun! But reactors always miss that hint (and the Devil’s Night reference).
so the underplot for this movie: the bad guys are blowing up buildings / business so top dollar can buy up the condemned properties. he rebuilds the buildings, then leases them out for a HUGE markup- because there's nowhere else in that part of the city. this has been going on for awhile, because by the movie's start top dollar pretty much owns the section of the city where this movie takes place. what got shelly and eric killed: shelly tried to organize a protest for what was happening in that neighborhood / block [top dollar forcing people out]. to keep her quiet, top dollar sent his boys to scare shelly into silence. problem is, they took it too far. this is why top dollar [in a way] was sincere in his apology to eric at the movie's climax. it's also inferred top dollar had pull with the cops. this explains why ernie hudson's character was demoted to a low level patrolman, from a detective, after asking too many questions. it's also why the lead detective put him on suspension after hudson's character didn't share what he knew.
I still remember exactly where I was when I heard the news that Brandon Lee had died. It's funny that you asked if they were in Seattle, due to the rain, because Brandon is buried next to his father in downtown Seattle. I live about 90 minutes north and have visited the grave a couple of times.
- Passed at 28, just barely making it out of the "27 club". Imagine how many great movie roles we might have had with Brandon Lee. Similar to his father who died at 32, who was an absolute legend already at a young age and could have made so many epic movies for decades. "Dragon The Bruce Lee Story" is a good dramatized movie about his life if you haven't seen it.
The soundtrack to this movie is a banger. Grunge and heavy metal all day! I also enjoyed Ernie Hudson in this. And you singing Black Betty made me giggle a little 🤣 Sadly, Brandon Lee never got to see his good work.
Alex Proyas made another great (though slightly less well known) movie called Dark City - definitely worth a watch, though I would recommend seeking out the director’s cut as the theatrical version opens with a VO that spoils a major plot point.
If you liked this movie, Mary, Alex Proyas also directed Dark City with Rufus Sewell and Jennifer Connelly starring, as well as William Hurt. It’s very dystopian but it has the same dark & gritty style as The Crow.
I’m sure someone will mention this as well, but… It’s more clear in the comic. His immortality/healing was connected to his vengeance on the crew. Once Skank was taken care of, vengeance was resolved as far as he knew and was vulnerable again. When Top Dollar reveals he was responsible for the sweep and clear, vengeance was incomplete again and could regain some strength and healing on the rooftop. After that, he was vulnerable once again and returned to his grave.
There's also that deleted scene with the Skull Cowboy. If I recall, he basically warns Eric not to enter the church because he broke with his mission as soon as he intervened to reunite Darla and Sarah. Eric's hands are done in makeshift bandages with electric tape only after a dying Funboy swiped at them with a razor, giving a visual clue that Eric's healing powers were fading.
This film define my teenage years in the 90s. I had the graphic novel even saved up money to buy a leather long coat. I still have the coat after 30 yrs.
I never thought of this as a horror movie. It is more of a revenge thriller/dark superhero movie. Kind of like Spawn, Watchmen, Kick Ass, Darkman, Blade, Constantine, etc. Also, how in the world are you wearing a fur coat right now? It is 90+ F (32 C) here in the desert right now.
Mary I'm 4 weeks late commenting but hope you learn about Brandon's father the legendary Bruce Lee and watch at least his movie Enter The Dragon 1973 his last film. Also really suggest the movie Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story 1993 Staring actor Jason Scott Lee but not actually related to Bruce. The movie is emotionally moving.
17:20 - "Are you a ghost?" I dunno, Winston: get out your spare PKE meter, and grab your proton pack outta the closet. Maybe call Egon for backup, just in case! ;)
This movie is the perfect example of how Hollywood is crap now. There is no way whatsoever this should ever get remade. Who in their right mind is going to think anyone is better for the role than Brandon? Ernie Hudson was perfect. Every bad guy was superb in their role. The little girl did great, even her raspy voice was perfect for the rainy, dark setting. All they want to do is bring back old franchises for name recognition, make poor live action out of great cartoons, use the rationale of a multiverse to use lazy storytelling, and remake absolute classics like this for some stupid reason. So little original storytelling now. It's absolutely pathetic.
Where was Brandon Lee killed? During the "Funboy scene (Funboy was Michael Massee). It SERIOUSLY effed the guy up in guilt. There's stories that a round (maybe a blank, maybe a real bullet) weas left in the chamber and the next load pushed it out and that's what killed him... The director destroyed that take of the scene once the court case was done.
30:03 --- The blind witch shows up in Crow II - City of Angels... But seriously stop at the second movie. The rest were TERRIBLE.. What people forgot about The Crow, is each story is about another returned soul.. Another Crow getting justice. Critics shit all over the next movie because they thought it was a cash grab and "how could you do it with a different actor, etc etc.." -- The graphic novels ALWAYS had a different returned soul.
This movie was my favourite film through the majority of my youth probably up until The Avengers, but I absolutely love Brandon Lee he was my favourite actor for the longest time and is still in my head one of the best. He could have been truly something remarkable as he had a kind of Charisma and Presence you do not typically see too often. My favourite line in films is still "He was already dead, he died a year ago the moment he touched her. They are all dead, they just don't know it yet."
I watch this movie every year on Devil's Night. One of my top 3 films of all time. This, and the graphic novel it spawned from, are the most raw and personally impacting view on grief, anger, trauma and vengeance I've ever experienced in media.
I love this film; it's one of my favorite movies. It's sad that Brandon is no longer with us, and knowing he was supposed to marry his fiance after filming wrapped just makes it worse. I can't imagine the guilt the film crew had to carry, particularly Michael Masse. The creator of the comic, James O'Barr, befriended Brandon during filming and felt guilty for making the comic, and it was Brandon's fiance, Eliza, that helped him heal from it.
"It can't Rain all the time" 🕯️☯️🕯️🙏 I just met Ernie Hudson last weekend at Galexycon aka LT Albren, I asked him about Brandon Lee and he said he was always Kind and Wise Beyond he's year's, RIP🙏❤️
I was in my early 20's when this film was released and it really means a lot to me as a fan of the comic, Brandon himself and the movie. As far as I'm concerned this movie is "holy ground". Any attempt at remaking it is insanely disrespectful and unwanted by anyone other than a production company. No one wants to see the remake or has any interest in it. The Crow is Brandon's film and the character of The Crow will always belong to him.
26:18 Black Betty by RamJam, and the song they used in the movie, After the Flesh by My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult have a surprisingly similar groove. Well spotted!
I really recommend to read the original comic book. It's one of the best story ever written. The whole "Crow" is just surrounded by tragedy and original comic too
A couple other Brandon Lee movies to check out are “Showdown in Little Tokyo” that he costars with Dolph Lundgren and “Rapid Fire”. He was destined to be a big action star. They originally had a mask made up that looked like Brandon that the stunt guys wore and they tried to finish it with the mask but ended up destroying the mask cause it was creeping everyone out. The poor actor who pulled the trigger never got over it. He took a year off of making movies because he was so traumatized by the shooting and up till his death in 2016 had never seen the movie. It was such a freak accident. The gun wasn’t “cleared” prior to adding a blank to it and the pressure of the blank dislodged in the barrel striking Lee. Of course at the time it was pretty big that the family curse that killed his dad killed him. The actor originally wasn’t supposed to fire a gun at Lee but the director made a change at the last minute. One thing that came from Lee’s death was they became more serious about prop weapons. 5:08 he’s not really a zombie. He’s undead. 7:03 there was a theater mask on the mirror that he reminded him of times with Shelly that was white with black makeup. Lee did the makeup himself cause the makeup department made it look too perfect. 8:55 no witnesses that would come forward. 10:12 I don’t think it’s really defined. I think they’re step siblings or half siblings. One Halloween in the 90s I tried dressing up like Brandon Lee in this but had a bad reaction to the makeup used and had red marks on my face from it. I don’t think I’ll watch the remake. One thing about the remake he reminds me too much of Pennywise and not Draven. 29:00 his crow was injured so it weakened him and took away his invincibility. He said “oh f^*k” because before none of the bullets hurt. The actor that played Funboy was the one that shot Lee and I don’t believe they used the footage of the shot. 31:32 they didn’t shoot it from start to finish.
There's an interview with Brandon Lee about a week before he died, about making this movie, where he talks about how we never know how much time we actually have. It's spooky to think of.
Hi, there was a TV series named "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven" a few years later. I don't know how cheesy it looks by todays standards, but I did enjoy it back then. Some actors were different, Mark Dacasscos played Eric (he was pretty hot too, must I say), and Katie Stuart played Sarah. Darla has a character development too.
He was not seeing the wedding dress through his own memories, but through the cat's (Gabriel) eyes. All these that you see are not his memories, but ones he picks up from people and objects, (The Engagement ring, when he grabs Skank, when he is tying up T-Bird, etc...) AS far as the white and black face makeup, did you see the mask on the upper right side of his mirror? That is where that came from..
You said about is getiing towards the end of the movie and still seeing Brandon so you were wondering when he died during the shoot. It is EXTREMELY rare for a film to be shot in order so he didn't die towards the end of the film in real life, it was during the flashback scenes when he was killed apparently, kind of makes sense that they were filmed last.
Never have i never had the urge to fight Mary Cherry.. but the calling of EMO and the urge to play black betty.... In this epic movie that set Grunge music on the map. The music for the movie was a super important element which made the movie great. It set the mood perfectly. I WILL FIGHT YOU MARY!!! take it back.
I had a similar feeling to that comment. That and the calling nin emo lol lol lol thrill kill cult - after the flesh was perfect backing music for that scene.
Eric is remember things from his life when he touches items or persons that ment a lot to him, and sees what has happened. like seeing through Gabriel's eyes and sees what happened, touching the engagement ring etc. also this movie as one of the best soundtracks ever.
You should watch his father Bruce Lee’s last film *Enter The Dragon* considered by many to be the greatest and most famous martial arts film of all time. 🐲
I love the movie but wish that they had told some of the lore of the Crow. In the books, later movies, comics they did say that Morgan would bring back not only someone whom died but was destined to do something big, ( like change the world somehow and that the balance had to be addressed.
The author, James OBarr wrote /drew the Crow graphic novel as catharsis as he was in pain from the death of his fiance who was killed by a drunk driver.. he wrote a story about love and pain. So many elements of this movie is wrapped in dark beauty. I got to meet James O'Barr and he had such respect for Brandon Lee
This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time not only it’s a classic but it’s a masterpiece and one of Brandon Lee’s best films he’s ever made. RIP Brandon Lee
I love this move it's now such a classic. I remember renting this on vhs when it first came out to watch. First film great the direct sequels give a direct skip. Little interesting fact the wrestler Scott Hall saw this movie and told wrestler Steve Borden to do this makeup to recreate his character and that is how we got the version of Crow Sting
He died in the beginning of the movie when they show them breaking into their apartment. That scene was filmed last, and the original footage was destroyed. Who you see get shot is his stunt man, and when he gets thrown out of the window was also his stunt man but with Brandon's face copy/pasted.
The original release still has the scene where Brandon got shot. Seen it when it came out and still have it on VHS. It was a huge controversy it was left it.
@@nielgregory108 I ask because that never happened. The scene was different in the original. Plus, there is no news story of this controversy of using the original footage.
"Nothing is trivial". Such a great and important line. The film (like many) was not shot in sequence. The scene Lee was unfortunately killed in was not in the final film, and was one of the flashback sequences from their death scene where Funboy shoots Eric. Michael Massee whom played Funboy and unfortunately killed Lee only spoke about the incident on camera once. He never forgave himself and carries the weight of the accident with him every day.
When Eric picks up the cat after resurrection, he sees what the cat sees. When the four break into the apartment, when Shelley is wearing the wedding dress. It also gives Eric pain when he hugs Sarah because he is seeing her memories of Shelley. You can see him tremble a little. He also sees the bad guys memories when he touches them, hence the memory flashes. If you think about it, 3 of the 4 died by what they love. First with knives, second with drugs, third with his car and explosives. The sister with her eyes pecked out, removed. In an interview with Brandon, the director told him since that no one knows what coming back from the dead is like, Brandon could have fun with it. Another movie with Brandon Lee, you might like, Showdown in Little Tokyo.
Still one of my favorite movies, I was about 15 or 16 when it came out and I was obsessed with it for a while, I'd always loved Brandon Lee so I went to see it mostly for him, though I was also a budding little goth so it did have other appeal- just I think I was stunned by how much appeal it wound up having for me. I still have the 'official merch' tank top I got back then, but I lost all my trading cards and the merch silver ring that was engraved with 'true love is forever'. Also still have the original graphic novel that I bought right after seeing the movie, though it is completely falling apart from use and time.
Also Machines Of Loving Grace by Golgotha Tenement Blues (When he kills funboy) Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty (Plays before the explosion just after the year later in the gang's car)
i'm in Seattle and offended by all the rain jokes 🙃 btw, if anyone's interested in visiting Brandon Lee's grave, he's buried here in Seattle next to his super cool dad, Bruce, at Lakeview Cemetery.
This was a fun film. Eric quoted a fair amount from Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "The Raven." 😊 Also, Eric is not a zombie. The proper term is, "revenant." 😈 Clint Eastwood's character was also a revenant, in the film, "High Plains Drifter." The graphic novel drew a lot of inspiration from that story. 😃
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This movie came out a year after I had to stand between the coffins of my younger brother and little sister. This one hit hard, and more so with the loss of Brandon while filming it.
The actress that played the "sister" is Chinese. They were step-children, not full brother-sister.
Mary they SHOW THE GOD DAMN MASK
Fun fact: My mother has the same name as you.
An absolute tragedy that we lost Brandon Lee during the making of this. He could’ve been a great talent like his father. No remake will ever duplicate the original Crow with Brandon Lee. It can’t rain all the time - RIP Brandon Lee
So young. Absolutely tragic
I am going to go with, he was a great talent, just a shame his story got cut short.
And I agree whole-heartedly, while I get the appeal of doing remakes, some movies just should not be redone, and this is one of those.
He had the acting ability, comic timing, and charisma to be an even star than his father.
As much of a fan of Both Brandon and Bruce i will have to say that this movie isn't exactly a true rendition of the story "The Crow" which is based on a Graphic novel series of the same name. The remake coming out actually looks to be following the story a little closer if I'm being honest, with that said this is still one of my favorite movies of all time but I'll gladly watch this new one with no bias.
@@IAmHavok Seems you're already judging the first one with a bias ;P
Note that everything Eric picked up were from his life. Tin-Tin was wearing his jacket(as shown on the hangmans joke poster), the guitar (rock &roll boyfriend), the ring of course and finishing an unfinished guitar riff. He was disconnecting all connections to his previous life (destroying all old pictures, the guitar and whatnot).
Only after making all guilty parties CONFESS did he end them.
Truly a Gothic tale....
And the last thing he gave up was the pain.
What makes Brandon’s death even more tragic is that he was supposed to get married a few weeks after the film wrapped. 😔🥀
Life imitates art sadly.
I never knew that. Thanks for sharing. Too bad Bruce and Brandon passed away too soon. I love Bruce Lee movie they made of him in the 90s. Michael Massee that killed Brandon by accident quit acting for a while because he felt so bad of his death. Michael was an amazing actor as well. R.I.P. to him as well
Oh my God :(
@@MaryCherryOfficial What we all said back in 1993.
@@MaryCherryOfficialSomeone at work told me Brandon died. When I got home, I watched the news to confirm - obviously this was before smart phones.
It cut me deeply for reasons I don’t want to get into but, for a while, I sat in delusion thinking it was the worst April Fool’s joke (Brandon died March 31st) or some movie marketing in poor taste.
Of course, it was true and I’ve never been the same since.
“[Dad] said, childhood’s over the day you know you’re gonna die,” has a kind of symmetry for how I felt that day.
RIP Brandon.
Michael Massey never fully recovered from the guilt he felt in shooting Brandon, where it was totally NOT his fault in any way. He carried that guilt all his life and it ate him up. Poor man.
I think anyone would have been devastated, It does make you wonder what the next movie would have been and the success that followed,
@@Zodiac_Mack anyone but Alec Baldwin...
@@notmyrealname1730I came here to say the SAME THING... 😢
Massey died of cancer@@Zodiac_Mack
@Zodiac_Mack die hard with a vengeance was originally a script called Simon says and it was written for Brandon. Wachowskis wanted Brandon for neo when they first started writing Matrix. I think Lee was considered for Johnny Cage as well
The source material is a graphic novel. The author wrote and illustrated “The Crow” revenge story after his girlfriend was killed by a drunk driver.
Apparently as he wrote the book it became a curse itself which lead to the movie being difficult to make up to Brandon lee being accidentally killed.
Yup. Met the man some years back, signed my copy of the book.
That is not true.
1. The Movie the Wraith came out, THAT is what is this story, as a movie is based on. This came out in 1996.
2. After The Wraith came out. The Graphic Novel came out in 1989, though it was developed from 1987-1989. This was based on the movie The Wraith.
3. Once Alex Proyas took became director of The Crow, THAT is when the story you told was melded into the movie. The Graphic novel had nothing to do with a Drunk Driver, Alex Proyas is who lost a love one and did what he did for the Movie.
This movie is what is to The Wraith is to what Shawshank Redemption is to Escape From Alcatraz.....
@@WillMuny🤡
@@WillMuny That is complete bullshit. James O'Barr has said many times he wrote the graphic novel as a way to cope with the death of his girlfriend by drunk driver. It's literally in the intro of the collected graphic novel that came out before the movie. This also came out in 1994, not 1996.
Years before The Matrix, this had us all wearing black, growing our hair long, and painting our faces!!
RiP Brandon! 💘💔😢😭😭😭
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!! 👍😎👍
The people wearing black, growing their hair long and painting their faces were already a thing so well-established that this film found a solid following.
@shoujahatsumetsu yeah, the goth scene was well established by this time. I saw this opening night, and the sea of black outfits was massive, but oh it was such a fantastic and magical viewing.
There's actually a cinematic connection between The Crow and The Matrix. Stuntman (and future John Wick director) Chad Stahelski worked as Brandon Lee's body double on The Crow. After Lee's tragic on-set death, they used CGI to overlay Lee's face onto Stahelski's body for the remaining shots that needed to be filmed. Stahelski would later be Keanu Reeves' stunt double on The Matrix films and even has a small on-screen role in The Matrix Resurrections as "Chad".
We were all doing that just hearing that the movie was being made and that it was Brandon Lee... It was hard to wait so long to watch it. But yeah, after it came out there was a surge.
@@glennwelsh9784 Also, the Wachowskis wrote the part of Neo for Brandon Lee.
"Why was there a freeze shot?" I don't know if there's every been talks about it, but that entire shot with the slow-mo and the music ending with the freeze frame has always felt like a "in loving memory of Brandon Lee" type of moment to me.
Allegedly, The Matrix was written for Brandon and was almost scrapped when he died. He was also signed on for Mortal Kombat. The cool shit he was gonna do…
It would have been legendary.
So we potentially may not have had Keanu in his current form, had Brandon lived?
@@ctakitimuKeanu Reeves literally had Speed before the Matrix pal and Later Constantine
I'm sure he would've found something good
@@ctakitimu Hell, he could've been John Wick, Chad Stahelski was Brandon Lee's double and who they used to finish the movie.
I love Keanu, but I would have loved to see a Brandon Lee Neo.
The Quote Eric said as he entered the Pawn Shop;
"Suddenly I heard a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping on my chamber door." Is from Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven.
Close but it's "Suddenly there came a tapping..."
Nevermore
Perfect 90's vibe. Killer soundtrack. Brandon Lee quote during the making: "Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And, yet it all seems limitless." ❤
The quote that is on his grave 🪦
The "caw caw, bang $^%# I'm dead!" line from this movie gets me every time.
Same 😂
i quote that line even now every time someone uses the crow sound or says bang
He learned his weakness
He does the makeup because there’s a mask hanging on the mirror that they owned. It shows up in a flashback too.
Also I could be wrong, but isn't the mask a death mask, probably from a day of the dead celebration. Represents when someone died and you put a mask on the shrouded corpse?
@Yugioh420 - I think it's actually supposed to be an old-school theatrical mask, like the ones you see representing tragedy and comedy.
@@Yugioh420 Mask is of Face of Irony
Generally speaking, the character was an artsy guy. Frontman for a band and a showman. He was being intentionally dramatic in the way only a musical theatre kid would.
I don't even care why he painted his face. Actually i never have questioned Joker's face either..
T-Bird's death was always so impactful to me. Because of all the evil dudes, he was the most normal. For him, it was just a job. A way to make some cash. He didn't believe in anything but the world he existed in and didn't believe in the afterlife. So seeing Eric come back he realizes there is an afterlife, and the weight of his sins means he's not going to a happy eternity when he dies. He knows that, and that's why he panics and denies what's happening.
I enjoyed how the very poem he mocked while he was killing Eric and Shelly is what he's quoting when he's scared out of his mind knowing he's about to die.
The girl who played Sarah is a friend of mine. With the tragic passing of Brandon, she was so emotionally affected that she quit acting. I've been trying to help her get back into it by bringing her scripts. Unfortunately nothing has cought her fancy yet, but I'm glad she's open to trying. The cop character is played by an actor with whom I've worked. I miss the conversations we had at the crafts table between takes. Oh, and the sound engineer for the amazing soundtrack was my audio professor when I was in film school. This is such a great movie.
Even if she never acts again she can feel good knowing that she gave an amazing performance in this movie that a lot of people love despite the tragic accident. She really gives the movie heart. “Can’t rain all the time” ❤
That so cool
This is one of my favorite movies, and her performance is a big part of it. But I also can't blame her for being affected so strongly. It was a freak accident, but the loss was pretty massive and tragic. And that was her first production. I would probably have stepped away from it, too.
Please give Rochelle a big hug, it maybe from some stranger on the internet, but it is heartfelt. I was 15 when the fim premiered, i was amazed when i got out of the theater. It remains one of my favourite movies to this day, i whatch it one or two times a year. Cheers to you.
I met Rochelle a few years back. She came to a horror/movie con in our little town in Virginia. Super gracious and talked movies with a bunch of us nerds. One of the few autographs I've ever gotten.
I actually like that t-bird realises what he’s done in the end and kind of repents. He is scared for his soul when he realises who Eric is…
The actor is magnificent.
I wouldn't say he repents because it comes not from a place of redemption, but pure fear from realising the dead man walks -- and if that's so, what is in store for him...? But I get what you're saying. "Kind of repents". Abashed the Devil stood....
What he is realizing is that there is, in fact, another side. And he realizes he's about to meet his fate on that other side.
This is the best soundtrack of the nineties. The Cure, STP, NIN, Pantera, Rollins Band, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult.🤘
I still have the CD🤘
@@raven.theshape9007 kicking myself for selling it
One of the few times that a cover of a tune IMO is better than the original when NIN covered "Dead Souls" for this movie.
It was dethroned by The Queen of the Damned soundtrack, but is still ranked high.
@@stevealford230 Queen of the Damned was 2002.
A fun fact for the movie: While the crow is uninjured, Eric's face paint stays pristine despite the fighting and the rain. When the crow is shot and injured in the church, Eric's face paint washes off in the rain during his fight with Top Dollar (signifying that he was mortal again.)
This is my favourite movie of all time, I watched it once when I was quite young and thought it was a cool film.
Then I rediscovered it many years later after my own fiancé was killed when a drunk driver crossed the lines and their vehicles collided, I then found out that the original creator of The Crow also lost his love to a drunk driver, this film has become...something special to me ever since. I really enjoyed your reaction and I'm glad you enjoyed this special film, Thank you for the great video.
After Brandon passed the few shots left for him had a stand in, that stand in was Brandon's stunt double, Chad Stahelski the director of the John Wick movies.
The Crow was Chad's first movie as a stunt double and he was picked because he and Brandon both trained together in Martial Arts at the Inosanto Academy, so they knew each other extremely well, Chad therefore knew how Brandon thought and moved.
Dan Inosanto was an instructor of Jeet Kun Do at one of Bruce Lee's gyms before Bruce's untimely death, Dan became the main spokesman and historian of Jeet Kun Do.
The final shot "For Brandon and Eliza" was for Brandon and his fiancée Eliza Hutton, Brandon passed away on 31st March 1993, they were due to get married on 17th April 1993...
I don't know which is more tragic, the film or the facts behind Brandon's passing...
"Mother is the name of God on the lips and hearts of all children."
That one hits me hard, despite not being a religious person.
I have a few favorite quips from this movie that are at the top. That one hit differently. It hit HARD.
Every time, that brings tears to my eyes
Originally by William Thackeray
21:44 _"Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children."_
Really it’s not a quote about religion, but how important mothers are for children, so no surprise
The accident with Brandon happened filming one of the flashback scenes with Funboy. Another failure by whoever was the armorer on set. The actor who played Funboy was so traumatized that he didn’t act again for a while.
Michael Massee, just a few years before he died in 2016, in a rare comment about the incident admitted that he still had nightmares about it and it made it hard for him to sleep.
It actually wasn't the armorer. The firearms specialist had been off the set for several days because the scenes involving 'actual' gunfire had been filmed. So for the last couple of days, the weapons were handled by prop assistants who had no firearms training. Also, the production company had tried to save money by purchasing real bullets and emptying them of powder rather than buying prop bullets. Brandon was killed because the production company wanted to cut corners.
i think he even made therapy because he felt guilty for pulling the trigger.
IIRC, the armorer wasn't on set, because it was the last shot of the day. The whole thing was a chain of fuckups culminating in a tragic accident.
Incorrect. A few years later he was in SEVEN. He kept working and by all accounts he was cordial and professional. But he never got over the guilt despite it was not his fault it happened.
This movie is both haunting and beautiful. I am not ashamed to admit that this movie brings me to tears.
Chad Stahelski Director of John Wick films was the body double of Brandon Lee in this film. That scene after Lee puts on his makeup was Stahelski but with Lee's face CGIed on his face.
He was also Keanu Reeves stunt double in the first Matrix movie.
@@JohnDoe-zr8pc This is also true. :)
The style was Goth not Emo. His face inspiration was from KISS and other 80s/90s Gothic bands
'Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door...'
youngins today propably haven't read Poe.
Miss Cherry being an Aussie, I couldn't help but wonder if she caught and understood this reference to The Raven. (Poe originally planned for the poem to be about a crow.) How many people outside the States know who Edgar Allen Poe was, and his significance to literature?
Quoth the raven “nevermore”
Nevermore I do deplore
@@bobblethreadgill4463youngs today know Poe like your generation did. Stop the old fart talk. The old farts of your youth years said the same crap and they were wrong. And so are you now talking like an old fart. Break the cycle.
RIP Brandon Lee (February 1, 1965 - March 31, 1993), aged 28
You will be remembered as a legend
He can't hear you. It's just another great story that's part of your life.
There is only the original! No other The Crows has or will ever be done!
True. Brandon Lee, God rest spirit, died making this movie. The fact a reboot is coming out is an insult to his memory and Lionsgate should be ashamed of themselves!
Truth
I always thought it was weird that they never made any sequels to The Crow...
Facts i did enjoy the tv series though
So, the comic is the only one then?
10:07 -- Top Dollar's dad married Myca's mom. So though related through marriage, they weren't biological brother and sister...
I don't know if you heard the story of his death but it happened during the scene where he comes back home and is surprised by the gang waiting for him and holding his girlfriend.
While appearing early in the film, that was one of the last scenes shot and after his death they reshoot the scene (the one that appears in the movie) with a double and did the remaining shoots with a double and CGI.
In the original scene where he died, Funboy shoots him while he's carrying a grocery bag. He was supposed to fall on his face but instead he sat with the back on the wall, looking in pain. They didn't understand immediately this was not part of the shot and when they did, he was taken to the hospital but the piece of bullet tore some blood vessels and he died from internal bleeding.
The magnum used by the actor playing Funboy (Michael Massee) shot him with a gun that had been used several hours before to shoot practice live rounds.
In the shooting of the real bullets, one was defective and broke apart, a part of it staying lodged in the beginning of the barrel.
Later on, when the gun was prepared for the shoot, the responsible for weapons safety made sure all the live bullets were taken off and blanks were used.
Now a blank is in fact a cartridge without the bullet attached to it.
The cartridge is filled with a little bit of explosive so when you shoot, it still produces the explosion but no bullet comes out.
A blank is still something dangerous, because there is the explosion it does produce a shockwave and if you shoot someone at point zero with a blank, you can still do damage. In fact, an actor died when mimicking someone shooting themselves in the head with a gun loaded with blank.
Funboy was at a certain distance from Brandon Lee, that wasn't the problem, the problem was that because blanks DO produce explosions, it and the shockwave dislodged the piece of bullet that was stuck in the barrel and this piece penetrated his abdomen doing the injury he would die from.
This was a very stupid death, when you verify a gun for safety, you don't just check the chambers, you look through the barrel to see if nothing is in it.
This simple check, that takes one second would have alerted that the gun is unsafe and Brandon Lee would still be alive.
Terrible tragedy.
Actor Michael Massee was obviously very upset by what happened and he stopped acting for at least a year.
The performance of Brandon Lee was superb and riveting and I would not be surprised at all if Heath Ledger and Christopher Nolan were inspired to some extant by The Crow when they made The Dark Knight.
This is not entirely dissimilar to Alec Baldwin’s RUST incident (in terms of accidental death on-set), although that one had elements of negligence involved.
@axr7149 no the rust shooting was live rounds. Wasn't supposed to be at all. Someone brought live rounds on set for target practice which is sgsinst safety standards and due to negligence, the guns weren't checked properly. There were live rounds in Alecs gun as well as jensen ackles gun. WHo plays dean on supernatural. It was jensen that was about to film that scene with alec and it could've been him. I watched the court proceedings. The armorer is in prison now because she was negligent.
@@susanberrier5727 Oh okay. Thanks for the clarification. Edited my comment above.
R.I.P. to Michael Massee aka Funboy. I love to think that Brandon hugged him in the afterlife and told him that he wasn't to blame. ❤🌹🙏🏽✌🏽
Thanks! I'd read it was the scene where Fun Boy and Darla were in bed. It's so interesting how many stories, true or not, make the rounds after a tragedy of this caliber.
RIP Brandon Lee. May the stars bow before you and your father. 🙏💪
I met James O'Barr, creator of the original comic, at a convention two years ago and he was a pretty nice guy. He signed my Crow blu-ray and drew a little halo over Brandon's head on it.
not to be too morbid, but i'm genuinely surprised james o'barr made it through the 90s. in the interviews with him on my old DVD copy of the crow, he seemed...haunted. i'd just kind of assumed he'd long since passed. good to know he's had a life after everything after all.
@@ravenofroses If it's that one interview of him on the DVD, that lasts about a half hour, as he's at a drawing table in a basement, I know exactly what you mean. But yeah, he seemed to be a lot more normal nowadays, and was just a regular guy. Not exactly happy-go-lucky, but decent enough.
@@Allerka that's the one. it really left an impression on me, heh.
@@ravenofroses having read the OG Comics a few years ago while knowing, I am not surprised by him being haunted. The comic might be the most haunting, visceral thing I ever read. You can FEEL so many raw emotions, the sadness, despair and the rage at the unfairness of the world oozing from the pages. I had to take a few breaks because it was almost too much sometimes.
This felt like a man kneeling all alone in the rain, screaming and cursing at the heavens for his loss, and knowing what inspired the story, I am happy to hear the man managed to go on with his life despite this tragedy.
35:00 -- Michael Massee NEVER overcame the guilt of being the one who fired that shot...
Poor guy
Hahahah
@@jsmithers. If you do not have nothing better to say, then BE QUIET! Troll...
@@Yavanna79 No.
That would be a terrible thing to live with. You’re just doing your job and kill your coworker.
This film was proof that the late Brandon Lee could act, and well as having cool fight scenes!!! You feel the pain of his loss, and root for him to avenge his wife's death. RIP Brandon Lee
The film originated as an indie comic book series at a time when indie comics were extremely fringe. It became a legend in its own time and inspired at least 2 generations of comic artists. Eric was originally a zombie, but in the movie, they changed him to a revenant, which made him more of a goth superhero.
Michael Wincott is Canadian, that's the source of his accent. Bai Ling is Chinese, so that's the source of hers.
I had Goth friends in the 90s and this movie was practically sacred, the soundtrack especially. As much as the film's presence stands out in mainstream, the underground presence it has is so vast that it might as well be the underground's very shadow.
It's actually funny that you should mention Joker and Gotham vibes. Because this movie was one of the influences for The Batman. This was an incredible movie. So dark, cool, and emotional.
And yes, the villains are incestuous half siblings.
Detroit has a years long tradition known as Devil's Night hundreds of fires are set Oct. 30 resulting in terrible property damage and sometimes deaths.
Brandon Lee was going to be a star. His performance here is sensational. The sadness in his voice, the (occasionally) dead eyes., yet the moments of tenderness with Sarah, and the flashbacks with Shelly...
Brandon Lee is a legend because of his portrayal of Eric but he had the biggest potential for more
"He looks great for a zombie."
That's because he's a revenant, not a zombie.
just coming to say this
I was hoping someone would say it.
6:42 She didn’t show herself in the dress to the groom, though. Eric was picking up memories from things he touched-in this case, the cat.
In case you haven't picked up on this - this is Detroit. In the scene where they are swallowing bulets, T-Bird calls his gang "Motor City Motherfuckers"
Thank you! No one picks up on it. It’s a quintessentially Detroit story. James O’Barr (the author of the graphic novel on which the film is based) is from Detroit, as am I. I met him at a convention and we talked about the city and its rebirth (which has been ongoing for years now) for a while. It was fun! But reactors always miss that hint (and the Devil’s Night reference).
I used to live near Detroit and Devil's Night (October 30th) was definitely A Thing, where assholes would set hundreds of fires across the city.
so the underplot for this movie: the bad guys are blowing up buildings / business so top dollar can buy up the condemned properties. he rebuilds the buildings, then leases them out for a HUGE markup- because there's nowhere else in that part of the city. this has been going on for awhile, because by the movie's start top dollar pretty much owns the section of the city where this movie takes place.
what got shelly and eric killed: shelly tried to organize a protest for what was happening in that neighborhood / block [top dollar forcing people out]. to keep her quiet, top dollar sent his boys to scare shelly into silence. problem is, they took it too far. this is why top dollar [in a way] was sincere in his apology to eric at the movie's climax.
it's also inferred top dollar had pull with the cops. this explains why ernie hudson's character was demoted to a low level patrolman, from a detective, after asking too many questions. it's also why the lead detective put him on suspension after hudson's character didn't share what he knew.
The Crow has been one of my favourite movies for nearly 30 years. I was around 15 when I first saw it, it also has one of the best soundtracks too!
I still remember exactly where I was when I heard the news that Brandon Lee had died. It's funny that you asked if they were in Seattle, due to the rain, because Brandon is buried next to his father in downtown Seattle. I live about 90 minutes north and have visited the grave a couple of times.
- Passed at 28, just barely making it out of the "27 club". Imagine how many great movie roles we might have had with Brandon Lee. Similar to his father who died at 32, who was an absolute legend already at a young age and could have made so many epic movies for decades. "Dragon The Bruce Lee Story" is a good dramatized movie about his life if you haven't seen it.
The soundtrack to this movie is a banger. Grunge and heavy metal all day! I also enjoyed Ernie Hudson in this. And you singing Black Betty made me giggle a little 🤣
Sadly, Brandon Lee never got to see his good work.
Alex Proyas made another great (though slightly less well known) movie called Dark City - definitely worth a watch, though I would recommend seeking out the director’s cut as the theatrical version opens with a VO that spoils a major plot point.
Dark City is a must watch!
Dark City was AWESOME. One of my favorite dystopian/Noir films of all time. A definite must watch.
Same. A truly awesome movie.
Love that movie, especially the Director’s Cut.
Saw this as 9 yrs old when it came out. An absolute classic.
If you liked this movie, Mary, Alex Proyas also directed Dark City with Rufus Sewell and Jennifer Connelly starring, as well as William Hurt. It’s very dystopian but it has the same dark & gritty style as The Crow.
BTW - not Emo - emo was very different back than - this is mostly Goth with a capital G with punk and metal thrown in for good measure
The guy that played t-bird also was in the warriors. That was a favorite movies as a kid I still watch whenever I find it on.
"Warriors... come out and pla ay.. ."
And 48 Hours.
I’m sure someone will mention this as well, but…
It’s more clear in the comic. His immortality/healing was connected to his vengeance on the crew. Once Skank was taken care of, vengeance was resolved as far as he knew and was vulnerable again. When Top Dollar reveals he was responsible for the sweep and clear, vengeance was incomplete again and could regain some strength and healing on the rooftop. After that, he was vulnerable once again and returned to his grave.
There's also that deleted scene with the Skull Cowboy. If I recall, he basically warns Eric not to enter the church because he broke with his mission as soon as he intervened to reunite Darla and Sarah. Eric's hands are done in makeshift bandages with electric tape only after a dying Funboy swiped at them with a razor, giving a visual clue that Eric's healing powers were fading.
This film define my teenage years in the 90s. I had the graphic novel even saved up money to buy a leather long coat. I still have the coat after 30 yrs.
I never thought of this as a horror movie. It is more of a revenge thriller/dark superhero movie. Kind of like Spawn, Watchmen, Kick Ass, Darkman, Blade, Constantine, etc.
Also, how in the world are you wearing a fur coat right now? It is 90+ F (32 C) here in the desert right now.
R.I.P Brandon Lee
Mary I'm 4 weeks late commenting but hope you learn about Brandon's father the legendary Bruce Lee and watch at least his movie
Enter The Dragon 1973 his last film. Also really suggest the movie
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story 1993 Staring actor Jason Scott Lee but not actually related to Bruce. The movie is emotionally moving.
the poem is the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe "quote the raven nevermore"
My favorite poem
"Quoth" the Raven Nevermore.”
17:20 - "Are you a ghost?" I dunno, Winston: get out your spare PKE meter, and grab your proton pack outta the closet. Maybe call Egon for backup, just in case! ;)
This movie is the perfect example of how Hollywood is crap now. There is no way whatsoever this should ever get remade. Who in their right mind is going to think anyone is better for the role than Brandon? Ernie Hudson was perfect. Every bad guy was superb in their role. The little girl did great, even her raspy voice was perfect for the rainy, dark setting. All they want to do is bring back old franchises for name recognition, make poor live action out of great cartoons, use the rationale of a multiverse to use lazy storytelling, and remake absolute classics like this for some stupid reason. So little original storytelling now. It's absolutely pathetic.
Where was Brandon Lee killed?
During the "Funboy scene (Funboy was Michael Massee). It SERIOUSLY effed the guy up in guilt.
There's stories that a round (maybe a blank, maybe a real bullet) weas left in the chamber and the next load pushed it out and that's what killed him...
The director destroyed that take of the scene once the court case was done.
30:03 --- The blind witch shows up in Crow II - City of Angels... But seriously stop at the second movie. The rest were TERRIBLE.. What people forgot about The Crow, is each story is about another returned soul.. Another Crow getting justice. Critics shit all over the next movie because they thought it was a cash grab and "how could you do it with a different actor, etc etc.." -- The graphic novels ALWAYS had a different returned soul.
_"The blind witch shows up in Crow II - City of Angels"_
I don't think she's Sybil. She took out her own eyes.
@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps I haven't read the graphic novel but I always assumed it was the same character...
This movie was my favourite film through the majority of my youth probably up until The Avengers, but I absolutely love Brandon Lee he was my favourite actor for the longest time and is still in my head one of the best. He could have been truly something remarkable as he had a kind of Charisma and Presence you do not typically see too often. My favourite line in films is still "He was already dead, he died a year ago the moment he touched her. They are all dead, they just don't know it yet."
I watch this movie every year on Devil's Night. One of my top 3 films of all time.
This, and the graphic novel it spawned from, are the most raw and personally impacting view on grief, anger, trauma and vengeance I've ever experienced in media.
I also watch it on that day, each and every year.
I try to watch it every March 31st. 😢
I love this film; it's one of my favorite movies. It's sad that Brandon is no longer with us, and knowing he was supposed to marry his fiance after filming wrapped just makes it worse. I can't imagine the guilt the film crew had to carry, particularly Michael Masse. The creator of the comic, James O'Barr, befriended Brandon during filming and felt guilty for making the comic, and it was Brandon's fiance, Eliza, that helped him heal from it.
"It can't Rain all the time" 🕯️☯️🕯️🙏 I just met Ernie Hudson last weekend at Galexycon aka LT Albren, I asked him about Brandon Lee and he said he was always Kind and Wise Beyond he's year's, RIP🙏❤️
I was in my early 20's when this film was released and it really means a lot to me as a fan of the comic, Brandon himself and the movie. As far as I'm concerned this movie is "holy ground". Any attempt at remaking it is insanely disrespectful and unwanted by anyone other than a production company. No one wants to see the remake or has any interest in it. The Crow is Brandon's film and the character of The Crow will always belong to him.
17:26 "Are you some kind of ... Ghost?" Because that actor has some experience in that department.
Who you gonna call?
23:50 Get back in there, tear!
26:18 Black Betty by RamJam, and the song they used in the movie, After the Flesh by My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult have a surprisingly similar groove. Well spotted!
I really recommend to read the original comic book. It's one of the best story ever written. The whole "Crow" is just surrounded by tragedy and original comic too
A couple other Brandon Lee movies to check out are “Showdown in Little Tokyo” that he costars with Dolph Lundgren and “Rapid Fire”. He was destined to be a big action star. They originally had a mask made up that looked like Brandon that the stunt guys wore and they tried to finish it with the mask but ended up destroying the mask cause it was creeping everyone out. The poor actor who pulled the trigger never got over it. He took a year off of making movies because he was so traumatized by the shooting and up till his death in 2016 had never seen the movie. It was such a freak accident. The gun wasn’t “cleared” prior to adding a blank to it and the pressure of the blank dislodged in the barrel striking Lee. Of course at the time it was pretty big that the family curse that killed his dad killed him. The actor originally wasn’t supposed to fire a gun at Lee but the director made a change at the last minute. One thing that came from Lee’s death was they became more serious about prop weapons. 5:08 he’s not really a zombie. He’s undead. 7:03 there was a theater mask on the mirror that he reminded him of times with Shelly that was white with black makeup. Lee did the makeup himself cause the makeup department made it look too perfect. 8:55 no witnesses that would come forward. 10:12 I don’t think it’s really defined. I think they’re step siblings or half siblings. One Halloween in the 90s I tried dressing up like Brandon Lee in this but had a bad reaction to the makeup used and had red marks on my face from it. I don’t think I’ll watch the remake. One thing about the remake he reminds me too much of Pennywise and not Draven. 29:00 his crow was injured so it weakened him and took away his invincibility. He said “oh f^*k” because before none of the bullets hurt. The actor that played Funboy was the one that shot Lee and I don’t believe they used the footage of the shot. 31:32 they didn’t shoot it from start to finish.
There's an interview with Brandon Lee about a week before he died, about making this movie, where he talks about how we never know how much time we actually have. It's spooky to think of.
Hi, there was a TV series named "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven" a few years later. I don't know how cheesy it looks by todays standards, but I did enjoy it back then. Some actors were different, Mark Dacasscos played Eric (he was pretty hot too, must I say), and Katie Stuart played Sarah. Darla has a character development too.
He was not seeing the wedding dress through his own memories, but through the cat's (Gabriel) eyes. All these that you see are not his memories, but ones he picks up from people and objects, (The Engagement ring, when he grabs Skank, when he is tying up T-Bird, etc...) AS far as the white and black face makeup, did you see the mask on the upper right side of his mirror? That is where that came from..
You said about is getiing towards the end of the movie and still seeing Brandon so you were wondering when he died during the shoot. It is EXTREMELY rare for a film to be shot in order so he didn't die towards the end of the film in real life, it was during the flashback scenes when he was killed apparently, kind of makes sense that they were filmed last.
Never have i never had the urge to fight Mary Cherry.. but the calling of EMO and the urge to play black betty.... In this epic movie that set Grunge music on the map.
The music for the movie was a super important element which made the movie great. It set the mood perfectly.
I WILL FIGHT YOU MARY!!! take it back.
She’s Australian she’s does not know better.
I had a similar feeling to that comment. That and the calling nin emo lol lol lol thrill kill cult - after the flesh was perfect backing music for that scene.
Eric is remember things from his life when he touches items or persons that ment a lot to him, and sees what has happened. like seeing through Gabriel's eyes and sees what happened, touching the engagement ring etc.
also this movie as one of the best soundtracks ever.
You should watch his father Bruce Lee’s last film *Enter The Dragon* considered by many to be the greatest and most famous martial arts film of all time. 🐲
Might have to put that on my list!
Fists of Fury and The Chinese Connection are two of my favorite Bruce Lee movies. But yeah, Enter the Dragon was one of his best.
@@jrobwoo688 That’s how they were called in the West, but originally as The Big Boss and Fist Of Fury in the East.
I love the movie but wish that they had told some of the lore of the Crow. In the books, later movies, comics they did say that Morgan would bring back not only someone whom died but was destined to do something big, ( like change the world somehow and that the balance had to be addressed.
Honestly this is a fantastic movie and RIP to Brandon lee 🐦⬛🌹😢
The author, James OBarr wrote /drew the Crow graphic novel as catharsis as he was in pain from the death of his fiance who was killed by a drunk driver.. he wrote a story about love and pain. So many elements of this movie is wrapped in dark beauty. I got to meet James O'Barr and he had such respect for Brandon Lee
Met him back in 2015. Back then, the rumor was for a remake Tom Hiddelston.
This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time not only it’s a classic but it’s a masterpiece and one of Brandon Lee’s best films he’s ever made. RIP Brandon Lee
Goth not emo , emo wasn't around yet , great reaction
Yes Finally ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊
I love this move it's now such a classic. I remember renting this on vhs when it first came out to watch. First film great the direct sequels give a direct skip. Little interesting fact the wrestler Scott Hall saw this movie and told wrestler Steve Borden to do this makeup to recreate his character and that is how we got the version of Crow Sting
I noticed when I watched this for the first time about a month ago - this is a clear influence for the dark knight
And the Matrix, and Blade, and Underworld...
What they are calling (Devil's Night) used to be a thing on Halloween. Teenagers were going around Detroit setting cars and dumpsters on fire.
He died in the beginning of the movie when they show them breaking into their apartment. That scene was filmed last, and the original footage was destroyed. Who you see get shot is his stunt man, and when he gets thrown out of the window was also his stunt man but with Brandon's face copy/pasted.
Also the double was used for the shots where Eric was going down the alley gathering clothes with his back to the camera.
The original release still has the scene where Brandon got shot. Seen it when it came out and still have it on VHS. It was a huge controversy it was left it.
@@nielgregory108 And it was the same?
@@nielgregory108 I ask because that never happened. The scene was different in the original. Plus, there is no news story of this controversy of using the original footage.
Ohhh
I wouldn’t call it a horror movie. But it is one of my all time favorites. Amazing soundtrack
Today I learned that Australian band The Jets covered the song Black Betty. I only knew the Ram Jam version.
I learnt it was a cover today too
I prefer the Australian band spiderbait's cover
"Nothing is trivial". Such a great and important line.
The film (like many) was not shot in sequence. The scene Lee was unfortunately killed in was not in the final film, and was one of the flashback sequences from their death scene where Funboy shoots Eric.
Michael Massee whom played Funboy and unfortunately killed Lee only spoke about the incident on camera once. He never forgave himself and carries the weight of the accident with him every day.
When Eric picks up the cat after resurrection, he sees what the cat sees. When the four break into the apartment, when Shelley is wearing the wedding dress. It also gives Eric pain when he hugs Sarah because he is seeing her memories of Shelley. You can see him tremble a little. He also sees the bad guys memories when he touches them, hence the memory flashes. If you think about it, 3 of the 4 died by what they love. First with knives, second with drugs, third with his car and explosives. The sister with her eyes pecked out, removed. In an interview with Brandon, the director told him since that no one knows what coming back from the dead is like, Brandon could have fun with it. Another movie with Brandon Lee, you might like, Showdown in Little Tokyo.
Still one of my favorite movies, I was about 15 or 16 when it came out and I was obsessed with it for a while, I'd always loved Brandon Lee so I went to see it mostly for him, though I was also a budding little goth so it did have other appeal- just I think I was stunned by how much appeal it wound up having for me. I still have the 'official merch' tank top I got back then, but I lost all my trading cards and the merch silver ring that was engraved with 'true love is forever'. Also still have the original graphic novel that I bought right after seeing the movie, though it is completely falling apart from use and time.
Nine Inch Nails cover of Joy Division's song, Dead Souls, is awesome in this soundtrack.
Also Machines Of Loving Grace by Golgotha Tenement Blues (When he kills funboy)
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty (Plays before the explosion just after the year later in the gang's car)
The soundtrack to this film kicks ass.
i'm in Seattle and offended by all the rain jokes 🙃 btw, if anyone's interested in visiting Brandon Lee's grave, he's buried here in Seattle next to his super cool dad, Bruce, at Lakeview Cemetery.
This movie stands alongside TV episodes like "Heart of Ice" that showed me as a child that superhero stories could have real depth to them.
Emo as you know it wasn’t a thing yet, but this was gas on the fire that was the 90’s goth scene.
I clicked on this soooo fast! I watch this movie every year for Halloween. Thank you Mary for a great reaction.
Thank you!!!😄😄
This was a fun film.
Eric quoted a fair amount from Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "The Raven." 😊
Also, Eric is not a zombie.
The proper term is, "revenant." 😈
Clint Eastwood's character was also a revenant, in the film, "High Plains Drifter."
The graphic novel drew a lot of inspiration from that story. 😃