Written by Mr. Mouseburger 13th Sep 2005
It is Devils night and T-Bird has gathered his cronies to evict a particularly troublesome young lady. Not wanting to waste such a good opportunity, the group are in the process of gang raping Shelley (q.v.) when her boyfriend, local rock star Eric Draven, returns home.
Draven is completely unprepared for this gang and, before he can react, Tin Tin (q.v.) throws one of his knives into Draven's chest. Lying on the floor in agony, Draven manages to remove the knife, only for two of the gang lift him up by the arms where he is shot twice by T-Bird (q.v.) and then by Fun Boy(q.v.), before being unceremoniously thrown out of the penthouse window.
Montage of Draven's torture and death
This is the start of the film, and it is no surprise that Brandon will be back to reek bloody vengeance on this scum because, as the narrator tells us "sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it [the soul] and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right."
The death is a fairly mainstream “evil gang torture-and-torment-fest” to really justify the incredibly gruesome ways the gang will get dispatched later in the film.
As I said earlier with Alex Murphy, since Draven does not come back as the same entity, Would this not count as "Reincarnation"?
p.s. Thanks for the link help!
I would say that Ressurection is more appropriate in this case.
He is, literally, returning from the grave, in the same body... he is just a little... different!!
Good ol' Murph essentially has a new body, and a new mind.
I love The Crow... powerful film.
No Draven is not reincarnated as he still has all his memories from his previous life and still inhabits the same being. He is resurrected one year later.
Re incarnation is when you die as the person you are and return as another person/animal. for example there are a few films where a man dies and comes back as a woman, or inhabits the family pet etc. These would be reincarnation