The Crow - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of The Crow or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Crow

[harry]

James O'Barr: (at around 32 mins) stealing a TV set after Gideon's shop was blown up.

[ivan]

T-Bird's final words are from Book IV of John 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: abash the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape, how lovely. Saw and pinned his loss, but chiefly to find here observed his luster visibly impaired, yet seemed"

[francisco]

The song "A Grave Mistake" from the American metal band Ice Nine Kills is based on the story of this film. The song comes from "The Silver Scream", the band's fifth album. Each song on the record comes from a different horror film or franchise.

[jessie]

In his bluray commentary, Alex Proyas said that Brandon Lee was unhappy with the way his face paint looked when the makeup department applied it to him before shooting. Lee and Proyas then agreed that it would look best if Lee applied his own makeup every night before going to bed so that when he woke up his face paint would naturally look more worn out.

[kristen]

Laurence Mason worked with stunt coordinator Jeff Imada to learn real-life knife-fighting moves in order to play Tin Tin.

[russell]

First theatrical motion picture Alex Proyas directed.

[linda]

According to Empire Magazine, cocaine abuse was rampant on set, with cameramen shooting whilst high, crew going into the toilets to snort between shots, and people cutting around. One crew member recalls hearing the sound of a sneeze on the set one day, and an annoyed Brandon Lee quipping "someone just lost $50."

[javier]

Cameron Diaz was offered the role of Shelly, but turned it down because she didn't like the script.

[clayton]

The final battle scene has several similarities with the one in Beauty and the Beast (1991). Both take place on a rooftop during a rainstorm, involve an object from the rooftop being used as a weapon, and end with the hero being stabbed, followed by the villain falling to his death.

[ethel]

During the first day of shooting in Wilmington, North Carolina, a carpenter suffered severe burns after his crane hit live power lines. On subsequent days, a grip truck caught fire, a disgruntled sculptor crashed his car through the studio's plaster shop, and a crew member accidentally drove a screwdriver through his hand.

[violet]

(at around 58 mins) The incendiary device which Eric drops in T-Bird's lap is a white phosphorous grenade. When it detonates it burns at 2500 degrees Fahrenheit.

[ethel]

The final rooftop confrontation between Eric and Top Dollar was shot not on the roof of a church, but on modular pieces, sitting on the soundstage floor, that were made to look like a gothic cathedral.

[ella]

The following scenes were completed after Brandon Lee's death: Draven first enters the apartment after digging himself out of his grave: footage of Lee walking through an alley in the rain was digitally composed into the scene where he walks through the doorway. Computer technology added drops of water to the door frame to make the water on his back not seem out of place. The shot of Draven falling from the window was made by digitally composing Lee's face (complete with simulated blood) onto a body double. The scene where Draven puts on his make-up was filmed using a double. The face in the smashed mirror was Lee's, computer-altered to fit the shards. The image of Draven walking towards the window with the crow on his shoulder was a double with Lee's face added during lightning flashes. When Sarah visits the apartment, we never see Draven's face as it is a double.

[fred]

James O'Barr stated on "The Crow" DVD that when he met the movie's executives, they originally wanted to make this a musical staring Michael Jackson. He immediately laughed uncontrollably thinking it was a joke, only to find that they were quite serious. It was only until Brandon Lee and Alex Proyas came on board that the movie took a more serious role.

[kyle]

The phrase "it can't rain all the time" is inspired by an encounter that writer James O'Barr had as a teen. While living in Shephard, MI prior to enlisting in the Marines, the down on his luck O'Barr found himself unable to pay for groceries. Frustrated, he decided to buy just the rice, to which the man in line behind him stated, "you can't eat rice all the time," while paying for O'Barr's groceries. The man turned out to be Lee Coughlin, the mayor of Shephard himself, and is also the basis for the character Albrecht.

[bessie]

In 2005, 12 years after the accidental shooting of Brandon Lee, Michael Massee (who fired the gun) claimed to still have nightmares of the incident.

[sophie]

Some mythologists consider Eric Draven to be an avatar of Odin, the wise Norse god who had two crows (Huginn and Muninn) who kept him informed on the news of the world.

[clayton]

David J. Schow: (at around 1h 13 mins) the writer is one of the first men to get killed during the boardroom fight. You see him fall and then abruptly disappear under the table.