The Most Tragic Comic I've Ever Read | The Crow

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  @IntotheDepths511 · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  I want to apologize for the resolution. I uploaded this vid incorrectly.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn956UY7DOM&amp;t=206">3:26</a> Disaffected<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn956UY7DOM&amp;t=2730">45:30</a> *750,000 copies world wide. Not 750.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn956UY7DOM&amp;t=2123">35:23</a> It’s Alex Proyas. Not Pyros.

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  @20th_century_relics · 3 years ago

  The reason that The Crow film is so iconic is because it captured Zeitgeist. Between the death of Brandon Lee, who died during filming, and the death of Kurt Cobain a month before its release, it branded itself into the consciousness of the culture. The soundtrack of the film connected these events with much of it being filled with the contemporary rock of the time. The fact that Brandon Lee&apos;s father, the legendary Bruce Lee, also died whilst filming a movie and O&apos;Barr&apos;s tragedy that created The Crow only makes it all feel inevitable, like a dark twist of fate somehow.

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  @maoribrotha53 · 3 years ago

  “Just as The Crow was born from tragedy, tragedy was born from The Crow”. Wow that’s deep.

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  @hdervish2497 · 3 years ago

  I just want to give James OBarr a hug. How much pain can one person take?

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  @doublestarships646 · 3 years ago

  I feel like I reopened a wound seeing Brandon Lee and realizing again how much of a career he could have had. The film and his acting was something his dad would have been immensely proud of.

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  @professionalhimbo · 3 years ago (edited)

  God man hearing the story about O&apos;barr&apos;s fiance hit me in the throat. I lost someone special to a drunk driver years back too, and it took me years and years to just... deal with the hurt, and rage, and guilt that had wrapped around my heart and throat, slowly choking the life out of me.

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  @ameer781 · 2 years ago

  I lost my girl last year. A woman who taught me to love again. I have so much pain and anger and sadness. I lost my dad the year before and then my cousin the same year. I&apos;m numb and I&apos;ve always loved the crow and now see it in a whole new light. This truly is a work of art.

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  @AshtonRogers-se1zj · 3 years ago

  This is always the comic that I point to as an example of an emotionally mature and beautiful story told through the medium of comics. Cuz even in a world that derives so many films and television shows directly FROM comics,they are still treated as though they are specifically for children.

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  @Emp6ft10in · 2 years ago

  It reminds me of Anne Rice&apos;s work in, &quot;Interview with the Vampire.&quot; She wrote that book to handle the grief of her 5-year-old daughter dying from cancer.

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  @dylanthewmusic · 3 years ago

  I remember a long time ago, I don’t remember exactly how old I was probably around 12 or 13, but one of my friends was over and my father came home drunk with my mom. He ended up getting in a shouting match with my older brother and my mom. I’ve never seen him that angry and drunk before. <br><br>It got to a point where my mom took my friend home, my brother over to his friend’s house, and my mom stayed at my grandmother’s house. <br>And I was stuck staying at my house, my dad passed out drunk, but I could still feel an angry energy radiating off of him. I fell asleep upstairs in my room feeling nothing but disappointment, embarrassment, and sadness towards what was happening that night.<br><br>The next morning I stayed upstairs in my room and I was flipping through the channels on tv and landed on G4. They did a thing called “Movies That Don’t Suck”. The movie that played? The Crow. <br>I remember really connecting with the dark aesthetic with my current situation, Brandon Lee’s performance coupled with the beautiful story struck a huge chord with me, especially with me just starting out playing guitar and seeing Eric play guitar on the rooftop and smashing his guitar. I felt all the emotion in that scene. <br><br>Soon after the movie was over, my dad knocked on my door and walked in. He sobered up, sat next to me, tears in his eyes and apologized. I wanted him to apologize to my brother mainly, but I could tell how sorrowful he was to me. He couldn’t face my brother so I forgave him for what happened. <br><br>The Crow really has a poignant meaning to me and I feel a great sense of catharsis and love any time I watch it.

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  @alleahsasseville · 3 years ago (edited)

  I met James a few years ago, it was such an honor (I have a Brandon Lee Crow tattoo), and him talking about his story, he was so sad. The pain was still with him, and you could feel the sadness in the room.

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  @NelsonStJames · 3 years ago

  The Crow is one of those works that is becoming very rare today, because not only has art become simply another hustle for many, but the culture is increasingly condemning people using art as a means of catharsis and individual expression. &nbsp;The ability for people to exorcise their demons through art has probably saved the world from more monsters than we&apos;ll ever know, &nbsp;but now it seems society would rather have those monsters.

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