The Crow: The First Hunt

I don't know if you've seen The Crow or not but this is a dark little gem that needs to be on your list of movies to watch. Or watch again.

Starring the late Brandon Lee (yes, son of legendary martial artist Bruce Lee) as the main character, or anti-hero, Eric Draven, who died during the making of the movie after being shot by an improperly loaded prop gun.

The film was released after Lee's death, becoming both a commercial as well as a critical success and was based on the comic book series by James O'Barr, which was published in 1989 to much critical acclaim.And the music! The soundtrack was amazing and worked perfectly with the story in my opinion.

The movie is about the revenge Draven seeks after being resurrected by a supernatural crow a year after his own death (on Halloween no less) trying to save his fiancée Shelly (played by Sofia Shinas) during her fatal attack in their shared apartment at the hands of a gang of criminals. The crow seems to help Draven and guide him during his hunt for the thugs that killed his girlfriend and himself.

The clip below can best be described as dark and moody as a revenge-filled Draven dons make-up and with his crow as a companion (almost like his eyes) discovers the first one of the gang, Tin-Tin (Laurence Mason) and exacts some retribution.

"Victims. Aren't we all."

This clip was posted by JoBlo Action 4K and uploaded about a week ago. Felt I had to blog about it as I saw the movie when it was originally released and felt compelled to share.

You can see the some of what Heath Ledger acheived with his own interpretation of his Joker persona was likely based somewhat on Brandon Lee's portrayal in The Crow.

Not to take anything away from Ledger's Joker in 2008's "The Dark Knight" but you can see the similarities, can't you?

And for all you conspiracy theorists both died at 28 shortly after making these movies. Both did amazing work.