The Crow
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Eric Draven and Shelly Webster, a young couple from Detroit, are brutally murdered. A crow mysteriously brings Eric back to life a year later. Out of love for Shelly, he sets out to find their killers and exact revenge. The filming of The Crow took a tragic turn when a gun accident claimed the life of Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee. The film was nevertheless completed using various techniques to compensate for the loss of the actor.
Alex Proyas
Alex Proyas is an Australian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter, mainly known for his fantasy and science fiction films. He had worked on music videos (for INXS, Fleetwood Mac, and Cutting Crew among others), and on many commercials before directing his first feature film in Australia. This film and his work in the music industry opened the doors of the American film industry for him. He directed the 1994 superhero fantasy thriller The Crow, adapted from the comics of the same name. The film was tainted by the death of Brandon Lee, only eight days before the completion of the shoot. After Lee's death, Proyas and his producers decided to complete the film, partially rewriting the script and using a stunt double and special effects to film the remaining scenes. The film was a critical and commercial success. Alex Proyas is also known for Dark City (1998), I, Robot (2004), and Knowing (2009).
