The crow helps Eric to do
what he has to do in a very practical sense; it leads him
to places where he has to be, it helps him find people he
has to find.
It’s a story about
justice for victims.
His mission is to find the
people who killed himself and his fiancée, and kill
them.
Its a wonderful role, it
really is a role that you can take risks with, and gives
you a wonderful opportunity to take those risks & stretch,
because after all can you tell me how someone who has come
back from the dead will behave.
That is one of the wonderful
things about playing this character, its a real.... you
can really take the gloves off in playing this part because
there are no rules on how a person who has come back from
the dead is going to behave.
There is a part of him that
is filled with rage towards what was done to him. And another
of the things that I like about this movie is that all the
parts of the character are given balance on the screen.
He is torn up really badly, both physically and psychically.
I think the appeal of Eric’s mission is that it is
a very pure one. He has come back to seek justice.
I have done other films
that have had violence in them, but I have never done anything
where I felt that the violence was as justified as this.
There is very little need to worry about compassion
for his victims.
This is justice, and I truly
feel that it is, and I truly feel if I was in the same situation
I would do the same thing: It is something that he has to
do, and he is forced to put aside his own pain long enough
to do what he has to.
This film deals with the
concept of a solution being struck between good and evil.
Because we do not
know when we are going to die, we get to think of life as
an inexhaustible well and yet everything happens
only a certain number of times, and a very small number
really. How many times will you remember a certain afternoon
of your childhood? An afternoon that is so deeply a part
of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without
it? Perhaps 4 .... 5 times more. Perhaps not even that.
How many times will you
watch the full moon rise ...... Perhaps twenty and yet it
all seems limitless.
This
is the point of view this character is coming from in the
whole film, because it has brought sharply into focus how
precious each moment of his life was.
This is the best
role I have had the opportunity to get my hands on".
-Brandon Lee 1993
BRANDON
LEE (1965-1993)
"The
crow in the film, the bird in the film; you could really
look at as a guide...Almost a piece of his own personality
that guides him back into his life and reminds him of who
he was, what happened to him. This is a person who has been
pushed right to the limits of his ability to cope what is
going on. And in a sense is quite mad sometimes... In a
sense completely insane, almost in a sense that you might
think of an insane person having voices. More rational voices
that try to guide him...More irrational voices that come
from a more emotional... More deep-seated place. I think
that the crow his that rational voice, the crow is his guide.