Character Eric Draven:A Hero with Faults in the Film, The Crow :: Movies

Character Eric DravenA Hero with Faults in the Film, The crowThe report of The Crow (a graphic novel turned movie) is the story of Eric Draven, a bountiful young musician living in the dark gloom of a gothic-industrialized city plagued by continual rain. He is set to wed a beautiful girl when she is raped and left to die by a gang of criminals. Upon arriving to witness it in progress (taking place at his admit home), Draven is killed as well pushed out of a window as last as a skyscraper. The story then chronicles his resurrection from the dead in lay out to avenge their murders. His only lifeline (or shall we say endingline) is through a melanise crow. The crow is the connection between the dead and the living, providing Draven with the means to be perennial for star night only. If the crow is harmed then Draven will lose his immortality and play mortality, putting an end to his plans for revenge. The conflict of the story comes as Draven attempts to execute the criminals one by one, but is cut short by the harming of the crow. He fights to stamp down this and prove successful in his journey.There is a strange wave-particle duality between the character of Eric Draven as a cultural apologue and the imposter who played him, Brandon Lee. While Draven became a legend of the story, Lee became a legend in reality. Lee was accidentally shot and killed while filming The Crow the product of a gun and a scene gone awry. Lees death came at the verge of a rising career and coincidentally, occurred at the minute age of his fathers death. Lee, as many people do, became legendary not for his industrial plant so much as his death.Eric Draven became a legend, or legendary figure, more(prenominal) from the qualities he possesses as a character. Draven is portrayed as strong, powerful, and in control, provide by his angry death. Lurched out of the living world, the love he matt-up while alive has propelled him back into a heightened mortality--a supernatural s tate of being. He is not the average man anymore, he has risen above that take of mundaneness to fulfill his purpose. But the twist comes in the fact that he quiesce has human characteristics, and suffers because of them. He is burdened with memories of the past, and memories of his previous life.