i mean it's based on James O'Barr orignal comic and story about Eric Draven
The film was a very loose adaptation of the graphic novel, and the surname "Draven" wasn't even included there. So much for that argument.
To those who say City of Angels had a better score LOL!! COA re-used tracks from Graham Revells score from the first film, talk about original lol
Another baseless argument. There is only one track in the ENTIRE City of Angels (which was also composed by Revell, in case you didn't know) score which includes exactly 25 seconds of material similar to the "Believe in Angels" track from the first movie. The score in City of Angels as a whole is indeed better-composed, more heartfelt and effective than the score in the first movie with the exeption of "Pain and Retribution," which in my opinion is the best musical piece in the series.
I liked Perez he was ok, and to say Perez is a amazing actor comon he done a ok job no better than Brandon.
Actually, Brandon was one of the weak links in the original movie (and I mean no disrespect to him by saying this). He was generic and most of his lines were stilted and badly delivered. It was a "decent" performance, not a good one. Perez was better by a mile, despite the horrid, cheesy lines that the script forced him to say. I do not mean to thrash Brandon, but he was completely overshadowed by the rest of the actors -- particularly Michael Wincott, Tony Todd, Ernie Hudson, and even Bai Ling who normally gives subpar performance in her films.
Eric Draven was a success in the sense that he was an "everyman" type of character -- a "blank slate" so to speak. There are only a few close-ups of his face (possibly due to his death) throughout the movie and his development is vague AT BEST. He can only be seen as one-dimensional. This works to an extent because it helps the audience members paste themselves into the character, allowing for some degree of empathy. Of course, the movie added the whole "rockstar" personna to Eric, which was not included in the graphic novel and only introduced once he came back from the dead -- what, with the make-up and all. But that whole angle of making Eric "Draven" into a rockstar in life was simply a ploy to pull the angry Grunge/Industrial crowds of the nineties to see the movie, and it worked.
I hate to say it, but Brandon Lee did not give a stellar performance in The Crow. To say Perez was just as good, if not better than him, really isn't all that blasphemous, since his competition was not particularly great in the first place.
Both movies are flawed, but both are equally good and highly enjoyable. I'll leave it at that.
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