Alex Proyas’s best known movie is celebrating a pearl anniversary and Paramount Pictures is rewarding fans with a special edition! The steelbook edition is beautiful to look at and ultimately, the ony significant difference between this and the regular edtion are the postcards that are included. Although some comic book movie viewers may consider The Crow as a simple bleak revenge fantasy, there’s more to it than just that.
Some information needs to be said, though. Not everyone is familiar with this film’s origins: creator James O’Barr, came up with the idea as a way to cope. His fiancée died because of a reckless individual, who happened to be drunk that night happened. She was the love of his life, and to channel his angst into a medium in the narrative he created must have been tough. To adapt it to film, however, must mean understanding what he went through. After creating a character Batman might be afraid of, to keep ongoing is tough. Although Tim Burton’s take was released in 1989, both works influenced later comic book films still to come.
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