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

Character Eric DravenA Hero with Faults in the Film, The jubilateThe level of The Crow (a graphic novel turned movie) is the story of Eric Draven, a heavy(a) 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 consume home), Draven is killed as well pushed out of a window as heights as a skyscraper. The story then chronicles his resurrection from the dead in dictate to avenge their murders. His only lifeline (or shall we say deceaseline) is through a dusky crow. The crow is the connection between the dead and the living, providing Draven with the means to be heavenly for unity night only. If the crow is harmed then Draven will lose his immortality and acquire mortality, putting an end to his plans for revenge. The conflict of the story comes as Draven attempts to execute the cr iminals one by one, but is cut short by the harming of the crow. He fights to belabor this and prove successful in his journey.There is a strange duality between the character of Eric Draven as a cultural myth and the instrumentalist 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 subscribe to age of his fathers death. Lee, as many people do, became legendary not for his deeds so much as his death.Eric Draven became a legend, or legendary figure, more than 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 mat while alive has propelled him back into a heightened mortality--a supernatural state of being. He is not the average man anymore, he has risen above that level of mundaneness to fulfill his purpose. But the twist comes in the fact that he calm has human characteristics, and suffers because of them. He is burdened with memories of the past, and memories of his previous life.