Analyzing The Film 'The Crow'
film critique
Final Film Critique: The Crow
Jason Campbell
Eng 225
Instructor: David Preizler
March 18, 2013
Final Film Critique: The Crow Few films have struck a chord with viewers as ones that deal with love and revenge. From tragic love stories such as “Romeo and Juliet”, to more revenge based movies such as “Taken”, the combination of the two seem to evoke a response in viewers that all things are possible. While love stories evoke the feeling of happiness that the characters will live happy ever after, revenge movies give a feeling of redemption. With “The Crow”, the combination gives viewers a sense that all things are better and the characters still get the happy ever after. Through the cunning use of lighting, sound, and visual effects, the story of “The Crow” brings the viewer deep into that world, and lets them live as the character does. “The Crow” is a love story with a tragic twist. A young man and his fiancée are murdered on the night before Halloween, the day before they are to get married. One year later, the young man rises from the grave to avenge his lost love. At that point, it becomes a revenge film. …show more content…
The main difficulty lies in the fact that this movie goes into three genres: Love Story, Revenge, and Dark Gothic. As a love story, one could focus on just that aspect of it, and see the love Draven had for Shelly. Though for revenge, one could also see the acts taken against the thugs. As for dark and gothic, which I am not sure is a genre in and of itself; the movie is dark and foreboding, full of mayhem and dark plots. To example the gothic nature of the film, we take a look at the story itself, supernatural being, and back from the dead to take his revenge. The ample use of darkness, plus the movie being shot almost completely at night lends to that idea. Being shot mostly in the dark, this would lead to some interesting use of
Final Film Critique: The Crow
Jason Campbell
Eng 225
Instructor: David Preizler
March 18, 2013
Final Film Critique: The Crow Few films have struck a chord with viewers as ones that deal with love and revenge. From tragic love stories such as “Romeo and Juliet”, to more revenge based movies such as “Taken”, the combination of the two seem to evoke a response in viewers that all things are possible. While love stories evoke the feeling of happiness that the characters will live happy ever after, revenge movies give a feeling of redemption. With “The Crow”, the combination gives viewers a sense that all things are better and the characters still get the happy ever after. Through the cunning use of lighting, sound, and visual effects, the story of “The Crow” brings the viewer deep into that world, and lets them live as the character does. “The Crow” is a love story with a tragic twist. A young man and his fiancée are murdered on the night before Halloween, the day before they are to get married. One year later, the young man rises from the grave to avenge his lost love. At that point, it becomes a revenge film. …show more content…
The main difficulty lies in the fact that this movie goes into three genres: Love Story, Revenge, and Dark Gothic. As a love story, one could focus on just that aspect of it, and see the love Draven had for Shelly. Though for revenge, one could also see the acts taken against the thugs. As for dark and gothic, which I am not sure is a genre in and of itself; the movie is dark and foreboding, full of mayhem and dark plots. To example the gothic nature of the film, we take a look at the story itself, supernatural being, and back from the dead to take his revenge. The ample use of darkness, plus the movie being shot almost completely at night lends to that idea. Being shot mostly in the dark, this would lead to some interesting use of