THE CROW 2024: CHRONICLE OF A BEAUTIFUL FILM DESTROYED BY MARKETING
★★★★★★★★☆☆ (8/10)
The Crow 2024 is not a remake of the original Crow. It’s an independent, well-made, beautiful film, but no one understood it.
By Raimondo Rossi aka Ray Morrison
By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America - Bill Skarsgård, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114695702
What do we do? Do we go watch "The Crow 2024" in theaters or not? To answer this, what do we do first? We watch the trailer. What do we get from the trailer? That the Crow 2024 has a trailer that’s almost identical to the one from 1994, the famous Crow "by" Brandon Lee. Even the famous line about the crow guiding the souls of those who died violently to resolve injustices is repeated. So, what do you think? You think the lead actor is nothing compared to Lee, you think he’s just a perfectly muscular model with short hair who can’t be a guitarist, you think the villain (Danny Huston) has nothing to do with the original film’s bad guy, you think there are too many John Wick-like scenes, and you decide: I’ll never watch this film, I won’t support this commercial operation that has nothing original, beautiful, or new – it’s just a poor copy of the masterpiece from 1994.
By Foraggio Photographic from Sydney, AustraliaForaggio Photographic on Instagram - Laneway Festival, Sydney - FKA Twigs, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47086066
But this is exactly what you think when you watch the trailer; I thought the same myself. An incredibly wrong trailer, an incredibly wrong title (because there could have been an independent title since the film is disconnected from the first Crow), an unforgivable mistake that will cost Eagle Pictures millions of dollars. Just surf the internet and you'll find countless criticisms from both professionals and the general public, all slamming this new film as trash.
So, what did we do? We went to watch it. Full of doubts and without any hope. And instead, we found ourselves on a completely different journey from the one in 1994. The film has nothing in common with the first Crow, really nothing, except the line from the trailer, the names of the characters, and very little else. We are faced with a completely different approach, different from other cinematic experiences inspired by the comic that sparked many films.
Here, we tell stories of entirely different characters, we portray the passage between life and death in a completely different way, there are esoteric themes not present in the first film, and there are soundtracks that finally bring unforgettable artists back to the screen, accompanying us on this journey where the director takes us into his beautiful and different world. The actor we thought was just a model, Bill Skarsgård, instead fits perfectly into the role of this closed and confused personality that is Eric, a completely different Eric from the one in 1994. The ticket price is already worth hearing Enya's "Boadicea" accompany the images on screen, or the beautiful "Total Depravity" by The Veils, which reminds us how "the universe is just a heap of mud."
How can we argue with that in these modern times when children are killed in the name of religions that verge on and embrace the esotericism recalled in this film by Rupert Sanders?
And so, we really like this film; we like it and it convinces us. It completely detaches itself from the first Crow and takes us to a different dimension. Despite the fierce, malicious criticism or viewers outraged by the fact that the new Eric doesn’t have long hair and doesn’t play the guitar – in fact, he knows nothing about music – GO SEE IT.
None of what you read is true; go see it with your own eyes. Go experience this fantasy that takes us to its own dimension, where emotions, love, revenge, sadness, and adapting to the life that changes and transforms us into something different are the true protagonists. Enjoy your journey, too. Ah, I almost forgot, the new Shelley is FKW Twigs, and she convinces us as well.
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