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The Crow
Screenplay by David J. Schow
John
Shirley
Produced by Edward R. Pressman
Jeff Most
Directed by Alex Proyas
Cast List:
Brandon Lee Eric
Ernie Hudson Albrecht
Michael Wincott Top
Dollar
Rochelle Davis Sarah
Michael Berryman Skull Cowboy
John Polito Gideon
David Patrick
Kelly T-Bird
Angel David Skank
FADE IN:
EXT. CEMETERY – LATE AFTERNOON
BOOM! A crack of lightning illuminates the silhouette of a perched
crow large in the f.g.
TIGHT ANGLE – FRESH GRAVE
As a spade smooths the walls of a new double-decker plot.
DIMITRI (O.S.)
We're losing the light; let's pack it in.
ANGLE – DIMITRI AND ALEXI
TWO GRAVEDIGGERS. Scoop digger parked f.g. towering
gothic-style church b.g. Rolls of astro turf. They look up toward the sky.
ALEXI
Snow, maybe?
DIMITRI
What, you gonna ski on this?
He indicates the mound of fresh dirt. Spits into the grave.
DIMITRI (CONT'D)
Come on, let's bag this. It's beer time.
Alexi nods and unfurls the tarp over the dirt.
LOW ANGLE TRACKING SHOT – FLOWERS ON GRAVES
As we MOVE alongside a pair of canvas-sided combat boots, as the wearer collects
the most lively flowers from each grave in sequence.
TIGHT ANGLE – THE CROW
Cemetery DEFOCUSED b.g. Large, glossy-black, the bird follows the arc of movement in the
previous shot. Ruffles its feathers as it begins to sprinkle rain.
ANGLE – ELLY – RESUMING HER MOTION
A dirty-blondish tenement KID of eleven, clad in a blend of cast-offs and
hand-me-downs; her version of street punk chic. She totes a skateboard under
one arm (itself a berserk Jackson Pollock chaos of band stickers, silver marker
and graffiti, with day-glo wheels), and transfers her impromptu bouquet so she
may unzip a flap and hike up a ragged hood against the rain. She stops to watch
the grave diggers pack up and EXIT
b.g.
ELLY
Guess the picnic got rained out.
ANGLE – SHELLY WEBSTER'S GRAVE
As Elly places the gathered flowers down. Almost reverent.
RESUME CROW ANGLE – ELLY BACKGROUND
As Elly takes a single white rose and places it atop the grave near
Shelly Webster's.
ANGLE ON GRAVE – AS ELLY LEAVES
TILT UP from rose to the name: ERIC DRAVEN. Rain spatters the granite, darkening it.
EXTREME CLOSEUP – CROW'S EYE
It blinks in its alien way.
WITH THE CROW
As it takes wing from it's unseen perch. Lands stop Eric's headstone. It pecks tentatively at the top of the monument.
ANGLE – ELLY NEAR ERIC'S GRAVE
She hasn't gotten too far before she notices the bird.
ELLY
Oh, scary.
The bird blinks at her from the headstone.
ELLY
What are you, like, the night watchman?
Another blink from El Birdo.
CAMERA WITH ELLY – BOOMING BACK HIGH
As she exits the iron gates of the cemetery without looking back.
Brutal building facades, like dead eyes, and bad alleyways, like hungry mouths,
are gradually revealed as we continue PULLING BACK to unveil that the cemetery is smack in the
middle of the city.
EXT. MAXI-DOGS – TWILIGHT – RAIN CONTINUES
CLOSEUP of a foot-long hot dog being drowned in mustard.
MICKEY (O.S.)
What this place needs is a good natural catastrophe.
Earthquake, tornado...
ANGLE – ALBRECHT AND MICKEY
ALBRECHT is a black beat cop, 35, in a rain slicker.