I was watching The Crow this evening while pretending to do stuff for my design class. I love this movie. I can probably quote most of the lines and tell you who is where in what scene, yada yada yada. But tonight when Eric stands on top of the table in the night club and gets shot up I was not impressed. Now mind you, this is my favorite scene of the movie. I love the action, the lighting, and mostly the music. But for some reason, tonight I watched it, and was almost bored.
It took me a couple of minutes to figure out why, but then it hit me: why is he acting all intense? He is jumping around, doing flips, tumbling out of the way of attacks, and I am sitting here wondering why the hell he cares about their attacks. He is invincible. He could systematically walk up to each and calmly pull the trigger and not just not worry about the fact that they are shooting back, but no, he feels obligated to flip around. Why? Because it is more consistent with how the movie was supposed to go.
Originally, there was supposed to be this guy called the Skull Cowboy who explained things to Eric. Basically the reason Eric knows to follow the crow is because the Skull Cowboy tells him to (now why he decided to listen to a guy called the Skull Cowboy, the world my never know). Mr. Lame Name also later tells Eric that he is there to avenge his girl and nothing else, anything else will cause him to weaken.
The first scene where his compassion ended up getting him hurt, was when he talks to Darla, Sarah's mother, after knocking out Funboy. She gets a couple of good slashes in on him, that were cut, right before he disarms her. He tells her to go take care of her daughter and she runs out. Then, it is supposed to cut back to him wondering why his cuts are not healing when Funboy attacks him again. This time he comes at him with the same razor Darla cut him up with. Eric gets cut to hell before he gets control again. He also bandages himself up with black electrical tape, which is why in all the subsequent scenes he has tape on himself.
He was originally supposed to be weaker at this point, but what we got was basically Eric Draven playing in godmode. I realize that if he had just walked up and killed them that it would have been a very boring scene, but as it is, it is even more unrealistic that it should have been.
