The Crow
1:07 AM, on yet another Wednesday morning. I’m feeling very disorganized and gloomy and realizing, you know what? I have nothing to say.
So I’m thinking about the sequel to the movie The Crow. The first film was good: a simple story of revenge, really. But it had something to it, a Gothic glimmer that let it stand out. The second film, The Crow: City of Angels, only achieves redundancy (at least to me). There is no expansion of the concept, no "taking things further". Just more tragedy and revenge. I realize that no one asked, but if I had made the sequel I would have done the following:
Change the setting to a clean and perfect city, in the middle of Winter. (The flames and steamy urban decay thing has been done to death, no pun intended.)
Instead of revenge (killing one’s killers) make the motivation for the Crow’s brief return to life atonement or sacrifice (righting a personal wrong or protecting other innocents). And --
Have a woman play the part of the new Crow.
Now all the above doesn’t mean I’d take out the violence, turn the Crow into a superhero do-gooder, or make the film less "dark". I’d just make it dark in a different way.
Ta-da!
Oh, never mind...
--- JWR, 1997
EDITOR'S NOTE: The date on this entry (and on all of the "I Have Nothing To Say" entries) has been arbitrarily assigned to preserve the sequence that they were originally posted in. All were written in 1997 but, at that point, I was only identifying my journal's entries by the time at which they were written.