Poetry in Movies and Television: The Crow (1994)
The poem Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) misquotes when he breaks into Gideon's (Jon Polito) shop is from "The Raven". Eric says:
"Suddenly I heard a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door."
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
You can watch/listen to the full poem on my channel by Xander Berkeley or James Earl Jones
When T-Bird (David Patrick Kelly) recognises Eric, he quotes from John Milton’s Paradise Lost:
"I knew you. But you ain’t you. You can’t be you. We put you through the window. There ain’t no coming back. This is the really real world, there ain’t no coming back. We killed you dead, there ain’t no coming back! There ain’t no coming back! …
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is!"
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument]:
“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is
and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”
The quote is from the end of the movie:
“If the people we love are stolen from us,
the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.”
--- Sarah/James O'Barr, The Crow
Music: Jane Siberry - It Can't Rain All the Time
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'The Lincoln Lawyer' - The Beginning of the McConaughey Renaissance
‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ – The Beginning of the McConaughey Renaissance
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