I've seen the orignial Crow movie and Wicked Prayer (I've yet to see 'City of Angels' and 'Salvation) and so I know where they've gotten their ideas for the makeup from, but I was just curious as to how Ashe (City of Angels) and Alex (Salvation) do.
By the way, if you need to included spoilers in the explaination, feel free.
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Sarah is in City of Angels as a struggling artiste who finds Ashe, she paints him up like Eric.
In Salvation, Alex Corvus is electrocuted and the mask he is wearing at his execution is overloaded, the metal inside it melts and burns his skin, leaving a pretty damn cool looking face... definitely better than 4's bullsh!t explanation.
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what was wrong with Wicked Prayer's explanation for the make-up? or do you hate the movie in general?
shareyeah! what was wrong with wicked prayer? that movie is pretty cool.
"It can't rain all the time." - Eric Draven † The Crow
He put on his party costume, which was just like Eric's. Wicked Prayer was crap in every aspect.
shareNo, Wicked Prayer's excuse for make-up was actually quite fitting, far better then the Godawful excuse for Salvation. It was NOT a party costume Jimmy put on, but a ritualistic costume for, fittingly enough, a ritual. Made sense, the people of the area (sort of) worshipped The Crow, and now he's brought back by the crow itself, so he put on the old outfit. But in Salvation the mask burns onto his face in just the right way? What the Hell man?
shareSee that's what I was thinking. In Crow: City of Angels Shelly (not Sarah) who was in the first one but is grown up, knew who Ash was and what his mission was as well. So she painted him like Eric's face was. Sadly in the 3rd movie I didn't get it, why (and how) would metal burn up like that and scar someone's face all to hell like that? It didn't make sense, and when did they ever use a mask like that for the electric chair?
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Sarah was in COA, not Shelly. Shelly is Eric's dead fiancée...
sharein salvation the mask burns that way beacuse of it's design. if you watch the movie the mask actually has pieces of metal in it that hold it together. they would inturn burn deeper than the rest of the mask, so when he peels his skin off it leaves a mark. also the scarring happened before he died so it would leave a scar. when he peeled his skin off it would just heal.
sharelook at the electrocution mask, across the mouth part are two lines, and lines of metal going down the eyes, they melted into his skin, but you can also see other marks in his skin, random black burns on his face, which is because the whole thing basically got fried due to the lightning bolt. if he were executed normally, the burns would not have appeared. they look goddamn sick though! :D
sharei loved all of them and Brandon Lee is the greatest and what i am about to say is in no way a flaming, trolling statement.......I liked the fact the "make-up" burned into Alex's face.....while in the 1st, 2nd and 4th movies they painted on what i see as their tears.....Alex's tears were burned into his face....which to me symbolizes his pain was more real because he wasn't murdered with his loved one like the rest.....she was murdered and he was accused and put to death by the system.....the rest didn't have to live 3 years with the pain before dying because the rest died at the same time as their loved ones.....Alex had to live 3 years wondering and in anguish...the pain building before he finally fried...so that is why i like the make-up best in this one....more pain...which makes the burned-in tears more believable to me.
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So you find that unbelievable but the trees exploding after Ashe kills one of the villians isn't far-fetched? Or the blood in the shape of a crow in the first movie after he kills Tin-Tin? We're talking about a supernatural creature here, sometimes weird stuff happens around them.
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