VidUKon 2023 Premiere: The Crow - Dying Angels High

[brokenmnemonic]

Song: - Dreaming Wide Awake
Artist: - Poets of the Fall
Source: - The Crow
Vidder: - brokenmnemonic
Spoilers: - Extensive
Warnings: - Lots of canon violence, character death, implied sexual assault
Rating: - 18
Disclaimers: - Not mine, by a long shot. No infringements intended
AO3 Link: - https://archiveofourown.org/works/47753089

Short summary: My VidUKon 2023 Premieré.

Watch on YouTube

Lyrics

Too late, the melody is over
The joke seems to be on me cos I'm the one not laughing
Down here on the floor
Deflate, the mystery of living
In the most heartless fashion I could ever Imagine
No pretense of decor

Another place and time, without a great divide
And we could be flying deadly high
I'll sell my soul to dream you wide awake

Another place and time, without a warning sign
And we could be dying angel style
I'll sell my soul to dream you wide awake
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you wide awake

With me, disaster finds a playfield
Love seems to draw dark, twisted pleasure tearing at me
Cos I can't let you go
Mercy, like water in a desert
Shine through my memory like jewelry in the sun
Where are you now
(Where are you now)

Another place and time, without a great divide
And we could be flying deadly high
I'll sell my soul to dream you wide awake

Another place and time, without a warning sign
And we could be dying angel style
I'll sell my soul to dream you wide awake

I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you wide awake

It's like I'm racing to the sun, blindly face the blazing gun
Cos I'm afraid I will be left here without you
Like I'm racing not to run, give me more when I have none
Cos I'm afraid I will be left here without you
wide awake
wide awake
wide awake
wide awake

Another place and time, without a great divide
And we could be flying deadly high
I'll sell my soul to dream you wide awake

Another place and time, without a warning sign
And we could be dying angel style
I'll sell my soul to dream you wide awake

I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you
I'll dream you wide awake

Lyrics

I've loved this movie since I first saw it - so much so that I bought the special edition DVD before I even had a DVD player, and I still have postcards from the movie up on my wall at the moment. Some years ago I watched the final interview Brandon Lee gave about this movie prior to his death, and one of the things from it that stuck with me is that he discussed the violence in the movie, and talked about how he'd performed in a number of films that featured violence but that the Crow was the first movie where it felt like that violence was justified. The Crow is possibly the gothiest goth movie of all time, and that's one of the reasons I love it; it's a movie about love strong enough to bring someone back from the dead for vengeance, whilst also having to create a new persona to be able to do that because he can't deal with what's going on.

One of the most famous lines from the movie is this one, which introduces it:

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

I've read the original graphic novel and the updated one issued some years ago by the author James O'Barr, and as much as I like the quote above, it's this one that I think of the most:

Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever"?
You said "Only forever?"
It's forever, now.

Comments

[owlcatfromspace]

Fantastic job! As if the movie was meant to be a music video for this song. Or the other way around... I have such fond memories of the first Crow movie, I also appreciate the Brandon Lee nekkid back/scar p0rn <3

[brokenmnemonic]

I'm delighted you liked it :) It's a shame the later movies aren't as good as the original, but some of the comics have been really good. I don't know why, but I had the feeling you might enjoy shirtless scarred Brandon Lee...