The Crow II: City of Angels | 'Hush Little Baby' (HD) | Vincent Pérez, Iggy Pop | 1996 

When the violin played I always cry and think of Brandon Lee as Eric Draven. May he Rest In Peace.

Yes they the scene so sad and even had me in tears. Its that powerful.

When I finally heard the violin theme play in city of angels my heart grew much heavier. It’s such a beautiful yet painful scene.

Yes

Absolutely that director’s cut was a standalone film

Yes 😢

I pray you never do

I may not have a son but I couldn't even watch this scene without crying. Its that powerful to me.

@@ash5900 thank you, blessings to you.

@@thedarkknightman6150 very powerful scene. I agree.

I wholeheartedly agree. When I first saw the movie, I had no idea it would evoke so much raw emotion. Even though the first Crow movie with Brandon Lee will never be topped, I have a special place in my heart for City of Angels. Vincent Perez played Ash with so much emotion that he truly made me feel what the character was going through. Ash was so unhinged and at times downright psychotic, but I could understand why he was like that. Seeing that his son, an innocent child was about to be killed and he could do nothing to stop it. I can't imagine the pain Ash felt when he saw Kali shoot Danny and he would die knowing he couldn't save his son. Then after he is ressurected and finds his sons body and buries him. That scene just broke me. Hard for me to watch it even now after all these years and not tear up. Vincent played the character very well in my opinion and made the movie a worth while watch for me.

Both are equal emotional. Eric was forced to watch his fiancé get raped and murdered. Ash was forced to watch his son die.

Iris Shaw is another Crow avatar. I want to, with the permission of James O'Barr, rewrite her story into being her and her fiance finding out they're expecting, getting married, their car breaks down while on their honeymoon, and they are robbed and buried alive. This way it ties into two of her loved ones she is avenging.

Vincent Perez is excellent, he is saving this movie

its supposed to be a continuity of the first one. Sarah is the same character that was in the first.

@@cindycatcorn would love to see that movie.

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@Kaan's Corner Hope all is well with you and have a good day! I had to reread your comment as I got confused at first but I got what you meant now. This scene makes me want to go and watch the entire series. The first one is amazing with Brandon Lee.

Brandon was the best Crow Vincent is a great crow

Unfortunately we all have to get used to the idea that time moves on and we are not important as long as someone else gets there dollar. I do for the record agree that this series would have been best left just 2 movies. Ok I'll go ahead and say it. I don't want to recognize it either even though I've had to live with it.

Shut up

you got that right. The first and this are the best crow movies.

IKR 😍🔥

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There's a 142 Minute version of this movie that was butchered by Miramax in order to make the movie like the original. The movie woulda let the door open for Ashe to come back for more films because he got stucked in the world of the living because he went to help Sarah instead of going with his son. In the theatrical release, Judah Earl gave the order but in that cut he didn't and Ashe at that point avenged his son but sacrifice his place in heaven for love.

The only thing I ABSOLUTELY appreciate about the edited version and I hope remains if the original with all of the deleted scenes is produced is Ashe’s prioritization of and reunion with Danny at the end. If the original does not keep this edit and depicts him forsaking his son’s soul (his own child) to be with a woman instead, then I won’t like it. I don’t mind seeing Sarah’s spirit riding on and Ashe seeing it so long as he goes to be with Danny.

amen brother.

As you've said this scene is actually a masterpiece. Truly beautiful scene that reached to everyone's heart

As you've said this scene is actually a masterpiece. Truly beautiful scene that reached to everyone's heart

No offense ment but, I see no beauty in the part where the little boy was shot which lead to the rest of the scene in which your speaking of??

@@patrickmckeown3841 - it's not the action of what occurred, it was how the scene was shot, the music and his face seemingly capturing the unspoken emotion. Does that make sense?

Inertia is the song

It was use in the last movie

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absolutely - Vincent gives a perfomance of a modern Hamlet driven by grief and vengeance. excellent job; it's a shame he wasn't allowed a career in the US because the guy is damn good. Wonder why they cut the scenes where he could act .. It is really strange because Weinstein produced good films such as Malena or Gangs of NY. So sad..

Its still a good movie and i like that he a different person sure he more funny then Brandon but that was his character in life before he died. And i think having yours kid killed is more sad then a wife which in and out of itself still sad.

Well written comment here.. I agree 100%. Having to follow up something which was SO culturally beloved as the first one was was really courageous and I will always admire both Pope, McDowell, and Goyer for busting their butts to make it genuinely the best movie they could. Sadly Weinstein got his hands on it and ruined it right when they were gonna turn the corner and finish it the way they wanted it. He forced it into the mess it is.. if he hadn't this movie coulda been a real groundbreaker. It woulda been one of the first really sad and tragic superhero movies.. the first one was in a way but it was more dark and had some hope at the end. This one meanwhile was extremely dire, uncomfortable visually to look at (in a well done way,) and the ending wasn't gonna be a happy one. In that time every superhero movie with the exception of Batman Returns had a happy ending.. this one's original ending was actually way sadder than Returns's was. The shooting script and novelization's ending's were a little different but at the end of both I was both extremely bummed. However both told a well done story , and with some tweaks to say casting choices and complete freedom this woulda been a classic and it woulda saved the series. Sadly we aren't allowed good things. As it is it's still a compelling and interesting watch. Vincent Perez acted his butt off and did an excellent job; it's an utter shame he wasn't allowed a career in the US because the guy was damn good. He was better than just being in France. The action's fun as well as the soundtrack and especially the score. I really enjoy Iggy Pop and Trang in their roles too. Sadly I find the rest of the supporting cast either hammy or meh.. Brooks is awful as Judah, Kirschner's really hammy, and the other two baddies are just awful. Iggy I see considered a bad pick but honestly he fit well. Again if they had picked some more experienced people and tweaked the lines a bit and included the villains's backstories from the shooting script it woulda worked so much better. But as it is I enjoy it despite all the flaws.. you can see the good movie in there that wanted out.

@@efan2012 There's an absolutely fantastic film that suffered from studio interference and unrealistic expectations from executives and critics. It's similar to how certain fans, for whatever reason, believed that future Terminator sequels without James Cameron's involvement would surpass the first two Terminator films. If I remember correctly you're absolutely right about the original intended ending for this film. According to David Goyer and the director it was a lot more tragic and depressing. My understanding is the studio literally butchered the original cut to the point that both Goyer and the director disowned the final product. "The Crow" can be reborn again with a hard hitting tragic and emotional story with more creativity. I am quite ecstatic that the remake with Jason Momoa never took off. Don't get me wrong, I like Jason Momoa as an actor and personality wise he seems like a celebrity that I'd love to hang out with. But him as Eric Draven is all kinds of wrong. How can I buy ANY violent gang members getting the jump on someone of his size without him taking at least three of them with him in the process? Very unrealistic and I am glad they decided to kill that idea. My opinion? Just do another sequel that completely retcons "Salvation" and "Wicked Prayer". A while back I remember reading these beautiful fan fiction stories encapsulated within "The Crow" mythology. They were absolutely fantastic stories written by talented people. One story I remember had the protagonist who was an African-American pregnant woman engaged to a Caucasian man, ended up being murdered by a group of white supremacists. The story wasn't beating the reader over the head with racist overtones. It was a tragic beautiful story that I read at least two to three times a day. Another one I remember was an overweight kid who fell in love and ended up getting engaged to the popular high school cheerleader, he too in the story was murdered, along with her, and was resurrected by the Skull Cowboy/Crow to avenge their deaths. One of my biggest regrets was not gaining a deeper appreciation of "The Crow: City of Angels" when it was released during its time in theaters. I was still on the whole "He's not Brandon Lee" rebellion that I didn't recognize cinematic artistry that it exists within the film.

@@efan2012 very true, thank you!

As a teenager, this was the only Crow film I ever saw back in the 1990s and for me, personally, since I have no basis for comparison, this was all good. I saw no fault with it AT ALL.

Yeah me too but then I realized that they made them different like Eric was more into violence/ martial arts while Ashe was more into humor/physical combat and also falls in love with Sarah in this film

I find Vincent Perez excellent. He is a superb actor and his Crow is a modern Hamlet with his grief and revange.

He tried to be different from Brandon that's why

It’s called inertia it was used in the first movie

She died in 2001.

This movie is very underrated . Do people really understand Ashe's mindset ?

Agree

@@itzzzsss dont think so I think in tgeir minds without Brandon the movie is garbage

Right, I feel the same

@@user-pi3hd2bt3f That's not why. Fan's of the first one where ok with a sequel. On a message board they literally asked fans about if they should do a second one and they all said yes just don't make it a rehash of the first one or use Eric Draven since the first was Brandon's movie. They made a good movie with a good script diffrent from the first until Harvey Weinstein came into the picture and butchered the movie with bad effects, reshoots and massive editing until it became a bad rehash of the first one.

I’ve watched it now after 24-25 years now that I’m the mother of 2 girls ages 4 and 6 months and I’m incredibly moved by it. It hits me hard.

The burning 🔥 of the painting 🖼 wasn’t in the original version. This was an added edit that makes no sense.

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Yup! Composed by the same guy, too. :)

absolutely - Vincent gives a perfomance of a modern Hamlet driven by grief and vengeance. excellent job. Wonder why they cut off the scenes where he could fully show his talent.. It is really strange because Weinstein produced good films such as Malena or Gangs of NY...

@@annegame7682 Weinstein in general for some odd reason loved short, quick movies. If he found a movie lagged time wise he'd get pissed and forced them to cut stuff out regardless if was essential or not. This one is one of the main offences of it.. he felt the movie was too long and needed more action front and center. So more or less he forced them to turn it from a tragic baroque esque tragic superhero film into a gothic action movie.. it didn't work in contrast because the story was set up to be what Goyer wanted which was the tragic human journey. In that way Perez excelled which makes the loss of footage an utter tragedy. Dig the Hamlet comparison as well.

@@efan2012 Oh, thank you! I am European, I did not know much about H.W. (exept some bits from news). I was just surprised what happened to this movie beacause I remember Gangs of NY or Malena being excellent films... Well, this is sad...

I cry now i dont even have kids. I couldn't even finish this scene without crying

Well congratulations u got your own wish they are doing a reboot starring by Bill Skarsgard and FKA Twigs

There's a few different versions 1. Return to The Grave (From The first movie) 2. I'll wait for you. (From part 2) There's a couple other versions called..... Lament For A Lost Son. (At the end of the song) And I believe it's also at the end of "A Dream On The Way To Death"

I guess the TV series don't count in the case of Talon from episode Birds Of The Feather.

You mean like Iris Shaw. She’s a female crow from the comic book

No. It’s not. Hurr durr it’s such a right time to be so unoriginal as a gender that our only hope in cashing in is if we steal successful characters from male creators. Shut the fuck up

Christ you’d think since the internet is so big it’d be hard to find comments so fucking stupid

@@kavalogue You are pretty fucking stupid yourself there man. Go and read some crow comics, Eric Draven is not the only crow, many people have been the Crow including a women. It's a power not unique to a individual. So there is no stealing of the character. Many people have become the Crow and that's how the author and creator(James O'Barr) wanted it to be. In fact James is the one that made the first female crow in his 3rd run back in 1996. While I don't think it would be a good idea to do Shaw at the moment, as it would be infested with a bunch of bullshit politics, I would love for her to get her chance to shine as her story was good.

It's another, his name is Ashe Corven.

@@MyNameIsMiky oh I never seen City of Angels and since Sarah is grown up in this movie I thought they are the same people.

THE SWAMPS OF SADNESS

TheOffical _Sal It’s called Rainforever. It’s on The Crow original soundtrack. I don’t know what @ Hebrew Yisraelite is talking about.

Lament for a Lost Son.. it has the entire score from the scene on it. Check out for the official score it's on here.. so well done and a beautiful listen it is.

Inertia the crow

In the original cut, Ashe gets stucked in the world of the living when his son came for him. Sarah before dying tells him that she'll wait forever for him in the afterlife. That cut hasn't yet seen the light of day. Hope someday it gets released.