[Movie Script]Crow, The

The CROW
by
Davis Schow
based on a screenplay by

John Shirley
Based on the comic book

created, drawn, and written by

James O'Barr
September 14, 1992
	FADE IN:



	EXT. CEMETERY - LATE AFTERNOON



BOOM!  A crack of lightning illuminates the silhouette of a

perched crow large in the f.g.
	TIGHT ANGLE - FRESH GRAVE



As a spade smooths the walls of a new double-decker plot.
				DIMITRI (O.S.)

		We're losing the light; let's pack

it in.
	ANGLE - DIMITRI AND ALEXI



TWO GRAVEDIGGERS.  Scoop digger parked f.g. towering gothic-

style church b.g.  Rolls of astro turf.  They look up toward

the sky.
				ALEXI

		Snow, maybe?
				DIMITRI

		What, you gonna ski on this?
He indicates the mound of fresh dirt.  Spits into the grave.
				DIMITRI (CONT'D)

		Come on, let's bag this.  It's

beer time.
Alexi nods and unfurls the tarp over the dirt.
	LOW ANGLE TRACKING SHOT - FLOWERS ON GRAVES


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