#and he referred to what she was organizing against as 'our tenant relocation program'

[whetstonefires]

Underrated thing about The Crow (1994) is that ultimately it's a film about a guy utterly wrecking his shitty landlord.

Like yeah, Top Dollar is a spooky casually homicidal goth mob boss who ordered the brutal murders of the protagonist and his fiancee, and we get the whole classic revenge spree film slaughtering your way through the criminals to get to the top guy formula.

(With in addition to the whole revenant bit the interesting variant that Eric isn't even actually going for the guy at the top, he just interjects himself into the proceedings lmao.)

But also he's a slumlord, and the reason they died was Shelly formed a tenant's union in response to wrongful eviction proceedings. And Top Dollar would rather have his building sitting empty than put up with that shit.

Which will make it very funny if the remake that got greenlit for next year is deep-sixed by the studios' deranged collective refusal to come to terms with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA.

#hoc est meum #unionize #the crow #movies #evil landlord #with fantastic hair #arguably top dollar is not meant to be understood as the landlord #but T-bird sure as shit didn't own the place #and he referred to what she was organizing against as 'our tenant relocation program' #and he works for Top Dollar so #i'm pretty sure? #hollywood strike