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The comic book is an underground comic book.

It's not Spider-Man or Superman.

You know, it's not something... for mass consumption.

And... it has a very hard edge to it.

I think that the film is quite faithful to the comic book.

I hope that it is.

In terms of preserving that hard edge.

And a certain style that the comic book certainly has.

But... we had the responsibility to fill in some gaps that aren't necessarily there

in the comic book because they're different mediums.

You know, you don't have to tell a cohesive narrative story.

In a comic book, you can do a lot with images and

leave a lot up to the imagination of the reader.

I love to shoot the whole film in black and white.

But personally, I love black and white.

I think it's wonderful.

It would have been great to do that and show perhaps just the flashbacks which are

a part of Eric's real life, his life when he was alive.

Show those in color as contrast, you know.

But unfortunately, due to the realities, the very shitty realities of the film

world, we weren't given the opportunity to do that.

You're dealing with a supernatural situation,

which is a man who has come back from the dead.

And I think the thing that I enjoy most about this film is simply the questions

that that raises for me as an actor playing the

part for the audience who's going to see the film.

If you died, and a year had passed since the time that you had died, and during

that year you have to assume that the people that you loved and the people who

were in your life and loved you would have had a year now to

grieve and come to some kind of terms with having lost you.

And now suddenly you are given the chance to come back for two days.

The world would be a very different place through your eyes from the point of view

of having been dead for a year and knowing that you

only had two days now to be alive, in a sense, again.

And there would be some fascinating questions that would confront you like.

Wouldn't you want to tell somebody, but at the same time wouldn't you feel a

certain responsibility not to trample in the lives of the people who have had a

year now, like I said, to deal with that loss?

And you would see the world through these very different eyes, these eyes that are

coming from a point of view and a perspective that no one really has.

Eric gets the chance to come back and try and see that some kind of justice is done.

It's not necessarily a pretty subject, but it's one that I

feel comes from him very organically and is quite justified.

I'll tell you something, I don't really care about any statements the film makes

that have to do with that because that's not Eric's point of view.

I'm sure that the world of this film is going to be a

better place once the bad guys aren't there anymore.

But that's not Eric's reason for doing what he's doing, and

so it's not something I've stopped to consider a great deal.

There's this wonderful quote from the book Sheltering Sky where he says, Because we

do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.

And yet everything happens only a certain

number of times and a very small number really.

How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood?

An afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being

that you can't even conceive of your life without it?

Perhaps four or five times more?

Perhaps not even that?

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise?

Perhaps 20?

And yet it all seems limitless.

The crow in the film, the bird in the film, you could really just look at as a guide.

Almost a piece of his own personality that guides him back

into his life and reminds him who he was, what happened to him.

This is a person who has been pushed right to the

limits of his ability to cope with what is going on.

And in a sense, he's quite mad sometimes.

In a sense, he's completely insane.

Almost in the sense that you might think of an insane person having voices,

you know, more rational voices that try and guide him.

More irrational voices that come from a more emotional, more deep-seated place.

I think that the crow is that rational voice.

The crow is his guide.

The crow helps Eric do what he has to do.

In a very practical sense, it leads him to the places that he has to be.

It helps him find the people that he has to find.

A story about justice for victims.

It's one of these.

A life.

A life you helped destroy the world.

His mission is to find the man who killed him and his fiance and kill them.

Gentlemen!

God!

I just want him.

It's a wonderful role.

And it really is a role that you have to take risks with.

It gives you a wonderful opportunity to take those risks and stretch because you

tell me how somebody who comes back from the dead is going to behave.

You move your dead.

And I say I'm dead.

And I move it.

And that's one of the wonderful things about playing this character is it's a real.

..

You can really take the gloves off in playing this part because...

There are no rules about how a person who has

come back from the dead is going to behave.

This is a dream.

You killed him.

And how will we?

I don't think he has to do.

And he's forced to put aside his own pain long enough to go do what he has to do.

You tell the rest of them death is coming for them tonight.

This film deals with the concept of a balance being struck between good and evil.

I gave this to Shelly once.

I think she'd like you to have it.

This is the point of view that this character is coming from in the whole film.

Because it has been brought sharply into focus

for him how precious each moment of his life is.

I love you.

Say that again.

I love you.

This is the best role that I've had the opportunity to get my hands on in the film.

I love you.