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Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is.
— The Crow
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The gang's leader quotes Milton about the devil facing goodness and learning to fear it, and the film then makes him the devil, with Eric as the awful goodness arriving to answer him. It is a villain's boast turned into a prophecy, and for The Crow fans it is the gothic-poetry streak of the film in a single line, spoken by the man the film wants you to hate.
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In context
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The line is Milton's: in Book 4 of Paradise Lost the cherub Zephon rebukes Satan, who has crept into Eden, and Satan stands abashed. In The Crow (1994), T-Bird is the gang leader who helped kill Eric Draven and his fiancée Shelly Webster a year earlier on Devil's Night. When Eric, back from the dead, takes him for a drive, T-Bird begins the quotation, insists in panic that the dead man cannot be who he seems, and then recites the full couplet as the car races toward the waterfront. Eric leaves him in the car, and it goes off the pier and explodes.
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- The Crow (1994) transcriptT-Bird in the carReference checked
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