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-	[[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s poem "[[The Raven]]" has been frequently referenced and [[parody|parodied]] in contemporary culture. Immediately popular after the poem's publication in 1845, it quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Some consider it the best poem ever written. As such, modern references to the poem continue to appear in popular culture.	+
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-	*"The Raven" was recreated as a hallucination of Poe's in the 1915 [[silent film]] ''[[The Raven (1915 film)|The Raven]]''. A fictionalized biography, it starred [[Henry B. Walthall]] as Poe.	+
-	*In 1942, [[Fleischer Studios]] created a two-reel [[Technicolor]] [[cartoon]] based upon "The Raven" which turned the story of the poem into a lighthearted comedy.	+
-	*A Bugs Bunny cartoon has Bugs reading a few lines from the poem, starting with the words, "While I nodded nearly napping".	+
-	*In 1963, [[Roger Corman]] directed ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'', a comedy very loosely based on the poem.	+
-	*The stop-motion [[short film]] ''[[Vincent (film)|Vincent]]'' (1982), by [[Tim Burton]], features a protagonist named Vincent Malloy, whose "favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe." As Vincent lies, seemingly dying, at the end of the film, he quotes the final couplet of "The Raven".	+
-	*In the 1989 film ''[[Batman (1989 movie)|Batman]]'', [[Jack Nicholson]] (as [[Joker (comics)|The Joker]]) quotes "The Raven" to [[Kim Basinger]]'s [[Vicky Vale]] when he says, "Take thy beak from out my heart."	+
-	*[[Hannes Rall]] directed an animated, German-language version of ''The Raven'' (''Der Rabe'') in 1998.	+
-	*A Spanish short film, with English dialogues, directed by [[Tinieblas González]] appeared in 1999.	+
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-	*The poem was translated to film by Trilobite Pictures and director Peter Bradley in 2003. The short film was released on [[DVD]] in 2005 by [[Lurker Films]].	+
-	*In the 1994 film ''[[The Crow (film)|The Crow]]'', Eric, the tragic main character, references "The Raven" before blowing up Gideon's pawn shop: "Suddenly, I heard a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. You heard me rapping, right?"	+
-	*In the 1994 film ''[[The Pagemaster]]'', when [[Richard Tyler]] is visiting the land of horror and enters Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde's mansion, a raven swoops down next to them and screeches the word, '[[nevermore]]'.	+
-	*The film ''[[Nightmares from the Mind of Poe]]'' (2006) adapts "The Raven" along with three Poe short stories: "[[The Tell-Tale Heart]]", "[[The Cask of Amontillado]]" and "[[The Premature Burial]]".	+
-	* The poem was referenced in the 2002 film "[[Finding Forrester]]", which starred Sean Connery. The film was discussed in the protagonist Jumal's English class.	+
-	* In the 2005 film ''[[The Crow: Wicked Prayer]]'' the third sequel to ''[[The Crow (film)|The Crow]]'', during the final battle between Jimmy and Luc, Jimmy tauntingly shouts "Quoth the raven nevermore, motherfucker!"	+
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