Jeremy Crow[1] is a funny and clumsy black crow who is allergic to cats. He appears as the secondary tritagonist of The Secret of NIMH and a supporting character in The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue. He was voiced by the late Dom DeLuise, who was one of two actors to reprise their roles in the sequel.
Background[]
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Personality[]
Jeremy is a funny and clumsy black crow who is allergic to cats. He also appears to get scared rather easily as he seems to be faint-hearted of Dragon and the Great Owl. Despite this, however, he befriends the widow Mrs. Brisby and is shown to care for her slightly.
Physical Appearance[]
When he first appeared in Secret of NIMH, he had a slender appearance with a slender beak as well, he is also quite at a young age since he was looking for a love nest, showing this is his young adult years when he first met Mrs. Brisby.
In the sequel he had aged his voice and was a lot more built in this movie showing it was 12 years since The Rats left to Thorn Valley, he even was big enough to pose as the Great Owl to help Cecil with their ruse.
Role in film[]
The Secret of NIMH[]
In the Film, Jeremy appears when Mrs. Brisby returns from Mr. Ages through a fallen tree. She encounters him trying to free himself from red string which he says is for a nest; Mrs. Brisby begins to remove the string but Jeremy claims he can see Dragon the cat approaching them but he’s mistaken for a rabbit. Afterwards, the real Dragon approaches from inside the log but he’s given away by Jeremy's cat allergy. Mrs. Brisby rescues Jeremy who, in turn, rescues Mrs. Brisby. He flies her to safety but she’s devastated because she lost the medicine for Timothy (given to her by Mr. Ages). Soon, she’s cheered up when Jeremy gives her back the medicine which he found. Afterwards, Mrs. Brisby continues her journey home with Jeremy in tow. He offers to fly her home but she declines saying she’s acrophobic (afraid of heights). Then he flies away when Mrs. Brisby arrives at her house safe and sound.
In his next appearance, Jeremy flies Mrs. Brisby to see The Great Owl who tells her to go to the rats in the rosebush near the farmhouse who will move her house to the Lee of the Stone.
In his third appearance, Jeremy is apprehended (caught) by Auntie Shrew who ties him up in his own string. Then Auntie Shrew leaves him but Jeremy is found by Mrs. Brisby's children who repeatedly asks where their mother is, (earlier he promised Mrs. Brisby to look after her children while she visits the Rats of NIMH and Nicodemus but she also told him not to tell her children where she is).
In his fourth appearance he is seen hiding in the pond while Mrs. Brisby passes through to head home after hearing about the plan to move her house to the Lee of The Stone. He tells her he was captured by Auntie Shrew but he gets distracted by Mrs. Brisby's amulet given to her by Nicodemus. She tells him to get all the string he can to form a lever and pulley system to make the plan work.
Although he does not appear in the film's climax, he does appear afterwards where he arrived at the Brisby home with a bundle of string. There, he is shocked to notice that the house has moved and, disappointed by this, ponders what he will do with all of his string until a female crow equally clumsy as him flies into him by accident. Jeremy then uses his string to make a love nest with her imaginary friend 'Miss Right'. The film ends with Jeremy and Miss Right flying away into the sky together.
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue[]
He took Timothy to Thorn Valley, then as seen later on posed as the Great Owl, until caught and helped Timothy and Jenny to find NIMH.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Woody Allen, Charles Fleischer, Danny DeVito, John Goodman, René Auberjonois, Tom Hulce, and Bob Newhart were all considered for the voice of Jeremy before Dom DeLuise was cast.
- Despite being an ally of Mr. Ages, Jeremy, and Mr. Ages never interact with one another.
- He sometimes has teeth.
- A real-life myth says that crows tend to collect shiny objects, that's probably why Jeremy was hypnotized by Brisby's stone.
- Jeremy's voice actor Dom DeLuise also played Fagin in Oliver & Company, Tiger in An American Tail, Itchy Itchiford in All Dogs Go to Heaven, Christopher Columbus in The Magic Voyage and Stanley in A Troll in Central Park.
- Jeremy was originally going to help Mrs. Brisby drug Dragon, join the fight with Jenner, and save the Brisby house during the film's climax (the most dramatic part of the movie), but he is absent and never returns until the climax is over.
- In The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, he was going to have a bigger role as Timothy Brisby's sidekick on his journey with The Great Owl present. But in the final cut, he has a supporting role.
References[]
- ↑ Mildred Laughlin, Kathy Howard Latrobe, Teacher Ideas Press, 1990, Readers Theatre for Children: Scripts and Script Development page 111/138 "Her son Timothy is too ill to be moved; and the family must leave their home in Farmer Fitzgibbon's garden before his sharp-bladed plow destroys them. Distraught, she decides to seek advice from Jeremy Crow, for whom she has rarlier done a favor."
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 Characters: Mrs. Brisby | The Great Owl | Jeremy | Nicodemus | Mr. Ages | Auntie Shrew | Justin | Jenner | Sullivan | Teresa Brisby | Cynthia Brisby | Martin Brisby | Timothy Brisby | Brutus | Jonathan Brisby | Farmer Paul Fitzgibbons | Mrs. Beth Fitzgibbons | Billy Fitzgibbons | Dragon | Miss Right | Jenny McBride | Cecil | Joseph Valentine | Muriel & Floyd Songs Flying Dreams | My Life and My Love | Come Make the Most of Your Life | I Will Show the World | Magic Mystery Show | Just Say Yes! | All I Had is Gone |