Brandon Lee 1965-1993
March 31 1993, was the day Brandon Lee was fataly injured during the making of The Crow.
Brandon Bruce lee was born on February 1, 1965, in Oakland, California. He was the son of martial arts expert and actor Bruce Lee and Linda lee, Brandon Lee had his life cut short by tragedy, just like his father. Brandon grew up in San Francisco, but he spent a few years in Hong Kong. Sadly, Brandon lost his father when he was only 8 years old. Bruce Lee died of cerebral edema, a build-up of fluid in the brain, in Hong Kong under mysterious circumstances. After his father's death, he moved to Seattle with his mother and sister.
Brandon Lee The early years
Being the son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee was not easy!
When Brandon Lee was eight, his father died suddenly from cerebral edema. After her husband's death, Linda Lee moved the family (including daughter Shannon Lee) back to the United States. They lived briefly in his mother's hometown of Seattle, Washington, and then in Los Angeles, where Lee grew up in the affluent area of Rolling Hills. According to his mother, he was "a handful... either the teacher's pet, or the teacher's nightmare." Brandon had a hard time growing up. He moved around from place to place, and he struggled with other kids because his dad was a martial arts legend and movie star. As a teenager, he got into a lot of trouble at school and dropped out several times. He attended high school at The Chadwick School, but was asked to leave for insubordination three months before graduating. He received his GED in 1983, and then went to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts where he majored in theater. While college wasn't for him, acting was definitely his passion. After one year, Lee moved to New York City where he took acting lessons at the famed Lee Strasberg Academy and was part of the American New Theatre group founded by his friend John Lee Hancock. The bulk of Lee's martial arts instruction came from his father's top student, Dan Inosanto.Initially staying away from martial arts films, Lee eventually embraced his heritage. He made his first feature film, Legacy of Rage (1986), in Hong Kong, which was in Cantonese, a language he knew since childhood.
Kung Fu: The Movie - Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee plays an assassin in Kung Fu: The Movie
Brandon appeared in Kung Fu: The Movie with David Carradine, which was shown on television. He played a deadly assassin and his powerful fight scenes made quite an impression on viewers.In Kung Fu: The Movie, Lee played Chung Wang, the suspected son of Kwai Chang Caine (played by David Carradine). This seemed ironic at the time as Brandon's father Bruce Lee was originally intended to have played the leading role in the Kung Fu TV series as he had also come up with the original concept for the TV series, but in the end he was turned down for playing the lead in favor for Carradine.
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Legacy of Rage starring Brandon Lee
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Laser Mission starring Brandon Lee
Laser Mission (1990)
It was released on VHS in Europe in 1990.
Laser Mission
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Showdown in Little Tokyo starring Brandon Lee and Dolph Lundgren
The two were made for each other - Kenner (played by Dolph) doesn't appreciate American culture, while Johnny (played by Brandon)doesn't much like Japanese culture. One thing they both enjoy are the martial arts, of which they are both experts.
The two set out to take down the Yakuza Clan and bust the leaders. Finding out it wont be easy, they set out to use their fighting skills to bring down the clan one by one!
This is a great movie to watch and Brandon really shines in this movie! A must have in your collection of Brandon Lee movies.
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Rapid Fire starring Brandon Lee and Powers Boothe
Rapid Fire (1992) - Brandon Lee
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The Crow Starring Brandon Lee
The Crow (1993) - Brandon Lee
With his career on an upswing, Lee signed on to play Eric Draven in The Crow based on the comic books of James O'Barr. In the film, his character is a murdered rock musician who comes back from the dead to take his revenge on the gang that killed him and his girlfriend. Unfortunately, there were a series of mishaps during the course of shooting, starting with the first day when a crew member was almost electrocuted. Toward the end of production, Lee was performing his death scene for the film when he was struck by a bullet that had been lodged in the prop gun-it was only supposed to be a blank. The bullet pierced through his abdomen and ended up near his spine.
Lee was taken to the hospital where surgeons tried to stop the bleeding and repair the damage, but they were unsuccessful. He died on March 31, 1993, from his injuries. Before this tragic accident, Lee had planned to marry his fiancée on April 17 in Mexico. Instead, he was buried next to his father in Seattle on April 3, 1993. For months stories swirled around about whether or not the shooting was intentional. There was an investigation, which determined that his death was an accident-the result of the prop gun not being properly checked between uses.
The Crow was released the next year after additional scenes were shot to complete the film. Audiences turned out in droves to see Lee's haunting final film.
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- The Death of Brandon Lee
- Brandon and Eliza were going to get married right after the filming his latest movie, The Crow, was completed.
Brandon supposedly believed that the males in his family were cursed because his grandfather angered some Chinese merchants. Some say that Brandon was so obsessed with death, that he took to driving around LA in a hearse, and visiting Jim Morrison's grave in Paris. Sounds pretty normal to me. He told friends that he would never live to see 30. Guess what - he was right.
The set of The Crow was plagued with problems from the get go, including one worker that was severely burned by a live electrical wire, another flipped out and drove through the studio's plaster workshop, and another carpenter accidentally drove a screwdriver through his hand. There was one particularly disturbing incident in which an actor was double-checking the gun he was supposed to shoot a person with, and found a live bullet instead of blanks. These things probably happen all the time, but in retrospect they become very important to this story's mystique.
Brandon and Bruce Lee Gravesite
Lake View Cemetery, Capitol Hill, Seattle
Brandon Lee was laid to rest next to his father on April 3rd 1993 at Lake View Cemetery, Capitol Hill, Seattle.This quote is inscribed on his tombstone...
"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 cannot 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 twenty. And yet it all seems limitless..."
He had planned to marry his fiancé, Eliza Hutton, in Mexico, but he died 17 days before his wedding.
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LarryBass
Very nice lens about Brandon. Thank you for such a fine contribution. Posted May 18, 2008 |
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cryan
Great Lens Posted April 07, 2008 |
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KimGiancaterino
It's hard to believe 15 years have passed since the accident. I've seen The Crow at least a dozen times and feel sad for Brandon. He was on the brink of so many good things and left the world far too soon. Blessed by a Squid Angel. Posted April 04, 2008 |
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ArtisticMind
taken too early like his father.. I loved The Crow! Posted April 02, 2008 |
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theawristocrat
Nice lens. Rated it 5 stars. Posted April 01, 2008 |
