What abuot Brandon Lee???

[yireses]

What abuot Brandon Lee how good was he? Thats if he was good??

[Draven Chen Zhen]

Dunno, I only know that he died on the set of The Crow on strange surcomstances

[Icetuete]

yeah, he was shot by accident as far is i remember.

[Drunken Monkey]

legend has it that you watch him 'die' in the film....

 

i can't really remember what happened.

 

something to do with blanks, live rounds, set explosives, whatever mix up accident.

 

don't forget, blanks can kill too....

[Luckykboxer]

ok to clear up a few myths.

 

you did not see him die on film, as a matter of fact all footage of him being actually shot was never editted in to the final film.

 

what happened.... there are many versions, but the version that seems to be the concensus is this..

 

they film using a gun in many ways, in some shots where they use a close up of the gun shooting a bullet, they will use a dead round... which is an empty shell with no gun powder and a bullet attached to it, so it looks exactly like a live round.

 

It doesnt have the ability to be shot though.

 

but when you are on a close up of a revolver and are filming what you see is the front of the gun and the heads fo the bullets in the chamber.

 

ok so they get done filming that and unknown to them when they were removing the dead rounds a bullet slipped out of the shell and staying in the barrel of the gun.

 

when they reloaded the gun with blanks for shooting...

 

blanks carry about a 1/4 load... so it makes a bang... gives a flash, and looks real... not as powerful as a regular round, but that much gunpowder can still launch a bullet at close range with enough velocity to penetrate a human.

 

so anyways they get to the scene where they shoot Brandon.

 

the actor does his job, aims, fires, and the bullet lodged in the barrel is dispelled similar to a regular round... the rest is history.

 

May the Lees rest in peace

[Drunken Monkey]

like i said, 'legend has it...'

 

anyway.

 

i have to say it's never interested me enough to make me go and find out how he got killed.

 

in my mind, a person is either alive or dead.

 

how or why doesn't really interest me and doesn't really have much relevance to the person.

 

the only thing i need to know is that he died in an accident on set.

 

that's enough for me.

[White Warlock]

The gun, used for the scene, only shoots blanks. It is designed to give an impressive dispersal of burning gunpowder out of the barrel. In a previous take, a portion of a blank got lodged in the barrel (not a real bullet... just a fragment of a blank). When they reloaded it with a new blank for the next take, the fragment dislodged and was propelled into Brandon's abdomen. From what i recall, it struck his aorta... but i'm fuzzy on this.

 

Anyway, it was a fluke, but such a fluke had to happen eventually. The movie was being made in Canada, where they're able to avoid the unions, guild requirements on having a certain amount of extras, the laws in the U.S. pertaining to movie making, and where they can get away with paying less for more. This, of course, provides a lot more money returns to investors... but screws the people who make the movies (extras and off-camera crew). The main actors come out fine, so they rarely complain. It had become a very common practice to make movies and series in Canada, and it was actually hurting the acting industry as a whole. Same with making movies/series in New Zealand (Hercules and Xena for example).

 

The part about paying less for more is what killed Brandon Lee. The off-camera crew were being overworked and were generally underpaid, so their energy level and professionalism were being undermined. The prop man was supposed to check and clean the gun after every take, to avoid these kinds of accidents from happening... but he was pulled away to take care of some other props and had failed to return to the gun and clean it before it was taken back to the stage. An assistant loaded the gun and... Brandon died a needless death.

 

Nothing mysterious... just tragic.