In Memory of Brandon Lee

Born Febuary 1, 1965 Died March 31, 1994 He was 29 Years old....

It all seems limitless...

Sometimes the little things seem trivial... "Believe me..Nothing is Trivial"...

Brandon's Tombstone

This quote was spoken by him during his last interview. The entire interview can be seen at the end of "The Crow".

Brandon is buried next to his hero...

his father, Bruce Lee...

The Events of midnight, March 31.. At about 12:30 in the morning on March 31, cameras began to roll on a scene in which Lee's character, Eric, comes through a door carrying a grocery bag and is shot once. Alex Proyas, an Australian musc-video director making his first American feature, had cameras capturing two different angles on the scene, as well as a video hookup in one camera to record the action for quick playback. Actor Michael Massee, who played Funboy, was supposed to fire a .44-caliber revolver at Lee from a distant of about 15 feet, at which point Lee would detonate a squib ( a small explosive charge ) planted in the grocery bag to simulate the rip-and-shred effect of the bullet. As risky as that may sound, it was nothing compared with the scene that had been filmed just a week earlier in which Lee had been "shot"- and - "squibbed"- about 50 times per take... As a crew of between 75 and 100 people looked on, Massee fired the gun, the squib in the grocery bag detonated on cue, and Lee fell to the ground. Not until the scene ended and Lee failed to get up did anyone realize he had been shot. "It didn't really appear to the people on the set like anything was wrong," according to one eyewitness. What the cast and crew of The Crow saw soon enough was that Lee was bleeding profusely from the right side of his abdomen. An ambulance was called, and emergency medical technicians raced the unconscious actor to New Hanover Regional Medical Center. When he was brought in shortly after 1 a.m., doctors discovered a silver-dollar-size entry wound, stabilized him "as best as possible," and rushed him into surgery. For five hours they tried to repair extensive vascular and intestinal damage and stem bleeding so severe that Lee was eventually tranfused with 60 pints of blood - the equivelent of a full supply for five grown men. Lee's fiancee flew to Wilmington as soon as she heard of the shooting. When she reached the hospital, Lee was in the trauma-neuro intensive care unit. He never awakened. With Hutton at his side, Lee died at 1:04 p.m. R.I.P.