We all know about Brandon and his famous father,Bruce.Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong in 1973,when Brandon was only 8.At the time of his own death,Brandon was becoming a succesful actor of his own,living down the stigma of beeing Bruce Lee´s son.He was also engaged to marry writer Eliza Hutton.By the way,Brandon lived at 1905 Benedict Canyon,in LA.## Brandon and Eliza were going to get married right after the filming his latest moovie,The Crow,was completed.## Brandon supposedly believed that the males in his family were cursed beacause his grandfather angered some Chinese merchants.Some say that Brandon was so obsessed with death that he took to driving around LA,and visiting his friend 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 severily burned by a live electrical wire,another flipped out and drove trough the studio´s plaster workshop,and another carpenter accidentally drove a screwdriver trough his hand.There was one particulary disturbing incident in wich an actor was double checking the gun he was supossed to shot a person with,and found a live bullet instead of blanks.These things probaly happen all the time,but in retrospect they became very important to this story´s mystique.## The film was being shot in Wilmington,North Carolina,at Carolco(now Screen Gems)Studios.Carolco is located at 1223 N. 23rd Street.They were shooting the film on stage 4.It was the 50th day of a 58-day shot.The crew was partially non-union,if that means anything to anybody.(Q: How do you know if a union person is tired? A: They drop theyr donut.)## Brandon´s last sane words were supposedly,´Bang!Bang!Don´t forget to send flowers!´.He was telling another actor to remember to bring the flowers for his upcoming funeral scene.## In preparation for the scene prop man Kuttner filled the gun being used with blanks.The error he made was not checking the gun barrel for obstrubtions.## Shortly after midnight on March 31st,1993,filming the scene began.It was a flashback scene,intented to show how his character was killed(The premise of the flick was that his spirit returns,and avenges his death.)Brandon was wearing a black leather jacket,black boots,corduroys and a T-shirt,with the name of his charcter´s band on the front,´HANGMAN´S JOKE´.## Actor Michael Masee played a drug dealer that had broken into Lee´s apartment,and was in the process of raping Lee´s girlfriend.Brandon was to enter the apartment,and Masse was to shot Lee.It went wrong.## Brandon was carrying a grocery bag that containted a small explosive charge,used to simulate gunfire.Masse was to fire a pistol full of blanks at Brandon,from a distance of about 12 feet.Rehearsal went fine.While camera´s were rolling,and the gun was fired,Lee pulled a trigger hidden behind the grocery bag to set of a ´squib´,a small explosive device designed to create the appearence of the grocey bag bursting within,stuck by a bullet.After seting of the squib,Lee collapsed on the set,bleeding profusely trough the right side of his abdomen.He let out a groan and just collapsed.The scene played on,with Masee´s co-villan muttering in a panic,,that Masee shot the man.Things appeared normal,although Lee didn´t hit floor the same way as they rehearsed.Brandon motioned with his arm,trying to signal distress,but everyone was too involved in the action to notice.Some taught Lee´s acting was extraordinary.One person on the set remembered hearing a faint call from Lee as he lay clutching his belly on the floor.´Cut,cut,somebody please say cut´.The director yelled ´Cut!´.Lee did not get up.## At first the crew taught he was joking,but when realization kicked in,panic erupted-mostly from Michael Masee.Who could blaim him?## Brandon was rushed to the Hanover Regional Medical Center,located at 2131 S. 17 th. Street.They arrived at the Emergency Room entrance about 30 minutes the accident.Lee´s heart had stopped once on the set and once in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.Brandon was taken to the ICU(Intensive Care Unit)where he was operated on for six hours,and he given 60 pints of blood.His body just wouldn´t hold it.## The entry wound was the size of a sillver dollar,and it extented in a straight line to the spine.## Brandon´s fiancée arrived at the hospital around noon,and his mother Linda was on her way from her home in Idaho.At 1:03pm,Brandon died.He was 28 years old.## On the 4th there was a memorial service at Brandon´s backgammon partner Polly Bergen´s home,in Beverly Hills.Over 300 people attented including Steven Segal,David Carradine,Kiefer Sutherland and Brandon´s family and friends.(Info purchesed from www.findadeath.com. Feel free to leave your comments).####*username: guest33##*pasword: 12345

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