On May 13, 1994 was released the movie The Crow, this was an adaptation of the popular comic of the same name. This adaptation was expected to be a great success and to launch its protagonist, Brandon Lee, to stardom, but instead it ended one of the most mysterious trajedias in the history of cinema. Young reader, join me to listen to this story that forever marked the surname Lee
Maybe a little thanks to these controversial and tragically curious aspects, since its launch The Crow served as a starting point for several sequels and video games linked to the franchise, but it was also the cause of lawsuits, judgments and rumors of all kinds.
So to get back to the post about cinema a little, it's time to talk about the death of Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee.
FATHER AND SON
Like his father's, Brandon Lee's death took place under circumstances that have never been fully clarified.
Anyway, the death of Bruce Lee still keeps a much more mysterious and mythical halo, including for example a theory that argues that the legendary martial artist was killed by a kung fu master using the technique of "dim mak" or "Touch of death" (that which consists of an accurate hit in a certain part of the body, which causes death days later, without the victim realizing that it was because of said blow, popularized by Quentin Tarantino in Kill Bill) .
According to this theory of the death of Bruce Lee, the blow was given by a kung fu teacher who considered that Lee had bastardized the martial arts, turning them into a vain western entertainment.
According to the biography of Bruce Lee, he predicted the death of his son when he awoke from a coma, many years before Brandon even made the decision to become a professional actor.
Brandon Lee was injured during the filming of a shooting scene
This is the official theory about his death. In this fatal scene, the character of Brandon Lee enters his house and discovers that his girlfriend is being beaten and raped by some thugs. The script of the film foresee the death of Eric Draven, the character of Lee, and indicated that he should enter the room with a paper bag with his purchases -which contained the small bags of props that would serve to simulate the wounds. of Draven- and that the actor Michael Massee should shoot him. This is when everything went terribly wrong.
The more detailed explanation includes several technical aspects of the weapon that was used, the way in which a shot works and the elements that make up the bullet and the cartridge, but to simplify, it can be said that what should be a fictitious shot, with a innocuous bullet, ended up being a real shot of a 44 Magnum.
LEE WAS HURT IN THE HEAD
After his death and all the mystery that surrounded the event, versions were spread that held that the actor was wounded in the head. However, doctors who went to the recording set claimed that Lee was injured in the abdomen and that the bullet came to damage his spine.
Immediately after the accident, a paramedic team was present to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and he was transferred to a hospital 30 minutes later. According to a note in People magazine, Lee's doctor fought for 5 hours to try to save the actor's life. However, the blood loss was too much and fatal.
Lee's death can be seen in the movie
A myth that had a lot of repercussion, especially for those who rushed to see El Cuervo after knowing the news and carefully scrutinizing every scene that involves a shooting, was that the scene that determined the death of Lee appears in the film . According to these rumors, if one paid enough attention, it could be seen that the actor died.
However, everyone involved with the making of the film assures that the tape of the fatal scene was destroyed after being used as evidence in the investigation.
BRANDON READS ALSO PREDICTED HIS OWN DEATH
According to some testimonies of close friends to Lee, before even starting to shoot El Cuervo, the protagonist spoke about his death and the possibility of dying as his father had done, before finishing the filming of a movie.
A somewhat macabre and spooky fact seen in retrospect, is that, to get into the character of Eric Draven - a rock star who returns from death - Brandon Lee filled dozens of bags with ice and put them around his body , to see how it felt to be a corpse lying on the ground.
THE ACTOR MICHAEL MASSAE DID NOT SEE THE MOVIE
In later interviews, the actor Michael Massee, who was in charge of making the fatal shot by mistake, declared that he never dared to see the full movie. In addition, after finishing filming El Cuervo, he moved from Los Angeles to New York and left the performance for a year.
In 2005, 12 years after filming, he said in an interview that he still had nightmares about it and that he could never get over this event. His most recent work was an appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, where he plays Gustav Fiers (in the first film simply credited as "the man in the shadows").
THE DEAD ACTOR COULD BE JONNY DEPP
The creator of the original comic on which the film was based, James O'Barr, was not very happy with the choice of Brandon Lee as the protagonist and preferred Johnny Depp instead.
Finally, however, when he met Lee on the recording set, already with El Cuervo makeup and costumes, he liked it a lot for the role.
Well, it was a pleasure to talk with you about this anecdote that reminds us of the perfection that not thinking about security, emphasizing the issue of the weapon, can lead to trajedias happening as you are. The theories and myths you can believe or not if you want, but what can not be denied is that the death of Brandom Lee marked a before and after in the history of this family that was only increased by the death of the other great Bruce Lee