Basic Info
Released: Friday the 13th, May, 1994
Setting: Futuristic/gothic psuedo-Detroit
Film Color Scheme: Red
Length: 101 minutes
Gross: $94 million
Director: Alex Proyas
Producer: Edward R. Pressman and Jeff Most
Screenplay: David J. Schow and John Shirley
Plot:
A man named Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) was killed along with his fiancée, Shelly Webster (Sofia Shinas), who was also raped by a gang of street thugs who broke into their apartment on "Devil's Night" (October 30). One year later, he is resurrected by a crow and seeks out vengeance on his murderers, killing them one at a time. He is able to defeat his enemies because when he was brought back, he was made invulnerable: Nothing can kill him, and all injuries he takes are healed almost instantly, no matter how serious they are.
Setting
The city that the story takes place in is never explicitly stated and almost all aerial shots are actually miniatures with CG elements overlayed. We can assume though that the events take place in Detroit through several clues and references throughout the film;
* Devil's Night is culturally associated with the Detroit area.
* In an early bar scene T-Bird refers to his gang as "Motor-city ********". Detroit is commonly known as the motor city due to its main industry of car manufacturing.
* T-Bird mentions that "Lake Erie caught on fire once from all the crap floating around in it". Detroit is located at the western end of Lake Erie
Cast
Eric Draven (Brandon Lee)
Shelly Webster (Sofia Shinas)
Sarah (Rochelle Davis)
Officer Albrecht (Ernie Hudson)
Top Dollar (Michael Wincott)
Grange (Tony Todd)
T-Bird (David Patrick Kelly)
Skank (Angel David)
Tin Tin (Laurence Mason)
Funboy (Michael Massey)
Myca (Bai Ling)
Darla (Anna Thomson)
Gideon (Jon Polito)
Also featuring My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Added Scenes
When Brandon died, there was 8 days of filming left in the movie. To finish out the rest of the movie, they used a live body double and some digital composing. Dream Quest was the company who did the special effect for breaking the mirror, Brandon did not break the mirror because the scene was shot after his death. DreamQuest manged to make it look like Brandon did it. The scene of him entering the loft was the stunt double, on most of the shots that are behind brandon in the loft are the body doubles.
Cut Scenes
Early in the film T-Bird and the gang torch Arcade games, after that they were supposed to victimize Alison and leave to die in theensuring firebomb. Eric follows the crow and arrives at the building just after it excepts, the woman slowly fades in his hands, and he gets his first flashbacks.
The scene when T-Bird says smokes and road beers at the corner store. Skank gets shot by two young thugs after running outside from the store after seeing T-Bird get carjacked by Draven.
The biggest cut of all was the Skull Cowboy scenes. He is also eric's guide. He tells Eric to follow the bird and not to work for the living. If he worked for the living like he did for darla, he bled, which explains the tape on this wrists. The scene with Funboy getting the knife in the bathroom and stabbing Draven was also cut, Eric bled because he helped the living.
Brandon Lee
I don't know where to begin.
Taken far too soon. I tried writing my own, but it's really too hard, i cry. so i stole this.
Brandon's life began on February 1, 1965, in Oakland, California.
From the word go Brandon was always going to be a tough kid. His Mother Linda, commented, "Brandon was a challenging kid to raise because he was always challenging the norm.” As a child he was not afraid of trying new things, as he wanted to experience all he could.
In 1966, the art of Jeet Kune Do (JKD) was formed by a group of Martial arts systems that Brandon's Father Bruce Lee, felt worked for him .He was eager to share this new art with his toddler son, who took to it like a duck to water.
For the young Brandon Lee having older men yelling and screaming in the backyard was normal, However, it was not always considered normal outside of his family’s walls. This proved to be the case when Brandon would bring his playmates home from his class. As soon as they would observe Brandon's father and his friends sparring and preforming numerous drills, they would run screaming from the house. For Brandon his friend’s reactions must have been very confusing.
Being the only child for four years (Shannon was born in 1969), Bruce and Brandon were two peas in a pod whether it was training or riding their bikes around the neighbourhood. They had a tight bond.
By the late 60's, after Green hornet was cancelled Bruce Lee’s Hollywood career took a dramatic stop. In 1970, while trying to arrange a Visa for his mother to come to the United States the older lee took Brandon to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Bruce found out that the Green Hornet show had been renamed the Kato show, and he was indeed a hero in his hometown. He was invited to appear on a talk show with Brandon in tow. Bruce showed off his JKD skills on Hong Kong television, as did 5-year-old Brandon.
The appearance caught the eye of Hong Kong producer Raymond Chow, who signed Bruce to a film contract with his company "Golden harvest". Soon after Bruce relocated the Family from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, and Brandon started to attend a Chinese catholic boy school. He had to wear a uniform, and learn to speak and write in Chinese.
As his father's career started to soar, he began having trouble at school because of Bruce's celebrity status in Hong Kong. He got that high profile that Brandon, and Shannon had to be escorted to school of a morning because of fears that they might be kidnapped.
Brandon also would visit his father on the sets of his films, which he later described as “Magic”. When Brandon was 8 in July of 1973, Bruce lee died of a cerebral oedema. He was only 32 years of age.
After his father's very public funeral in Hong Kong, and a more private one in Seattle, Washington, Linda, settled the family in Los Angeles in 1974. It was in Los Angeles where the 9 year old had to adjust to his now much different life and his new role as head of the family.
Not long after settling back into Los Angeles life his mother enrolled Brandon in a martial arts school. The IMB academy was at that time run by Bruce Lee's students Dan Inosanto and Richard Bustillo, located in Torrance, California.
Brandon was still coming to terms with his own grief, and the many photos that donned the academy were too much for him and he ran crying from the class. It was also at the academy that the 9-year-old Brandon would first met the 18-year-old Jeff Imada. Imada was a newly made instructor and would help teach the Children's class. Imada would go on to much success as a Stunt co-ordinator in Hollywood, and would later work on Brandon's American feature films. Brandon eventually drifted from the Martial arts. Turning his back on the only tie he had to his father's chief discipline and passion.
Brandon was never one to shy from action. Throughout his childhood he was active in all sports. As he grew older his natural talent in comedy begun to emerge. He was a grant comedian blessed with a wonderful sense of humour. This humour became to be expressed in practical jokes. In the fourth Grade, he taped a sound effect of a monster from TV. During a class presentation of one of his fellow students, he left a tape recorder in the class closet, and left the first 10 minutes blank, so the noises progressively got louder. While one of the students was making a speech, the sonic volume increased. The class was in laughter at the marvel of the joke and the teacher in amazement, but Brandon was sent to the principal’s office. Such activities became frequent throughout his teenage years. As an adult Brandon adored playing elaborate practical jokes on his friends.
The older Brandon got the more he struggled with the shadow of Bruce lee. He was constantly being challenged at school in the playground. Brandon later referred to this period of his life as the “ gunslinger syndrome”. Childhood is often felt like the cruellest place on earth, and this was surely the case for young Brandon. He later recalled how easy it was for someone to provoke a fight with him, “ Frankly all someone had to say was ‘Your Bruce Lee's son, well your father was a wimp”. I don't consider getting into fights particularly admirable. I think it's the natural responsibility of an involved martial artist to avoid a confrontation. Within the last few years I have taken great pains to that unless someone physically threatens me”. It was often his lack of self- restraint that got him kicked out of several high schools for insubordination.
In his senior year he was elected student body president, but his ideas for the school did not fit in well with the strict environment of the administration. He started to display disrespect for teachers and authority and three months shy of graduating he was asked to leave the school. Brandon received his GED, from a nearly High school.
His erratic nature was not confined to his school. As a teenager he had erected a tree house in the backyard and one night decided to liberate a car. After realising that he was being followed by the LAPD patrol car, he decided to brazen it and drove home to his mother’s house. He then casually walked into the house. The following patrol officer woke his sleeping mother. She ordered Brandon to destroy his tree house as punishment. Brandon was trying hard to find his own image and tear down the 'Bruce Lee's' son image anyway, he could.
In 1983, when he was 18, he went to the DMV and posed as a driving instructor. He managed to convince a 16-year-old girl that he was her instructor. He commented later that it was his last joke that potentially could have gotten him arrested.
After he received his GED he had not wanted to go to college, but family friend Andre Morgan convinced him otherwise. Brandon moved to the east coast city of Boston to attend the arts orientated university Emerson College. At Emerson he majored in Theatre studies, but the academic life was one not for him and he soon left. Brandon was still struggling with not only being Bruce lee's son, and accepting other people's perception of him, but to make people see that he was serious about acting.
After a year in Boston he moved to New York City, to take acting lessons under the tuition of Eric Morris. He preformed repertory plays such as Fool for love, Cowboy Nam, and Into the fire. He also Played ‘Ged’, in an Equity Waver House production of zoo story. To support himself like many struggling actors he worked as a waiter. In addition to Eric Morris classes, he attended the Lee Strasburg Acting Academy. At the time of his death he was still actively involved in acting classes, studying under Lynette Katselas in Los Angeles.
In 1985, while back in L.A working as a office boy for Ruddy/Morgan productions, he was introduced to casting director Lyn Stalmaster, who was looking for a young actor to play a bit part in cannonball 3. Brandon looking for a chance to gain his SAG union card went along to the casting call. He did not get the part, but he was asked to read for the part in a telemovie Stalmaster was casting.
The project was Kung Fu: The movie.
Brandon makes his debut....
Brandon knew the comparisons that would be made between him and his father, he knew that he had the chance to make a name for himself. On Brandon's 21st Birthday, he made his Debut in ‘Kung Fu: The Movie’ co-staring with David Carradine, who stared in the original TV series. The original series was in fact partly created by his father Bruce under the title of ‘ The Warrior’. Bruce was later denied the lead role because it was feared 1960's American audiences could not relate to an Asian actor in the lead role.
Brandon not entirely comfortable with preforming Martial arts on screen, but still was able to shine in such a stereotypical role. He followed that role with leading role in a Hong Kong production ‘Legacy of Rage’. After which he returned to L.A to film a pilot of ‘Kung Fu: The next Generation’, but the show was not picked up.
The following year in 1988, he went to South Africa, to star in an English production ‘Laser Mission’. Brandon was now was becoming increasing frustrated at his lack of opportunities in the U.S.
Time for a change...
By 1989 times were tough for Brandon. He was in professional Abyss, surviving just barely. His life both professional and personal had come to a crossroads, and so he decided something had to change. Pondering over the unpaid bills, and how his film career had not really gone as planned. He made the bold decision to go back to where it all started. Instead of running away from his heritage, he was going to embrace it. He returned to the instructorship of Dan Inosanto, his father chief student. Brandon started to train several times a week at the world famous Inosanto Academy located in Marina Del Rey. At first Inosanto was unsure at how his other students would react to the news of Brandon training at the Academy, "I was Afraid that some of my students might take it easy on him because of his father however, He turned out just beautiful," Dan said in a 1998 interview. In fact Brandon's Parentage was hardly even an issue. His appearance at the Academy was very low key. Brandon embrace not only training in his father's art of JKD, but he also wanted to learn anything he possibly could from a wide variety of other martial arts. He attended seminars given by the Academy and in 1990 he even took and passed his Muay Thai test for level one instructorship, an extremely difficult test to pass. Brandon Became only one out of 16 people certified under the Thai kick boxing master Chai Sirisute. His commitment to his training paid off when a burglar broke into Brandon's house in Echo Park in late 1990. Brandon's martial artist’s instinct set in. The burglar in question not only did not escape but Brandon managed to break several limbs of the burglars. After the burglar got out of the hospital he was sentenced to 2 years in Jail for breaking and entering.
Brandon had also reached new heights in his confidence towards himself and his own abilities. He began to take an Interest in how fight scenes worked. He studied his father's films and those of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, as well as other Hong Kong films and martial artists. He broke the scene down to see what fights worked. Setting his mind on future roles he took his video camera down to the Academy and filmed how people moved naturally. It was his hope to portray more realistic fights on screen.
There had been a lot of changes in his life. 1990 served as the year Brandon would finally meet his match in love. Eliza Hutton, a shy and reserved brunette impressed Brandon at their first meeting. It soon became apparent the couple were very much in love. Eliza was director Renny Harlin's Personal assistant. Harlin and Brandon shared the same agent David Goldman at the William Morris Agency at the time. After Brandon met Eliza he told his own manager/friend Jan Mc Cormack that he had found the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. Note: For more on Brandon and Eliza please visit our page on this aspect of his life by going here.[ Insert web site]
In early 1991, Brandon won the supporting role in Showdown in Little Tokyo (SILT). At the time Brandon had been working with Producer Robert Lawrence on working on getting Rapid fire off the ground. He had been active on the audition circuit when SILT fell in his lap. It became his American feature film debut. After completion of SILT, Brandon started filming Rapid fire (Originally called "Moving Target"). He was finally getting the chance to star in his own lead role and he was ready for this. In preparation, Lee had enlisted the help of a personal trainer to tone his body and make him look right for the part. He met Darryl Chan on the set of SILT, where Chan was hired as a stunt double. On the first day of shooting lee had approached Chan and told him that he would be the first person he would be killing on screen. To which Chan replied that he was honoured. Brandon observed Chan around the set, and quickly noticed how his biceps would not contract. Thinking he was somehow holding them in to make them look bigger, he finally got tired of staring at them and grabbed Chan's Arms and blurted out "Jesus you cant be holding them in that long". After that, Brandon and Darryl talked. Brandon told him how he was looking for a good personal trainer, and after the film wrapped Chan gave Lee his card. Lee saw from his card that he was certified in sports medicine and the two exchanged phone numbers and started training.
Between doing promotion for SILT, and getting ready for Rapid fire, Brandon trained at Darryl's gym in what limited time they had. Six days a week, he worked on his Biceps, Triceps, Quads, and though at times they were large gaps in between their sessions Brandon, did achieve what he set out to do. If you watch SILT, and then Rapid Fire, you will notice how much more Lee is toned in the latter.
Rapid Fire started Filming in the summer of 1991. It’s located was mainly in Los Angeles but also filmed a much difficult scene on the Chicago train tracks. Brandon had worked long and hard in pre production to not only look the part but also prove that he was up to what acting the script called for. He worked closely with the scriptwriter to ensure that his character was one the audience would sympathise with. With Jeff Imada as the stunt co-ordinator for the film, Brandon had all round confidence in his not only acting and martial arts abilities as well. He felt that this project was going to be a stepping-stone to a great start in a long career. In Addition to Jeff, Brandon hired his young sister Shannon to work as his Assistant on the film. Shannon had just graduated from her voice degree in New Orleans and enjoyed watching her big brother at this important stage in his career. Shannon later revealed she really loved the experience, but commented that it was probably a good thing that she was related to Brandon, as he joked that he wished that he could call her up at 3am and ask her to bring a six pack down to set. However, he felt that he couldn't do that because she was his baby sister. During Rapid Fire's filming Brandon learned about suffering for his art. In a scene he kicked against a much stronger padded door and broke several bones in one of his feet. The accident caused him to take 1 month off production on bed rest.
After filming the film lee prepared himself for heavy promotion. He was made more appealing after he signed to film deals with both Carolco and 20-century Fox Studios. Lee was enjoying the spotlight. Finally he was having his moment in the sun, and one he had worked long and hard to obtain. In Interviews there were always the Questions about Bruce, which Brandon tolerated. Brandon was very polite at shifting the focus off negative aspects like his Father's death on to more positive ones like his own career and his movie at hand. Brandon understood that the public were interested in knowing about Bruce's son. His charm and wit won over even the most cynical journalist. He was living proof that sheer determination and natural talent can accomplish and overcome any obstacle life may deal you. Brandon lee was his own little American Dream.
Enter the Crow...
It was the summer of 1992, when Brandon first read the Crow script. After only reading half the script, he told his manager that ‘you just have to get me this part’. Through his talent Agency William Morris lee was introduced to Producer Jeff Most and Executive Producer Edward R Pressman. Several meetings later he was given the part. Lee was eager to prove to critics and film producers that there was so much more to him then just his surname.
Brandon was on the a promotion tour for Rapid Fire in Europe in late 1992, and he discussed his new upcoming role in The Crow “ My next role is called ‘The crow’, in it I play a musician who is murdered and returns to avenge the murders. I am looking forward to the role a lot”.
Whilst on the tour he proposed to his girlfriend Eliza on a trip to Paris, France and Venice, Italy. After returning home to the United States, Brandon, and Eliza threw a cocktail party for their family and friends. They took this opportunity to announce their engagement.
Say goodbye to Hollywood…
In late January 1993, Brandon arrived in Wilmington, North Carolina with Eliza by his side.
The principle photography begun the day of his 28th birthday, February 1st, 1993. Everyone on the set was enthusiastic watching Lee as the painted face Un-dead Rocker Eric Draven.
Brandon had done sufficient research into his character, though Eric Draven was obviously fiction. He even packed himself with bags of ice in order to prepare. This was in order to determine how his character would walk, when he came back from the dead. Producers of the crow were furious with the actor because if this incident. Brandon said in an interview before his death, that he got into argument with one of the producers over his research techniques, but totally unapologetic for how he method acted.
It was not long into production when frequent on-set accidents started to happen. First, a carpenter was badly burned in a set fire, then a freak storm destroyed one the backlots. There were rumours some crew had resorted to taking cocaine to deal with the long hours required on set. Brandon concerned with the safety of his and his co-stars, even put in a complaint via his Manager Jan McCormack, just weeks before his death. Her response from Bob Rosen was less then helpful. Rosen said in no unspoken terms that the production had to finish at all cost, and he did not care what it cost as long as it was not money.
The weeks leading up until Brandon’s death were stressful indeed. Brandon, himself started to suffer from chronic insomnia, and was by all accounts counting the days until he was back home in California. He was intensely excited about his upcoming marriage to Eliza, slated for April 17th, 1993.
He often told his co-stars, and members of the crew of his happiness. He proudly would tell journalists visiting the set of his next project. He commented to A Magazine Editor Jeff Yang when asked what his next role was “It starts production April 17th, and is going to go on for about 50 years – I am getting married”.
His beloved fiancée Eliza Hutton was on set for much of the production but returned to LA the week before his death, in order to make the final preparations for their wedding in Mexico.
It happened one night…
March 30, 1993 started out like a normal day. Brandon woke up late afternoon, he called his fiancée Eliza, and she advised him that her wedding ring had finally arrived from the jewellers. Brandon arrived on set at a little before 8pm. Earlier that afternoon he had been happily chatting about his wedding with the staff at the local gym he trained at most days. After a light dinner he called his mother from the set. They chatted casually about his wedding, which was only less than three weeks away. He told his mother of his relief that this was the last night of all the action scenes. The rest of the week was to be flashback scenes – relative easy work.
The scene Brandon was shooting was his character’s death scene. A few weeks before the scene began shooting it had been decided that Eric Draven – Brandon’s character would be stabbed by the killers, and then thrown out the window. Only hours before the shoot Director Alex Proyas had decided that Draven would be shot as well. Once it was decided how his character was to be killed, they worked out that he should be carrying an object. A ‘Squib’, which is a small explosive charge used with a small bag of blood was placed instead a bag his character would be carrying. When the squib is detonated, it bleeds fake blood to make it look like the subject had been actually shot. The squib was placed in a brown grocery bag not on Brandon, as one would expect of such a production.
Brandon had worn a bullet proof safety vest on one previous scene. In it, he was shot close to 90 times, but on this night, the stunt team determined that a vest would not be warranted. It was not expected that the gun would be directed at his body. There were more then forty squibs in the bag that Brandon was carrying. The gun was not to be pointed at the bag just vaguely in the direction. Besides Brandon was a safe distance from the gun and vests were only used when characters were shot at point blank.
Brandon had a thought during the scenes initial rehearsal. He felt that his character should be wearing a walkman. His feelings were his character would not just walk into his apartment knowing that someone was attacking his girlfriend. Brandon now wearing a walkman and carrying a grocery bag waited patiently ready for director Proyas to yell ‘action’. Several members of the crew were on set watching the pending action. The actor Michael Massee, who was playing one of the villains’ had been chosen to shoot Brandon’s character. Members of the crew recall according to reports remember hearing Proyas directing Massee to shot above Brandon’s shoulder in rehearsal. It is unclear if this direction was later repeated in the filmed take.
At a little past midnight, Brandon walked through his character’s wooden door, wearing a walkman, and bopping to the music. Massee’s character Funboy said a line and then pointed the prop gun at Brandon and fired. Brandon fell but not as previously planned with Imada. At this time no one had suspected anything was wrong. Some crew members thought Lee was joking around, as he had previously done in other scenes by not moving. Imada walked over to Lee thinking he was playing a joke, but Brandon was not joking in fact he was barely conscious. By the time anyone noticed a serious accident had occurred he had lost consciousness and never gained it again.
On-set medic Clyde Baisey came over to Brandon, who it seemed was staring out into space, but was in fact unconscious. At first, it was thought that because he fell backwards near the doorway, that he had somehow hit his head, or hurt his spine in someway. There was also a theory that the squib had somehow lodged into his stomach, and that he was just in shock.
After tearing away some clothing, Baisey noticed as he was taking his vitals how alarming low they were. Within a few minutes Brandon did not seem to have a pulse. It was difficult to determine where his injury was coming from since the squibs had exploded fake blood all over his stomach. Baisey could not find any evidence of a wound – the actual wound was no bigger then a quarter coin it was later determined. Baisey shouted for 911 to be called. At this time Brandon’s abdomen started to swell, which indicated that he had internal bleeding. Massee the actor who shot Brandon went into shock, and had to console by one of the crew. The majority of the cast and crew were in a state of panic. Some left the room, but many had decided to stay since to get out they would have to go past where Brandon laid.
Precious minutes went past and there was still no sign of the ambulance. It was close to 15 minutes after they were called that they were allowed to enter the back lot. When the ambulance arrived Brandon still had no pulse. They immediately set up an IV. Once on the gurney it was determined that his heart had stopped. The heart monitor was showing a flat line, while the brain was alive and telling the heart to beat, the blood was not getting to the heart. Emergency CPR was done, but his organs were fast breaking down due to the internal bleeding. His chances of survival were fading fast.
After arriving at the emergency department at New Hanover Medical Centre an X-Ray of his abdomen revealed that a projectile was sitting next to the spine. Despite this discovery the immediate threat to his life was the lack of blood circulation. His artery had been damaged when he was shot, and without surgery to replace the lost blood, he had no hope. A surgeon was on that night, and Brandon was rushed into surgery to replace the lost blood. He received multiple pints of blood, but little progress was made.
Imada fearing the worst thought he should call to see how Eliza was taking the news. He had previously been told that someone had called her, but the truth was much different. No one had called Eliza and he would be the first one to break the news to her. Eliza at first thought Imada was helping Brandon play a Practical joke on her. It was after all near April Fools Day. Imada on the other had called with the assumption that she had been told of the accident. He asked her if she was taking a plane out. Eliza asked him what he was talking about and if “Brandon had put him up to this?”. He told her no and that there had been a accident and Brandon was in the hospital. Fearing the worst Eliza Hutton jumped on the first plane to Atlanta from L.A to meet a connecting flight to Wilmington, North Carolina. She also made a call to Brandon’s mother Linda. According to a 2000 interview with Shannon Lee, Eliza said that Brandon had been hurt, but none of them knew what exactly happened.
Linda did not know how badly hurt he was, and did not get on a plane until the hospital called her with an update at 4am. She called his sister Shannon, who was living in New Orleans. They both jumped on the first plane they could and made their way to Wilmington. The Lee women would not reach Wilmington until several hours after Brandon had died. Eliza Hutton and Jeff Imada met their plane and Eliza broke the bad news to them that Brandon was dead.
Jeff Imada volunteered to meet Eliza’s plane in Atlanta. While waiting for the connecting flight he broke the news that his injuries were much more serious then they thought. Eliza called The Crow’s costume designer Arianne Phillips, who she shared mutual friends with in New York from the airport frantic with worry because the connecting plane had no phone on it and until she arrive in Wilmington there would be no way she could check on Brandon’s condition. Phillips tried to calm her down and assure her that the accident probably was not as bad as they had been led to believe.
Hutton and Imada landed in Wilmington just after midday on March 31st. They went straight to the hospital where Lee was laying in intensive care. Eliza was taken directly to Brandon’s room where she spent her last moments with Brandon, though Brandon still was unconscious. A short time later she and Imada were called into the surgeon’s office. Eliza in the company of Jeff Imada and Jeff Cadiente, Brandon’s good friends, received the worst news possible. Brandon was not expected to make it through the day. Hutton was understandably an emotional wreck and was being consoled by Imada when the doctor was called out for a code red.
Brandon’s heart had stopped again. All measures had been done, but his organs had all failed.
He was pronounced dead at 1:04pm on the afternoon of Wednesday 31st of March 1993. He was 28.
((this info was officially STOLEN from various sites))
Brandon Lee
the crow
Brandon
And he has left us.
yet, in his absence,
His presence is
And shall be
Stronger than ever.
For he is
everywhere now,
And he is
inside of us;
We, who witnessed
The brilliance
Of his flame
And were warmed
by its heat;
We, who heard
the chimes
of his churchbell laughter
Ring the plains
of starry dawns;
We, who stood
in the pure rain
of his divine
And noble spirit
Are now its
blessed, honoured keepers.
Whithin and through us
He shall live on
And our lives
Shall ever be enriched
By him
in ways
Wondrous and untold.
Fly high, dear friend.
-Robert Zuckerman
March 31, 1993
Brandon Lee
the crow
Brandon
And he has left us.
yet, in his absence,
His presence is
And shall be
Stronger than ever.
For he is
everywhere now,
And he is
inside of us;
We, who witnessed
The brilliance
Of his flame
And were warmed
by its heat;
We, who heard
the chimes
of his churchbell laughter
Ring the plains
of starry dawns;
We, who stood
in the pure rain
of his divine
And noble spirit
Are now its
blessed, honoured keepers.
Whithin and through us
He shall live on
And our lives
Shall ever be enriched
By him
in ways
Wondrous and untold.
Fly high, dear friend.
-Robert Zuckerman
March 31, 1993
