Brandon Lee : Part II

Here is Brandons Last Hours before his tragic death.

Shortly after midnight on March 31st, 1993, filming the scene began. It was a flashback scene, intended 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 characterâ??s band on the front, "HANGMANâ??S JOKE."
Actor Michael Masee <Michael%20Massee.JPG> played a drug dealer that had broken into Leeâ??s apartment, and was in the process of raping Leeâ??s girlfriend. Brandon was to enter the apartment, and Masse was to shoot Lee. It went wrong.
Brandon was carrying a grocery bag that contained a small explosive charge, used to simulate gunfire. Massee was to fire a pistol full of blanks at Brandon, from a distance of about 12 feet. Rehearsal went fine. While cameraâ??s were rolling, and the gun was fired, Lee pulled a trigger hidden behind the grocery bag to set off a "squib," a small explosive device designed to create the appearance of the grocery bag bursting within, stuck by a bullet. After setting off the squib, Lee collapsed on the set, bleeding profusely through the right side of his abdomen. He let out a groan and just collapsed. The scene played on, with Masseeâ??s co-villain muttering in a panic, that Massee had shot the man. Things appeared normal, although Lee didnâ??t hit the 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 thought Leeâ??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 cutâ?¦" The director yelled, "Cut!" Lee did not get up.
At first the crew thought he was joking, but when realization kicked in, panic erupted - mostly from Michael Massee. Who could blame him?

An on set medical technician attempted CPR, and ordered an ambulance to be called. The crew had to file past Brandon as he lay on the set, to leave the soundstage and wait for the ambulance <outside.jpg> the studio, in the dark. Paramedics arrived, and put inflatable pants on Brandon, to push the blood from his legs back to his upper body.
Brandon was rushed to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center <NEW%20HANOVER%20REGIONAL%20MEDICAL%20CENTER.jpg >, located at 2131 S. 17th Street. They arrived at the Emergency Room entrance <Emergency%20Room%20Entance.jpg> about 30 minutes after the accident. Leeâ??s heart had stopped once on the set and once in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Hereâ??s the hospital <Heres%20the%20hospital.jpg>. Brandon was taken to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) <icu.jpg> where he was operated on for six hours, and he given 60 pints of blood. His body just wouldnâ??t hold it. Hereâ??s a close up on the ICU sign <icusign.jpg>.
About 30 people from the film went to the hospital, and waited in the emergency room until morning, when a doctor came out and told them he had done what he could, and it didnâ??t look good.
The entry would was the size of a silver dollar, and it extended in a straight line to the spine. Surgeon Warren W. McMurry, who attended to Lee, said that Brandon had "suffered intestinal injuries and major vascular injuries consistent with a bullet wound, and that X-rays appeared to show the bullet lodged in Leeâ??s spine.
Meanwhile, detectives arrived on the set, and reviewed videotape made of the scene during filming, which indicated that Leeâ??s right side was in line with the angle of the pistol that was fired for the scene. Technicians on the set had unloaded the gun and placed it and the spent shell of a blank round into a plastic bag. They learned that one of the dummy shells in the gun case was missing the slug from its tip.
Brandonâ??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.

His mother arrived 5 hours later.
Brandonâ??s body was taken to Jacksonville for an autopsy, where it was confirmed that he died from a gunshot wound of the abdomen.

Detectives say that the gun was loaded with the dummy bullet for a close-up shot. When the gun was unloaded, the slug could have been dislodged from the dummy shell casing, with the tip remaining in the cylinder or barrel. When the blank round was inserted, the pistol could have been discharged like a loaded firearm.

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He was 28 years old
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here is some pics of bradon in life , his grave , and a picture of him after his passing

he was shot on the day i turned 12.

that pic of him laying dead is crazy !!! good job jesus smoked pot !

oh , wait !!!

lol, Jesus couldn't u just put this in the Brandon Lee part 1:p


But yeah thats sad how he died, he was a very good actor..

wow that is crazy how that could happen from a loose bullet coming off the dummy round. The blank round would definately turn it deadly. We used to put cleaning rods into our M-16s and shoot them out with a blank round. They would stick into a tree so deep, you'd have trouble pulling them out.

because the pics wouldnt load so i put it here lola

oh snap! :p;)

this is off subject but i jsut finally noticed , on the ellen degeneres show , ELlen degeres fucin DANCES every fuckin show , ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

hahahah wtf u watching ellen for lmao;)

cause its the only channel i can get in the computer room

The Crow part IV is coming out christmas