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Brandon Bruce Lee 2.1.65 - 3.31.93
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Brandon was born in Oakland,California on February 1, 1965. After his fathers death at the age of 32, Brandon, his mother, and sister moved to Los Angeles. He always wanted to be an actor and persuaded that at a very young age. After taking drama in high school, he attended acting classes and later went on to study acting at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusettes. He then joined Eric Morris' American Theater Company in New York And followed it back to Los Angeles.
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On March 31, 1993, Brandon was injured while filming. After the previous cut, the props master dry fired the gun to get the cock off, knocking an empty cartridge into the barrel of the gun. The next scene to be filmed involving the gun was that of the rape of Shelly. The gun was loaded with blanks. Brandon entered the set carrying a bag of groceries containing the explosive blood packet. The script called for Funboy [Michael Massey] to shoot Eric Draven [Brandon Lee] as he entered the room, setting off the blood packet.The cartridge that was stuck in the barrel was blasted at Brandon through the bag he was carrying passing through his abdomen which lodged next to his spine. Brandon died hours later at Wilmington Hospital. The footage of his death was destroyed without being developed.
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"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five time more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
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