Brandon Lee's death (from the set in crow)

[westkoastanostra]

what u guys think? an accident or on purpose?

[Spicemuthafuc*in1]

Very tragic and I loved the original Crow but I have always believed it was a accident.

[Narrator]

Very stupid accident, but still an accident nonetheless.  It all happened because the gun was handled that day by the property master, not the weapons specialist.

[Narrator]

Also, here's the info for anyone who is curious:

On March 31, 1993, the 50th day of a 60 day shooting schedule for The Crow, the scene being filmed was when Lee's character Eric Draven was to walk into his apartment and see his girlfriend being raped by thugs. This would subsequently lead to Eric being shot and killed, along with his fiance. Actor Michael Massee, who played Funboy, one of the villains in the movie, was supposed to shoot at Lee as he walked into his apartment.

Because the second unit team on The Crow were running behind schedule, it was decided that dummy cartridges — bullets that outwardly appear to be functional, but contain no gunpowder and hence pose no threat to those on the set of a movie — would be made from real cartridges that had been brought to the set, earlier in production. Bruce Merlin, an effects technician, dismantled the live cartridges by removing the bullets, emptying out the gunpowder, detonating the primer and reinserting the bullets. This rendered the cartridges inoperative, but real-looking in appearance. Merlin and his propmaster Daniel Kuttner took initiative to create some blanks. To create these, Merlin and Kuttner removed the bullets from live cartridges and replaced the gunpowder with firework powder. The bullets were not reinserted.

Later, a cartridge with only a primer and a bullet (but no gunpowder) was fired in a pistol. This caused the bullet to lodge in the forcing cone of the revolver.

When the first unit used this gun to shoot the death scene, the chamber was loaded with blanks which had no bullets. However, there was still the bullet in the barrel, which was propelled out by the blank cartridge's explosion. Consequently, Lee was shot and severely wounded, as cameras rolled at the EUE Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina. Seconds later the director Alex Proyas shouted 'CUT', but Brandon remained on the floor. Stuntman (and Lee's friend) Jeff Imada ran over to Brandon with a paramedic, to see if he had hit his head on the door when he fell, and knocked himself out. They discovered a thin slit, an inch below to the right of his navel, but this didn't hold any clues as to what happened. They removed Brandon's jacket and spotted a hole in his T-shirt. By this time, Brandon had slipped into unconsciousness. An ambulance was called, and Brandon was rushed to a hospital. He underwent five hours of surgery upon which they discovered a bullet that had been the cause of the damage. At 1:04pm, he died.

After Lee's death, a stunt double, Chad Stahelski replaced Lee in some scenes. Special effects were used for digitally compositing Lee's face onto the double.

These scenes were filmed after Lee's death:-

* Eric Draven's death in flashbacks (this was the scene Brandon was filming at the time he had died);

* a scene with Eric walking into his apartment after returning from the dead was digitally composited from a scene of Lee walking into an alleyway with raindrops added (the rest of the scenes in the apartment were all done with the double);

* Lee's face was digitally composited onto the stunt double when Eric puts on make-up in front of a mirror to show his reflection;

* When Sarah (Rochelle Davis) visits Eric in his apartment, his face is not seen as it is actually the stunt double.

The Crow was finally released in May 1994, and was a modest box office hit. It is dedicated to Lee and his fiancée Eliza Hutton at the end credits.

[Trauma-san]

It was a horrible accident.  Nobody had any reason to kill Brandon Lee, to make such an elaborate framing to get somebody killed would have no purpose unless you were talking about someone who was 1. wanted dead and 2. was very protective of theirself at all times... if somebody had wanted Brandon Lee dead, they would have just had him killed at his house, or shot at the set, or whatever... they wouldn't have needed to make a plot to make it happen, hitmen will walk up to someone anywhere and  shoot them down in cold blood.  Somebody with extraordinary security, you'd need some sort of plan, somebody like Brandon Lee you could just kill anytime.