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[ZombieSupaStar]

"Now here's a new problem which we've had in recent years... ...after Brandon Lee was shot and killed by a blank... ...you are now not allowed to point a blank gun anymore at an actor- so it's made life incredibly difficlut (for filming) and they're looking for new technologies to try and make guns work... ...she had to point the gun fifty degrees away from him, which is law now- and it makes life really, really difficult for you when you're trying to fire a weapon, now- because you can't actually point it at the actor and blow."

 

[SKluck]

How did that kill him? Was it again his temple or something?

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

aparently the story is the props manager was too cheap to buy real blanks so they were modding live rounds into them by removing the slug and then using double the powder in the blasting cap.

Somehow a a blank got lodged in the barrel and then when the next blank was fired it shot out the old cap with double the force/gunpowder of a normal round and ripped through brandons abdomen, and they left him laying on the floor bleeding to death (think he was just acting) untill someone came over and then it was apparent what happend but it was too late.


the scene this happened in was the scene in a flashback where they pull his arms apart and funboy shoots him (and no the actual scene it happened IS NOT in the film, altho a scene "like it" is)

Brandon Lee was shot during a bizarre accident on March 31, 1993, on the set of The Crow. The accident involved a prop gun.

The gun, designed to look real, was loaded with a dummy round containing no powder. It was cocked and a film shot was taken. Then the gun was dry fired to uncock it, inadvertently knocking the tip of the dummy round into the chamber. When the gun was later loaded with a blank and fired during a scene, the powder from the blank fired the tip of the dummy round, which hit Lee in the spine. He died at the hospital shortly after the accident. He was 28 and had planned to marry Eliza Hutton in less than three weeks.

 

[MASB]

This thread is number 1313 at the forums. An unlucky thread for an unlucky Brandon Lee.

Firing blank guns is a big deal nowadays. Heck, in some states it's harder to get a license/training to fire blanks than it is to use a real gun. The local college wanted to use a blank gun for a play, but the state said they either had to pay $1000 for a license exam or pay a licensed guy a lot of money per performance to just sit in the crowd, 'working' at making sure the gun was used properly. Since the state was obviously more concerned about getting money than safety, the college just had it done offstage with a gun sound effect.

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

This thread is number 1313 at the forums. An unlucky thread for an unlucky Brandon Lee.

*cue xfiles theme*

 

[The Shadow]

Are you sure that's for real? Where did you get that?

 

[TAJ]

One of my issues of Cinefex has an article on making the seven digital effects shots needed to finish the film without Brandon Lee.
A bizarre bit of trivia: Shots of water leaking into the apartment where Eric and Shelley are killed were edited in because the only usable footage of Brandon Lee without the Crow makeup on (to base the composites on) was shot in the rain.