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- I think the one film that
really hit me hard,
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that came out of those
formative years
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of me being a cinephile
was The Crow.
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I was in high school.
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I was a big fan of the
James O'Barr comic book.
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I remember travelling
to New York to meet the man
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and have my graphic novel
signed.
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- I first came across
the comic, The Crow,
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when it was...
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a very small printing
of its first edition
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and immediately was engrossed
in the story
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of this first issue.
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- Its plot is about a guy
who is killed too soon,
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and he comes back
and he exacts vengeance.
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- It's just about a guy
who was in love with a woman
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and, you know, she gets killed
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and you come back from the dead
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and, you know, you avenge her
death.
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And as a high schooler,
that uh...
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it was just angsty enough
to connect with me.
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- The Crow is kind of a hand
of God
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that allows that person,
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who's been taken to heaven,
to return
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to put something horrible right.
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Within that lies a beautiful
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underlying story of love and...
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the conviction that if a...
loved one is harmed,
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there is an opportunity
to extract justice
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for those who have lost people
dear to them
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through tragic circumstances.
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So that began my odyssey
to option material,
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develop it and turn it into
a feature film.
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We started filming
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on February 1st, 1993
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in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Everyone was invested
a thousand percent
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in trying to make, you know,
a film
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that would stand shoulder
to shoulder
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with any studio release
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on a fraction of the budget.
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- I think there's plenty
of material
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if you wanna find a curse
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in the making of the movie
"The Crow".
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When they set up pre-production
offices,
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they had a voicemail message
that said,
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don't make this movie,
bad things will happen.
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- On the very first day
of principal photography,
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two of our electricians had
a very un...
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a... a terrible accident.
- Everything's ready to go.
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Remember, they only shot
at night.
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So night had fallen.
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- They were driving their...
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uh, pickup truck with
a cherry picker.
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- He backed his cherry picker
up into a live wire.
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He caught on fire.
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- He had ended up hitting
the high-tension wire,
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a high electric wire that, uh,
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would, uh, carry the voltage
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to run all the lights
and the backlot set.
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- He was rushed to the hospital.
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He had second and third degree
burns all over his body.
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He didn't die.
He lost his ears.
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But it was a terrible tragedy
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and then they had to start
shooting.
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- We went through the storm
of the century.
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Reporter: The hurricane is now
at its peak
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with winds reaching speeds
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of more than 115 miles an hour.
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- That was a terrible hurricane
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that destroyed our backlot set.
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Word had gotten back to people
in Hollywood and...
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there was an article
from Entertainment Weekly
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that called what was going on
in our location
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"the curse of The Crow."
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One of the staff in the
production office
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decided to make an ill-timed
comment
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that things have happened,
but...
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she said, it's not like anyone
has died.
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- When I had learned that they
were making "The Crow",
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I followed that like crazy.
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You know, I read Fangoria,
I read Entertainment Weekly.
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I was following everything that
was going on with Brandon Lee.
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- What we needed for the role
was...
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someone who was a true athlete
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and a great actor.
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We'd got an opportunity to see
"Rapid Fire".
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We were absolutely sold.
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The only person we made an
offer to was Brandon Lee.
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- Brandon Lee was trying to
make a name for himself,
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was trying to kind of come out
from the shadow of his father,
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and was making films which,
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in the realm of action films,
weren't so bad.
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"Rapid Fire",
"Showdown in Little Tokyo".
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He, like his father,
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had so much potential.
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You were seeing his star rise,
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and then...
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he got robbed,
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just like his father did.
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I'm Lance Anderson
and I worked on "The Crow"
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as a Special Make-Up Effects
Artist.
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My job was to take care
of Brandon,
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to do all of his make-up
throughout the film.
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This is the original script
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that I've kept.
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It has a lot of my original
continuity shots.
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This is establishing make-up.
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As it progresses, the make-up
starts to get...
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more worn.
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This is when he falls out
the window.
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- It's kind of strange looking
at those photos.
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- Yeah.
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- We hired the immensely
talented actor Michael Berryman
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to play the role of the skull
cowboy,
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which was a...
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character that appears
intermittently
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in James O'Barr's comic,
"The Crow".
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- Well, I got a call
from my agent
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and went to a meeting,
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and the next thing I knew
I was flying to um...
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North Carolina, to Wilmington.
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I spent hours and hours
and hours
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getting a full body cast
and head cast.
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- We made this suit for
Michael Berryman
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and it had a complete bodysuit
sculpture
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for the whole ribs
and the whole thing.
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He basically wore a giant suit
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and articulated fingers.
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- It was very difficult to wear.
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And then on my head,
I had a mandible jaw
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that was acrylic
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and it was bolted front to back
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with a top piece that had...
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these little servo transmitters.
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And these little paddles
would move the flesh
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underneath the latex.
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- It was pretty extensive
make-up.
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- I've been asked where did the
skull cowboy originate from,
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and it obviously came out
of the...
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creativity of James O'Barr.
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James wrote because...
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it was part of his therapy.
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His fiancée was killed by
a drunk driver.
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And in order to remain here
on this earth,
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in this physical plane,
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he had to come to grips with it,
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and so he wrote.
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Sometimes, in life,
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you can take from what you have
experienced
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and bring a piece of that
into the character
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that you're developing
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and it can help you heal.
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It can help you...
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have a cathartic experience
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and it enhances the performance.
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- There had been lots of press
material
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touching on the cursed nature
of the film.
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That perhaps it was
a continuation
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of the curse of Bruce Lee,
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who died under mysterious
circumstances
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while shooting a film.
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- Pretty much everyone's
discovered Bruce Lee
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after he passed away.
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Then you start doing research
on who he was...
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- Whaaaaaaa!
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- ...and then, as you look into
how he passed away,
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that's when the theories start.
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There's theories that
there was a hit on him
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from the Chinese Mafia
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for betraying martial arts'
secrets.
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One of the interesting
fantasy theories
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is that Bruce Lee was struck
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by a death blow.
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And a death blow is a specific
type of strike...
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- Ahhh!
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Agh! Oh!
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- ...which its impact doesn't
take effect
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until days, weeks, months,
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years later.
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There's one theory that
Bruce Lee's passing
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was part of the Lee family
curse.
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Bruce Lee's parents
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lost their first male son.
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This was attributed to a belief
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that there was a curse
or a demon
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after the males in
the Lee family.
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- You had an older brother,
you see.
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He died in childbirth.
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The demon took him away from us.
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The first-born man child
is very valuable.
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- He was sometimes dressed
in girl's clothing,
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sometimes referred to
by a female name,
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again, in order to deflect
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and break the curse on
the males of the family.
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- We dressed you in dresses
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so the demon wouldn't know
I had another son.
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But now he knows!
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And he's coming for you.
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- In "Dragon: The Bruce Lee
Story,"
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Bruce Lee is portrayed as
being haunted by a demon,
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this kind of dark figure
in Samurai armour,
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and there's a scene where
he's trying to protect his son
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in these kind of dream-like
pursuits.
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- Brandon, run!
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Dad's gotta go! Gotta go!??
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- The actual circumstances
around Bruce Lee's death
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are much more banal.
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Yes, he was found dead at the
apartment of a young starlet,
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who he may or may not have been
having an affair with.
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While at this apartment,
he took a painkiller.
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He went for a nap
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and didn't wake up.
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They attributed his death
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to having a hypersensitivity
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to this particular painkiller.
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Recently there's been
a biography published -
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"Bruce Lee: A Life"
by Matthew Polly -
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and he puts this theory forward
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that it was a heat stroke
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which killed Bruce Lee.
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Leading up to the last year
of his death,
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he had his sweat glands removed
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because he wanted to look good
onscreen.
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A month or so before the day
that he passed away,
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he actually had a seizure
and a stroke,
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and so...
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this potentially could just be
the reverberations
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of the previous misdiagnosed
heat stroke.
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- "Game of Death" is Bruce
Lee's final film.
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He doesn't live to finish it.
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And that's already a weird
parallel
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with what happens to
Brandon Lee in "The Crow."
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- Get ready for the reverse
angle.
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- It gets even weirder
when you consider
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that Bruce Lee's character
is shot
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on the set of a film
in "Game of Death",
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which is exactly how his son
dies in 1993.
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- Gentlemen, these are blanks.
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Only aim upward.
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There's a wad of paper
that comes out
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and can injure someone.
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- Okay, roll sound!
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Action!
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Cut!
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- It was the night of...
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March 30th, 1993.
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We were day 47
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out of what had then grown
to 52 days
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and nearing the end of
production.
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In the scene, Eric Draven has
just returned
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and the villains are already
in the home
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and have been treating...
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Sofia Shinas's character,
Shelly, very violently.
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- I was down in the trailer
getting a rig
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that I had rigged for Brandon
to wear,
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where a knife is thrown at him
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when he comes through the door.
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And I built a harness.
They would throw the knife
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and then the knife would be
embedded in his chest.
260
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So I was down there getting
that ready
261
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and they told me they need me
on set.
262
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And the director said,
we're changing that scene.
263
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He's gonna come through the door
264
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and he's gonna get shot.
265
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- Eric puts himself between
these villains
266
00:14:03,146 --> 00:14:05,061
and Shelly.
267
00:14:05,148 --> 00:14:08,412
And Michael Massee, as Funboy,
takes a gun
268
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and fires at uh...
269
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the character of Eric Draven.
270
00:14:13,243 --> 00:14:15,898
- The camera was in the wrong
position
271
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when he came through the door
and it didn't look like...
272
00:14:18,205 --> 00:14:20,903
he was aiming the gun
at Brandon.
273
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So they either moved the actor
274
00:14:23,079 --> 00:14:24,515
or they moved the camera
or something
275
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to get a better angle,
276
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so it looked more realistic
277
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that he's being shot.
278
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When he came through the door
279
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with the grocery bag,
280
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they do the shot,
281
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and then he drops down
282
00:14:38,007 --> 00:14:41,054
and everybody waits for him
to get up.
283
00:14:42,098 --> 00:14:43,970
And he didn't get up.
284
00:14:44,057 --> 00:14:46,320
He just... stayed there.
285
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He just didn't move.
286
00:14:50,063 --> 00:14:51,368
And somebody says,
287
00:14:51,455 --> 00:14:53,414
I think he's really hurt.
288
00:14:54,850 --> 00:14:57,244
And uh...
289
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Call a medic, call a medic.
290
00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:03,337
The medic came...
291
00:15:04,512 --> 00:15:06,209
and uh...
292
00:15:08,559 --> 00:15:10,213
he's been shot.
293
00:15:12,433 --> 00:15:14,696
And I just... I felt all
the blood rush...
294
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rush out of my body
295
00:15:18,352 --> 00:15:20,484
and I just dropped down
296
00:15:20,571 --> 00:15:23,313
and everybody was - around me -
297
00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,925
was doing the same thing.
They were just shocked.
298
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- Yes. Um...
299
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I...
300
00:15:48,599 --> 00:15:50,079
I don't wanna talk about going
to the hospital.
301
00:15:50,166 --> 00:15:52,038
Can we, can we...
302
00:15:53,430 --> 00:15:55,041
Um...
303
00:15:57,391 --> 00:15:59,262
- We went to the hospital
304
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and we waited around for hours.
305
00:16:01,961 --> 00:16:03,440
And then they came out
and told us
306
00:16:03,527 --> 00:16:05,399
that he'd passed on.
307
00:16:07,488 --> 00:16:10,404
It was... one of the most
horrible things
308
00:16:10,491 --> 00:16:12,145
in my life
309
00:16:12,232 --> 00:16:14,625
to see that happen, to be there.
310
00:16:20,588 --> 00:16:22,242
- Michael Massee was...
311
00:16:22,329 --> 00:16:24,113
I mean, to put it mildly,
beside himself.
312
00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,942
He was... broken
by the experience
313
00:16:28,204 --> 00:16:31,512
of, um, having pulled
the trigger.
314
00:16:31,599 --> 00:16:34,080
Ah, I don't think he could
have...
315
00:16:35,168 --> 00:16:37,083
taken on any greater
responsibility
316
00:16:37,170 --> 00:16:38,519
on his own shoulders.
317
00:16:38,606 --> 00:16:40,564
Although it was not,
by any means,
318
00:16:40,651 --> 00:16:42,697
his fault, plain and simple,
319
00:16:42,784 --> 00:16:44,655
and it wasn't his job
to be responsible
320
00:16:44,742 --> 00:16:46,875
for that particular weapon.
321
00:16:58,147 --> 00:17:00,323
- "Chinese Mafia executed
Bruce Lee"
322
00:17:00,410 --> 00:17:01,890
and "then his son."
323
00:17:01,977 --> 00:17:04,327
I mean, that's where things
were going,
324
00:17:04,414 --> 00:17:06,503
you know, with the tabloids.
325
00:17:07,635 --> 00:17:08,723
"Blood on the Set."
326
00:17:08,810 --> 00:17:11,073
Um, "What Really Happened?
327
00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,163
How could a bullet end up
in the gun?"
328
00:17:14,250 --> 00:17:16,122
Well, it wasn't the bullet.
329
00:17:16,209 --> 00:17:18,515
It was a dummy's head.
330
00:17:18,602 --> 00:17:20,604
The dummy head was loc--
331
00:17:20,691 --> 00:17:22,650
was still in the chamber
332
00:17:24,043 --> 00:17:26,480
and it blew it out.
333
00:17:26,567 --> 00:17:29,091
- What occurred was that
334
00:17:29,178 --> 00:17:31,137
there was a dummy bullet
335
00:17:31,224 --> 00:17:33,791
loaded two weeks before
336
00:17:33,878 --> 00:17:36,142
that had lodged a real bullet
337
00:17:37,491 --> 00:17:39,145
in the barrel of the gun.
338
00:17:41,234 --> 00:17:42,713
- These are different calibre
dummy rounds that we have
339
00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,628
and the whole goal to making
dummy rounds
340
00:17:44,715 --> 00:17:46,152
is to make an imitation round
341
00:17:46,239 --> 00:17:47,762
that would lead the viewer
to believe
342
00:17:47,849 --> 00:17:49,633
that it is a live round.
343
00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:53,159
So this is the dummy round
and this is the live round.
344
00:17:54,682 --> 00:17:56,118
Even though this is a dummy
round
345
00:17:56,205 --> 00:17:58,599
and it's had the gun powder
removed,
346
00:17:58,686 --> 00:18:00,905
the primer hasn't been removed
or struck.
347
00:18:00,992 --> 00:18:02,820
When we do a dummy round,
348
00:18:02,907 --> 00:18:06,389
it's always important to remove
the primer cap from the centre.
349
00:18:06,476 --> 00:18:07,869
What happened on "The Crow" was
350
00:18:07,956 --> 00:18:09,740
when they put the dummy
round in,
351
00:18:09,827 --> 00:18:12,003
they forgot to remove
the primer.
352
00:18:12,091 --> 00:18:13,875
And what happens is, again,
353
00:18:13,962 --> 00:18:16,791
that primer has enough force
to dislodge the lead round
354
00:18:16,878 --> 00:18:19,402
and actually push it into
the barrel.
355
00:18:19,489 --> 00:18:21,143
We're actually gonna pull
the trigger
356
00:18:21,230 --> 00:18:22,884
and it'll have just enough force
357
00:18:22,971 --> 00:18:25,147
to lodge the round in there.
358
00:18:26,627 --> 00:18:29,325
So you can see in there
our dummy round.
359
00:18:30,413 --> 00:18:31,545
We'll index it.
360
00:18:31,632 --> 00:18:33,329
Three, two, one.
361
00:18:34,374 --> 00:18:37,768
So just with that simple
action, that little snap,
362
00:18:37,855 --> 00:18:40,423
the cap's gone off,
no gun powder,
363
00:18:40,510 --> 00:18:42,164
but what we'll be able
to prove is
364
00:18:42,251 --> 00:18:44,427
the hung round inside
the barrel.
365
00:18:46,777 --> 00:18:48,214
Inside that barrel,
366
00:18:49,258 --> 00:18:50,477
we have the obstruction.
367
00:18:50,564 --> 00:18:52,174
But if you look down the barrel
368
00:18:52,261 --> 00:18:54,045
you'll notice that there's
no light coming through.
369
00:18:54,133 --> 00:18:56,004
So that would tell me that
there's an obstruction.
370
00:18:56,091 --> 00:18:58,267
In this case, a lead round,
371
00:18:58,354 --> 00:19:00,313
a hollow point.
372
00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,053
That's the one thing they
didn't do.
373
00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:03,968
They didn't check the barrel
for an obstruction.
374
00:19:04,055 --> 00:19:06,057
The problem with that is,
when you put a blank in there,
375
00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:07,537
then after whatever's in there -
376
00:19:07,624 --> 00:19:09,452
be it rock, dirt,
or a hung round -
377
00:19:09,539 --> 00:19:12,977
that round comes out flying
at 3 to 5,000 psi.
378
00:19:13,064 --> 00:19:15,197
So when we're ready,
I'll put a round in here.
379
00:19:15,284 --> 00:19:17,721
It's gonna be a blank,
380
00:19:17,808 --> 00:19:19,767
a half-load blank.
This is it.
381
00:19:19,854 --> 00:19:21,943
There's no lead projectile.
It's just crimped at the end,
382
00:19:22,030 --> 00:19:23,684
but it's got powder.
383
00:19:23,771 --> 00:19:26,208
The crimp's hot, but this
produces enough powder
384
00:19:26,295 --> 00:19:28,819
to push this lead round
into that board
385
00:19:28,906 --> 00:19:31,213
through two inches of plywood.
386
00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:33,259
So when we're ready.
387
00:19:34,695 --> 00:19:36,740
Three, two, one.
388
00:19:40,135 --> 00:19:42,224
The round's gone off.
389
00:19:42,311 --> 00:19:45,532
I can go check down range.
390
00:19:45,619 --> 00:19:48,230
We can actually see the round
391
00:19:48,317 --> 00:19:50,276
that punctured through it.
392
00:19:52,321 --> 00:19:53,931
Right here.
393
00:19:56,717 --> 00:19:58,501
That's your round.
394
00:19:58,588 --> 00:20:00,677
That was the hung round that
got pushed into the barrel
395
00:20:00,764 --> 00:20:02,244
with, uh, with just the primer
cap.
396
00:20:02,331 --> 00:20:03,854
And what you can see is...
397
00:20:03,941 --> 00:20:06,292
I don't know if you can see
the striations,
398
00:20:06,379 --> 00:20:07,858
but it actually fired the round.
399
00:20:07,945 --> 00:20:10,296
So this would definitely be
a lethal round.
400
00:20:10,383 --> 00:20:12,820
This would be something
you don't get up from.
401
00:20:12,907 --> 00:20:14,822
- After this...
402
00:20:14,909 --> 00:20:17,433
tremendous tragedy unfolded,
403
00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,305
we, as filmmakers, um,
404
00:20:20,610 --> 00:20:23,265
our initial response was that,
um,
405
00:20:23,352 --> 00:20:27,269
we, we couldn't film, uh,
any further without Brandon,
406
00:20:27,356 --> 00:20:29,837
even though we were
at the end of...
407
00:20:29,924 --> 00:20:31,708
um, our, our schedule.
408
00:20:33,884 --> 00:20:36,496
And it was be--
409
00:20:36,583 --> 00:20:38,498
because we...
410
00:20:38,585 --> 00:20:40,587
just couldn't even fathom
411
00:20:40,674 --> 00:20:42,502
moving forward at that time.
412
00:20:43,677 --> 00:20:46,984
We heard from Brandon's fiancée,
413
00:20:47,071 --> 00:20:49,465
Eliza Hutton, who he was
to be married to
414
00:20:49,552 --> 00:20:53,034
a short time after
we completed photography,
415
00:20:53,121 --> 00:20:54,905
and his mother, Linda Lee,
416
00:20:54,992 --> 00:20:57,647
that Brandon was incredibly
proud of the work
417
00:20:57,734 --> 00:20:59,780
that he had performed
418
00:20:59,867 --> 00:21:01,564
and they said, you know,
419
00:21:01,651 --> 00:21:04,567
if-if you are up to it,
420
00:21:04,654 --> 00:21:07,353
we want you all to finish this.
421
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,791
- I didn't wanna come back,
but I kept thinking about...
422
00:21:10,878 --> 00:21:12,488
this is Brandon's film.
423
00:21:12,575 --> 00:21:15,186
This is a film that he wanted
to be
424
00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:17,711
a launching pad for him,
425
00:21:17,798 --> 00:21:20,322
and if I didn't go back
and do what I could do
426
00:21:20,409 --> 00:21:23,238
to make sure this film
gets seen,
427
00:21:24,631 --> 00:21:27,111
whatever I can do, uh...
428
00:21:27,198 --> 00:21:29,070
I'll do it,
429
00:21:29,157 --> 00:21:31,899
because if this film wasn't
seen, wasn't finished,
430
00:21:31,986 --> 00:21:33,248
it'd be a shame.
431
00:21:34,771 --> 00:21:36,773
They called me up
and they said...
432
00:21:36,860 --> 00:21:38,340
they wanna use a double.
433
00:21:38,427 --> 00:21:41,212
And Brandon's stunt double
434
00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:43,476
looked a lot like him,
435
00:21:43,563 --> 00:21:47,131
and they wanted me to make
a mask,
436
00:21:47,218 --> 00:21:49,090
on the stunt double,
437
00:21:49,177 --> 00:21:50,439
of Brandon's face
438
00:21:50,526 --> 00:21:53,007
so they could use it
in the film.
439
00:21:54,922 --> 00:21:57,925
That was really tough,
that was really tough.
440
00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:02,799
To be honest, when the stunt
double wore that thing,
441
00:22:02,886 --> 00:22:04,975
it freaked everybody out.
442
00:22:06,934 --> 00:22:09,415
And I mean literally
freaked 'em out.
443
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,374
And the feeling that you get
444
00:22:12,461 --> 00:22:14,376
when you're finishing a film
445
00:22:14,463 --> 00:22:16,944
with an actor who's passed on,
446
00:22:17,031 --> 00:22:19,381
it's not a good feeling.
447
00:22:19,468 --> 00:22:22,253
It's a very morbid feeling
448
00:22:22,341 --> 00:22:23,864
and it's-it's...
449
00:22:23,951 --> 00:22:26,997
something you deal with
personally, you know.
450
00:22:27,084 --> 00:22:29,217
You don't feel good about it,
but...
451
00:22:29,304 --> 00:22:32,220
it-it just needed to be done.
452
00:22:32,307 --> 00:22:34,527
That's all, it just needed
to be done.
453
00:22:39,575 --> 00:22:41,534
- There were changes that
they had to make.
454
00:22:42,926 --> 00:22:46,756
Instead of doing a lot of one
on-one dialogue scenes
455
00:22:46,843 --> 00:22:49,411
between Eric Draven, for
example, and his girlfriend,
456
00:22:49,498 --> 00:22:52,414
they had to do a lot in montage.
457
00:22:52,501 --> 00:22:55,025
A lot was done in shadow.
458
00:22:55,112 --> 00:22:56,853
They had to take out
one character,
459
00:22:56,940 --> 00:22:58,855
uh, the Skull Cowboy.
460
00:22:58,942 --> 00:23:01,684
They had shot just one
setup shot
461
00:23:01,771 --> 00:23:04,208
of him with Brandon Lee
462
00:23:04,295 --> 00:23:05,949
and that was in the beginning
of production.
463
00:23:06,036 --> 00:23:08,256
They were gonna fly him back
at the end.
464
00:23:08,343 --> 00:23:09,605
They never ended up doing that.
465
00:23:09,692 --> 00:23:11,477
They, they had to write around
466
00:23:11,564 --> 00:23:13,696
the convention of that
character.
467
00:23:15,219 --> 00:23:18,571
- When I got the word
of what had happened,
468
00:23:18,658 --> 00:23:20,790
I had so many mixed emotions.
469
00:23:22,096 --> 00:23:25,795
The number one sense of loss
was being cheated
470
00:23:25,882 --> 00:23:27,493
because Brandon was engaged.
471
00:23:27,580 --> 00:23:29,799
Number one, for him and Eliza.
472
00:23:29,886 --> 00:23:31,714
Number two,
473
00:23:31,801 --> 00:23:34,891
this wonderful young man
that I'd been introduced to
474
00:23:34,978 --> 00:23:38,329
just snatched away like that.
475
00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:40,462
And then people are going,
476
00:23:40,549 --> 00:23:43,596
"the curse of 'The Crow',"
you know?
477
00:23:43,683 --> 00:23:46,207
Carolco Studios, there was...
478
00:23:46,294 --> 00:23:48,165
an electrician...
somebody got electrocuted.
479
00:23:48,252 --> 00:23:49,471
This happened. That happened.
480
00:23:49,558 --> 00:23:51,125
This happened. That happened.
481
00:23:51,212 --> 00:23:53,519
Don't you think...
Is it possible... Is it...
482
00:23:53,606 --> 00:23:55,912
Really?
483
00:23:55,999 --> 00:23:57,958
Really?
484
00:23:58,045 --> 00:23:59,742
No.
485
00:23:59,829 --> 00:24:01,962
The Crow was not cursed.
486
00:24:02,049 --> 00:24:03,746
The Crow was created
487
00:24:03,833 --> 00:24:05,705
out of love and loss.
488
00:24:07,184 --> 00:24:09,839
In my opinion, Brandon died
489
00:24:09,926 --> 00:24:13,321
because a studio cut corners.
490
00:24:15,758 --> 00:24:18,152
They sent home the weapons
expert that we had.
491
00:24:18,239 --> 00:24:19,545
It's a right-to-work state
492
00:24:19,632 --> 00:24:22,025
in a union-busting environment.
493
00:24:22,112 --> 00:24:23,636
And after so many weeks,
494
00:24:23,723 --> 00:24:26,508
it is my understanding that,
contractually,
495
00:24:26,595 --> 00:24:29,293
they could hire a local person
to do all of the,
496
00:24:29,380 --> 00:24:32,035
uh, armaments and weapons.
497
00:24:33,210 --> 00:24:36,126
That is my personal opinion.
498
00:24:37,606 --> 00:24:39,695
Someone was overworked
499
00:24:39,782 --> 00:24:42,045
and you miss one little oops
500
00:24:42,132 --> 00:24:45,309
and something happens.
501
00:24:45,396 --> 00:24:48,965
Makes you appreciate every day,
502
00:24:50,750 --> 00:24:53,013
and then you should appreciate
every hour,
503
00:24:55,145 --> 00:24:57,452
and pretty soon, every moment.
504
00:24:59,367 --> 00:25:01,935
I'm at most calm
when I can appreciate...
505
00:25:03,066 --> 00:25:04,590
each breath,
506
00:25:04,677 --> 00:25:07,027
and especially appreciative
507
00:25:08,419 --> 00:25:11,466
when I hear that beautiful note
of a heartbeat.
508
00:25:12,946 --> 00:25:14,948
Life is very precious.
509
00:25:16,210 --> 00:25:17,690
- It's hard with "The Crow"
510
00:25:17,777 --> 00:25:19,735
to separate fiction and reality.
511
00:25:20,997 --> 00:25:22,303
I think that people will
continue
512
00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:23,957
to find curses with "The Crow".
513
00:25:24,044 --> 00:25:27,438
They're gonna continue to find
some new element
514
00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:28,962
to relate back to something
515
00:25:29,049 --> 00:25:30,920
that maybe happened
to Bruce Lee or...
516
00:25:31,007 --> 00:25:32,661
some of the other actors on
the film.
517
00:25:32,748 --> 00:25:35,185
Like if something tragic
happens to one of them.
518
00:25:37,361 --> 00:25:38,798
And I think people wanna cling
519
00:25:38,885 --> 00:25:41,975
to those sort of curse legends.
520
00:25:42,062 --> 00:25:43,933
They wanna have a story
521
00:25:44,020 --> 00:25:46,414
that kind of justifies
522
00:25:46,501 --> 00:25:48,503
something so tragic.
523
00:25:51,114 --> 00:25:54,291
- From that is born just
a fascination
524
00:25:54,378 --> 00:25:56,032
with trying to look at this
525
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,035
through a lens of possible
conspiracy
526
00:25:59,122 --> 00:26:01,734
that could've netted this
tremendous loss
527
00:26:01,821 --> 00:26:03,779
and this horrible accident.
528
00:26:04,911 --> 00:26:07,174
Truly, I sympathize,
529
00:26:07,261 --> 00:26:10,481
but the sideshow of looking
for conspiracies
530
00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:12,179
within that loss,
531
00:26:12,266 --> 00:26:14,964
I think, take away from
what he did.
532
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,707
I do believe that there's
a great film there
533
00:26:18,794 --> 00:26:21,623
and it stands on its own merits.
534
00:26:21,710 --> 00:26:23,712
And I'm proud of the film.
535
00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:26,628
One can look to a number
of films
536
00:26:26,715 --> 00:26:28,325
that followed in its wake
537
00:26:28,412 --> 00:26:31,677
in terms of look and feel
and design.
538
00:26:31,764 --> 00:26:34,897
It really did launch
a different approach
539
00:26:34,984 --> 00:26:38,466
to futuristic films
and comic book adaptations
540
00:26:38,553 --> 00:26:41,774
because it really is a very
unique piece
541
00:26:41,861 --> 00:26:43,906
of art and filmmaking
542
00:26:43,993 --> 00:26:45,952
with a central performance
by Brandon Lee
543
00:26:46,039 --> 00:26:49,259
that is really,
truly incredible.
544
00:26:51,131 --> 00:26:52,480
- It was bittersweet,
545
00:26:52,567 --> 00:26:55,439
for me, personally.
546
00:26:55,526 --> 00:26:57,920
The vengeful spirit of
Eric Draven,
547
00:26:58,007 --> 00:27:00,706
the vengeful spirit of
the Skull Cowboy...
548
00:27:02,751 --> 00:27:04,579
my dear friend Brandon...
549
00:27:07,408 --> 00:27:09,976
You can't be prepared
for these moments,
550
00:27:11,238 --> 00:27:13,588
but you can carry on
551
00:27:15,546 --> 00:27:18,071
in honour of those that
have left us.
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