The Crow will
always be remembered as the film in which Brandon Lee was
accidentally killed during filming. Brandon Lee was the son of
martial arts film legend Bruce Lee, and The Crow was
his first major movie in a leading role. Lee died as a result of a
bullet getting lodged in the barrel of a gun, which was later loaded
with blank rounds. When the blank charges were fired, the explosion
caused the bullet to fire out of the gun. The manner of Lee's death
is as eerie as it is ironic. Lee's character Eric Draven comes back
from the dead, and cannot be killed. He is even shown being shot
numerous times, only to have his wounds heal a la Wolverine. What's
eerie about Lee's death is that his father's final film Game
of Death predicted Brandon Lee's
death 20 years earlier. In Game of Death, Bruce
Lee plays an actor who is accidentally shot during filming. Putting
Lee's death aside, The Crow is
actually a pretty cool movie, and shows Brandon Lee's potential to be
a successful action star.
