The Crow
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And here it is “The Week In Review”.
I hope you enjoy your Sunday and find the time to take in all the video clips in their entirety.
Celebrating The Life Of Brandon Lee, Who Would Have Turned 45 Today
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Take care. Stay safe.
Celebrating The Life Of Brandon Lee, Who Would Have Turned 45 Today
Happy Monday, everybody!
Where did the weekend go? I dunno.
I have been thinking about posting something about Bruce Lee’s son, Brandon Lee.
Now, get this: I was planning on posting about him today, February 1, and during my research I find out that today would have been his birthday.
This cannot be a coincidence!
Brandon Lee would have turned 45 today. And here again somebody who left us on this planet way too prematurely.
He was a very aspiring movie star and according to acclaimed movie critic, Roger Ebert, after watching Brandon Lee’s performance in “The Crow“, Brandon Lee clearly demonstrated that he might have become an action star, had he lived.
I totally agree with Roger Ebert.
You might remember that Brandon Lee was accidently shot and killed on March 31, 1993 at the age of only 28 while filming “The Crow“.
This is really sad, also because he was scheduled to get married to his fiancee, Eliza Hutton, on April 17.
Brandon Lee definitely had the looks for the Big Screen, but he was more than just another pretty face. After acquiring acting skills at the world-famous Lee Strasberg Academy and being part of a theater group, he was able to put it all together with his martial arts expertise that he was taught by Guro Dan Inosanto.
Before starring in The Crow, which became a box-office hit after his untimely death, Brandon Lee actually performed in a number of productions such as Kung Fu: The Movie, Kung Fu: The Next Generation, Legacy of Rage, Showdown in Little Tokyo, and a movie that I really enjoyed at the time it was released in 1992, Rapid Fire.
I know that a lot of people have focused on the final fight scene or showdown, but I really like the initial fight scene, because you get a pretty good idea of how Brandon Lee applies a lot of the JKD principles his father defined and how he uses any type of tool, weapon or whatever he can get his hands on to save his character, Jake Lo.
Besides the impressive fighting skills he put on display in the 5 min. clip below, I also admire his philosophic perspective he so thoughtfully selected for his wedding invitations:
“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless…”
Celebrating The Life of Brandon Bruce Lee, February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993
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