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myOtaku.com: Irish de Fenal


Saturday, June 19, 2004

Please pause for a moment of silence
"I have recently re-watched an amazing film. Some of y'all probably have heard of it.

THE CROW has suddenly become one of my favorite all time films. Brandon Lee is amazimg.

What I knew was that he was shot during the making of this movie. I knew that he had died some time ago. What I didn't know was he died from the shot (someone put a live round in the pistol) seventeen days before his wedding. The irony is heartbreaking.

Since this has now become an obsession (and once I have an obsession it never goes away) I would like everyone to go out and watch this movie because it is simply amazing, and as long as people see it Brandon is never dead because as long as one is remembered one lives.

(Oh, it's based on the comic books by James O'Barr.)

The full quote from THE SHELTERING SKY, on Brandon's gravestone:
Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It is that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember as certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps 4 and 5 times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

THE SHELTERING SKY, Paul Bowles, 1949
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