My name is
Brandon Lee, and one day, you will see my name in the credits of some
film. I kind of always knew I would go
into the entertainment industry. I grew
up watching countless movies and TV shows, and playing hours of video
games. Entertainment from works of media
has and always will be a big part of my life, my guilty pleasure. When I’m not watching anything, I create
art. I feed my creative genius by
drawing in my sketchbooks and painting on traditional canvases. With hard work, I earned my place in the
National Art Honor Society, and my art has been featured twice in the All
County Art Exhibit at Adelphi University.
The thing I love about creating art is that other people see it and are
affected in some way. It makes
everything, from the time put in to the actual process, worth it. The same applies to the art of motion
pictures. One movie that really inspired
me to “get the ball rolling” on my film career is Wreck-It Ralph, an animation
film. After watching it, I knew for sure
that I wanted to make movies for a living and for the rest of my life. At the time, I was going through a rough patch in my life, and the movie helped me overcome sadness and adversity. The story it told moved me, and I started to
understand the power of storytelling. Stories
affirm our existence, affirming the belief that our lives have meaning. They teach invaluable lessons in an enjoyable
way. Filmmaker Andrew Stanton says
something remarkable about stories, and it’s that a story “can cross the
barriers of time, past, present and future, and allow us to experience the
similarities between ourselves and through others, real and imagined.” This is
what I want to do: tell stories that transcend time and inspire for generations. Someone somewhere may need me one day to help them through life, and I may not be there. But the stories I leave behind will be there, just like Wreck-It Ralph was there for me.
