The Brave (1997)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Johnny Depp

Writers:

Gregory McDonald (novel)
Paul McCudden (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

30 July 1997 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film...

Plot Keywords:

Poverty | Native American | Snuff Film | Alcoholism | Self Sacrifice

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Johnny Depp	...	Raphael
Marlon Brando	...	McCarthy
Marshall Bell	...	Larry
Elpidia Carrillo	...	Rita
Frederic Forrest	...	Lou Sr.
Clarence Williams III	...	Father Stratton
Max Perlich	...	Lou Jr.
Luis Guzmán	...	Luis
Cody Lightning	...	Frankie
Nicole Mancera	...	Marta
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman	...	Papa
Pepe Serna	...	Alessandro
Lupe Ontiveros	...	Maria
Alexis Cruz	...	Heyman
Chuck E. Weiss	...	Whizzy

Runtime:

123 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Germany:16 | South Korea:18 | France:U (with warning) | UK:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Jeremy Thomas Productions

Trivia:

The first line of dialogue isn't spoken for over 10 minutes.

Quotes:

Larry: Hey, listen to this. The other day I was driving down the highway, had the air-conditioner on, smoking my stogies, listening to some tunes, and this big fat crow lands on a billboard. Biggest, fattest crow I ever saw in my life. And I fix on him, and he dropped dead - boom, in the sand. Damndest thing I ever saw. Kind of made me sick. In fact, it made me poop. It made me poop my pants. It was about a four-inch, bell-shaped fece, very hard, very firm. Things haven't been going too good for me.

Movie Connections:

References "The Lone Ranger" (1949)

Soundtrack:

Amos Moses

Beautiful movie. Depp is an excellent director andactor.

At the first glance one could believe that "The Brave" is an action movie: a desperate man enters in the wrong place and he has to run away in order to keep himself alive. For those who love the adventures and action movies this one could be the prefect beginning for another one. Instead, the film moves into the philosophical reflection of meaning of life and death. The story is about love and struggling against fatality.

Depp gives us a beautiful movie that shows an excellent director: the photography is wonderful, the first sequence is hallucinant; the only regret is that it remembers Jarmush's "Dead Man".