| The Brave - 1997 Brave Pictures Inc. Character Raphael Distinguishing traits/features: Courage to make the ultimate sacrifice Trivia Johnny had a hard time editing his scenes from the film because he kept " seeing by turns, my father and mother." The Brave symbol is based on Johnny seeing it painted on a wall somewhere and it spoke to him. |
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| “The only true reason I wanted to direct The Brave was that I was too inarticulate to tell another director what I wanted, you know. What I wanted to look like or what the rhythm should be like, or what it should feel like, you know. Just because I couldn’t express that, you know.” |
| On acting and directing: “To tell you the truth, I found doing both difficult for a lot of reasons, some common, some personal. But mostly because as an actor you have to put yourself in a trance, you have to lose contact with reality. But when you direct, it is the exact opposite. Those two opposites are really stressful to be incessantly going back and forth to.” |
| Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman (A Dakota Sioux who plays Raphael’s dad) – “At first I thought Johnny was taking on more than he could handle with The Brave. I had only seen one other guy who directed and acted in the same film. That was Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, but I saw Kevin break a couple of times and tear after someone and get angry. I didn’t see that in Johnny. He goes beyond getting angry. He likes off-center, arty roles as an actor, and he is that way in his personality too.” |
| Terry Gilliam: “The Brave was a painful experience, I think, for Johnny because of the process. He had this project he felt deeply about, he directed it – and then the money guys wanted it at Cannes – but he never really had the chance to finish the film properly. If there is a weakness in the film, it is those two sides of Johnny that haven’t quite found a middle ground how you put it together. Because there are a few scenes in the movie that are like Kusturica’s stuff; they’re fabulous, outrageous. And then the other part of the film is incredibly dark and real.” |
| On editing: I trusted my feeling and my crew, so I didn’t have the classical symptoms of stage fright going on. But what really freaked me out was watching myself in the rushes for the first 15 days. That was really painful. I hate seeing myself on screen, and I never go to the rushes on the films I’ve just acted in. For those first couple of weeks, I couldn’t judge anything because I was blocked. I got used to it. I still didn’t like it, but I got used to it.” |
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| JD regarding the critics that panned it: “It was such an attack – such a vicious vindictive move for my throat and parts below. They really went for me, all out, so it was kind of difficult to avoid. I definitely felt that they’d written the reviews before they saw the film. They don’t want you to think. They don’t want to even begin to think that you might have some semblance of a brain, some shreds of creativity inside you. They don’t want that. They prefer a puppet.” |
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