![]() ![]() Pushing himself around in a wheelchair, blowing a harmonica, mumbling his flowery dialogue (self-written by the sounds of it) through suspiciously large, red lips, the gargantuan method actor has apparently been visited by the ghost of Lee Strasberg with the instruction, "You are a talking whale!" The brave 1997 movie#Marlon "Special Appearance" Brando plays McCarthy, the snuff movie producer - if that's what he really is - as if he never left the set of Apocalypse Now. Then Raphael goes to town the following morning to get killed. well, I dunno, the old guy didn't say exactly. That's OK - he's going to be murdered tomorrow anyway! But first, he stops off to see his father, who performs a ceremony calling up the spirits to. ![]() And he does all this in front of two hookers. Just kidding! That night, Raphael goes all Mike Tyson on Luis, first biting off his ear, then breaking his neck. Because no self-respecting ex-con like Raphael would ever take revenge for such a thing.ĭepp washes his sins away and, in doing so,ĭrives all the girls in the audience crazy with lust. Raphael's old partner in crime, Luis, drops by for his share of the score and, when he doesn't find it, beats up the wife and son. If you think all this would attract too much attention, well, you just aren't ready to make a movie. Why not just buy a case of Grey Goose while you're at it and call it a day? (One of the party guests, whose character credit is "MAN EATING LEG", is Iggy Pop, who also wrote the score. Then take your kid grocery shopping, where you load up your carts with junk food and race up and down the aisles, knocking over displays and laughing. Nah, you'd do what Raphael does - build a carnival out of scraps from the dump. Buy them some nice clothes instead of the rags they're walking around in. Like opening a savings account with that 50 grand. But you have two kids and a wife back in the trailer next to the dump. You hold up your end of the bargain because you're, I dunno, brave. OK, so maybe you do have some kind of honor. (In the novel upon which The Brave is based, Raphael is indeed a mentally-defective drunk.) They should have called this movie The Stupid. So just why does Raphael intend to return? Because the snuff movie producer trusts him. (Every review of The Brave says Raphael has been hired to appear in a snuff movie, but that wasn't made clear to me.) If you received $50,000 and was told return in a week to get sliced, wouldn't you maybe, just maybe, get the the hell out of Dodge? Then there's the idea of going through with being murdered. You wonder why his character just doesn't hop a bus to the nearest modeling agency if he wants to make some serious dough - he's more beautiful than most women. Long black hair and aīandana do not an Indian make. Looks as Native American as I do, which is Irish. Despite his claims toīe part Cherokee or Creek - disputed by the tribes themselves - Depp Johnny Depp's first of many mistakes, other than agreeing to direct and rewrite the script, was to cast himself as Raphael. In the week he has remaining to live, he tries to make life better for his people. Raphael, a poor American Indian living with his family in a trailer next to a garbage dump, agrees to be tortured and murdered in exchange for $50,000. To say that it was negative would be to describe the bombing of Hiroshima as a stern warning.Ĭertainly the story should have met the approval of America-loathing cheese-eaters. For that, you can thank its critical reception following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The Brave was never released in America, and is available only as a DVD from Asia. If you wonder why a movie starring Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando flew under your radar, don't worry. The movie is going to be self-consciously grim with a lot of heavy symbolism, and the big name is onscreen for five minutes. When you read "A FILM BY" attached to a person who's never even directed traffic, and "SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY" with a big name, it can mean only two things. ![]()
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