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This is the place for a spoiler alert, which, however, won’t be a spoilerįor anyone who has read anything about the real-life Granite Mountain Is itself merely a one-sidedly useful artifice. Stirring, effective, patriotic propaganda for a picture of America that Regarding them-and about their locale and American times at Yet is excluded from the movie, and that is at least as interesting After the viewing, prompted by curiosity, I looked (veryĬasually, just a few minutes’ click-around) at news about the HotshotsĪnd turned up an entire realm of activity that’s integral to their lives Life at large, or even into the life that surrounds them in their own In a plethora of details, but it never looks beyond the work life into “Only the Brave” ties the characters’ private lives to their work lives Possibility that there might be anyone besides white people in Prescott).

Watched the movie, I felt that something was missing (including the People-white people-go out of their way to help each other. Offers a vision of sentimental unity for the common good in a town where Required to face danger practically and get the job done.

“Only the Brave” is filled with conspicuous touches of heartiness, ofīonding (male bonding) that’s part of the discipline and the teamwork

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(Of course, he and Donutīecome close friends, and Mac matures, largely through Donut’s Who is also Donut’s most vicious harasser. Mac (Taylor Kitsch), a sexually crude and emotionally stunted colleague Of ordinary family life that contrasts with Eric’s own. Second-in-command, Jesse Steed (James Badge Dale), who provides a model Nickname “Donut”), but Donut masters the necessary tough physicalĭiscipline and the book studies and becomes an integral part of the The outfit see him as physically and mentally unfit (they give him the When he is hired as a firefighter, the other members of Surges to the surface of the action only very late in the film, when theĬouple’s stifled conflicts burst forth with some trenchant writingĭelivered with familiar histrionics.) Brendan is first seen as a youngįool, getting into fights, getting arrested, getting kicked out of his Passionate marriage with Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), a horse trainer,īut something troubled in their past shadows their daily lives. The script, by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, puts exceptionalĮmphasis on Eric and Brendan’s personal lives. Pitch in, and, in order to get his life together, applies for a job with She has no interest in him or in his help raising the child īut, having grown up without his own father, Brendan is determined to Teller), a slacker and a stoner, has gotten a young woman (Natalie Hall) Meanwhile, a young man named Brendan McDonough (Miles (Forrest Fyre), and Eric is authorized to seek Type 1 certification for Rich in wry humor and lived-in wisdom), vouches for them to the mayor The local fire chief, Duane Steinbrink (Jeff Bridges, in a performance Prescott outfit has little chance to compete for Hotshot standing but “Hotshot”) units and merelyĬomplete the jobs that they have started. Understanding of the best way to fight wildfires, his crew must follow

That legal designation means that, despite Eric’s profound Wildfire-fighting outfit in Prescott, Arizona, that’s relegated to TypeĢ status. The rugged, volatile, insightful, deeply capable superintendent of a The action of “Only the Brave” is centered on Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), Out can be far more revealing than what they choose to include. Meaning of their own and-as in “Only the Brave”-what filmmakers leave Theĭecisions that go into the composition and the telling of stories have a

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Timely reminder that stories are decisions, that there’s no such thingĪs “ the story,” no preëxisting idea or self-determined material thatīelongs in a movie by dint of its chosen subject or characters. Hotshots, heroic fighters of wildfires in Arizona. Nonfiction account in GQ by Sean Flynn (and co-produced by Condé NastĮntertainment), of the real-life activities of the Granite Mountain Stirring dramatization, directed by Joseph Kosinski, based on a The art of storytelling is treacherous, and the new film “Only theīrave,” released last Friday, is among the more noteworthy recentĭisplays of the art’s peculiarities and pitfalls.