8/4/2023 0 Comments Only the brave movieBut the film clearly treats its real-life subjects with kid gloves. Only the Brave is at its strongest in the easy camaraderie of the elite firefighters, with their goofing around and male bonding. So I think that’s unique to the movie.There's a lot to like here: the dialogue, the relationships, the technical expertise but there's also a lot to not like here: the dialogue, the relationships, the technical expertise. It’s not just some song planted in at the end it’s very cohesive. In the movie the song comes in with the same melody. He also scored the movie so the whole movie has that melody playing and tickling in and out. They had a lot of the song and melody written. He is the one that really brought this on to my attention. It did, myself.ĭierks Bentley: What’s cool is that the composer of the movie is actually the main songwriter. You don’t realize how many big songs are out there in movies and stuff so it was a little bit like yeah. I said, ‘that’s pretty cool’, and someone sent me a link to some other songs that were nominated like Common and I’m like “ahh”. Yeah, I did see something about an Oscar thing. People are raising awareness about what these guys are doing locally in their own communities. Their families are going to have this movie. I’m just so thankful this story’s being told, and people are going to learn about these Granite Mountain Hotshots. This happened back in 2012 we put on a benefit concert in Prescott to help, to do something, so I’m very attached to this story. What do you feel about the song generating Oscar buzz? I’m sure when you were writing it that wasn’t your goal.ĭierks Bentley: No, honestly this story is so important to me. There’s a lot of great parts, and the soundtrack’s great too. It’s a bunch of guys out there training, working hard, having fun. You get a little taste of the lifestyle that these guys lived you know. Taylor’s talking about the girl he hooked up with, and it’s totally inappropriate and it’s funny. You know I love the top of the movie too when they’re running up the top of the mountain telling stories. You feel the whole theater kind of just like. Obviously, I was seeing it next to Brendan the 20th Granite Mountain Hotshot so seeing him as that last twenty minutes comes in is pretty heavy. But watching actors and actresses do what they do stands out a lot. I know what I do very well to a point when I talk about what I do it’s not really that interesting to me personally. How do they do this? The craft of acting is very interesting to me. I was like man you’re in the theater watching it with all these actors and actress you’re thinking about what they went through to play that part. Jennifer Connelly in the car last night when she throws down in that fight. The first couple of times it was just hard to get through and I would get balled up in the very beginning, but now just the acting is what really sticks out to me now. So the song to take on a broader context it would go that direction for all first responders.ĭierks Bentley: You know everytime I see it it’s a little different. People who put their lives on the line every day, and run towards danger when the rest of us are running away from it. I feel like right now with all this terrible stuff going on, Las Vegas, it’s about these hotshot fighters, but it’s also about first responders in general. I feel that it goes deeper than that too. Would you call this the ‘Candle in the Wind’ for the Hotshots?ĭierks Bentley: Oh yeah. That was the idea of the song and just to be associated with this movie is awesome for me. Find that something that’s going to help you get through this. It’s heavy, and I think they would want to say, ‘hold the light’. I think the goal of the song is just what would these guys, these nineteen Granite Mountain Hotshot Firefighters, what would they want to say to their loved ones. For the song to have that kind of impact on you means we did our job right. What makes me feel better is hearing someone going, ‘yeah i can relate to what you’re going through’. Happy songs don’t necessarily make you feel happier when you’re done. It makes you relate to what you’re going through. I’m sure that’s not what you want to hear, but what’s the message of the song, and you just mentioned those were the types of feelings that you did want to stir up.ĭierks Bentley: The power of a sad song is that it makes you feel like that voice coming through the dash of your car. I can’t listen to the song without tearing up. So the song that closes the film, "Hold the Light," it was breathtaking. Screen Rant had the pleasure of speaking with Dierks about "Hold the Light", his astonishment with the perfomances in the film, and potentially being nominated for an Oscar.
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