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A SILVER LINING
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Joel Silver is best known for making movies with gung-ho action heroes – but with The Brave One, he puts a gun in the hand of a woman. |
He’s been in the action business for a long time now, so when the screenplay for The Brave One crossed Joel Silver’s desk, he knew it was something out of the ordinary.
“When we read the script, we liked that it was a hard-edged action picture, but that it was also about something bigger,” Silver explains. “It was thrilling and suspenseful and had a very dark, emotional story about a woman who suffers a terrible tragedy.
“Erica Bain is attacked and beaten and her fiancé is killed. Physically she comes back to health, but her life is completely changed. She has to reach into herself to find a way through, and she does… but the way she does it is what set the story apart for us. In order for her to survive, she has to find the courage to overcome the fear and take back her life in whatever way she can. That’s what makes her ‘The Brave One,’” he says.
When Nicole Kidman passed on the project, Silver went straight to Jodie Foster who loved the idea of helping create a female vigilante.
“The second you put a woman in a role like this, you have to ask different questions because her actions are so uncharacteristic,” notes Foster. “Generally speaking, women don’t kill people they don’t know; they don’t kill randomly, which I think makes the path Erica takes all the more interesting.”
“It was fascinating to explore her inner turmoil, her confusion. She doesn’t exactly know what she is doing or why she’s doing it, but at the same time she almost marvels at her actions. What she does understand is that fear has turned her into somebody unrecognisable, and in turn, caused her to assume the mantle of a killer.”
Producer Susan Downey (Robert Downey Jr’s wife) says Foster made some wonderful suggestions on how to improve the film, particularly on what Bain’s profession in the film should be.
“Jodie came on board with the idea of Bain being a radio personality, which lent itself to the concept of having voiceovers to help understand her mindset and her feeling about what she was doing,” says Downey. “You’re always a little hesitant to use voiceovers in a movie, but her occupation makes it feel completely organic to who she is as a character.”
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