It was a long process to get approved before they could call themselves that, and it was great how all they all came together and worked hard as a team to pass the inspection. Most of it progressed like any other movie, learning about the characters with side plots providing a glimpse into their personal problems at home, seeing the rookies being interviewed for the position, and finding out how they came to become official Hotshots. Only the Brave was very well done, touching, and respectful to the guys. So that told me a lot of people were like me and wanted to see it.
When I walked out, there was a long line of people already waiting to go in for the 7:20pm showing. The movie runs for over 2 hours and I stayed until all the credits had finished, so I didn’t get out of the theater until 6:45pm. At that time there were already quite a few people in the audience, mostly older retired people. I went to the 4:20pm showing on the first day. Even though this movie focuses on a particular group of Hotshots, it does a great job of educating the public about what all wildland firefighters do. Only the Brave was released on Friday, October 20, just a week after the deadly Northern California wildfires. This movie guarantees that they will not be forgotten. I saw it as a way of paying my respects to those brave men, to give them the recognition they deserved and remember them as the heroes they were. I must admit, the trailer was hard to watch, but I went to the movie anyway, tissues in hand.
We already know what happened and we experienced the heartbreak firsthand, so why would we want to re-live the trauma? I do know a few people who are purposely avoiding the movie because it would be too upsetting to have to go through all that again. So I wondered how Only the Brave would do in theaters in our state. The movie is dedicated to their memory.Īs an Arizonan, this tragedy took place close to home for me. On June 30, 2013, nineteen of the twenty members of the group perished while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire. They forged a unique brotherhood that came into focus with one fateful fire. Through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect families, communities, and nature they became one of the most elite firefighting teams in the nation. Only the Brave is the heroic true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a crew of wildland firefighters from Prescott, Arizona. “It’s not what stands in front of you… it’s who stands beside you.”
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