The Brave / The Piano II

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2-DVD Boxed Set includes "The Brave" and "The Piano II" (AKA "The Man Who Cried"). Officially licensed release from South Korea features Surround Sound and Anamorphic Widescreen display. SPECIAL FEATURES: Making 'The Brave' plus Theatrical Trailer, Synopsis, Cast and Filmmakers, etc. **** The Brave (1997) Directed by Johnny Depp with Johnny Depp, Elpidia Carrillo, Marshall Bell, Marlon Brando A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family. [IMDB Sam Hayes] Available audio tracks: English or Japanese with optional Japanese or Korean subtitles. **** The Piano II / The Man Who Cried (2000): Directed by Sally Potter with Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Claudia Lander-Duke, John Turturro, Johnny Depp. A Russian peasant emigrates to America, with a promise to send for his mother and young daughter when he is settled. His daughter follows shortly after, but she ends up on a ship bound for England, where she is renamed Suzie and raised by a British family. Many years later, Suzie's talent for singing and dancing sees her accepted into a Paris dance troupe where she befriends Lola, a fellow dancer from Moscow; Dante, an egotistical tenor and Cesar, a handsome brooding gypsy. All is well until the Nazis march into Paris, and Suzie's Russian Jewish background places her in danger. She must decide whether to leave Cezar and her friends and continue the search for her father in America. [IMDB - Alexander Lum] Available audio tracks: English or French with optional English or Korean subtitles.

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Okay I'm a Johnny Fan.......2007-06-06

The Brave is important to see if you are a Johnny Fan. It is heartbreaking in that he is not a director. At all. Sorry folks, Johnny can't direct. At least not direct and act at the same time. Maybe if he'd done one or the other it would have been better but it just plain sucked. I want to kill myself when I say that because Johnny can do no wrong in my eyes and I'm glad he got to try it but he is an actor. The best. He can't direct. Very important to see Brando though. His last(?)performance, and as usual fantastic-favor for a friend. I spent two years wishing Johnny would redo this movie and re-release it. Now I've decided he just needs to forget it and never try that again. Besides that I found the portrayal of Native American life almost offensive. I've lived among them for most of my life and I didn't think he captured anythng really about them except maybe the dad splurging on his kids. But there are no Indians living in garbage dumps. That's for sure. And as for tract houses, they can all get one. The problem is who wants that?

The Brave - A compelling depiction of devoir and sacrifice.......2007-04-04

This is a positively overwhelming depiction of bravery and tenderness. The quiet fear Johnny Depp expresses in the first trip to the warehouse is perfect. I was so tense at the warehouse scenes my stomach was in a knot. My whole body was tense the entire movie. Johnny Depp managed to produce a suspensful thriller with no loud noises, no crashing vehicles and very little gore. It's brilliant with a David Lynch-like quality, sprinkled with playfullness. Definitely buy and watch this, even if you're not a Johnny Depp groupie. And if you are a groupie, he's in almost every scene. I read a review which said this was a slow-moving picture. Those with this opinion must be jaded people with no empathy.

The Brave.......2007-02-17

Gack. Still, Johnny Depp with long hair does have a certain appeal. That was pretty much the only good thing about this movie.

THE BRAVE is one of Depp's best movies. .......2006-12-13

These days when I watch a movie I find myself unable to suspend my disbelief and get into the story. What I mean is that I'm constantly aware that I'm watching a movie. This was a movie where I was able to loose myself in the story. I felt like I was really watching a man taking a desperate measure to save his family. In the film, Depp's character makes a deal to sell himself to some men who want to make him the star of their Snuff film. I felt myself being able to wonder what such a situation would be like as I watched Depp playing the character and I found myself actually hoping he would find a way out of his situation. Whether he got out of it or not I will not say as to do so would ruin the movie to an extent. WIth all the garbage that Hollywood produces it's a shame that a great film like this isn't released in the states. When I bought The Brave it came with another Depp movie called the PIANO II as part of a two pack. For me pursonally, the PIANO II was one of the biggest peices of crap I've seen in awhile but I got both movies for a price that I would have gladly paid for THE BRAVE DVD by itself.

Don't Support DVD Pirates.......2006-07-29

US DVD market is flooded with Korean and Taiwanese bootlegs. Both countries never signed international copyright agreement and these discs are being distributed by organizations that wildly participate not only in movie piracy but also drugs and prostitution. Use google or yahoo search engine (keyword: Korean bootleg dvd or similar) and learn the truth for yourself. Please don't support criminals!!!!

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George Szell - One Man's Triumph / Cleveland Orchestra
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Piano Man's Daughter - From the Producers of Anne of Green Gables

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Piano Man's Daughter - From the Producers of Anne of Green Gables
Starring: Christian Campbell , Stockard Channing , and Allan Price
Director: Kevin Sullivan
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Release Date: 2003-11-21

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Boy, how do you say "train wreck" in Korean? .......2006-05-13

What began with the makings of a good detective thriller, turned sour on a dime within the first half-hour of the movie. Piano Man begins with detectives ducking in & out of the inky folds of a rain-soaked night. They gather, under a canopy of umbrellas, beside a makeshift grave in a vacant gravel pit to study a horribly disfigured corpse. The detectives argue about who will take the lead in the case and whether or not they should wait for the forensics team, shouting at one another for their general incompetence or for ignoring the benefits a parallel investigation with the other departments will have for the case in hand. (Chaos during an investigation being a reoccurring theme in Korean Detective Thrillers.). When the body arrives at the morgue, the detectives discover that the killer left very little in the way of clues by scalding the face, yanking any dental work, skinning the fingertips and last but not least, stitching the victim's eyelids to it's forehead so they could watch! The investigation seemingly abandons any effort to I.D. the body and turns to a small, elegant, toy player-piano shoved into the chest cavity, where the heart had been ripped out. The killer initiates contact with one Detective Mi-ran (Seung-yeon Lee; eight years before starring in 3-Iron) to, for whatever reason, give her clues to help catch him. She receives that victim's heart wrapped as a gift, with a short note simply signed "PM". Yep, you guessed it; Piano Man. The lead on the case, Detective Yang, joins forces with Mi-ran on the case. But he has to battle his wanna-be detective son Jin-woo's interest, nay fascination with the case, his own alcoholism and a younger crop of detectives that balk at Yang's "old world" techniques.

The best way to describe Piano Man is as a crashing bore. The momentum and intrigue those first few scenes built came crumbling down due to mind-numbingly long scenes of little importance. For example, a 25 minute scene concerning the killer's method of procuring black-market license plates. Whatever momentum it managed to recoup, dissolved away again by similar inane, superfluous story-lines. The most egregious error of the movie is the fact that we're given Piano Man's (Min-su Choi) identity within that first half-hour. We then sit through two long, painful lounge acts from a character that comes from nowhere and goes nowhere, and to top it off, she's accompanied by the killer on piano, but, as I've already pointed out, by now we know he's the killer. I also can't not mention Piano Man's sudden, inexplicable obsession with Billie Holiday, or obvious plot/set similarities with the story of The Phantom Of The Opera. But in the end, the less we knew about his motivations, the better it would have been. Sadly, his all to hackneyed motivations come into play later on in the film, which is yet another lesson in tedium. But even then, as he continues to keep Detective Mi-ran informed of his "work", those motivations are completely abandoned for wildly inconsistent or at the very least, unconvincing ones. Called a "mildly entertaining time-waster" in another review, Piano Man I'll agree, is just that.

Besides the very opening scenes, there's quite honestly very little to be positive about here. Yu's message concerning police ineffectiveness is a competent, well worn one. He also takes a Freudian look at parent-child relationships early on in the film and comes back to it later, which does add a touch of credibility to the movie as a whole. I'd recommend skipping Piano Man altogether and tracking down infinitely better Korean crime-thrillers such as Tell Me Something, and Memories Of Murder.

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The story follows the life of cavalier heart-breaker Charlie Kilworth, a charismatic musician who leads a promiscuous life playing piano for a swing band in the 1930s

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