Sheryl Crow
Interview: Curtis Jackson Talks Home of the Brave
"Part of it was my own experience of having had breast cancer," she said. "Not the same thing, but I think the experience, the pivotal experience when you realize your life's never going to be the same, and you're going to have to integrate back into your life, that's the story of these four people, just trying to figure out how do I go from here, or from there to here. And I think we get into trouble when we try not to remember, because life just winds up being a lie. So if you really deal with it, you really experience it and embrace it, and you're able to move on."
Once she saw the film, the music came pouring out of her. "I saw the movie completed, had a screening then went home immediately and wrote the song. Even [director] Irwin [Winkler], after the movie, wanted to stop and talk about it. I went, 'No, no, no. You can't talk to me about it, I gotta go straight home, while I still have it in my head,' and I wrote it that night. Called the next day, he liked it."
"Try Not to Remember" is not Crow's first movie song, but each film requires a different approach. "With movies it's different, and I've only done it a couple of times, like I did the James Bond theme, and that's very specific, because there's a whole legacy there, it's thematic, it's torchy. And this I felt like needed to be more, more dramatic. I didn't want to restate what had already happened in the film, because the film already really gives you a clear depiction of what it's saying. This film, I wanted to just ease people out of the theater. You've just seen something really heavy, and so I started with the music first. I play piano, that's my main instrument, so I started with that. And then sang kind of an ethereal melody, and that's where I started."
Now the only problem may be people rushing to their cars while the end credits play. "They do, I know. Yeah, that’s out of my control. That’s the kind of thing I just have to let go of. They’ll hear it as they walk out. But, you won’t hear it on the radio, I promise. Radio doesn’t play it unless it’s got a groove."
Home of the Brave has a limited release tomorrow, December 15th.
For the trailers, stills, posters, more interviews and synopsis, go to the Home of the Brave Movie Page.
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