Brave

Brave é um filme musical de 1994 dirigido por Richard Stanley e baseado no álbum conceitual Brave de 1994 da banda inglesa de rock progressivo Marillion. História e produção Em 1994, Marillion lançou seu sétimo álbum de estúdio, Brave. Um álbum conceitual inspirado em uma notícia que o cantor/letrista Steve Hogarth ouviu sobre uma garota amnésica encontrada vagando pela Ponte Severn, o álbum segue uma versão fictícia da vida da garota e dos eventos que a levaram até lá. Após o lançamento do álbum, Marillion expressou o desejo de criar um vídeo com base no conceito do álbum de forma comparável a The Wall, do Pink Floyd. O diretor de filmes cult Richard Stanley, intrigado pelo conceito, concordou em assinar como diretor do projeto. Ele se dissocia do filme. Mark Kelly disse em uma entrevista em 2013: "It took me to a website that had an interview with Richard Stanley, who was the director of our Brave movie. I didn’t know this, but apparently he basically said, “I disown that piece of work because they took what was a short piece of film and turned it into something much longer.” I suppose there is some truth in that, in the sense that he was working with a very small budget – I say “small budget”, it was about £100k – to try to make a movie that covered 70 minutes, which is the Brave album. It was more than the budget could cope with, if you know what I mean. But anyway, I think working with Richard Stanley is probably the closest we’ve ever come to devil’s music, he’s definitely got a bit of the devil in him, cos he’s made some really dark films." Kelly disse a Dave Everley na Classic Rock Magazine: "It wasn’t a good film to be honest. I'm not blaming Stanley, because the budget he had to work with was minuscule. It could have worked really well with him making that movie. It just didn't."