It’s in its rigorous depiction of a hazardous career, as well as in its attentiveness to the myriad ways that danger informs the camaraderie and bonding between men. Only the Brave displays a kinship to Hawks’s hard-nosed, old-fashioned pragmatism. Death lurks around every corner and it’s when you think about it too much that it’s most likely to come your way. The perilous nature of their jobs leads them to bury their vulnerability beneath seemingly impenetrable layers of professionalism, machismo, and sarcastic humor. When confronted about the tragedy soon after, his fellow pilots carry on as if nothing has happened, one of them eventually uttering: “Who’s Joe?” There’s nothing cavalier about their reactions, or lack thereof. Early in Howard Hawks’s 1939 classic Only Angels Have Wings, a cargo pilot named Joe Souther perishes in a crash while flying on a dangerous route through the Andes Mountains.
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