MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Added on May 16th, 2015 by rdeckard | Report Post
Tags:Art, George Miller, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Movie Posters, Tom Hardy
Tags:Art, George Miller, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Movie Posters, Tom Hardy
Saw it last night. It’s close to being the Citizen Kane of action movies. A shot of adrenalin straight into the heart. I don’t think my face has worn so many varied expressions while viewing a movie in my entire life. I spent most of it gurning in awe and incredulity. LOVED the nod to Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris, which really laid the ground work for MM to be made in the first place. Interesting side note – The costume designer, whose work in this film is consistently amazing, is best known for doing Merchant Ivory movies. WTF? I was also surprised by how moved I was by Nicholas Hoult/Nux’s character arc. What was also surprising is that Max himself is almost a peripheral character in his own movie. This film really belongs to Charlize Theron/Imperator Furiosa. Her name comes up first in the credits. Here’s a very long, but fascinating, in depth look at how the movie was made.
vimeo.com/127381179
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vimeo.com/127381179
Shit. That was just a repeat of the first link. I give up.
This should work. The previous problem was due to vimeo privacy settings. In a strange coincidence, I’ve been reading a lot about Native American/Aboriginal tribes in the American west, (and as we all know, the Mad Max movies are basically Westerns) and what’s striking is that the roles of tribal women were extraordinarily mixed. On the one hand, yes, they did most if not all of the domestic work, but at the same time they had to learn to ride horses and fight as well as the men in order to survive. The word is SURVIVAL and you don’t disregard half of your population to achieve that. You integrate. Max and Furiosa have mutual respect for each other. I was fascinated when she reveals that she was originally kidnapped, making her essentially Nathalie Wood in The Searchers (Which incidentally was based on several historical cases of women held captive by tribes. Some of them became so assimilated they didn’t want to leave! The most famous being Cynthia Parker, mother of Quanah Parker, last chief of the Comanches) Anyway, back to the movie and sexual politics –
Ok, not JUST sexual politics, but what’s great here is that Miller just followed his original story idea to its inevitable conclusion – a female road warrior.
Miller on twitter yesterday – ‘We’ll have more Max for you soon.’