I just love how Max never, for a moment came even close to be convinced that there may something inspiring there. From first moment he talked with Furiosa about Greenplace to the moment he watched her hopes being crumbled by the merciless truth He never fell into hope and knew that hope was going to lead Furiosa into ruin and madness. He couldn't turn his back to it, just like he couldn't at Fury Road
This was one of the most viscerally disheartening scenes in a movie made in years. You just felt the sheer weight of hope crushed with that dialog dissolving into the haunting string arrangement. Hats off to George Miller and the musical composers of this film for creating something so immersive!
im really glad they made a whole ass prequel film of this 5 minutes of exposition. the emotional dial felt like 8 or 9 the first time in the theater but after watching furiosa its like being hit with a whole movie all at once.
4:47 You hear that? That's the scream of a woman, who watched her mother suffer a horrific death (largely thanks to her), spent a lot of time with the maniac who killed her mother, almost became a sex slave to a post-apocalyptic tyrant, survived the harsh life of a citadel worker, while hiding her gender, lost her first love to the same maniac, and lost her arm. All in hope that one day, she would return to her home. The day finally came, and it turned out that it was all for nothing.
She didn't lose her mom because of her. The bikers found their secret place and she realised they would have come back with more men to raid it. She was trying to prevent this by cutting the gas pipes on their bikes, but she got caught. They would have come back to destroy the place regardless. And it seems in the end the apocalips ruined the Green Place anyway. I don't get why they wanted everything to be so bleak in this series. It just seems so nihilistic that it doesn't even make any sense. Eventually, everyone will die a stupid, senseless, violent death and I don't get the point of that.
When you are 20 years away from your hometown and you’re finally back and find out it’s turned into a desert. It’s very devastating. Being abroad and away from hometown for 8 years I can totally relate to that.
The dialog in this scene was so great. "7000 days, plus the ones I don't remember", and "She died, on the 3rd day", that she measured time in days (instead of years) tells you the length she went to return, and hints at what happened during those days. Can't wait for the new movie to expand on these details.
SPOILERS I loved the attention to detail to Mary Jabassa’s journey and eventual death. She really did die on the third day, and it was so ingrained in Furiosa’s mind that she knew _exactly_ when she died.
There’s something so powerful about someone in emotional distress dropping to their knees and screaming into the heavens, not shouting no, just a pure, raw scream, because not only is it more believable than shouting no but it also gets across the feeling of sadness without needing to say a word
Makes it all the more sad that she’s the first of two to die in the final battle. That was more the fault of film scheduling conflicts however as she was originally going to be in the end with Furiosa. Fun fact too, Megan Gale, the actress playing Valkyrie here was George Miller’s casting choice for Wonder Woman in his cancelled Justice League movie.
The cut to Max's face in the end is important. Max never believed there is a Green Place. He always knew there is no hope, just like he knew that riding for days across the salt plains will only get you to more salt plains. All hope is lost. But despite knowing that, he isn't cruel. He was reduced to only the basic instinct of survival but it did not make him heartless. He didn't kill Furiosa or Nux when he had the chance, even when he still acted more like an animal than like a human. Now, after spending time with Furiosa, the wives and Nux, after having a bond with them, he empathizes with Furiosa's pain. Having lost everything himself he knows how it feels, and his face shows it. He doesn't speak, but we see how he feels, especially having heard earlier that what Furiosa was looking for was redemption. He now knows they are both looking for the same thing, and the plan he proposes later is based on him knowing that. And when Furiosa hears that offer, it's probably the reason why she agrees, having lost everything and knowing now, just like Max, that there is no hope. The arguments about who's the protagonist in the film are missing the point: they aren't protagonists without each other, and they can reach no redemption without each other.
Thank you for pointing this out. It sort of bothered me when I read comments that Mad Max relagated to a side character. To me, it merges Max and Furiosa's journey together and both found redemption and concluded in a definitive fashion for both characters. It just so happens that Furiosa had a story to tell and Max had already been established as a character in previous films.
I love this entire scene with it's heartbreaking, bitter beauty but the the most most beautiful little bit, I find, is her expression at 2:38. A memory thought completely lost comes back, something of her mother.
Coming back after watching Furiosa, it really adds in to the weight that she felt here, learning after years of coming back that her home was no longer there My one complaint, is that we didn't see more of Furiosa in her home before she got taken away
I'm here after watching Furiosa a few days. Imagine how such a place full of life and abundance became a dead desert of acid lands and sand.. Now I can see the pain of Furiosa
Its very wholesome that the old mothers are so mesmerized by the brides and formed a genuine bond with them without much of words but actions Its sad that almost all of em died saving the rig crews
@@ttam9205 I interpreted it as if all the other stories were legends, while that last story was whispered in the ear of the narrator, thus revealing his true fate.
Holy shit this scene always felt depressing and sad with paradise lost but having seen Furiosa…*man*… it just hits I’m tearing up. All she ever wanted was to go back home and now home is lost.
At the end of this clip, when he sees Furiosa drop her bionic arm and fall to her knees in the sand, the frame cuts to Max’s face and he looks as though he’s been struck with sudden epiphany. I think in that moment, Max must have realized HE’S the one who helped her all those years ago, when he was standing at the top of the sand dune and she was down at the bottom, having collapsed after losing her arm and after Dementus brutally murdered Pretorian Jack. Max must have realized that HE was the one who saved Furiosa by returning her to the citadel. If I’m right, which I think I am, pssshhh….what an epic, EPIC way to tie-in Furiosa to Fury Road. So subtle and very easily missed, and yet so profound. GMiller is a genius!
This scene didn’t make much of a difference to me when I first saw it but after Furiosa, it hits much harder. This is what happens when you write your stories way ahead of time.
After watching Furiosa, I understand everything what she went through to get here. She truly lost everything: Her mother, her friend, her arm, one of the wives, and now her home. She came all the way out here to go back to the Green Place realizing it was dead and gone, all of that for NOTHING! What a horrible tragic experience.
The fact there was so little we knew about the green place really made its mystery even more tragic after seeing the Furiosa movie which gave us a glimpse to what once was but by Fury Road is sadly no longer
So I never watched this movie But I watched Furiosa first in theaters I watch this movie a few weeks after and when this scene came it genuinely made me sad when her home was gone
Having watched Furiousa recently, this scene hits me so much harder. All the time lost, all the suffering she went through - captured so viscerally in that silent scream from Charlize. Just a phenomenal piece of filmmaking all round.
@@riley-dv8eu it makes sense because they seem to be around the same age compared to the rest of the women seeming to be her mother’s age/generation and it would make sense as well to call back to fury road again with that brief cameo of a young version of this cameo
@@ambition00431 not to mention the fact how the first thing she does that hints at this is her going to hug her Something i know is something most childhood friends would do after reuniting with someone who has been kidnapped Edit: Just checked, that is her Her name is Valkyrie, a name Furiosa even called her when she was little
Damn. I watched the 2015 in a restaurant once so I really don't follow the storyline. But I just watched Furiousa last night. I thought she's gonna make it to the beautiful green place. She went through a lot just to find out that her hometown has turned into a wasteland
After watching Furiosa I almost feel like fainting myself at the revelation. Apparently Charlize Theron wanted to go with a cathartic scream while Miller wanted her more stoic, Charlize definitely made the right move!
2:20 Furiosa says she was gone for 7000 days approx so 7000÷365 is 19.97 so she was gone for 20 years from the initial start of the green place in Furiosa
@motor4X4kombat yeah I'd give her a max of a year or two she didn't remember. It was roughly 7000 days though give or take a few hundred days so my original point still stands. She's meant to be about 12 when taken from the green place. So she'd be about 33-34 in fury road which seems to coincide with Charliezes appearance/age.
Thinking this is one of the only moments in the movie that wasn’t in the big storyboard… the moment where Charlize Theron ripped our hearts from our chest
It's a nice detail that when the Vuvalini pound their chests to honor Furiosa's mother, she does it slowly because she's trying to remember how to do it because it's been so long. She's so overjoyed to be with her people, too bad her joy lasts only so long and the 20+ years of tragedy she was forced to bury under a mask of ruthlessness finally emerge...
Well, it took 31 years between Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road so don't hold your breath. I did hear a prequel was coming but it's going to be a Furiosa film, not a Mad Max film.
@@flybeep1661 Yeah, I also heard about that one, also excited if it's ever released, not sure if they'll cast Charlize Theron tho, as she's not getting any younger and would look weird for a prequel, but I don't want them to ruin her character like they did with Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys or whatever.
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This scene hits 1000% harder as I just came back from the Theatre after done watching Furiosa Mad Max Saga.
You really feel the anguish of such a long journey. “I WANT THEM BACK!!”
Furiosa is a great prequel to this movie. I did the same and rewatched Fury Road after Furiosa and Furiosa compliments this films so well
Me too just got done watching the furiosa. Now I gotta watch this one again to see how it fits together
GODDAMN !!!
Yeah 1000% I make it make even more sense now why Valkyrie was so happy to see her again
"Where are you going, so full of hope? There is no hope!"
Dimentis took away her hope
She must’ve had flashbacks to that in that scene
But in the end she had it in her to make it epic.
That scene literally gave me goosebumps
I just love how Max never, for a moment came even close to be convinced that there may something inspiring there. From first moment he talked with Furiosa about Greenplace to the moment he watched her hopes being crumbled by the merciless truth
He never fell into hope and knew that hope was going to lead Furiosa into ruin and madness. He couldn't turn his back to it, just like he couldn't at Fury Road
After 8 years, now I understand this scene, how perfect was the green place
9 years*
@@SkyscannerGuyJr.why does this matter enough to correct them
@@alexhanna2445why does this matter enough to complain?
I still can barely believe that a film like this was even made by the Hollywood that is. And also finally another!
You can see from her expression: "All I will ever know is famine." A great screaming shot.
I love it as well
“… and not feminine hygiene.”
This was one of the most viscerally disheartening scenes in a movie made in years. You just felt the sheer weight of hope crushed with that dialog dissolving into the haunting string arrangement. Hats off to George Miller and the musical composers of this film for creating something so immersive!
Junkie XL is the composer
Watch “The Road”, and you’ll be on antidepressants before the week is out.
im really glad they made a whole ass prequel film of this 5 minutes of exposition. the emotional dial felt like 8 or 9 the first time in the theater but after watching furiosa its like being hit with a whole movie all at once.
Here after Furiosa. Holy cow this girl went through it.
Not really, she never experienced what you'd expect would happen to a beautiful young woman in an apocalyptic world.
She did went through everything man
"it" can be other kinda of trauma besides rape@@blue-phoenix115
@@blue-phoenix115 ?? she still went through it lol
@@hi-jj2mh Did she experience it? I can say “I went through everything” too.
Just saw Furiosa and the TRUE impact of this scene now hits.
Well done, George Miller.
4:47 You hear that? That's the scream of a woman, who watched her mother suffer a horrific death (largely thanks to her), spent a lot of time with the maniac who killed her mother, almost became a sex slave to a post-apocalyptic tyrant, survived the harsh life of a citadel worker, while hiding her gender, lost her first love to the same maniac, and lost her arm. All in hope that one day, she would return to her home. The day finally came, and it turned out that it was all for nothing.
I’m crying 😭
Yeah she got destroyed by the wasteland. That green paradise she left now just a blue bog.
No worries, she got the ending she deserved
She didn't lose her mom because of her. The bikers found their secret place and she realised they would have come back with more men to raid it. She was trying to prevent this by cutting the gas pipes on their bikes, but she got caught. They would have come back to destroy the place regardless. And it seems in the end the apocalips ruined the Green Place anyway. I don't get why they wanted everything to be so bleak in this series. It just seems so nihilistic that it doesn't even make any sense. Eventually, everyone will die a stupid, senseless, violent death and I don't get the point of that.
Funny how bigots call her a mary sue when she's far from one
When you are 20 years away from your hometown and you’re finally back and find out it’s turned into a desert. It’s very devastating. Being abroad and away from hometown for 8 years I can totally relate to that.
Devastating indeed.
This is even more painful after watching furiosa
You realize how much she lost :'(
@@elriane94Dementus was right, unfortunately.
Because that movie nearly ruined the character and this movie
Unique snowflake francescomalagoli2467 here
@@francescomalagoli2467 wth are you talking about? Furiosa was epic
The dialog in this scene was so great. "7000 days, plus the ones I don't remember", and "She died, on the 3rd day", that she measured time in days (instead of years) tells you the length she went to return, and hints at what happened during those days. Can't wait for the new movie to expand on these details.
It's post apocalyptic Australia, there are no seasons for a year to matter.
SPOILERS
I loved the attention to detail to Mary Jabassa’s journey and eventual death. She really did die on the third day, and it was so ingrained in Furiosa’s mind that she knew _exactly_ when she died.
@@Fankas2000 even if there's no more seasonal weather change the length of daylight will still change.
There’s something so powerful about someone in emotional distress dropping to their knees and screaming into the heavens, not shouting no, just a pure, raw scream, because not only is it more believable than shouting no but it also gets across the feeling of sadness without needing to say a word
It's like a more subtle 'show don't tell' which was executed perfectly
Hurts much more after seeing Furiosas backstory.
Finding out the woman she embraces here was the girl who watched her get taken in Furiosa was cool
Makes it all the more sad that she’s the first of two to die in the final battle. That was more the fault of film scheduling conflicts however as she was originally going to be in the end with Furiosa. Fun fact too, Megan Gale, the actress playing Valkyrie here was George Miller’s casting choice for Wonder Woman in his cancelled Justice League movie.
The cut to Max's face in the end is important. Max never believed there is a Green Place. He always knew there is no hope, just like he knew that riding for days across the salt plains will only get you to more salt plains. All hope is lost. But despite knowing that, he isn't cruel. He was reduced to only the basic instinct of survival but it did not make him heartless. He didn't kill Furiosa or Nux when he had the chance, even when he still acted more like an animal than like a human. Now, after spending time with Furiosa, the wives and Nux, after having a bond with them, he empathizes with Furiosa's pain. Having lost everything himself he knows how it feels, and his face shows it. He doesn't speak, but we see how he feels, especially having heard earlier that what Furiosa was looking for was redemption. He now knows they are both looking for the same thing, and the plan he proposes later is based on him knowing that. And when Furiosa hears that offer, it's probably the reason why she agrees, having lost everything and knowing now, just like Max, that there is no hope. The arguments about who's the protagonist in the film are missing the point: they aren't protagonists without each other, and they can reach no redemption without each other.
Thank you for pointing this out. It sort of bothered me when I read comments that Mad Max relagated to a side character. To me, it merges Max and Furiosa's journey together and both found redemption and concluded in a definitive fashion for both characters. It just so happens that Furiosa had a story to tell and Max had already been established as a character in previous films.
The heartbreaking look on her face when she realizes the journey & Angharad's death were all for nothing.
I've stood on those dunes in Namibia. There is honestly not a more barren, desolate, beautiful place in the world.
You’d have to have been to every place in the world to make that statement 😉
Desert isn't beautiful at all
I love this entire scene with it's heartbreaking, bitter beauty but the the most most beautiful little bit, I find, is her expression at 2:38. A memory thought completely lost comes back, something of her mother.
Coming back after watching Furiosa, it really adds in to the weight that she felt here, learning after years of coming back that her home was no longer there
My one complaint, is that we didn't see more of Furiosa in her home before she got taken away
4:40 me when i realise the awesome amv that I watched religiously in the early 2010s was taken down.
Most relatable comment in the world.
I'm here after watching Furiosa a few days. Imagine how such a place full of life and abundance became a dead desert of acid lands and sand.. Now I can see the pain of Furiosa
this hits a lot harder now
Who's here after watching Furiosa
Me!
Me.
This scene hits so much harder now
Me,in the Netherlands
Me.
Me
Max and Nux are complete chads for letting these ladies share their own moment of solitude.
Its very wholesome that the old mothers are so mesmerized by the brides and formed a genuine bond with them without much of words but actions
Its sad that almost all of em died saving the rig crews
That she could never plant that seed is so painful
I thought dementus fate was keeping the tree of that seed alive
@@Cirolinaok, I was wrong. But still this scene is so sad
@@CirolinaI thought that was one of the legends. It’s never confirmed whether she killed him or kept him alive.
@@ttam9205 I interpreted it as if all the other stories were legends, while that last story was whispered in the ear of the narrator, thus revealing his true fate.
@@Cirolina- Makes you wonder who the narrator is.
This scene is so much more painful now man
Man, this is even sadder now.
0:33 Max almost annoyed at how obvious the trap is.
Holy shit this scene always felt depressing and sad with paradise lost but having seen Furiosa…*man*… it just hits
I’m tearing up. All she ever wanted was to go back home and now home is lost.
0:08 "I remember something like that"
I use that phrase a lot when I replay old videogames 😂
Damn this scene hits 1000x harder after furiosa, fucking hell she went through
The "Green place" was oasis. Oases dry up. They basically have to search for a new one.
There’s still water there but it’s poison, as the clan says…
At the end of this clip, when he sees Furiosa drop her bionic arm and fall to her knees in the sand, the frame cuts to Max’s face and he looks as though he’s been struck with sudden epiphany. I think in that moment, Max must have realized HE’S the one who helped her all those years ago, when he was standing at the top of the sand dune and she was down at the bottom, having collapsed after losing her arm and after Dementus brutally murdered Pretorian Jack. Max must have realized that HE was the one who saved Furiosa by returning her to the citadel. If I’m right, which I think I am, pssshhh….what an epic, EPIC way to tie-in Furiosa to Fury Road. So subtle and very easily missed, and yet so profound. GMiller is a genius!
Just saw Furiosa, the scene is ten more times more powerful now. Fighting to come back to a place which doesn’t exist anymore is life breaking.
Her pain is that big that even the camera sinks in the sand.
This scene didn’t make much of a difference to me when I first saw it but after Furiosa, it hits much harder.
This is what happens when you write your stories way ahead of time.
After watching Furiosa, I understand everything what she went through to get here. She truly lost everything: Her mother, her friend, her arm, one of the wives, and now her home. She came all the way out here to go back to the Green Place realizing it was dead and gone, all of that for NOTHING! What a horrible tragic experience.
I felt crying here. All struggle, suffering, fights for returning to home and there is no home.
I felt that scream so loudly 😞😞😞😞
You gotta give kudos to Junkie XL. His soundtrack is awesome.
The part where Furiosa and Valkyrie touch heads hits differently, knowing they are sisters.
Gets me everytime this scene 😢
After the preque movie this scene hit so much harder
4:44 if this isn’t cinema I don’t know what else to call that
This scene made so cry, the whole story about Furiosa, how close we are to nuclear Armageddon. 😢
This scene is even more gut wrenching when you watch the prequel that just came out.
The fact there was so little we knew about the green place really made its mystery even more tragic after seeing the Furiosa movie which gave us a glimpse to what once was but by Fury Road is sadly no longer
2:34 good thing she spared them the details, because... I don't even want to think about it...
Hurts even more bc of the seed she planted that her mother gave her was supposed to be for the green place
3:15 I'm pretty sure this line was improvised... even actress Abbey Lee nonchalantly looking at the camera
Man seeing how green the green place was and then seeing this scene MAN ouch
Lost her mom, her lover, and now her home.
Having seen Furiosa, this scene is even better
So I never watched this movie But I watched Furiosa first in theaters I watch this movie a few weeks after and when this scene came it genuinely made me sad when her home was gone
When you spend almost 20 years fighting for nothing
Such as Life.
My grandmother would of said.
Back in the day.
1:56 coincidentally, actress Charlize Theron & Megan Gale shares the exact same birthday
megan gale almost made it to b. wonder woman
That’s what it feels like losing your country, your family, your culture, your home.
Damn, watching the movie Furiosa made me feel her pain. It took her many years to come back knowing that it's already gone. 😢😢
Dude chill out! Therell be another greenplace shortly!
If you watch the new Furiousa trailer.
You see the green place and the many mothers.
Having watched Furiousa recently, this scene hits me so much harder. All the time lost, all the suffering she went through - captured so viscerally in that silent scream from Charlize.
Just a phenomenal piece of filmmaking all round.
Beyond vengeance indeed
One of the greatest shots in cinema history 04:42
Wait could the bait girl potentially be the girl we saw with Furiosa at the beginning of Furiosa?? I feel like it’s possible
Oh wow, i hope so
Cause that would make it a reunion between childhood friends
@@riley-dv8eu it makes sense because they seem to be around the same age compared to the rest of the women seeming to be her mother’s age/generation and it would make sense as well to call back to fury road again with that brief cameo of a young version of this cameo
@@ambition00431 not to mention the fact how the first thing she does that hints at this is her going to hug her
Something i know is something most childhood friends would do after reuniting with someone who has been kidnapped
Edit: Just checked, that is her
Her name is Valkyrie, a name Furiosa even called her when she was little
@@riley-dv8eu love that he added that little cameo of a cameo character lol
Yes, her name is Valkyrie.
Damn. I watched the 2015 in a restaurant once so I really don't follow the storyline. But I just watched Furiousa last night. I thought she's gonna make it to the beautiful green place. She went through a lot just to find out that her hometown has turned into a wasteland
After watching Furiosa I almost feel like fainting myself at the revelation. Apparently Charlize Theron wanted to go with a cathartic scream while Miller wanted her more stoic, Charlize definitely made the right move!
This scene would have hit soooo much harder if furiosa had come out first.
i watched but forgot fury road. (besides the big acton set pieces) This scene hits so hard after furiosa
I know that sound..that pain..everything was all for nothing..
God my heart breaks for her after seeing Furiosa even more
2:20 Furiosa says she was gone for 7000 days approx so 7000÷365 is 19.97 so she was gone for 20 years from the initial start of the green place in Furiosa
>plus the ones i don't remember.
Ita clear that an approximation taking Therons age to count i think there were more.
@motor4X4kombat yeah I'd give her a max of a year or two she didn't remember. It was roughly 7000 days though give or take a few hundred days so my original point still stands. She's meant to be about 12 when taken from the green place. So she'd be about 33-34 in fury road which seems to coincide with Charliezes appearance/age.
Been years since I was invested in a story Furiosas
This is so much more sad seeing the new furiosa movie
After seeing Furiosa… then seeing this scene… I’m so distraught 😩
Thinking this is one of the only moments in the movie that wasn’t in the big storyboard… the moment where Charlize Theron ripped our hearts from our chest
Poor Furiosa 😢
It's a nice detail that when the Vuvalini pound their chests to honor Furiosa's mother, she does it slowly because she's trying to remember how to do it because it's been so long. She's so overjoyed to be with her people, too bad her joy lasts only so long and the 20+ years of tragedy she was forced to bury under a mask of ruthlessness finally emerge...
I watched Furiosa before Fury Road. Holy shit.... I really felt for her.
This blew my mind 1st time saw it on Netflix, and been a Mad max fan ever sense ❤ What a lovely day!
Why didn't this ever get a sequel? It was fantastic!
It is! Prequel technically. It's a movie about Furiosa's past. It's coming out next May!
@@GemSurge95after they release that I think they are making a sequel to this movie, I would hope so anyway😂
@@eian.m_skates That's the plan. It may take a while.
Well, it took 31 years between Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road so don't hold your breath. I did hear a prequel was coming but it's going to be a Furiosa film, not a Mad Max film.
@@flybeep1661 Yeah, I also heard about that one, also excited if it's ever released, not sure if they'll cast Charlize Theron tho, as she's not getting any younger and would look weird for a prequel, but I don't want them to ruin her character like they did with Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys or whatever.
Me when someone with a blue checkmark posts some dumb bullshit on Twitter: 0:34
Love the shot contrasting the experienced desert warriors with the softness and ‘purity’ of the young.
After Furiosa, this is damn heavy, and it already was heavy before Furiosa.
This is way more impactful once you've seen the onscreen interpretation of the green place in furiosa
Such a powerful and well made scene!
I hope George Miller lives another 200 years just so he can keep making this stuff... i mean... if he wanted too. :P
took me almost a decade to understand the scene
Does her call sound like Furiosa’s childhood whistle?
This scene hits different after watching Furiosa...
Hahaha these Zena wannabes didn't stand a chance but The Valkyrie is a bae 😂
Dementus: Told you so
Osiris:😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭
Seth:😈😈😈😈☠️☠️☠️☠️
When you realize her story could've been even darker and more tragic than this.
How?
Only one of the Many Mothers survived the fight for the Citadel. All the others were killed.
I really hate to say it but Dementus was right. There was no hope for Furiosa
Because of people like him.
bgm at 4:07 is epic ❤️
yep, those Big Girlie Mammaries sure are something!😉
The fate it's very cruel