fun fact, george miller used to be an emergency med doc. i'm a surgeon and the fact that all the medicine in this movie was spot-on was really just icing on the cake for me: 1. the war boys are all dying of lymphoma, which is one of the most common cancer types caused by chronic radiation poisoning. hence the soft tumors (e.g. Larry and Barry) in areas containing lymph nodes (for Nux, his subclavicular nodes), the fact that they're anemic and need blood transfusions, and even the fact that they're pale with dark eye circles (again, anemia). 2. mad max has an IJ line the entire film. it's literally hooked into his internal jugular. it's often used to deliver medication because it enters the bloodstream very close to the heart (internal jugular --> superior vena cava --> heart) and thus gets pumped out to the rest of the body easily. however, used in reverse, it can also be an endless tap into his bloodstream and is thus useful for drawing blood out of him. 3. he's established to be a universal donor very early on, which is why he can give blood to nux and furiosa without causing severe reactions. 4. furiosa got stabbed in the side of her chest, likely collapsing her lung. these wounds can form one-way valves where air is sucked in with every breath but can't get back out. when she's wheezing horribly, she's dying of tension pneumothorax - i.e. the AIR in her chest cavity is building pressure that's getting harder and harder to breathe against. that's why it helps when mad max stabs her again in between the ribs. he's basically doing a brute force decompression. irl you can do this with a needle (needle thoracostomy) or a chest tube. however, she'd still bled heavily into her chest cavity through the same wounds, which is why she needed a transfusion to stabilize her.
2. You're mistaken. He pulled out the IV line right after the big sandstorm. He held onto the tubing, and used it later on to transfuse Furiosa, but that's it. Between those two events, the line was simply coiled up and stored on his jacket.
The complete lack of explanation for some of the most awesome and intriguing designs makes for some of the best worldbuilding I've ever seen in a movie.
this is how worldbuilding in movies should be done imo. you show a wack thing, move on on without comment and repeat. Do that 100 times and the viewer is able to discern what belongs and what doesn't.
@@LordBaktor Exactly. The universe isn't exactly subtle, and while it lets you infer an awful lot it doesn't exactly hide that info behind shades of nuance. Furiosa spells out a lot that didn't need spelling out. I still don't think it was bad, just disappointing.
@@LordBaktor it only explains why she thought her chosen destination was good, and how she lost her arm, and kinda how she got to be in a position to take the brides for a spin in the first place. To me, Furiosa is better than this one, which is so damn rare for a prequel to be better than the "sequel"
To add to the 'Max is an immortal' headcanon: Aside from Max being canonically far older than anyone in the film and surviving what nobody should consider this: Nux at the beginning of the film is so weak, he is almost dead on his feet. He needs to be hooked up to his bloodbag just to stand. And yet, one transfusion with Max later, and he's completely able-bodied for the rest of the movie, also surviving some pretty crazy shit. Again at the end with Furiosa: she's on death's door before the transfusion. Then, she is able to stand with Max's help on the hood. And yet when they are being lifted up mere moments later she is standing on her own with no apparent weakness. Almost as if getting a transfusion from an immortal makes people significantly stronger, even if not immortal themselves. Then there is just the 'vibe'. Max behaving as though he's almost lost the ability to speak or create language, very much gives 'immortal who has been around for too long' before reconnecting to the human race. Which is much less empirical but hey. It's Fury Road. We're all about vibes here.
As someone who actually required a large transfusion once, I can confirm that they *_absolutely_* make you feel like you've suddenly been granted superpowers, even if the blood didn't come from an immortal. I had been anaemic for a long time due to an ulcer slowly leaking blood into my gut, and just got used to it. After a nasty nosebleed dragged my blood count down to truly dangerous levels, I had to have a transfusion. I'm not even kidding when I say the nurses practically had to hold me down to dissuade me from leaping up and running laps around and around the hospital.
Fun fact about the second shotgun ‘malfunction’, it isn’t a malfunction. During the chase Nux fires one shot at the war rig, and the second shell is spent by Max trying to break his binds. And the weapon was never reloaded on screen, so I genuinely think Max just threatened them with a gun he knew wasn’t loaded.
Which is why Furiosa was so angry when she tried to shoot Max, and it didn’t go off. She was absolutely pissed by the idea that she was just held up with an empty shotgun.
It's doubly funny with the context that he did the same thing in Road Warrior. He had no ammunition, but the people staring down the barrel of the gun didn't know that.
Exactly this, Max knew he was bluffing with the shotgun. But Max didn't know that Furiosa's response would be to murder him - when she pulls the trigger he realizes how serious she is about her cause.
Bonus fun fact: Max having bad hearing was so much of a plot point that he wore a hearing aid. Problem was the continuity with the kind of hearing aid he was wearing kept changing between shots and they decided they wanted to remove the hearing aid completely. So most times you see Max’s ear, that was probably a shot we painted to remove the hearing aid.
I believe that in most of these movies, Max's story usually ends when the group he is helping find safety and/or leaves on a journey to find hope. When the Many Mothers, Nux, Furiosa, etc, drive off on the salt flats, that's usually where a Mad Max story wraps up. In this movie, Max decides that's not enough. If it was enough, he wouldn't be haunted by nightmares of those he has lost. Some of his ghosts are people he did bring to safety, but he knows they died looking for hope after he left them. So he decides to stop Furiosa's group, not only because they will die on the flats, but because he wants to see them find hope and safety. He wants to see this mission to its completion. It's a big character decision for Max to finish the mission, even after everyone is technically safe. IDK, that's my take.
I remember reading a fun little behind the scenes thing about the design of Immortan Joe's car made out of two cars stacked on top of each other, which is that in a world where most people don't even have one of something, he's the kind of guy that has two.
There is SO much thought put into the set design of this movie. The DVD has a great behind the scenes on the role of art in the world of Fury Road - basically, even when the world is shitty, people like to create things that reflect who they are.
"Oh, what a day… what a lovely day!" I came home from the theater after watching Furiosa to find this video waiting for me. On top of that, I just watched Fury Road two days ago.
Without spoilers, with Fury Road being 10\10, how you'd rate Furiosa? I'm always anxiously cautious about seemingly unasked for prequels\spinoffs, even when they're done by the same director.
The single greatest moment in this entire movie is when she's trying to get Max to let her in the truck and nothing is working but then she realizes that he is a survivalist and getting the muzzle off his face is his greatest priority, so she offers him a way to get it off and there's a single beat and then the loud cello string coming in as he looks at her and lets her in. Great moment.
It's the same note that came in triplicate at the end of the opening sequence, when Max is captured, chained behind cars, saying: "Reduced to a single instinct." *"Survive"* DUN DUN DUN Furiosa found and spoke to that single instinct, likely recalling her own experience of being reduced to a single instinct... *Revenge*
There was a theory running around that Max is the personification of death in the wasteland, since that's what he witnesses the most, and what he lacks (there were more details, and some stuff that made the theory fall apart too, but i'll gloss over that), but i like the idea that max is now cursed to wander the wasteland forever, never dying or aging, forced to keep moving by forces he can't afford to think about because as much as he is tired by the survival, something keeps him going. It reminds me of some short story anthologies, where the characters are the same, but the stories are all different.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick it's a neat and clean way for all the movies to work. They fit into the timeline wherever makes the most sense in that movie.... even if it doesn't make sense in the greater Media franchise. Max really is a mythic figure and what we see is how his story is told and mythologized over time by those who lived it or heard about him.
@@RandomBrainCell Hell, I don’t even think they needed to have actually known him. “Mad” Max Rockatansky could just as easily be an archetype in oral folklore. Max is anybody who, even if just for a moment, is able to overcome their survival instincts and their cynicism to do the right thing when it counts.
The Max = Death thing works even better with Immortan Joe representing pestilence, the People Eater representing Famine, and the Bullet Famer representing War.
the brother in arms scene is literally worth like 100 wins right there. sometimes i go back just to watch it. it's flawless visual storytelling, thrilling action, and amazing music all in one. you literally see them go from enmity to wary neutrality to seamless alliance in that single action sequence. ughhhhhh it's just so good.
I always think about this. Dangerous against the corner type situations always reveal your purest self and it's an easy way to skip "long development" by making trust a non-issue
I get that the timeline doesn't matter in these movies, but I ALSO love the idea that this one poor guy has been damned with immortality and he's just been around the wasteland for many decades
@K.C-2049Although, she wasn’t a newbie. She was already an experienced documentary filmmaker and a longtime narrative collaborator with George. And the way they shot this was perfectly (albeit voluminously) designed for her to tackle it: More footage than you could shake a boomstick at, from a ridiculous amount of multicam setups, letting Margaret Sixel decide on which angle best expressed the story. (And, yes, ya Neanderthals, there’s a story.)
The thing that makes this movie just an absolute legend is everything being so mythical like you're talking in terms of gods and stuff and yet having the deeper layers you'd expect when you dig deeper. Theres clearly at least some kind of weirdo supernatural going on, Max has some prophetic visions and is clearly older than he appears, but also everything feels like it has an origin which differs a lot from myths. Having Furiosa as a movie now tells us even more and makes it more of a lived world but even then theres a place that miraculously is lush landscape surrounded by desert which is hard to explain
For folks wondering about the timeline, *Fury Road is after Thunderdome:* The backstory of Glory the Child in the tie-in comics and how she became involved in Max's life. Some time before, she had been kidnapped by the Buzzards during a raid on a trading convoy, and her mother searched and searched for someone who could find her daughter and bring her back. After saving Max's life, he owed her a favor which was finding and returning Glory to her mother. After a harrowing excursion into the Sunken City, Max managed to both save Glory and retrieve his stolen V8 Interceptor. Unfortunately, the remaining pursuing Buzzard ran over both the mother and child, *eerily re-enacting the deaths of Max's wife and child.* Max killed the attacker and found the mother dead on the scene, while Glory was holding onto her last breath. Glory's last words to Max was to tell him to look after her mother, not knowing she was already dead. *This event arguably destroyed pretty much all the psychological development Max had undergone during the events of Beyond Thunderdome, resulting in him being the shell of a man he is in the opening of Fury Road.* Glory: You... came back. I knew... you would. Is... mamma all right? Max: She's fine. Glory: Look... after her... Max: I will.
I prefer the video game version where instead of buzzards it's war boys under one of immortan Joe scrotus and they made it canon by bringing scrotus onto the big screen in the furiosa movie
@tylercooper1443 no Scrotus was already canon and the game is officially non canon The reason Scrotus is in the game is because it was left over from when Miller was working on the game with Corey Barlog
When Furiosa says “remember me” to Joe I always thought it was an odd question to ask before killing him. Obviously he remembers her. But it’s not a question… it’s a statement in the same sense as warboys saying “witness”. She’s using his own dogmatic philosophy against him by telling him to remember her in the afterlife, as the only people who witnessed his death are Furiosa and one of his wives. And neither give a single F about him
not only is slit the only one shitting on morzov's sacrifice and kill-stealing, but nux is encouraging and supportive (for a death cult but still), saying "you can do it cmon." so not only is he vulnerable for needing blood, ingenious in setting up the bloodbag thing, showing endearing determination to push through his weakness, but he also wants whats "best" for his fellow war boys. hell his fanboying when joe glances at his direction is sympathetic, you see how desperate he is to make his life - and death - mean something. and before any redemption has happened youre primed to feel for the kid even before he gets abandoned by joe, even as he is still within an evil fucked up death cult. also i saw furiosa yesterday and slit's actor josh helman got to come back as scrotus, the voice is the same, fuck yes for george miller reusing actors in different roles its so good
I got to say that George Miller reusing his actors in different roles is so refreshing after the trend established by superhero movies in last decade where actor always has to play the same character
I love the Black and Chrome edition, it really changes the whole experience. The visual effect that somehow makes the silence deeper and the loud moments more explosive. It is my go-to version of Fury Road.
I noticed a cool detail 28 minute mark, is that the massive explosion is the The People Eater's personal vehicle exploding. I just realized the reason it goes up as big as it does is cuz the The People Eater is the leader of Gastown, and it makes sense hed bring a shit ton of spare gas
the 'cloth' around the exhaust is heat tape, it serves a few purposes but are used in many instances in real life that don't involve insulation so you can hold them.
Fun fact: an older script version of this movie had planned to recast Mel Gibson as Max. He would have been much older, in fact I think they planned to make him look older than Mel's actual age. Fury Road was supposed to be his final journey, and at the end he would have settled the Citadel and stayed. It was when Mel Gibson kinda went crazy and some other cast issues ensue, that *finally* George Miller "cristalized" and fully went with his whole "legendary tales around the campfire" thing with Max, that made the continuity go fully out the window. But yes. At some point in history, there was an alternate version where the Mad Max franchise had a somewhat well defined (sorta) continuity, or at least when that was in the planning table.
I wish I could remember who said it because one of my favorite quotes about this film was "I dont know how they're not still filming that movie and I don't know how no one has died". George Miller is truly a genius for being able to make these movies.
The explanation I most prefer and I carry as head-canon is that Everything that happened in the films after Mad Max are retellings from unreliable narrators of the legend of a drifter known only as Max [Rockatanski]. This explains the inconsistencies in continuity from one movie to the next as well as some of the more almost fantastical elements, like his seeming immortality, the reappearance of his one-of-a-kind car despite being destroyed multiple times, and the rate of deterioration of society throughout the movies. The first movie is the one most grounded in reality and is therefore likely the only one that can be relied on to give a picture of the “Real” Max.
I'll say it again and again - Immortan Joe is the best post-apocalypse cinema villain. Access to clean water. Farms and hydroponics and "mothers' milk" - focused on nutrition. Cult religion to assert leadership. Breeding program to eliminate "half life" children. Like, insane and evil, but the details of it all are so rich, and I appreciate the rich world building so much more for the lack of exposition. Just hints and flashes of the world and respect for the audience to figure it out.
One thing not mentioned is that the three lords and Max are the four hoursemen of the apocalypse Joe is pestilence, Man Eater is famine, Bullet Farmer war, and Max as death. It's a neat touch and a possible explanation for Max's immortality.
As to Max being immortal, I mean….. if Fallout and many other nuclear based apocalypse stories are to be believed, I 100% think that Max just got exceedingly lucky (or unlucky) with some radioactive mutation that makes him immortal
Sadly, in real life, radiation does not change DNA it just destroys it. The most likely thing damaged DNA will do, is be cancer. (or bone if it's in stem cells)
I know the main character is furiosa...but the Max's limited dialog just grunts and sounds r a highlight..i love it that his script includes just grunts and noises and we still get to relate to him...tom hardy is awesome
In my head-canon, Toast told Max that he has 2 left meaning that if he didn't nail it with those 2 shots, the final, fourth shot would have to be taken by Furiousa. Max gives up leaving 2 rounds with Furiousa only needed one saving the last round for later.
Actually, the Doof Wagon has a purpose. The tempo of the music is used to signal to the whole caravan how fast or slow they should go. The fire is used to signal danger. And of course, the music also works to hype them all up.
Fang it is ALSO a reference to F1 legend Juan manuel Fangio, the first 5 time world champion of the sport between 1951 and 57 right after farina's first wdc.
I think Max's immortality lays something along the lines that he is the remains of the old world that has a good heart to binds him to do what is right and doing wrong just shoves him right back into the world to redo what he has done wrong and the redo is to do it right..just a personal thought tho
omggg one of my all time favorite movies. just flawless. bro i'm noticing crazy details for the first time too - e.g. the drummers already drumming on the doof wagon AS IT'S BEING LOWERED THROUGH THE AIR. and yeah, the doof wagon is just amazing. it's ABSOLUTELY BATSHIT but at the same time the entire world they live in is so insane it all hangs together. specifically - immortan joe has this whole dark ages/post-roman britain vibe going on with the callbacks to valhalla/saxon culture, what with having warlords (imperators - itself a latin term for general), basically an army of warboys on their shining steeds, and and even the fact that his favorite wife's name is welsh (Angharad), a people who were actually conquered and chased out of their lands by early anglo-saxons. so of COURSE he's gonna have battle drums. but because this is a postapocalyptic movie, of course it's not just gonna be drums, it's gonna be a fucking flame throwing guitar. PS love that when he's sleeping he's got a rickety little umbrella to shade him from the sun lolll
Aussie here who has lived in rural parts of WA, that is 100% absolutely what sand looks like. There's a reason we are one of the biggest exporters of iron ore, it's found pretty much anywhere in Australia and as such, it gives the sand that orangey red colour.
I had no idea the guy who played Toecutter in the original Mad Max played Immortan Joe! That's pretty cool. I did a double take when CinemaWins joked that Toecutter survived to become Joe because I knew the lore and was like, "Uh, no" lol.
I love that the paint used to write "we are not things" in the wives' quarters (which is iconic, btw) is clearly the chalk the war boys used mixed with something. Another example of using what is on hand.
I watched this movie with my little sister the day my grandfather died. We wern't able to get to him to say goodbye after the fact. My mom and grandma were with him and they said that it was okay if we wen't ready to see that. We both couldn't drive in that moment so there wasn't even an opportunity. So we hunkered down with some food and watched Mad Max fury road. We had so many emotions that day. It was the first time either of us experienced death of a loved one and this movie was like a spinning wheel for us. Taking the raw clumped together wool and spinning it into organized yarn that we can work though. It was cathartic and healing. That was a few years ago, but I will remember that moment and this movie for the rest of my life.
A detail I always have questions about is why Angharad is the only one of the wives who has scars, but she's the one that they say will be the end of Max because he hurt her. My notion is that Joe likes her the most because she has spirit, but that means he also hurts her whenever she shows that spirit. That also means that she's the ringleader of the wives and probably got Furiosa to help them.
I‘m completely overwhelmed by the density of details you put in this video and I like your style of talking and describing so much. Thank you for all you effort! What a joy to watch
Heres one for you. The rock riders scene at timestamp 14:30 " You said a few vehicles in pursuit, maybe". echoes Mad Max 1 when the bikers are searching for max and the garage owner is interrogated, saying "They went north, maybe". I grew up with this stuff, and adding "maybe" at the end of stuff was a rip from this movie , so I appreciate your work. Thanks
My favorite thing about this movie is that Immortan Joe is visibly older than Max and therefore was probably a normal person once. I like to imagine he was a mail man or something super domestic like that. (JK I love every single thing about this movie)
You should definitely read the prequel comics. They give more of a history to Joe and there’s an excellent issue featuring Max that reframes his character from the ending of Thunderdome to Fury Road itself. It does attempt to tie in the whole lore, and suggest that they all fit into the same continuity. George Miller was the co-writer, so it’s clearly in his vision for the franchise, but it’s still open for debate and discussion, given the different tone and setting of each movie.
A very minor detail you got wrong. When Max reconnected the line from the tandem axle pod to the tri-axle trailer. That is not a hydraulic line. It is an airline. The reason the pod was dragging it because Nux disconnected that line. A truck's ability to disengage the brakes is through the air hoses running the length of the trailers. So, when the airline was disconnected the brakes locked up. You can hear the hiss of compressed air as Max reconnects it.
Watching this and seeing all the setups that Furiosa retroactively put in place makes the movie so much better. I honestly can't wait to double feature the two.
Saw Furiosa this morning. Really great, not quite as "fresh" as Fury Road was, but that's a tough act to follow. Felt a little overstuffed and a touch too preoccupied to further establishing the backstory of this world and known characters. But thoroughly enjoyable none the less. If Fury Road was a 9.5, Furiosa is an 8.
The most iconic part of this movie series (to me, at least) it that they do not make that much sense. Like, not at all. Just too much of an insane world, like Max sort-of remarked in the original, "if I keep dealing with this insanity, I would end up going mad myself" . Everything is insane, Max is insane, the world is insane, we should accept it as it is. Halucinations don't have a beggining or an end. My point is, the lack of a backstory is THE BACKSTORY ON ITSELF. The characters exist like that. They just are. But this just works for these movies. And that, for me at least, it s the problem that will make me not watch Furiosa, possibly. Well, at least not rigth now. TBH, I think MadMax Wasteland's setting could provide us with a shitload of crazy good short stories. Like an anthology of sorts, but if they take too long in a single story, IDK...
@@carloshenriquezimmer7543having seen Furiosa and completely understanding your concerns, I can assure you that Furiosa doesn’t do much at all to dispel the dystopian setting, since it is very much set after the fall of the world, just like the other movies. As many other comments on here have suggested, it really is worth a watch! It does enough to expand the mythology, whilst feeling grounded in the ‘Fury Road’ setting, without retreading too much familiar territory. It’s definitely more of a saga than a non-stop action romp, but it’s still a hell of a ride. That’s just my two penneth, though! ✌🏻
Fun fact: the reason the game makes sense is cause it's literally full of furiosa spoilers, the devs were given access to alot of george miller's ideas and lore writings for future mad max projects
Max has to be older than basically everyone else in the movie. I think he has become a legend of the wasteland. The man who runs from the living and the dead, forever. And so he cannot die anymore than the wasteland itself.
Watched the movie for the first time a week ago , and as a Massive Farscape fan i shouted at my screen "I know that voice that's Noranti ,Keeper of the Seeds, Melissa Jaffer. Love this movie i understand why its so well revered
This whole film is just incredible and has some of the best action scenes in cinema history, but the one thing I remember most about it is the first time i heard the War Rig's horn. That one sound just blew me away.
Man I need to rewatch this. I personally like to explain Max’s immortality as him having became a Ghost Rider (the demonic, skeletal, flaming bikers from Marvel) at some point between 1 and Road Warrior. He hates being one which is why you never see him transform on-screen. Though he did once he went to take care of Bullet Farmer and his gang. No real reason why I like to head-canon this, it just tickles my nerd brain.
I remember seeing this in theaters and being absolutely _mesmerized_ by the storm sequence. I was already ecstatic going in to Fury Road, knowing that it was already going down as one of my favorite movies of all time, but it was the storm sequence that had me stop and think that what I was watching wasn't _just_ a movie - It was something truly special. Something truly... Epic, for lack of a better word, and everything about it just... I've always been someone who loves movies - I consider movies to be art - and Fury Road is... Well, it's more than art. Fury Road is the action movie that action movies aspire to be. It was mentioned in the Road Warrior video that Road Warrior was what George Miller wanted the first Mad Max to be, and that Fury Road might what Miller wanted Road Warrior to Be, and I... had never thought about that before. Fury Road feels like The Road Warrior because it _is_ The Road Warrior. The same story being told, generations down the line.
This was my first mad max movie I ever watched (i watched it a month or a couple of weeks ago I can’t remember) but man is it good i loved furiosa (sorry for bad spelling) and all of her friends/ her group and i loved Max’s relationship to her and how he helped her and all of the action i am glad that they made this movie accessible to people who like me hadn’t seen the other mad max movies
Thanks! I still have those suggestions for the coming months or whenever you can: 1. Request #36 for Jurassic Park 2 (1997) and 3 (2001). 2. Request #25 for Shrek (2001) 3. Request #26 for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). I understand how you might be busy with The Flash, Blue Beetle, Aquaman 2, Wonka, and possibly Oppenheimer. But still, take your time. Love you, CinemaWins! Always! Also, I still can't wait for the teaser shot at the end of EGA Dune: Part 2!!!
I'll never forget seeing the theatrical trailer for this film as a kid. Had never even heard of Mad Max before but I was absolutely mindblown. Wasn't able to see the actual movie in theatres unfortunately but I will definitely be doing everything in my power to see Furiosa on the big screen.
One thing I did think was a bit off about the film was the whole "crossing the dessert" scene. Max points out that in 160 days they might reach something or possibly nothing. I think I read somewhere that having 160 days worth of fuel could make you circulate the earth at least twice😂. Good film though and its still absolutely beautiful
Hey, guess how I learned that a single line delivery is capable of making me cry? That last "witness me"...not even in the movie! I'm crying from this RUclips video!!
6:40 I felt "fang it" may also allude to like "sink your teeth into it" as a way to say "floor it". Just a thought that came to my mind, unsure though.
The Pavement they drive on in the beginning is very close to our Vacation house (where the film medics stayed while filming). Skeleton Coast National Park.
Did anyone else also think that the line The Dag says at 24:11 is basically a 4th wall break? The way it's framed definitely took me out when watching the movie for the first time, I love these little quirks
I think the genius of not having much of a “plot” with these films is me only seeing fury road and none of the other films and fury road being one of my favorite films ever made.
17:06 while I love your enthusiasm, this is pretty common (especially in high performance race applications), its called heat wrapping, it is usually put on the headers/exhaust of a car to keep the heat inside rather than heating the whole engine bay. The wrapping still does get wildly hot though, so her touching the stacks would have likely burnt her immediately
I love the Doof guitar because although it looks over the top and insane it's serving the same purpose that instruments have served in armies historically like keeping pace and realying information. It's over the top, but actually makes sense.
Fang it is short hand for pedal to the metal, which is why it is so fitting for this movie as a double entendre. Pedal because cars, metal because chromed metal and also because the Warboys live for chrome and speed.
i love how you brought up the camera work with knowing what to look at, because i watched furiosa in IMAX and sometimes diddnt know what to look at, except not in the fighting scenes but in some cinamatic scenes where you had one side of the screen showing the big bad giving a speech and the other side a crazy sign languge guy explaining the speech
As a writer, I firmly believe the plot only exists to give the characters something to do. If your character is a detective, then the plot will be a mystery. If your character is a superhero, then the plot will be saving lives/the world. If your character is Mad Max, then you give him some crazies to run from/fight. The characters themselves are the most important part of the story, not what they do.
I feel like Road Warrior, Thunderdome and Fury Road are all essentially the same film, with some different details. Miller has just gotten closer & closer to the platonic ideal of a Mad Max film - a reluctant hero called to help decent people escape from terrible people that ends with a giant destructive car chase. This was just the ultimate version of that film.
Yo’s is a made me realize that, despite having watched this movie over a dozen times, I actually need to watch it at half speed to pick up on even more things I’ve missed
These videos are incredible, they keep me company while I sit at my desk for hours editing videos and make my family members think that I'm insane because ill be editing videos and laughing uncontrollably. 😄
I wrote about Fury Road for my honours thesis a few years back, I think it ties into redemption but what I felt was super important to the film was this idea that there is no green place to run away to, we have to fight to make something better together. Loved this video over on Nebula!
fun fact, george miller used to be an emergency med doc. i'm a surgeon and the fact that all the medicine in this movie was spot-on was really just icing on the cake for me:
1. the war boys are all dying of lymphoma, which is one of the most common cancer types caused by chronic radiation poisoning. hence the soft tumors (e.g. Larry and Barry) in areas containing lymph nodes (for Nux, his subclavicular nodes), the fact that they're anemic and need blood transfusions, and even the fact that they're pale with dark eye circles (again, anemia).
2. mad max has an IJ line the entire film. it's literally hooked into his internal jugular. it's often used to deliver medication because it enters the bloodstream very close to the heart (internal jugular --> superior vena cava --> heart) and thus gets pumped out to the rest of the body easily. however, used in reverse, it can also be an endless tap into his bloodstream and is thus useful for drawing blood out of him.
3. he's established to be a universal donor very early on, which is why he can give blood to nux and furiosa without causing severe reactions.
4. furiosa got stabbed in the side of her chest, likely collapsing her lung. these wounds can form one-way valves where air is sucked in with every breath but can't get back out. when she's wheezing horribly, she's dying of tension pneumothorax - i.e. the AIR in her chest cavity is building pressure that's getting harder and harder to breathe against. that's why it helps when mad max stabs her again in between the ribs. he's basically doing a brute force decompression. irl you can do this with a needle (needle thoracostomy) or a chest tube. however, she'd still bled heavily into her chest cavity through the same wounds, which is why she needed a transfusion to stabilize her.
It's easy to understand why Fury Road took like two decades to come out, they thought about literally everything
Amazing detail and great description!
And Mad Max was inspired by numerous vehicle crashes he saw in the ER too
> i’m a doctor
> sources cited: crack pipe
2. You're mistaken. He pulled out the IV line right after the big sandstorm. He held onto the tubing, and used it later on to transfuse Furiosa, but that's it. Between those two events, the line was simply coiled up and stored on his jacket.
The complete lack of explanation for some of the most awesome and intriguing designs makes for some of the best worldbuilding I've ever seen in a movie.
So much so that when I heard a reviewer say that the best part of Furiosa is that it answers many questions about the world I felt quite disappointed.
this is how worldbuilding in movies should be done imo. you show a wack thing, move on on without comment and repeat. Do that 100 times and the viewer is able to discern what belongs and what doesn't.
@@LordBaktor Exactly. The universe isn't exactly subtle, and while it lets you infer an awful lot it doesn't exactly hide that info behind shades of nuance.
Furiosa spells out a lot that didn't need spelling out.
I still don't think it was bad, just disappointing.
@@LordBaktor it only explains why she thought her chosen destination was good, and how she lost her arm, and kinda how she got to be in a position to take the brides for a spin in the first place.
To me, Furiosa is better than this one, which is so damn rare for a prequel to be better than the "sequel"
@@mozxz I'll probably end up watching it when they dump it on streaming two or three weeks from now.
To add to the 'Max is an immortal' headcanon:
Aside from Max being canonically far older than anyone in the film and surviving what nobody should consider this: Nux at the beginning of the film is so weak, he is almost dead on his feet. He needs to be hooked up to his bloodbag just to stand. And yet, one transfusion with Max later, and he's completely able-bodied for the rest of the movie, also surviving some pretty crazy shit. Again at the end with Furiosa: she's on death's door before the transfusion. Then, she is able to stand with Max's help on the hood. And yet when they are being lifted up mere moments later she is standing on her own with no apparent weakness. Almost as if getting a transfusion from an immortal makes people significantly stronger, even if not immortal themselves.
Then there is just the 'vibe'. Max behaving as though he's almost lost the ability to speak or create language, very much gives 'immortal who has been around for too long' before reconnecting to the human race. Which is much less empirical but hey. It's Fury Road. We're all about vibes here.
As someone who actually required a large transfusion once, I can confirm that they *_absolutely_* make you feel like you've suddenly been granted superpowers, even if the blood didn't come from an immortal.
I had been anaemic for a long time due to an ulcer slowly leaking blood into my gut, and just got used to it.
After a nasty nosebleed dragged my blood count down to truly dangerous levels, I had to have a transfusion.
I'm not even kidding when I say the nurses practically had to hold me down to dissuade me from leaping up and running laps around and around the hospital.
@@stickiedmin6508 I'm glad you got the help you needed!
I like to think this theory somehow ties Mad Max and the Highlander movies together.
The last part of his physical on the tattoo, just before the blood type, is "heals fast".
@@stickiedmin6508 dang i missed feeling that part when they cut me open, i was out cold.
Fun fact about the second shotgun ‘malfunction’, it isn’t a malfunction. During the chase Nux fires one shot at the war rig, and the second shell is spent by Max trying to break his binds. And the weapon was never reloaded on screen, so I genuinely think Max just threatened them with a gun he knew wasn’t loaded.
Which is why Furiosa was so angry when she tried to shoot Max, and it didn’t go off.
She was absolutely pissed by the idea that she was just held up with an empty shotgun.
It's doubly funny with the context that he did the same thing in Road Warrior. He had no ammunition, but the people staring down the barrel of the gun didn't know that.
We did that again in our fan made Mad Max short film Hope and Glory. Always loved Max and the empty/ malfunctioning shotgun.
Exactly this, Max knew he was bluffing with the shotgun. But Max didn't know that Furiosa's response would be to murder him - when she pulls the trigger he realizes how serious she is about her cause.
Hope he considers using a revolver in the wasteland movie
Bonus fun fact: Max having bad hearing was so much of a plot point that he wore a hearing aid. Problem was the continuity with the kind of hearing aid he was wearing kept changing between shots and they decided they wanted to remove the hearing aid completely. So most times you see Max’s ear, that was probably a shot we painted to remove the hearing aid.
"We painted*? If you worked in this piece of art I gonna need you to tell how it was. Come on man, tell the tales
I think they meant was painted
@@KahnSig na, I meant we. My name’s in the credits :)
Congrats on being part of cinema history!
Oh shit you worked on Fury Road? Fuck yeah man!
I believe that in most of these movies, Max's story usually ends when the group he is helping find safety and/or leaves on a journey to find hope. When the Many Mothers, Nux, Furiosa, etc, drive off on the salt flats, that's usually where a Mad Max story wraps up. In this movie, Max decides that's not enough. If it was enough, he wouldn't be haunted by nightmares of those he has lost. Some of his ghosts are people he did bring to safety, but he knows they died looking for hope after he left them. So he decides to stop Furiosa's group, not only because they will die on the flats, but because he wants to see them find hope and safety. He wants to see this mission to its completion. It's a big character decision for Max to finish the mission, even after everyone is technically safe.
IDK, that's my take.
Ooh, nice.
I remember reading a fun little behind the scenes thing about the design of Immortan Joe's car made out of two cars stacked on top of each other, which is that in a world where most people don't even have one of something, he's the kind of guy that has two.
There is SO much thought put into the set design of this movie. The DVD has a great behind the scenes on the role of art in the world of Fury Road - basically, even when the world is shitty, people like to create things that reflect who they are.
Not just the two stacked cars, he has 2 of most things, including 2 rear wheels on each side (for a total of six wheels on his car) and two V8 Engines
"Oh, what a day… what a lovely day!"
I came home from the theater after watching Furiosa to find this video waiting for me. On top of that, I just watched Fury Road two days ago.
Without spoilers, with Fury Road being 10\10, how you'd rate Furiosa? I'm always anxiously cautious about seemingly unasked for prequels\spinoffs, even when they're done by the same director.
@@DarthBiomech I'd give Furiosa a 9/10.
@@DarthBiomech
9/10
Is a total blast.
@@DarthBiomech10/10 one of the best prequels I’ve seen
@@DarthBiomech I would rate both 10/10. They're both insane in different ways!
The single greatest moment in this entire movie is when she's trying to get Max to let her in the truck and nothing is working but then she realizes that he is a survivalist and getting the muzzle off his face is his greatest priority, so she offers him a way to get it off and there's a single beat and then the loud cello string coming in as he looks at her and lets her in. Great moment.
It's the same note that came in triplicate at the end of the opening sequence, when Max is captured, chained behind cars, saying:
"Reduced to a single instinct."
*"Survive"*
DUN DUN DUN
Furiosa found and spoke to that single instinct, likely recalling her own experience of being reduced to a single instinct...
*Revenge*
Nobody talks about the war boy that was Furiosa's 2nd in command enough. He was so on-point. Obeyed his commanding officer with no lip.
Favourite dialogue from this movie:
'What are you doing?'
'Praying'
'To Who?'
'Anyone whose listening'
"That's right! High octane, feral blood fillin' me up!"
Man, Nux is an underrated character
There was a theory running around that Max is the personification of death in the wasteland, since that's what he witnesses the most, and what he lacks (there were more details, and some stuff that made the theory fall apart too, but i'll gloss over that), but i like the idea that max is now cursed to wander the wasteland forever, never dying or aging, forced to keep moving by forces he can't afford to think about because as much as he is tired by the survival, something keeps him going. It reminds me of some short story anthologies, where the characters are the same, but the stories are all different.
I think Max is the most interesting when he’s an almost mythological figure, or a folk hero.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick it's a neat and clean way for all the movies to work. They fit into the timeline wherever makes the most sense in that movie.... even if it doesn't make sense in the greater Media franchise. Max really is a mythic figure and what we see is how his story is told and mythologized over time by those who lived it or heard about him.
@@RandomBrainCell Hell, I don’t even think they needed to have actually known him.
“Mad” Max Rockatansky could just as easily be an archetype in oral folklore. Max is anybody who, even if just for a moment, is able to overcome their survival instincts and their cynicism to do the right thing when it counts.
That makes him the (Australian) Mysterious Stranger.
The Max = Death thing works even better with Immortan Joe representing pestilence, the People Eater representing Famine, and the Bullet Famer representing War.
the brother in arms scene is literally worth like 100 wins right there. sometimes i go back just to watch it. it's flawless visual storytelling, thrilling action, and amazing music all in one. you literally see them go from enmity to wary neutrality to seamless alliance in that single action sequence. ughhhhhh it's just so good.
I always think about this. Dangerous against the corner type situations always reveal your purest self and it's an easy way to skip "long development" by making trust a non-issue
I get that the timeline doesn't matter in these movies, but I ALSO love the idea that this one poor guy has been damned with immortality and he's just been around the wasteland for many decades
“This shows how much power furiosa has” and the furiosa movie really backed this up, she’s a badass
Single greatest win: A grandpa, who directed "Babe in the City", made one of the greatest action movies ever.
as we say in greece, A SHOWER OF TRUTH!
Don't you ever forget to mention happy feet again
@K.C-2049Although, she wasn’t a newbie. She was already an experienced documentary filmmaker and a longtime narrative collaborator with George.
And the way they shot this was perfectly (albeit voluminously) designed for her to tackle it: More footage than you could shake a boomstick at, from a ridiculous amount of multicam setups, letting Margaret Sixel decide on which angle best expressed the story.
(And, yes, ya Neanderthals, there’s a story.)
@@ianschmitt4991 Happy Feet themes about religion were pretty full on lol
@@jimmymeridian5174 the only thing missing from happy feet were sky father and earth mother allegories
The thing that makes this movie just an absolute legend is everything being so mythical like you're talking in terms of gods and stuff and yet having the deeper layers you'd expect when you dig deeper. Theres clearly at least some kind of weirdo supernatural going on, Max has some prophetic visions and is clearly older than he appears, but also everything feels like it has an origin which differs a lot from myths.
Having Furiosa as a movie now tells us even more and makes it more of a lived world but even then theres a place that miraculously is lush landscape surrounded by desert which is hard to explain
For folks wondering about the timeline, *Fury Road is after Thunderdome:*
The backstory of Glory the Child in the tie-in comics and how she became involved in Max's life. Some time before, she had been kidnapped by the Buzzards during a raid on a trading convoy, and her mother searched and searched for someone who could find her daughter and bring her back. After saving Max's life, he owed her a favor which was finding and returning Glory to her mother. After a harrowing excursion into the Sunken City, Max managed to both save Glory and retrieve his stolen V8 Interceptor. Unfortunately, the remaining pursuing Buzzard ran over both the mother and child, *eerily re-enacting the deaths of Max's wife and child.* Max killed the attacker and found the mother dead on the scene, while Glory was holding onto her last breath. Glory's last words to Max was to tell him to look after her mother, not knowing she was already dead. *This event arguably destroyed pretty much all the psychological development Max had undergone during the events of Beyond Thunderdome, resulting in him being the shell of a man he is in the opening of Fury Road.*
Glory: You... came back. I knew... you would. Is... mamma all right?
Max: She's fine.
Glory: Look... after her...
Max: I will.
I prefer the video game version where instead of buzzards it's war boys under one of immortan Joe scrotus and they made it canon by bringing scrotus onto the big screen in the furiosa movie
@@tylercooper1443 Nah, the comic tie in is infinitely better and more emotionally touching than whatever the hell that is.
@@ubermaster1 how its literally the same thing instead of buzzards its war boys and a son of Immortan Joe
And it ties in better with fury road
Well this makes the ending of Fury Road so much more cathartic. Now it makes sense why it was his idea to turn back and take the Citadel
@tylercooper1443 no Scrotus was already canon and the game is officially non canon The reason Scrotus is in the game is because it was left over from when Miller was working on the game with Corey Barlog
When Furiosa says “remember me” to Joe I always thought it was an odd question to ask before killing him. Obviously he remembers her. But it’s not a question… it’s a statement in the same sense as warboys saying “witness”. She’s using his own dogmatic philosophy against him by telling him to remember her in the afterlife, as the only people who witnessed his death are Furiosa and one of his wives. And neither give a single F about him
If you've seen Furiosa, that line also takes on another meaning
not only is slit the only one shitting on morzov's sacrifice and kill-stealing, but nux is encouraging and supportive (for a death cult but still), saying "you can do it cmon." so not only is he vulnerable for needing blood, ingenious in setting up the bloodbag thing, showing endearing determination to push through his weakness, but he also wants whats "best" for his fellow war boys. hell his fanboying when joe glances at his direction is sympathetic, you see how desperate he is to make his life - and death - mean something.
and before any redemption has happened youre primed to feel for the kid even before he gets abandoned by joe, even as he is still within an evil fucked up death cult.
also i saw furiosa yesterday and slit's actor josh helman got to come back as scrotus, the voice is the same, fuck yes for george miller reusing actors in different roles its so good
I got to say that George Miller reusing his actors in different roles is so refreshing after the trend established by superhero movies in last decade where actor always has to play the same character
I love the Black and Chrome edition, it really changes the whole experience. The visual effect that somehow makes the silence deeper and the loud moments more explosive. It is my go-to version of Fury Road.
That version really underscores how truly great the composition of each shot is.
I noticed a cool detail 28 minute mark, is that the massive explosion is the The People Eater's personal vehicle exploding. I just realized the reason it goes up as big as it does is cuz the The People Eater is the leader of Gastown, and it makes sense hed bring a shit ton of spare gas
the 'cloth' around the exhaust is heat tape, it serves a few purposes but are used in many instances in real life that don't involve insulation so you can hold them.
My fav thing you didn't mention - at no point does Max ask Furiosa what happened to her arm.
Isn't every F'ed up in this world already? Max wandered for too long to be impressed
He knows that'd be weirder for someone in her position to have all limbs.
Love that the shot at 26:50 is essentially a perfect 1:1 recreation of 'Fallen Angel' by Alexandre Cabanel.
Fun fact: an older script version of this movie had planned to recast Mel Gibson as Max. He would have been much older, in fact I think they planned to make him look older than Mel's actual age.
Fury Road was supposed to be his final journey, and at the end he would have settled the Citadel and stayed.
It was when Mel Gibson kinda went crazy and some other cast issues ensue, that *finally* George Miller "cristalized" and fully went with his whole "legendary tales around the campfire" thing with Max, that made the continuity go fully out the window.
But yes. At some point in history, there was an alternate version where the Mad Max franchise had a somewhat well defined (sorta) continuity, or at least when that was in the planning table.
I wish I could remember who said it because one of my favorite quotes about this film was "I dont know how they're not still filming that movie and I don't know how no one has died".
George Miller is truly a genius for being able to make these movies.
If I'm not mistaken, I think it was Steven Soderbergh that said it.
The explanation I most prefer and I carry as head-canon is that Everything that happened in the films after Mad Max are retellings from unreliable narrators of the legend of a drifter known only as Max [Rockatanski]. This explains the inconsistencies in continuity from one movie to the next as well as some of the more almost fantastical elements, like his seeming immortality, the reappearance of his one-of-a-kind car despite being destroyed multiple times, and the rate of deterioration of society throughout the movies.
The first movie is the one most grounded in reality and is therefore likely the only one that can be relied on to give a picture of the “Real” Max.
I'll say it again and again - Immortan Joe is the best post-apocalypse cinema villain. Access to clean water. Farms and hydroponics and "mothers' milk" - focused on nutrition. Cult religion to assert leadership. Breeding program to eliminate "half life" children. Like, insane and evil, but the details of it all are so rich, and I appreciate the rich world building so much more for the lack of exposition. Just hints and flashes of the world and respect for the audience to figure it out.
The Pole Cats are actual Cirque du Soleil performers!
Lmao I always thought Rictus just said "good" but now I can't unsee or unhear him saying "moo" and will be saying that constantly from now on 🤣
One thing not mentioned is that the three lords and Max are the four hoursemen of the apocalypse Joe is pestilence, Man Eater is famine, Bullet Farmer war, and Max as death. It's a neat touch and a possible explanation for Max's immortality.
One great detail after seeing furosia- The glock that was grabbed from the side of the war rig was imperitor jack's, and that skull is likely his.
Just came back from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and it is a GREAT watch. Great movie
They kept all the charm
As to Max being immortal, I mean….. if Fallout and many other nuclear based apocalypse stories are to be believed, I 100% think that Max just got exceedingly lucky (or unlucky) with some radioactive mutation that makes him immortal
Sadly, in real life, radiation does not change DNA it just destroys it.
The most likely thing damaged DNA will do, is be cancer. (or bone if it's in stem cells)
I know the main character is furiosa...but the Max's limited dialog just grunts and sounds r a highlight..i love it that his script includes just grunts and noises and we still get to relate to him...tom hardy is awesome
The main character is max, not furiosa.
Guess I can watch "Everything great about Mad Max: Fury road" for the fourth time
Here I go rewatching content again, oh boy!
By our deeds, we honour him! CW!
In my head-canon, Toast told Max that he has 2 left meaning that if he didn't nail it with those 2 shots, the final, fourth shot would have to be taken by Furiousa. Max gives up leaving 2 rounds with Furiousa only needed one saving the last round for later.
Actually, the Doof Wagon has a purpose.
The tempo of the music is used to signal to the whole caravan how fast or slow they should go. The fire is used to signal danger. And of course, the music also works to hype them all up.
Fang it is ALSO a reference to F1 legend Juan manuel Fangio, the first 5 time world champion of the sport between 1951 and 57 right after farina's first wdc.
I never see anyone talk about it but nux peaking capable on the cheek when she cuts the chains for the tree is so cute
I think Max's immortality lays something along the lines that he is the remains of the old world that has a good heart to binds him to do what is right and doing wrong just shoves him right back into the world to redo what he has done wrong and the redo is to do it right..just a personal thought tho
I love rewatching the 3 part Fury Road,glad it’s in one package now.
omggg one of my all time favorite movies. just flawless. bro i'm noticing crazy details for the first time too - e.g. the drummers already drumming on the doof wagon AS IT'S BEING LOWERED THROUGH THE AIR. and yeah, the doof wagon is just amazing. it's ABSOLUTELY BATSHIT but at the same time the entire world they live in is so insane it all hangs together. specifically - immortan joe has this whole dark ages/post-roman britain vibe going on with the callbacks to valhalla/saxon culture, what with having warlords (imperators - itself a latin term for general), basically an army of warboys on their shining steeds, and and even the fact that his favorite wife's name is welsh (Angharad), a people who were actually conquered and chased out of their lands by early anglo-saxons. so of COURSE he's gonna have battle drums. but because this is a postapocalyptic movie, of course it's not just gonna be drums, it's gonna be a fucking flame throwing guitar.
PS love that when he's sleeping he's got a rickety little umbrella to shade him from the sun lolll
Aussie here who has lived in rural parts of WA, that is 100% absolutely what sand looks like. There's a reason we are one of the biggest exporters of iron ore, it's found pretty much anywhere in Australia and as such, it gives the sand that orangey red colour.
I had no idea the guy who played Toecutter in the original Mad Max played Immortan Joe! That's pretty cool. I did a double take when CinemaWins joked that Toecutter survived to become Joe because I knew the lore and was like, "Uh, no" lol.
I love that the paint used to write "we are not things" in the wives' quarters (which is iconic, btw) is clearly the chalk the war boys used mixed with something. Another example of using what is on hand.
fun fact, in the scene where the bulletfarmer says i am the scales of justice, hes blindfolden which is a nod to the fact justice is blindfolded.
I watched this movie with my little sister the day my grandfather died. We wern't able to get to him to say goodbye after the fact. My mom and grandma were with him and they said that it was okay if we wen't ready to see that. We both couldn't drive in that moment so there wasn't even an opportunity. So we hunkered down with some food and watched Mad Max fury road. We had so many emotions that day. It was the first time either of us experienced death of a loved one and this movie was like a spinning wheel for us. Taking the raw clumped together wool and spinning it into organized yarn that we can work though. It was cathartic and healing. That was a few years ago, but I will remember that moment and this movie for the rest of my life.
A detail I always have questions about is why Angharad is the only one of the wives who has scars, but she's the one that they say will be the end of Max because he hurt her.
My notion is that Joe likes her the most because she has spirit, but that means he also hurts her whenever she shows that spirit. That also means that she's the ringleader of the wives and probably got Furiosa to help them.
I‘m completely overwhelmed by the density of details you put in this video and I like your style of talking and describing so much.
Thank you for all you effort! What a joy to watch
Heres one for you. The rock riders scene at timestamp 14:30 " You said a few vehicles in pursuit, maybe". echoes Mad Max 1 when the bikers are searching for max and the garage owner is interrogated, saying "They went north, maybe". I grew up with this stuff, and adding "maybe" at the end of stuff was a rip from this movie , so I appreciate your work. Thanks
My favorite thing about this movie is that Immortan Joe is visibly older than Max and therefore was probably a normal person once. I like to imagine he was a mail man or something super domestic like that. (JK I love every single thing about this movie)
You should definitely read the prequel comics. They give more of a history to Joe and there’s an excellent issue featuring Max that reframes his character from the ending of Thunderdome to Fury Road itself. It does attempt to tie in the whole lore, and suggest that they all fit into the same continuity. George Miller was the co-writer, so it’s clearly in his vision for the franchise, but it’s still open for debate and discussion, given the different tone and setting of each movie.
A very minor detail you got wrong. When Max reconnected the line from the tandem axle pod to the tri-axle trailer. That is not a hydraulic line. It is an airline. The reason the pod was dragging it because Nux disconnected that line. A truck's ability to disengage the brakes is through the air hoses running the length of the trailers. So, when the airline was disconnected the brakes locked up. You can hear the hiss of compressed air as Max reconnects it.
While I don't know about the movie 'prop' itself but I recently learned that Immortan Joe's 'armor' is actually pexi-glass and bulletproof. Yep
Watching this and seeing all the setups that Furiosa retroactively put in place makes the movie so much better. I honestly can't wait to double feature the two.
16:05 Also the part where the supercharger kicks back in, is like the war rig is again breathing fresh air after putting out the fire
Saw Furiosa this morning. Really great, not quite as "fresh" as Fury Road was, but that's a tough act to follow. Felt a little overstuffed and a touch too preoccupied to further establishing the backstory of this world and known characters. But thoroughly enjoyable none the less. If Fury Road was a 9.5, Furiosa is an 8.
The most iconic part of this movie series (to me, at least) it that they do not make that much sense. Like, not at all.
Just too much of an insane world, like Max sort-of remarked in the original, "if I keep dealing with this insanity, I would end up going mad myself" .
Everything is insane, Max is insane, the world is insane, we should accept it as it is.
Halucinations don't have a beggining or an end.
My point is, the lack of a backstory is THE BACKSTORY ON ITSELF.
The characters exist like that. They just are. But this just works for these movies.
And that, for me at least, it s the problem that will make me not watch Furiosa, possibly. Well, at least not rigth now.
TBH, I think MadMax Wasteland's setting could provide us with a shitload of crazy good short stories. Like an anthology of sorts, but if they take too long in a single story, IDK...
@@carloshenriquezimmer7543having seen Furiosa and completely understanding your concerns, I can assure you that Furiosa doesn’t do much at all to dispel the dystopian setting, since it is very much set after the fall of the world, just like the other movies. As many other comments on here have suggested, it really is worth a watch! It does enough to expand the mythology, whilst feeling grounded in the ‘Fury Road’ setting, without retreading too much familiar territory. It’s definitely more of a saga than a non-stop action romp, but it’s still a hell of a ride. That’s just my two penneth, though! ✌🏻
Now after watching Furiosa, a lot of things add up for me now. Even the video game makes more sense to me now.
Fun fact: the reason the game makes sense is cause it's literally full of furiosa spoilers, the devs were given access to alot of george miller's ideas and lore writings for future mad max projects
@@frysco5927 So that's why Scrotus was the main villain of the 2015 video game!
Max has to be older than basically everyone else in the movie.
I think he has become a legend of the wasteland. The man who runs from the living and the dead, forever. And so he cannot die anymore than the wasteland itself.
Watched the movie for the first time a week ago , and as a Massive Farscape fan i shouted at my screen "I know that voice that's Noranti ,Keeper of the Seeds, Melissa Jaffer. Love this movie i understand why its so well revered
Immortan Joe was Grunchlk on Farscape.
@@KingOfMadCows damn did not know that but now that you say it i can i can see it :D
The warrior woman in Road Warrior was also the same actress who plays Zaan.
This whole film is just incredible and has some of the best action scenes in cinema history, but the one thing I remember most about it is the first time i heard the War Rig's horn. That one sound just blew me away.
The Australian outback is red, as its so rich in iron the dirt is coloured like rust.
It was filmed in Namibia. They couldn't film in Australia as the desert had turned green.
Man I need to rewatch this. I personally like to explain Max’s immortality as him having became a Ghost Rider (the demonic, skeletal, flaming bikers from Marvel) at some point between 1 and Road Warrior. He hates being one which is why you never see him transform on-screen. Though he did once he went to take care of Bullet Farmer and his gang. No real reason why I like to head-canon this, it just tickles my nerd brain.
I remember seeing this in theaters and being absolutely _mesmerized_ by the storm sequence. I was already ecstatic going in to Fury Road, knowing that it was already going down as one of my favorite movies of all time, but it was the storm sequence that had me stop and think that what I was watching wasn't _just_ a movie - It was something truly special. Something truly... Epic, for lack of a better word, and everything about it just... I've always been someone who loves movies - I consider movies to be art - and Fury Road is... Well, it's more than art. Fury Road is the action movie that action movies aspire to be. It was mentioned in the Road Warrior video that Road Warrior was what George Miller wanted the first Mad Max to be, and that Fury Road might what Miller wanted Road Warrior to Be, and I... had never thought about that before. Fury Road feels like The Road Warrior because it _is_ The Road Warrior. The same story being told, generations down the line.
This was my first mad max movie I ever watched (i watched it a month or a couple of weeks ago I can’t remember) but man is it good i loved furiosa (sorry for bad spelling) and all of her friends/ her group and i loved Max’s relationship to her and how he helped her and all of the action i am glad that they made this movie accessible to people who like me hadn’t seen the other mad max movies
Thanks! I still have those suggestions for the coming months or whenever you can:
1. Request #36 for Jurassic Park 2 (1997) and 3 (2001).
2. Request #25 for Shrek (2001)
3. Request #26 for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
I understand how you might be busy with The Flash, Blue Beetle, Aquaman 2, Wonka, and possibly Oppenheimer. But still, take your time. Love you, CinemaWins! Always!
Also, I still can't wait for the teaser shot at the end of EGA Dune: Part 2!!!
Nah. Dude's just gonna keep reuploading videos.
Is this a re-upload? Could've sworn I watched this before
It was a 2 part before
shut up
@@ikram12345able 3 part
part 4
@@AhmadandAdnan Make it 5
"Gotta use that winch ... around the tree-thing!" HE CAN BE TAUGHT!
06:39 'Fang it' owes it origin to the Australian car culture. It loosely means something like 'Full Throttle'.
I'll never forget seeing the theatrical trailer for this film as a kid. Had never even heard of Mad Max before but I was absolutely mindblown. Wasn't able to see the actual movie in theatres unfortunately but I will definitely be doing everything in my power to see Furiosa on the big screen.
One thing I did think was a bit off about the film was the whole "crossing the dessert" scene. Max points out that in 160 days they might reach something or possibly nothing. I think I read somewhere that having 160 days worth of fuel could make you circulate the earth at least twice😂. Good film though and its still absolutely beautiful
Could the salt desert be the dried out ocean?
Hey, guess how I learned that a single line delivery is capable of making me cry? That last "witness me"...not even in the movie! I'm crying from this RUclips video!!
6:40 I felt "fang it" may also allude to like "sink your teeth into it" as a way to say "floor it". Just a thought that came to my mind, unsure though.
Not only do the warboys salute with the “V” formation of their interlocking hands, but the 8 fingers also represent the “8”
The Pavement they drive on in the beginning is very close to our Vacation house (where the film medics stayed while filming). Skeleton Coast National Park.
Did anyone else also think that the line The Dag says at 24:11 is basically a 4th wall break? The way it's framed definitely took me out when watching the movie for the first time, I love these little quirks
I think the genius of not having much of a “plot” with these films is me only seeing fury road and none of the other films and fury road being one of my favorite films ever made.
Win 56 7:29 is such a banger because she slides it forward in the metal so it can’t slide up
17:06 while I love your enthusiasm, this is pretty common (especially in high performance race applications), its called heat wrapping, it is usually put on the headers/exhaust of a car to keep the heat inside rather than heating the whole engine bay. The wrapping still does get wildly hot though, so her touching the stacks would have likely burnt her immediately
I love the Doof guitar because although it looks over the top and insane it's serving the same purpose that instruments have served in armies historically like keeping pace and realying information. It's over the top, but actually makes sense.
Fang it is short hand for pedal to the metal, which is why it is so fitting for this movie as a double entendre. Pedal because cars, metal because chromed metal and also because the Warboys live for chrome and speed.
It’s funny how Anya Taylor joy has been in two movies surrounded by the desert!
She's for the deserts?
She is the dessert
Oh wait I got confused what you said…
it really isn't.
i love how you brought up the camera work with knowing what to look at, because i watched furiosa in IMAX and sometimes diddnt know what to look at, except not in the fighting scenes but in some cinamatic scenes where you had one side of the screen showing the big bad giving a speech and the other side a crazy sign languge guy explaining the speech
I like to think that Max is immortal through a combination of dumb luck and absurd willpower.
As a writer, I firmly believe the plot only exists to give the characters something to do. If your character is a detective, then the plot will be a mystery. If your character is a superhero, then the plot will be saving lives/the world. If your character is Mad Max, then you give him some crazies to run from/fight. The characters themselves are the most important part of the story, not what they do.
Don’t know if you care, but this video got me to go see Furisoa, (now my favorite film of the year) which got me to also watch this movie.
I feel like Road Warrior, Thunderdome and Fury Road are all essentially the same film, with some different details. Miller has just gotten closer & closer to the platonic ideal of a Mad Max film - a reluctant hero called to help decent people escape from terrible people that ends with a giant destructive car chase. This was just the ultimate version of that film.
IM DISAPPOINTED YOU DIDNT SEE THE TWO HEADED LIZARD AT THE BEGGINING......... THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WIN
What a lovely day I be going to see Furiosa later tonight
Yo’s is a made me realize that, despite having watched this movie over a dozen times, I actually need to watch it at half speed to pick up on even more things I’ve missed
your recurring jokes about the pickup line book really made it for me, thanks for the video.
These videos are incredible, they keep me company while I sit at my desk for hours editing videos and make my family members think that I'm insane because ill be editing videos and laughing uncontrollably. 😄
I don't always witness CinemaWins but when i do... oh what a day, what a LOVELY day !!
I wrote about Fury Road for my honours thesis a few years back, I think it ties into redemption but what I felt was super important to the film was this idea that there is no green place to run away to, we have to fight to make something better together. Loved this video over on Nebula!
Fury Road and Into The Spider-Verse are hands down the two BEST films of the 2010s
I genuinely like this channel. It's so nice to find a less hostile take that realizes movies aren't meant to be perfect but just enjoyable.
8:54 Another little detail, the War Rig stays on the ground, but the much lighter gasoline tank in the back doesn’t
When you do Furiosa: A Max Saga I would love for you to touch on the similarities. ToeCutter and Dementus both in white, etc