@hoarmurath do you have a link to that meta? I'm getting way too invested in this fictional breastmilk industry.
http://emmagrant01.tumblr.com/post/120054508550/one-quick-thought-about-the-milking-scene-in-mm-fr Here you go.
@hoarmurath thanks! Now I'm sitting here like D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: because of course that's how it would work.
I went and saw Mad Max again with my dad today! And just. Wow, this movie has so many details. I really like how Miller apparently went in thinking to make it so that, if something was in the film, it has a REASON to be there and a backstory. Just - WHAT A GOOD FILM.
Behind the scenes stuff! Just look at those real working flamethrowers! Also 17:47 is absolutely wonderful in terms of "doing it practical rather than CG"
I saw this today, and I must say that I don't understand it at all. Like, what the hell is all that stuff on immortan joe? Does he need that to live? If so, why? What happened to make the world the way it is? What the hell made immortan joe the way he is? What happened before Furiosa became a driver of the war rig? Just, so many questions. I guess I prefer movies that has the plot wrapped up in a little bow at the end :P
Well, Immortan Joe's mask connects to an air canister, which makes sure he breaths nothing but pure air. Since we see him without it at the start, he probably doesn't need it to live, but he certainly does need the chunk of face that it ripped off of him at the end. The opening monologue says that the world was nuked after multiple wars. The supplemental materials say that Immortan Joe was a Colonel in the Australian military during those wars (check the wiki for more information.) We really don't know what Furiosa's backstory is. She was taken from the Green Place as a young child, remained in the Citadel for about 7000 days, working her way up the ranks after being found to be infertile (and so unsuited for being a milking mother or breeder), until the events of the film. A lot of stuff goes unsaid! This is what we have fanfic for.
It's not entirely clear how much of the first three Mad Max movies are considered to have happened in Fury Road, since there are some contradictions and timeline discrepancies, but altogether it's implied that the nuclear wars were about resource scarcity, peak oil or something of the form. Hence the building of civilizations around gas and water, scarcities in the desert. Although given that it's set in Australia, desert isn't precisely a whole new environment. In addition to what Furiosa actually says out loud about her history, there's also her need for redemption, which indicates that she wasn't exactly doing what she felt was good as she worked her way up the ranks.
Yeah - Max has the same leg brace in Fury Road as he needs after the first movie, he has the same jacket and car, which point to them being in continuity. AND YET. I think George Miller said that the films aren't meant to be one straightforward narrative. More like legends of the man called Mad Max. Also, the timeline stuff is weird within Fury Road. So, Immortan Joe was alive during the end of the war, as was (maybe) that one Vuvalini lady. Furiosa is about Max's age, and it's likely that she was born long enough after civilization fell for the Vuvalini to develop their own sort of society. And then you have Max, who going by his opening narration lived through the fall of society, but hardly looks older than Furiosa.
Well, not really. The previous three movies, from the 80s starring Mel Gibson, are of dubious continuity with Fury Road. There are similarities - for example, I think that Corpus and Rictus are meant to parallel MasterBlaster? - but there's nothing overt. And I don't believe the original few movies included anything about nuclear war, which Fury Road does.
Yeah, seeing the first three movies doesn't truly make everything slot into place, because they are legends rather than chronologies. They are "Harken ye to the tale of Maxmillian the Mad and the town of Barter, in moving-picture format", presented some time after the fact. You start in the middle and end at the middle, because Max is an oral tradition rather than actual footage and there's legend on either side.
More FX stuff, now about the CG/VFX parts of it: http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/a-look-at-mad-max-fury-road-before-and-after-visual-effects/ and also
so i bought the dvd and watched the movie yesterday and today AND BASICALLY I AM SCREAMING FOREVER I LIVE! I DIE! I LIVE AGAIN! I'm making a warboy inspired character and I might go haunt post-apocalyptic larps like that we'll see but right now I am overly excited and pumped on action flick
i got my friend to watch this movie with me today (she'd been wanting to see it for awhile but hadn't had the opportunity) and it was essentially two hours of us screeching, and then crying about nux when it was over. like, we watched it in terrible pixelated quality on a tiny screen lagging bc screenshare programs, and she still loved it. i'm hoping if she gets to come visit me sometime soon we can watch it on a decently sized screen and it'll be even better then :D
I can absolutely vouch that the dvd was worth the ten bucks (I... decided against the collector's edition including the old 80s movies for 50 bucks because I didn't know if I'd like it and I haven't seen the old movies so I dunno if I'm gonna like those, but! rn I'd be considering going back for it if that wasn't absolutely stupid because I already have fury road now lol) And the blu-ray would probably be even cooler so! ETA: Not that I wanna encourage you to spend money lmao, but watching it on a decent sized TV definitly helped the experience of 'everythign is happening so much I luv it'
oh, i have the dvd, and it was definitely worth every penny! it's just that my friend lives on the other side of the country, and in order for her to watch it in a way that didn't break her poor dying computer we ended up having to stream an upload, so the quality sucked. but yeah, i'm hoping if she can ever come visit me in future we can rewatch together and get the full force of the mad max experience. (my sister watched it on a plane recently, and said the turbulence of flying really added something. i don't doubt her.)
