Because the film mostly takes place out on the desert road, we knew it could get visually boring very quickly. Which is again the reason for going with a rich colourful palette. Watching 2 hours of de-saturated desert tones would be dull. Once there was a rough cut of the film, we looked at the scenes and worked out how we could break up the visuals to create some variety in looks and also how to differentiate the landscapes and story points. Every time I worked on a shot, I kept saying to myself "make it look like a graphic novel".
George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road is nothing less than utterly astonishing. From frame one, Miller paints the cinema screen with a gleefully vibrant vision of chaos and elemental fury. Every performance, every shot, every ingenious switch-up of narrative; It all comes back to George Miller and his prophetic revitalization of cinema. Auguste and Louis Lumière would be both terrified and insanely proud of the stupendous clarity and craft on display, mainly because Fury Road showcases a sense of confidence that hasn't been seen in cinema in a very long time.
obviously everyone knows this movie is really hard for me to watch, as in 2009 I lost my virginity to the doof warrior who plays the flaming electric guitar. I don't like to talk about it publicly, because it was one of the worst breakups of my life...it's just hard and strange. they say you don't really live in LA until you see someone you slept with on a billboard -- but what about when the doof warrior who you lost your virginity to absolutely slays in mad max: fury road? what then? where do I live then?
realize I might be getting off topic, but I think this is actually just a testament to how good the film is, that I can still watch it even though, someone who I truly cherished (and who I thought cherished me back, but ultimately only wanted me for my body...) is in it.
everyone else is good too I guess
Director George Miller initially described the film: "Mad Max is caught up with a group of people fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by the Imperator Furiosa. This movie is an account of the road war which follows. It is based on the Word Burgers of the History Men and eyewitness accounts of those who survived." [1]
Miller had always envisioned the film to be one giant road war, a unique screen spectacle that had not been attempted before. That being said, he still constructed in-depth back stories for all the major characters. The backstories of Nux, Immortan Joe, Max Rockatansky and Imperator Furiosa became the focus of a comic book series collected into a trade paperback release in August 2015.[47]
A writer who is primarily auditory might begin with the sounds. They might begin by hearing the dialogue or how the characters talk to each other. Or they might begin with the sounds of the road in a movie like Mad Max where there is virtually no dialogue.
"My name is Max. My world is fire and blood. Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy... me... or everyone else."
Vice Press co-founder Matt Ferguson presents the definitive movie poster for George Miller's modern day masterpiece.
Riffs, flames and fury! We meet the production team that built the flame-spitting, headline-stealing, made-from-garbage guitar that won the hearts of film fans around the world, as well as the man who played it.