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Mad Max (SPOILERS, go see the movie first plz!!!!!!!)
Holy fuck
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and also every type of woman being presented as fully human, fully capable, and having full agency: badass macho women, fragile pregnant women, withered old crones, all deserving of life, respect, joy, love, freedom, all working together in common sisterhood
sisterhood as a model for an alternative society
full commitment to putting your life on the line in an effort to opt your children out of a system that can only pervert and destroy them; full commitment to not reproducing that system out of your own body ("our babies will not be warlords")
the hitherto unrealized possibility of men truly recognizing the humanity of women and fully living in acceptance of that reality (Max, avatar of the new man, not yet a real possibility in society (he leaves at the end) but we can glimpse his realization in the unborn sons of the liberated wives maybe)
the totalizing brutality of capitalist patriarchy that destroys everything, everything on the earth and all people and all hope
And yet somehow there has to be hope, even when we know there is none. We plant a seed whenever we can even though we know it will die
It somehow managed to be so appropriately nihilistic about our world, but without being cynical; and it managed to present hopeful avenues for thinking about the world differently without being saccharine or false
but also the guitar man!!!!
I literally wept through the entire last third. It was so cool how it was fully 100% everything you want to see in a Mad Max film (zany grotesquerie, nihilistic nonstop car brutality, and that delightfully particular Mad Max aesthetic that is like a zombie in a top hat riding a motorized tricycle with a huge skull gear shift, also guitar man) while somehow also consistently and firmly advancing an extremely coherent and deeply moving political agenda.
In conclusion: WHAT ON EARTH
also GUITAR MAN
It weighed like a million pounds, and it really shot flames!
I don't know how to do it
I think it would really add some good food for thought to this thread
apparently the entire rig worked?! the music was really coming out of those speakers, at 80 mph!
it is the most WONDERFUL AND PERFECT mixture of totally stupid and completely awesome. I can not stop watching it
I might go again
more like gifT
this movie had very little cgi- only to remove harness wires and tire tracks from random camera trucks. THAT IS COOL.
it straight-up looked rad
THANK YOU SIR
I just got asked to write an essay about guitar man for this new website my friend edits so perhaps soon there will be MORE MAX ESSAYS
I went to a music conference over the weekend and saw a paper on female tribute bands and wanted to say so many things about mad max in the Q&A but restrained myself. It's like it applies to all aspects of life
Word to the budget conscious, the 3D design is cool. Was glad I was equipped.
It was like a really loud Hieronymus Bosch painting...
Not sure I see it knocking down patriarchy, but if you say so I'm with it..
Pretty good chance I'll take the J to see it.. (NOW 10 GUYS! & Saying "Dad, I'm almost to the end of my chapter...." from beneath her volume of CATCHING FIRE...) Patriarchy shudders..
The Hunger Games books totally rule. I love that they [spoiler alert] don't really have a happy ending. Ending is super ambivalent and acknowledges the impossibility of escaping the system. JUST LIKE MAD MAX
http://madfeline.tumblr.com/post/120602535605/ranting-about-feminism-its-racist-for-you-to-ask
I think the entire plot of the film only spans like 48 hours; not enough time for him to get shaggy again
Very weird to see a brand in that film, for sure.
He is the head of Gas Town! And the crazy dude who gets his eyes shot out is the head of the Bullet Farm.
I loved how Furiosa's robot arm was just never commented on or even really emphasized. Just another day in this crazy desert hellscape!
Except for Herzog's 3D- THAT was sick.
also i thought of another great use of 3D which was Wim Wenders' movie about Pina Bausch, the dancer.
I like unconventional use of 3D not just shit flyin' at me or big blue people fucking
The paintings really are SO not-flat, and seeing them on the actual cave surfaces was fucking amazing.
Here's one handicapped woman's response to seeing Furiosa.
3D was a scheme to revive the flagging revenues of theaters and of the in-home screen business. After everyone had a flat screen, they need HD, then 3d then 4K then 8K. 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.2, on to 22.2 sound. But 3D has not caught on in a big way as planned.
MMFR was not shot in native 3D. With all the cameras they used, 3D would have been too expensive. So the 3D was computed in post production. That's a recipe for 3D viewing sickness where what you see on the screen doesn't make sense to your brain.
There is a lab in Beaverton which is part of Pacific U's optometry department that studies 3D viewing sickness. Don't know if they are looking for research subjects.
http://www.avclub.com/article/build-your-own-fury-road-style-flamethrower-ukulel-220552
I couldn't help thinking about the dumb ass MRAs who boycotted this movie, and in the process came out as pro slavery (not that they were deep in that closet). They make me so mad, but make me love Mad Max so much more!
http://jezebel.com/the-new-mad-max-film-is-so-feminist-my-scrotum-killed-i-1705273679