Mad Mad Fury Road - Tumblr Posts
redshoes’ Fury Road collected meta page
@bonehandledknife is right - there’s an influx of new Fury Road fans! And ya’ll would probably really enjoy some of the initial insanely fannish in-depth meta that raged all around this super cool super sharp fandom in the first few months.
I compiled a page of meta posts as fast as I could for a couple of months and then the fandom got bigger than I could keep up with (and life got busy as it is wont to do), so I stopped updating it - but there’s a ton of wonderful meta and analysis backlogged in the unreachable depths of tumblr! Here’s c/p from my meta page links - enjoy :)
[why are so many posts linked off my tumblr rather than OPs? I’ll never change my username so the links’ll stay working :P]
before we get to the categories, how about all the bolder articles together:
Fury Road = camp that doesn’t detract from sincerity SECOND FORK
fuckyeahisawthat’s masterpost of meta articles - excellent!
READ THIS. RIGHT NOW. (bonehandledknife kicks off an insanely good thread on the psychology of the Miss Giddy deleted scene)
Community Standards for Wank or Criticism (this is a wank-free zone)
Eyes, a Compilation - GLORIOUS meta on editing, Kuleshov effect & more with a SECOND FORK post from fuckyeahisawthat: “…even these totally bananas, over-the-top, camp-action characters care about each other, in their own death-culty way. And, because this is Fury Road, all this information is being delivered in the package of a trailer-worthy, totally off-the-wall stunt.”
Furiosa Murder Faces - fuckyeahisawthat In Fury Road, Furiosa gets to have non-sanctioned rage, fuck yeah.
Furiosa Murder Faces (Con’t) - fuckyeahisawthat "It’s like…she has a complete range of emotions…or something.“ :D
Fury Road - Physics & Feminism (no actual physics were involved in the making of this post; probability was definitely abused)
Race as represented in Fury Road (multi)
Why are so many MM:FR fans all about the m/m slash and not the women? - when misogyny meets sexuality meets play, it gets really confusing
bonehandledknife talks hard truths about warboy fandom and self healing
Intimacy makes this movie tick
Water Your Eyes Doing - the Water scene did not objectify the women - it shot them as having power and Max as having none
Cannes Press Conference - cast, George Miller & Margaret Sixel
George Miller, Nick Hoult, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron - BTS short interviews
Redshoes Expounds:
director intent vs. inherent resonances of fully dimensioned story telling
Why are so many MM:FR fans all about the m/m slash and not the women? - when misogyny meets sexuality meets play, it gets really confusing
Big Eye Processing Post for Fury Road - very image heavy (follow-up photography advice)
Fury Road - Physics & Feminism (no actual physics were involved in the making of this post; probability was definitely abused) psychological analysis of Max & Furiosa’s fight post that prompted the above women fighting men - very interesting stuff from blackstump on the above
How Furiosa Brings Max Around in less than 10 words - visual character development
Max Character Thoughts: Max’s refusal dominate by violating personal space Max is consent seeking This is Furiosa’s victory and he is content Max: engage to heal He accepts her answer while still watching her back
so…the comics. can we talk about what makes a violent story worth telling? and how to do it with integrity? follow up convo with floatingpuppy and hurdy-gurdy
sound in Mad Max
redshoes’ fractal turtles tag
Max’s mask & Furiosa’s voice are hyperreal in foley
‘redshoes on reverse engineering director intent’ - started as ‘bonehandled on color’
‘redshoes on rotoscoping eyes’ - started as ‘bonehandled on director intent’
Eye Post Processing for Emotion
Fury Road is more than trope inversion - it’s trope meta
a ‘feminist movie’ doesn’t mean ‘movie about women’s struggles’ - started as ‘dropkicks on Miller’s intentions’
It was Furiosa’s storm
Sixth Time Convos
‘Come and play!’ it says; and I do
I don’t have to have my genre-savvy-female-filter turned on.
You can Eat Popcorn To it - You can Critically Evaluate it - You can Sob to it
Because if you have Fury Road, you’ll be damned if you’ll let anyone take it from you
Intimacy makes this movie tick
BONEHANDLEDKNIFE META SECTION
bonehandledknife’s Film Theory Series
Eyes Up Here: Composition and Gaze
Mad Max, Center Frame and the Male Gaze
Mad Max, Composition Choices; Mad Max’s Locker Room Gaze
Mad Max, Center Framed
Avoiding Objectification: My Name is Max (framing, roto work)
Water Your Eyes Doing - the Water scene did not objectify the women - it shot them as having power and Max as having none
Composition and Action
Creepy Place with All the Crows - framing
Color in Film
Orange and Blue
Eyes, a Compilation - GLORIOUS meta on editing, Kuleshov effect & more with a SECOND FORK post from fuckyeahisawthat: “…even these totally bananas, over-the-top, camp-action characters care about each other, in their own death-culty way. And, because this is Fury Road, all this information is being delivered in the package of a trailer-worthy, totally off-the-wall stunt.”
Directional Movement
Diagonals Light and Culture
Post-apocalyptic Gone with the Wind (multi-person)
Visual Storytelling conveys plot
Toxic Masculinity in visual metaphor (multi-person & hilarious)
Film Making Intent vs Film Theory
Inversion of horror imagery
What 4k resolution means in terms of leeway in cutting/editing
BONEHANDLED ON VISUAL STORY TELLING
visual language is still a language - the intersection of visuals and time
clothing design for Furiosa (quotes from Charlize)
imperator scarf given to Max by Furiosa
color symbolism in film
what Max’s vuvalini motorcycle says about their regard for him
Our Better Selves (multi-person convo, Max & Furiosa meta)
Waste Designed to Call Attention to Itself (multi-person convo)
toxic mascilunity as cancer
Eye Protein - more gleaned with each watching
the color red
emotional breakdowns & witnessing - bonehandled & redshoes
WAR BOY CULTURE
Toxic Past and Trust in Mad Max: Fury Road - kimbureh
Homosexuality, Performative Masculinity, and the War Boys of Mad Max -kaasknot
The betrayal of The Ace - primarybufferpanel
bonehandledknife talks hard truths about warboy fandom and self healing
The belts - meta on war pup costuming and a transient culture
SALVAGING THE COMIC
airyairyquitecontrary
Has he said that to George Miller’s face? - hurdy-gurdy
great take-down of Mark Sexton’s idiocy - baldy-monster
so…the comics. can we talk about what makes a violent story worth telling? and how to do it with integrity?
follow up convo with floatingpuppy and hurdy-gurdy
…lets be real - redshoes got cranky on the subject
lukemckinney’s article - a Furiosa Comic rewrite
The comic does Rictus a terrible mis-service (multi)
CINEMA AND CULTURE
I believe in blockbuster cinema as important - floatingpuppy & hurdy-gurdy
Jurassic World, Mad Max:Fury Road and Little Girls (representation matters) - battlenuggalope
The held-down-tattooed scene as proxy for the unshown rape story - thoughtfulfangirling, redshoes
when we first meet Max, Furiosa & Joe, it’s from behind - stonelionhearts
Race as represented in Fury Road (multi)
movie about sexists, told by non-sexists - lierdumoa
furiosa does not hunt down a rapist - she puts down a rapist - lierdumoa
props as expressions of character, visual story telling (multi)
director intent vs. inherent resonances of fully dimensioned story telling - redshoes
Furiosa Murder Faces - fuckyeahisawthat In Fury Road, Furiosa gets to have non-sanctioned rage, fuck yeah.
Furiosa Murder Faces (Con’t) - fuckyeahisawthat "It’s like…she has a complete range of emotions…or something.“ :D
RECOMMENDED INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS FOR MAD MAX
Tom Hardy’s Feminism
Mad Max as Feminist Ally
Cannes panel with Miller, Sixel, cast & DoPs
Eight Awesome Facts about the Making of MM:FR
MM:FR A Movie Made with Capslock On + Aja Romano’s Review
George Miller: Engage to Heal
Mad Max vs Game of Thrones (handling sexual violence in storytelling)
fuckyeahisawthat 3 reviews - Main, Max vs Male Action Tropes & Furiosa Vs. Female Action Tropes
Sleeps with Monsters: Mad Max Fury Road
We All Agree that MM:FR is great: Here’s why it’s also important
MM:FR Explains Perfectly why the Patriarchy Sucks for Men Too
A Return to the World of the Road Warrior
Mad Max is Dieselpunk not Steampunk
A Graphic Tale: The Visual Effects of Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Not your Fight Not your Victory (Mad Max: No Time to Bang)
Full Transcript of Mad Max
How George Miller Didn’t Fit Into Hollywood - interview by Andrew Denton
Charlize Theron suggested the scream on the sand scene - excellent if brief actor interview
MOVIE BEHIND THE SCENES
Lovely Video Interview of George Miller
Cinematography 2 hour talk with John Seale & David Burr
Cannes Press Conference - cast, George Miller & Margaret Sixel
B-Roll shots, other links
Margaret Sixel: editor of Fury Road (also? adored by partner George Miller)
George Miller, Nick Hoult, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron - BTS short interviews
Charlize and Tom Acting together - addressing the rumors
Tom Hardy: Max is a bit of a wild dog
Tom Hardy: Playing Max with humor
Charlize on the Fight Scene
Masterclass in Action Film Making
George Miller asked all War Boys for backstory on each tool they carry
Polecats, George Miller on stunt safety
Tom & Charlize - It Was Always Going to be Two Warriors on Par
the Chrome is a highly addictive drug
The Buzzards & The Rock Riders (from the art book)
BTS photos master list (if War Boys had Instagram):
Part 1: Cars Part 2: War Boys 1 Part 2: War Boys 2 Part 3: Everyone Part 4: Everyone Part 5: Everyone Part 6: Everyone Part 7: Everyone Part 8: Cars 2 Part 9: Everyone Part 10: Everyone Part 11: Everyone Part 12: Everyone Part 13: Everyone Part 14: Everyone Part 15: Everyone
STUFF FANS HAVE NOTED ABOUT THE MOVIE
Mythic Max - Fandom & Folklore - icarus-suraki
a-freakin-mazing conversation about 4th wall, ask-blogs, characters, RPF and how we weave these all intuitively into a meta-referencing fabric of community
‘I don’t have to headcanon anything - it’s all there.’ (multi, quote from gurdy)
Max Dupain’s ‘Sunbaker’ (ecouter-bien) - artistic reference for Max in the Sand
Annotated Guide to the Unnamed Vuvulini - hauntedjaeger
Ocean Evaporation Realities - the science side of mm:fr fandom weighs in
We’ll Fix it in Post - Miller understands where practical & post production compliment each other - schwaremerei1
Mad Max Scene Breakdown: Can I Talk to you? - fuckyeahisawthat
Fury Road: No Fucks Given (a great convo on ostentatious displays of wealth, plus costuming as language)
Intersectionality and Fury Road - flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy & bonehandled
poetically known as the “Path of the Fury” - Fury Road - icarus-suraki gives impromptu classics lesson to the war pups
The movie had already purchased my soul wholesale with Tom Hardy’s opening voice over. The title card was just the signature on the paperwork.
Tom Hardy acting Aphasia - sparxwrites
the dag stalled for time so Furiosa could get the drop on Max (multi)
The Ace is ‘The Immortal Sergeant’ - sentimental-mercenary & multi
Furiosa dialing back her arm strength after fighting Nux in the rig - icaru-suraki
Was Max’s blood donation quantity realistic? - charyoureaping’s analysis
Is the Safety on? - foley on the gun Max hold on Angharad is movie short-hand (multi)
Quick Primer on Max Max 1, 2 and 3 - cosplaymutt
bonehandled on Miller’s lack of involvement with Thunderdome (he was grieving Kennedy’s death at the time)
Capable Witnessed Nux - bookishandi
Water is Wet: you leave people behind when necessary - mswyrr
Past-Present-Future Nexus - floatingpuppy
Max is a not a threat - he’s a victim (more on the fight) (multi)
Tom Hardy’s subtlety - hurdy-gurdy
Petition to Smash the Patriarchy if no awards are given; also Tom Hardy’s fantastic acting - schwaremerei1
the engine Max hears after the sand storm was a compressor, not the rig
Max’s visions are prophetic (as well as traumatic) (multi)
a non-dialog script is just as legitimate as a conventional one (and deserves awards!) - schwaremerei1
Chekhov’s Armory - (multi-person)
The Valkyrie’s rifle, vuvulini sniper culture and vuvulini actor stunts
’The men; who are they,’ ‘They’re reliable.’ Reliable - word choice. - pinstripesuit
breastmilk can, indeed, nourish grown men
’Bless him Tom…tried?’ schwarmerei1 on Tom’s Australian accent
Visual Language continuity rather than Time Line/Practical continuity - and George Miller sells us on it effortlessly
Men in the theater cat calling the Water scene - not about the women being sexualized…its about the women being autonomous
Saw Mad Max…AM STILL REELING (fun review from petals42)
No Faceless Enemies (multi) - individuality in all background characters
Name All the War Boys - fun project from icarus-suraki
FUNNY SHIT FANS HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT FURY ROAD
Mad Max: Denial Road (multi) THEY WALKED IT OFF THEY’RE FINE
Max is not a dog - Max is a cat. Nux is a dog. (maliwanhellfires)
I will require the bluray to contain 478 hours of unused footage (multi & hilarious)
Desired commentary tracks Plz? (in which schwarmerei1 tries to kill me)
ship map for all Fury Road characters - caladblog
The Absolutely Untrue Story of Who Got the Remaining LandRover on Fury Road - schwaremerei1 (hyperventilation warning - read at your own risk)
1152% of Feels - primarybufferpanel
Ideal Relationship Progression - cygnaut
War Boys - They Live a Life of Wheee! and Parkour (multi - quote from bonehandled)
War Boy Culture in all seriousness…then hamburgers - icarus-suraki
Toxic Masculinity in visual metaphor (multi-person & hilarious)
The Ace clearly lived - we all agree - it’s so obvious (multi and hilarious)
‘Good Looks’ horse race commentary (multi & lethal)
[I also tag meticulously anything fannish - tag page if you’re interested]
“Whatever was the center point of that shot had to be in the center of frame. In the faster cutting that [George Miller] has got your eye won’t have to shift on an Anamorphic frame, won’t have to shift to find the next subject when you’ve only got 1.8 seconds of time to do that. That theory of not having to move your eyes and being able to fast cut and it just goes bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, takes you into it, and the is basically the whole of the film. All we would hear all the time on the coms was George [Miller] saying “PUT THE CROSS-HAIRS ON HER NOSE! PUT THE CROSS-HAIRS ON HER NOSE!” and you put the cross-hairs on Charlize [Theron]’s nose. You didn’t offset to grab any of the information in the background, the camera had to be in the center, it was very disciplined that way, everything is symmetrical.” - John Seale, DoP Symmetry in Mad Max: Fury Road // 2015
Transgender War Boy sketch. I wanna draw more of him in the future.