OK guys, so I've been reading a lot of forums on this movie to see what people are saying. I'm posting some of the more thought-provoking/interesting comments to see what y'all think of them.
black_swan87
May 17th, 2015, 01:24 am
the remember me scene made me wonder if furiosa was one og immortan joe's wvies and she cut off her hand to make herself unappealing and not be a wife anymore
klmnumbersMay 17th, 2015, 01:29 am
I hate you for putting this in my mind, but it would weirdly make sense. But he obviously knows who she is since he names her at the beginning saying he is sending out his Imperator, etc. but that reading makes a lot of sense for that line which I didn't really get. I also couldn't tell if the line was a question or command
black_swan87May 17th, 2015, 01:31 am
it also makes sense why she was so invested in getting them out of there since she would know what they went through
chuckisfukkisMay 17th, 2015, 01:53 am
I think I read somewhere that the reason why she wasn't one of his wives is because she was infertile.
And from Reddit:
-Might be reading a bit too far into it but Furiosa's long range ability (sniping) compared to Max's short range preferences (shotgun, fists) tells us a lot about their characters. Furiosa always has a long term goal in mind, an oasis at the end of the road. Max just wants to escape. His obstacles are short term. Escaping the chains, ripping the mask off, getting the truck to work, fighting off enemies. Furiosa has something to protect and strive towards, and this singular goal is really well reflected in the character's abilities/choices.
-did anyone else catch Toast the Knowing(Zoe Kravitz's character) playing with the same music maker max gave the feral kid in Road Warrior? It was a neat little easter egg
-I'm sure most know this, but the guy who played Immortal Joe is the same actor who played Toecutter from the first Mad Max.
-So the Doof Warrior, guitar guy, has a
backstory:
Excerpts: Before filming, the performer (iOTA, actor, musician) and Miller created a grim backstory for the character: He was a child music prodigy who watched as his mother, also a musician, was beheaded. The boy was then found by Fury Road’s chief villain, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), mom’s severed head still in hand. Joe adopted the boy, who continued playing and grew up to be Joe’s troop-rallying rocker. And it’s a good thing we never get too much of a close-up on the character in Fury Road: iOTA says the mask he’s wearing in the film, according to his and Miller’s backstory, is the face of his late mother, which he sliced from her skull. Told you it was dark.
-colors. pay attention to the colors. how the mood was expressed in such obvious color choices. the main color pallet for the chases are red and yellow like fire and rage. the part where they are stuck in the mud and getting desperate is blue. totally blue everywhere like it was shot through a blue filter. looking off into the east where they think there is hope it is white. white like the war boys who could bring death, or hope for a future. the goal being to eventually find a place where it is green.
-The Tree
It's the last tree in the area (possibly on the continent), and Max & Nux tear it down in the process of solving their immediate problem, and with no consideration of the longer-term cost of their actions.It's the same process of how their world got to where it is - ecological disaster, war, calamity.Later, it's revealed that it was the last of the green place, and Furiosa 's tragedy.
