Production won’t start until next year, but there’s a lot to get excited about right now in regards to “Furiosa.” Our rundown below includes every detail we know about “Furiosa” so far. The future of “Mad Max” looked bright after “Fury Road” thanks to Theron and Furiosa, but Miller is choosing instead to continue the franchise by rewinding the clock for a prequel about everyone’s favorite Imperator. “Initially unyielding in her toughness, steady revelations finally let Max - and the audience - into her deep emotional reserves, with Theron marrying Furiosa’s toughness and smarts with an unshakable sense of nostalgia and destiny.” “Furiosa is the real hero of the story, armed with not only intelligence and grit, but serious skill behind the wheel of a war rig,” IndieWire’s Kate Erbland wrote of the character. IndieWire named Charlize Theron’s performance as Furiosa the ninth best of the decade. It didn’t take long for the character to join Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley from the “Alien” franchise or Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor from “The Terminator” films as one of cinema’s most definitive action heroines. He represents a turning point for the development of the hero in 20th century cinema.ĭespite the passage of time and despite its several flaws, Mad Max remains essential viewing for any student of film, and an intense, exciting experience for everyone else.George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is widely considered one of the greatest action movies ever made (the film ranked ninth on IndieWire’s list of the 100 best films of the 2010s), and a big reason why is Imperator Furiosa. By the end, Max is no longer a traditional hero - he has become something liminal, compromised, both more and less human. It is very much a film about violence, and about the psychological as well as physical damage that violence does. Yet none of this comes across as gratuitous. It still seems pretty brutal by today's standards, which means it hasn't lost its edge. In its day, Mad Max was heavily criticised for its stark portrayal of violence (particularly because this is violence of the easily-imitated kind). Despite the futuristic setting, nothing happens in Mad Max which couldn't happen today. This doesn't need to be sophisticated to make an impression - it's the very crudity of it, the simple brutality, the ordinariness, which makes it affecting. From the moment we see Max's wife and child we have a creeping sense of the fate which awaits them. The vast emptiness of the outback creates the sense that even the towns there are isolated and as vulnerable to violence as individuals. ![]() Yet it remains a powerful experience simply because it is, otherwise, so well made. Its characters are largely cartoonish and its dialogue crude. It's not particularly well acted, though Mel Gibson's intense performance was to make him a star. Perhaps it's time to take a look at this iconic film again. Australia just had its first murder over water shortages. The hero, a policeman determined to restore order yet gradually losing all sense of order in his own life, stood for a generation. Though no single, definable apocalyptic event appeared to have occurred, lawlessness was rife and people struggled desperately over precious fuel. In Mad Max, society scarcely existed any more. ![]() Gone were the Seventies science fiction heroes standing up against an autocratic society. ![]() Made in 1979, Mad Max set the tone for Eighties action films with its futuristic setting, its vivid violence, and its lone hero trying to hold the world at bay.
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