The 70-year-old director George Miller has made 10 films in his lifetime, including 4 "Mad Max", 2 "Happy Feet", one "Yin and Yang Devildom", and one "Witch of East Town" , The type difference is really outrageous. And the greatest work is the "Mad Max" filmed by taking advantage of the natural advantages of the Australian desert.
The greatness of "Mad Max" lies in its historical position in the establishment of a school. Since then, Post-Apocalypse has completely turned into a film and television genre worthy of a big book. The dawn of anti-heroism has appeared, and the decadent and crazy wasteland style has entered various subcultures and shines. The cult style has ushered in a milestone integration.
Max is the John Wayne of the post-nuclear explosion era.
"Mad Max" has a profound influence on mainstream culture and subcultural circles, almost to the point where it can be easily picked up. The lonely heroic anti-traditional hero, the villain whose paradoxical behavior is extraordinarily irrational, and the crazy and ridiculous world structure have become the gods of today's era.
For example, the black zombie version of one person, one dog.
For example, the "Radiation" series of games in the post-nuclear era directly affected by "Mad Max".
For example, in the opening CG, the wasteland style "Borderland 2" of "Mad Max" is perfectly reproduced.
Another example is the 3A game masterpiece "Furious", which restores the world view of "Mad Max" from the character setting to the environment background.
And the most gorgeous chapter in this series is "Mad Max 2". The many settings, three-view attitudes and artistic styles revealed in this sequel can be regarded as the ultimate display of wasteland style and constitute the first nourishment for works such as the above. With the decline in the quality of "Mad Max 3", this weird and rare classic of the 80s also entered the cold storage.
Until 2015.
Who could have imagined that for the same 70+ old man, some people can turn an idealistic subject matter into a warlord melee, while some people can do a whole lot of things that have been silent for 30 years. The blood is full of blood and resurrected in place, taking adrenaline as medicine, and the B box is even higher.
This is the most terrifying part of "Mad Max: Fury Road": from the inside out, it exudes the same flavor that has been maintained for 30 years, and at the same time it is not outdated. The precise use of CG, the color is more than a lifetime of fiddling. The color of the national teacher Lao Mouzi is smooth and bold, the scalpel-like precise narrative rhythm, extremely concise and capable lines and creative action and chasing design, which are yesterday’s character positioning and expressiveness, and men’s and women’s vases are more suitable for use. It is handy.
You can hardly find any shortcomings in it.
In the structure of the complete three-act play, George Miller was filled with a gluttonous feast, and because the shooting sequence and the sequence of events were the same, the same pace on and off the screen produced a wonderful chemical reaction: as if the whole movie was These three large-scale paragraphs made up in one go are organically spliced together.
And George Miller even intimately left the entire screen dark at the end of each scene.
George Miller's amazing talent was revealed again at this moment. The action design beyond imagination makes the action movies of the entire era directly bombed into scum. What kind of superhero or racing thief? Compared with "Mad Max: Fury Road", it is no exaggeration to say that it is a child's playhouse. There is quite an aura of Yitian, who will fight for the front.
What's more terrifying is not only the imposing, but also the story of amazing imagination and artistic level.
This is the sorrow of our time. Since then, there is only one category of action movies, "Mad Max" and other pseudo-action movies.
What is crazy? This is crazy.
Crazy temperament exudes from the inside out. The protagonist is trying to find the exit of humanity and life in this desperate desert, under the pressure of the inhumane single-cell biological cult society.
And the whole story is just a footnote to this crazy world.
When Tom Hardy's version of Max is tied to the front iron rod like Christ the Savior, and it is really a universal blood sac that can save lives, this role is destined to be great.
What's even more terrifying is that even if he is the Max who the Buddha came to kill the Buddha, even if this movie is "Mad Max", he is not the protagonist of this story.
In a sense, this may be George Miller's nostalgia for Mel Gibson.
"Mad Max: Fury Road" is more like a biography of this series. Max's role in the whole story is almost negligible. As soon as Fu appeared, he told us clearly that he was tired. Weather-beaten and suffering, he is tired. This time, he was just a bystander.
Come in a hurry, walk in a hurry. Max was involved in a battle that did not belong to him, and after the death of the undead Joe, the entire region also ushered in the liberation of freedom and the return of humanity. Before the dust settled, Max embarked on his own journey again.
The value of life is ultimately realized by oneself. The desire for life to break through the sky is the source of power for these people to be so crazy.
The meaning of life and free will, the two typical representatives of the spiritual pursuit in "Mad Max: Fury Road", are extremely obvious.
The representative of the former is the war boy part-time mechanic Nacks.
The war boys who have been built as human-shaped weapons since childhood are the private armed forces of the undead old Joe. Their sole purpose for survival is to fight for Old Joe. After the coquettish and exaggerated battle, they can enter the Hall of Valor under the gaze of their compatriots. This kind of cult brainwashing control method is naturally surprisingly easy to use in this wasteland world. After all, when a person has to rely on other people's charity even for basic survival materials, why should he think about other things if he can live such a happy life without worrying about food and drink?
And when Nacks was abandoned by the Immortal Joe and passed by again and again with the goddess of death, his three views collapsed.
Before that, the only meaning of his existence was to give everything to Old Joe. And when this came to nothing under the circumstances, and he couldn't die with honor, it was almost inevitable that he was at a loss.
He needs to rediscover the meaning of life.
And the carrier of all this is a battlefield friendship.
Or some pink friendship.
But this is not important. What is important is that the fire of his life was rekindled, and at the end of the story, he also realized his glorious ideal.
As for the latter, it is a true female protagonist group.
George Miller’s feminist tendencies are fully displayed in "Mad Max: Fury Road". Feminism is not a god, and it is not worthy of a big book. This is one of the basic rights of women.
And George Miller's success is precisely that single-handedly, truly placing the status of women on an equal footing.
In the film, the women's group led by Commander Ferrosa embodies women's rights, or the desire for equal rights, from inside to outside. The purpose of the girl group in the film is to escape the crazy rule of the undead old Joe. In the world of Immortal Joe, women are completely materialized (in fact, men represented by war boys are also the same), except for reproductive tools, they are squeezed out of their lives like cows.
The entire process of escaping is not just about feminist awareness, but about respecting and pursuing the basic right to life.
This is George Miller's brilliance: it is obviously a feminist consciousness, but it is everywhere to achieve equality between men and women.
The displayed equality of men and women is precisely the original core of feminism, which is often self-defeating and detours.
With Ferrosa as the representative, the actor Charlize Theron was originally a representative and activist of feminism, and Ferrosa showed this attitude: as a woman, it is important to the immortal Joe's Commander; one-armed, but can also lead soldiers to fight. There is no need to show off the characteristics of women, and there is no need to magnify women’s physical and mental weaknesses, and their social value can also be realized.
We can say that Ferrosa has broken through any description of female characters in today's movies. At the same time, it can be said that Ferrosa does not have any prominent female descriptions.
Because in George Miller's view, Ferrosa, like the rest of the women, is an individual. Basically, a person who has a desire for survival, and has the will and strength to fight for hope for himself.
Next is a woman.
After first realizing the human rights, then discussing women's rights will naturally produce another wonderful effect.
What is feminism? It's nothing more than human rights.
Regardless of men and women, they are all gray-headed and ugly, except for the mercy and surprise of the supermodels, all of them are strange and strange. If this expression of external beauty represents the high-level hope of life, then the image design that disregards aesthetics represents the human-oriented life force.
This point is repeated in the film’s creation of female characters: Ferrosa confronts Max for the first time, letting go of the outrageous rhythm and action design, but from the perspective of the performance of each character in this period, there is a positive and strong resistance. Those who do not have the strength of frontal hard resistance will assist in the attack. Under the changing scenes of clouds and flowing water, what the audience sees is not a man who is beating a group of women in a trick, but a person who is surviving, and a group of people who are surviving. The suffocating and shocking battle between people.
In the middle and late stages, there were elderly women's groups who joined the battle group in the shape of a cool locomotive. In the final battle, many characters went to death generously. It can be said that their deaths were not sensational at all.
But the most precious thing is this attitude.
It is not that women are treated as a special group alone, but they are treated the same as men.
The role played in the film is that cannon fodder is cannon fodder, and will not reveal or show a little weakness because of your gender or age.
This has achieved our true respect for these roles.
This is the true respect we should have for women.
Like Nacks who entered the Hall of Valor with glory, these female characters also gained true soul sublimation in the death that they did not render.
If we think about it carefully, "Mad Max: Fury Road" is actually unwilling to spend more energy on the background. Whether it is a character or a worldview, there are no unnecessary flashbacks, no nonsense chatter and emotions. Like the audience, the characters in the movie are faced with the same unexpected event, that is, in this event, they experience a wonderful and exciting adventure story. As for the noise and boldness in the beauty of music, they are all art designs that are externalized to a close fit. As for whether there is any deep meaning beyond the appropriate and careful carving, it is a matter of opinion.
After all, this is an anarchist and barbaric place that took place in the wasteland world. It would be too out of date to insist on talking about the ruling class and fighting fighters.
What you wanted was your desperate crazy burst.
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