——Revelation 21:6
To be honest, I don’t know how to evaluate this movie. The scripts of the first three works of the MAD MAX (MM) series are actually very simple. However, the new post-nuclear world described by the destruction of civilization, water depletion, soil poisoning, and banditry has become the inspiration for countless wasteland works. source of. The game "Borderland", "Radiation" series, the movie "I am a Legend", the comic "Fist of the North Star", the novel The Postman (recently translated into Chinese called the Doomsday Postman), etc. have all been inspired by MM. In fact, the sentence at the beginning of the article is a second quote from the 2008 game "Fallout Three".
As you can see, this sentence also happens to point to the topic of MM4. Taking into account the sequence of their release and on-screen, no matter how you look at it, the game that was spawned by the movie back then feeds the movie.
The main story of Fallout III is the protagonist "Lone Walker" who was born more than two hundred years after the nuclear war. In order to follow in the footsteps of the scientist's father, he opened the heavy iron gate of Refuge 101 and entered the barren and savage world to start a series of adventure stories. . At the end of the game, he (or she) finally activated the water purification facility of the Jefferson Memorial, bringing clean and accessible water to the entire Washington, DC.
However, the real savior of Washington, D.C. is actually the lone scientist dad. He took great risks to build water purification facilities, hibernated in the refuge and raised the protagonist for more than ten years. He did not give up research, and later went into the wasteland alone, just to find the legendary GECK. Renovate facilities. In the end, in order to prevent the enemy from taking away the results of the research, he resolutely chose to commit suicide. In contrast, what the lone traveler did was just a last cut.
The same goes for MM4 Fury Road. Don't look at Max, played by Tom Hardy, who has a lot of skills and kills many people, but the person who promotes the plot and even injects the soul into the film is not so much him, it is his companion Furiosa. But before talking about these, we might as well review the entire series of MM.
Just like when a lone traveler just stepped out of the door of the refuge, struggling to survive on the wasteland with a broken 10MM pistol, he must have never thought about what he would do. The original town policeman Max Locktans Kee never set the ambition to be the savior.
But the lone traveler has at least his father to follow, and Max can only wander alone. Looking back at the end of MM1 in 1979: After avenging his wife and child, Max did not return to his old career as a policeman. Instead, he drove his V8 away from the surviving civilized town and plunged into the boundless wasteland. Obviously, he has taken too much psychological pressure because of the sudden death of his beloved, and returning to the already empty house will only drive him crazy, so he simply chose to escape. It is worth noting that, in order to completely cut off the memory of the past, from now on, Max never mentioned his name to anyone again-until MM4 Fury Road.
This escape is dozens of years, and he not only flees on his own, but also encourages others to make the same choice. In MM 2, because the car's fuel ran out, Max was forced to get involved in the defense of the oil rig settlement against the bandits. His advice to the inhabitants of the settlements is very simple: bring enough fuel, blow up the drilling platform, and then escape as far as possible. As the bandits were finally defeated, the refugees went hundreds of miles away to rebuild their homes, but Max chose to leave again.
The director did not explain why Max would rather be alone. Maybe he has been withdrawn for a long time and doesn’t know how to get along with people, but it’s more likely that only the endless wandering and passing by with death can make Max find something. The feeling of being alive. Many extreme athletes or mountaineers continue to challenge the limit, which is similar.
In short, Max was unlucky again after wandering for a while. In the third part of the series, in order to redeem the stolen vehicles and supplies, he had to work for the ruler of Barton Town, and was subsequently banished because of his words and actions. Fortunately, he encountered a group of human beings who had retreated to clan life and were regarded as saviors. At the end of the film, through another escape, Max rescued the ignorant tribal people.
You see, having said so much, what I mean is: Although Max has done so many vigorous things and crushed and destroyed at least dozens of cars, his negative attitude has never changed. During most of the MM4 Fury Road, he was still fleeing, fleeing, and fleeing. However, this time, the chaser behind him was unprecedentedly strong, and the plot also gradually became repressed as the vehicle was chased down-the blonde girl died-barely got out of the quagmire-found that the greenland Greenland no longer existed.
But just when his companions were going to continue to flee and search for new oasis before the fuel ran out, Max made for the first time a completely different decision from the previous movies: instead of running away, but returning to die. Old Joe's mother. If you haven't seen the previous works, I am afraid it is difficult to understand how incredible this is for Max.
Since the wasteland is still the wasteland once, and fleeing has become commonplace, then it is obvious that Max's companions can help Max to change his mentality. The source of Max’s companions this time is mixed, such as Nux who admires the Immortal Joe, the young woman who fled, the remaining members of Greenland, and Furiosa, the former second-in-command of the Immortal Joe. Obviously Furiosa has the deepest influence on Max in this wave. In a world where civilization is declining, Max’s selfish but never-evil personality is considered commendable, and Furiosa is more noble than Max. For her, the judgment of values is much higher than the actual interests. Let me say, this movie should really be called MAD FURIOSA. In order to save a few unfamiliar women, how can anyone give up the status of being under one person and above 10,000, and bet their lives on a life-long adventure. Of course, the brilliance of personality is not enough to make Max decide to kill the carbine. Another important reason why he dares to fight is obviously that Furiosa has the fighting power and determination
that can rival him. Believe in hand-to-hand combat or Max. Winner-after all, he walked out of the arena of Thunderdome alive, but Furiosa definitely has more guns expertise than Max. In the scene against the owner of the bullet farm, Max missed two shots. After receiving the rifle, Furiosa used Max’s shoulder as a support and sent the last bullet to hit the headlights of the modified tracked car. This kind of composure and composure probably makes Max feel that he has finally found a trustworthy and respectable teammate, and he has the confidence to fight back.
Of course, the best expression of Max’s sympathy for Furiosa is the phrase "Max, My name is Max." At first glance, this is just a simple self-introduction. However, I said above that since the death of his wife and child, neither Max’s enemies nor the people he rescued knew what this "Road Worrior" came from. In the decades and the entire three movies, there are, and only Furiosa, let Max overcome the demons and take the initiative to speak his name. After this line, the illusion that frightened Max from time to time for most of the film finally dissipated, which also proved Max's mentality change from another side.
At the end of the film, as the undead Joe finally died, Furiosa became the actual leader of the valley. The first thing she did was to open the gate and release the water so that the civilians could also share. But Max, who was crucial in this uprising, just nodded slightly to Furiosa, then walked away, hiding his merit and fame.
Given that he has changed his mindset and met a trustworthy person, it is obviously inappropriate to continue to interpret Max's departure as an escape. In fact, David Brin's "The Postman in the Last Days" can be used as a reference. Gordon, the protagonist of "The Postman", was chased by bandits at first, but he became a key figure in uniting villages and settlements against bandits and mutants. After the crisis was resolved, he could have lived a peaceful life, but he went on a long journey again and decided to spread the seeds of civilization to more places.
Like Gordon, Max left at the end because there is a wider wasteland outside waiting for change. After all, it doesn't really matter whether Greenland exists or not. What really matters is who is going to change Wasteland.
Another: The script of Fallout 3 New Vegas is obviously influenced by The postman. Not only does it have a Caesars army similar to the gang in the book, but also the protagonist's name "Postman" is the same as the novel.
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