appeared after 2:30 seconds of the movie, but his face did not appear in the camera. He wiped the oil on his hands with detergent, and put a white towel on his shoulder wearing a light blue police T-shirt. The front cover of the yellow engine of his Ford Falcon was open, which meant he was cleaning his car just now.
The camera follows his back. You watch him put on a police leather jacket, get into the car, put on sunglasses, pick up the leather gloves in front of the bridge and put them on.
At the same time, a crazy chase between police and bandits is unfolding on the desolate highway. On the police radio, you can hear the crazy clamor of the bandits who attacked the police.
On the one hand, the villain’s neurotic and distorted face watched him spit and laugh wildly, on the other hand, the actor was quietly waiting for the arrival of his opponent at the intersection in front of him. When you think that the gangster has performed the madness to the extreme, you may not realize it for a while. The protagonist is performing another kind of madness with a kind of abnormal life-like silence.
What can eliminate violence is greater violence, and only greater madness can collapse craziness.
2. The low camera position is
different from the film that uses a lot of overhead shooting to reflect the aura. As a low-cost road hunting film, "Mad Max" has a large number of low camera follow-up shots, through this shooting method , The road looks cold and the car looks fierce.
3. Violent instinct.
I love violence unabashedly, and the madness, bloodthirsty, neurotic humor that it generates, and even boredom. I am obsessed with it like sex, endless.
They are not just an extension of some kind of instinctive root, they are instinct itself, they are reality itself. And this reality is too scarce and suppressed in ordinary life, which makes me unable to resist observing any corner where violence exists.
Only sex and violence can make me completely forget myself and enter the state of transformation.
4. It's hard to be a good person
At the beginning of the movie, we saw a boring fat policeman using a sniper scope on a rifle to spy on two men and women who were meeting in the wilderness. I have never seen such a beginning in an action film. When the fat policeman heard the alarm from his companion, he reluctantly put down his rifle and let out a wretched laugh.
At this tense moment of preparing to drive to chase criminals, the two policemen are vying for control of the steering wheel-which not only reappears in the subsequent movies of the film, but is also imitated by other action movies. Is the fight for the right to drive a car just to reflect the incompetence and evil taste of the police? of course not.
The police goose broke his leg in the chasing of the police and robbers, but he didn't show a painful expression, but laughed.
Later, when Dae Goose was killed, the protagonist Max saw Da Goose's scorched body. His first reaction was fear and escaped from the ward. He simply said: "No, I don't know this thing." Not Gao Daquan. Express sadness and anger. Everything is simple, straightforward and in line with common sense.
5.
A detail of the villain : the first villain in the movie, the lunatic "Dark Knight", his feet were bare when he stepped on the brakes.
When I see the good or bad of an action movie, there is an important criterion, which is to see whether its villain is portrayed viciously. If its villain is not vicious enough, then this film lacks soul and tension. "Drunkman" is like this, "Robocop" is like this, and "Batman: The Dark Knight" is about the same. The villains in these movies are so arrogant and powerful, they shake the confidence of the viewers, and make the "good guys" fight against evil while also fighting against their own isolation and confusion.
The villain's performance in "Mad Max" has a dramatic exaggeration. They tortured and gang-raped ordinary people on the road. The slightly shabby temperament actually brought out the murderous spirit from the bottom wilderness.
There is no place for good to live here, and even good will eventually become mutilated, become evil, and then use evil to conquer evil. If evil is not evil enough, how can it reflect the difficulty of good behavior? How can it reflect the decisiveness of revenge. On the surface, at the end of the movie, the good guys defeated the evil guys, but in fact, evil invaded the good and took possession of the good.
6. Revenge: the only theme
"Mad Max" has been filmed four parts before and after. My favorite is the first one-very simple, because there is no moral choice of "Radiation" in this part, there is no new hope, and there is no feminism. Glorious colors, there is no such jumbled Hollywood universal value in parts 2, 3, and 4, and some have only two words: revenge.
In order to avenge his family and friends, the protagonist did not hand the wicked person to the law, nor did he simply choose to forget the situation like a hero who is burdened with hatred. Instead, he chose to lynch the enemy—no forgiveness. , No one is sympathetic, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. More specifically, the director revealed that after the killing, the hero lost even the anger of revenge, leaving only endless emptiness and homeless silence in his disabled body, just like wild dogs in the Australian wilderness.
Although Mel Gibson’s performance in this movie is sober, but when he sits behind the steering wheel of the car, his angry and desperate thoughts of vengeance burn torment, cold but fire-spitting eyes are deeply in my eyes. In mind.
7. Genre film
Genre film is like metrical poetry, it's all routines, but dancing within routines is exciting. Not all commercial films are the same. Some commercial films are pinned on the director's own complex, such as "Terminator" to Cameron, such as "The True Colors of Heroes" to Wu Yusen. "Mad Max" is also such a movie.
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