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(As of 2020, this blog no longer updates, so no need to follow.) I ride a war rig with Imperator Furiosa. She calls the shots. I just try to help out how I can. Follows and likes from my main, @DrGeoduck
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#hugh keays-byrne#mmfr#mad max fury road#immortan joe
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Happy Mad Maxiversary

Ride eternal, shiny and chrome, fellow wastelanders.

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Mad Max: Fury Road was released in North American theaters five years ago today.

And with this five year anniversary, I've decided to end this blog. I'm not going to delete it, but there will be no further updates. Not that there have been a huge number of updates the last couple of years.

V-8!

#gif warning
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RIP George Ogilvie

Sunday, April 5, George Ogilvie, who co-directed Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with George Miller, passed away at age 89.

That was the first Mad Max film I ever watched as a kid, and while it might not reach the heights of Road Warrior or Fury Road, it did an amazing job of world building, to a degree only really matched by MMFR.

Rest in peace.

#mad max beyond thunderdome
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Richard Carter has passed away

Richard Carter, who played The Bullet Farmer in Mad Max: Fury Road, died Saturday July 13th after a brief illness. He was 65.

Richard Carter, 1953-2019.

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Fandom confession

I've never actually written this, so I'm releasing this idea to the world, maybe one of you will write it.

A parody/filk of "The Wichita Lineman" about MMFR.

I only thought of three of the lines. The opening :

I am a warboy of the wasteland

And I drive the fury road

And the bit in the real song where he sings "And the Wichita lineman is still on the line" would be something like "And the Citadel warboy, is shiny and chrome."

So as I said, I release this idea. Change my lines as you like. If someone does create it, please @ me because I'd love to read/hear it.

#mad max fury road#Mmfr#Warboys
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mohala-sumiko

Mad Max told a story about sexual violence and survivorship without relying on rape scenes to impress upon the audience how *serious* things were.

instead of watching the abuse on screen, we hear about it through the interactions between the wives. they tell us what happened, and in that way they take control of their own narrative.

rather than being voyeurs witnessing the wives’ trauma played out onscreen, we were an audience listening to their story.

and that makes a world of difference.

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THIS THIS THIS.

So instead of showcasing the specific treatment we were told of it, which is the contrary philosophy of most filmmaking (show, don’t tell)

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mohala-sumiko

or they made the decision to not sensationalize and fetishize the rape and brutalization of women. and in doing so spared the feelings of thousands of trauma survivors in their audience.

but whatever, film theory 101.

“Show don’t tell” is for FUCKING AMATEURS. 

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This statement:

“So instead of showcasing the specific treatment we were told of it, which is the contrary philosophy of most filmmaking (show, don’t tell)”

demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the idea behind “show, don’t tell.” I would argue that Mad Max: Fury Road DOES show us how the Wives were treated by Immortan Joe. However, it chooses not to do so in the obvious way (which would be showing the abuse), but rather by showing us in other ways.

We’re shown the message the Wives leave behind: “We are not things,” from which we can infer that’s exactly how they’ve been treated for God knows how long.

We’re shown that they wear flimsy white fabric that leaves their bodies on display, unlike pretty much everybody else in the film.

We’re shown them using boltcutters to rid themselves of chastity belts, devices which pretty much exist solely to remove a woman’s ability to choose her sexual partners.

We’re shown rage from the Dag when, even though time is of the essence, she takes the time to run back and kick one of the discarded belts as hard as she can before running back to join the others at the War Rig.

We’re shown Angharad using her pregnant body to shield Max and Furiosa from Immortan Joe, because she knows beyond a shadow of a doubt he won’t shoot her or her unborn child because he still views her as his property.

We hear Furiosa’s “Remember me?” before she kills Joe, and there’s so much fury and anger in those two words that you know she was a Wife before she was an Imperator.

We ARE shown what happened to the Wives. The issue lies in thinking that the only way to show that they were abused is to show the abuse itself. And as MM:FR demonstrates, that isn’t the case.

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For someone to accuse Mad Max Fury Road (of all films) of telling rather than showing is ludicrous to me.

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mmfrconfessions

You know that bit when Rictus Erectus drinks some mother’s milk and then says something? Everyone in the fandom seems to think he says moo and it pisses me off so goddamn much! Why would he say moo?! He doesn’t know what a cow is! Or that it makes milk! or that it says moo! He could just be saying “good” or “more” but the idea that he says moo just enrages me so much and I don’t know why.

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I was in the room when this was film. He did actually say moo

#Rictus erectus