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I was talking to someone about Fury Road today and they said ‘I just hated how it had no plot. They just left and then turned around and went straight back, it was so stupid’ and I think my soul was in danger of leaving my body because really – that’s the whole point. That’s the great message of Mad Max Fury Road – they need to leave and go back because they need to understand that the Green Place doesn’t exist. Valhalla doesn’t exist. There’s no better place waiting, no Eden to escape to, nowhere for Furiosa and the wives to run to. This world, broken and damaged and war-torn as it is, is all they have, and if they want a Green Place then they have to make it themselves. They have to choose peace. They have to choose love for each other. They have to take the seeds from the older, violent generation and start again. They have to destroy the oppressive power structures holding them back, capitalism and the patriarchy that Immortan Joe represents.

The Green Place was around them all along, and it takes this long, cyclical journey to understand that, both for them and for the audience. The circular narrative structure is an absolute work of genius, and the fact that the entire plot can be boiled down to “they leave and come back” is an indication of how well this works as an action movie – that the plot is simple enough so everyone can understand what’s going on while explosions are going off and cars are racing past at 100mph – yet it’s still incredibly rich and wonderfully complex too.

And what a pertinent message to send out – the generations before us killed the world and now it’s up to us to fix what’s broken. There’s no Green Place but the one we make ourselves, which will be born out of fire and blood and rise from the ashes of the old world.

geekybibliophile:

pimpernels:

furiiosa:

HOPE IS A MISTAKE and they call her foolish for bringing an ex-cop back to the ‘dome. What do they know about him?

What does he know about piloting a jaeger?

But she’s not concerned with his past. It only took a few minutes fighting a group of assholes in an ally by this stranger’s side to know: THEY’RE DRIFT COMPATIBLE. Something Furiosa hadn’t felt since the day her mother was ripped from the hull of their jaeger along with her left arm. It was a battle that earned her a hushed sort of fame and a spot heading a jaeger repair team of her own. Still doing what she could, battling her losses day by day.

With millions of lives at stake, the cost of drifting with someone as filled with dangerous memories and rage as she is seems small enough in her eyes. And if they could harness that rage, there’d be no telling what they could do.

TOGETHER—- maybe they could find a bit of REDEMPTION.

aka the pacific rim au we all saw coming, with max rockatansky as left hemisphere and furiosa jabassa as right, the pair of them kicking kaiju ass.

#AT LAST #i have been waiting what feels like half my life for pacific rim AU graphics YOU’RE DOING GOOD WORK OP #bless you and those you hold dear #these two have a kwwon fight scene but their ‘dialogue’ is old school dirty streetfight boxing #left-right-uppercut bloody lips and connecting blows #(it’s still a dialogue – it’s just very abrasive dialogue) #in the canteen they’re not talkers #they’ll sit with you and all but really you’ll get one word answers #or nods of agreement or grunts of disapproval #with each other she’ll call him Fool (which he’ll acknowledge with the smallest of lightened expressions) #and he’ll call her by just saying ‘Hey’ very softly (which is a word and tone combo no one else will ever hear from him ever) (via harrietvane)

@zombeesknees

Source: furiiosa

swimthroughthefires:

imgonnaeditstuff:

“Angharad is the true ideological opponent of Immortan Joe. He represents a toxic ideology of death, while she represents life, the alternate way of living. As the instigator of the Wives’ escape, and the one who came up with “We Are Not Things” she was the most revolutionary of them because she saw the potential for a new way of living, and she saw clearly that “what killed the world” was a way of life that glorified killing” [x]

#darling heart #god i SCREAMED when she did the bottom left #physically putting herself and her VISIBLY HUGE PREGNANT BELLY between joe and max #STARING DEFIANCE AT HIM with just capable’s arm around her #purposefully fouling his shot without a single fuck about her own safety #because she’d rather die to save a life than live and return to joe #MY GIRL #mad max #as queue wish @zombeesknees

Source: imgonnaeditstuff

queerical:

#i bet she used to think she was above it too

WHY WOULD YOU POINT THAT OUT. but no like at first she looks up like “goddamn these naive idealistic youths” but then her gaze drops for a moment like “yea we’ve all thought that at one point. but thats not how the world works” and she looks back to the dag and eventually gives her the seeds like “i hope you’ll be able to stay above it”

Source: pauldierden

There might be six pages of dialogue in the script. Maybe ten if they wrote out Tom Hardy’s grunting. It’s good grunting, don’t get me wrong because most of Tom Hardy’s work here is dialogue without dialogue. Max saws at the back of his masked head with a nail file so fast and with such insane anger that it becomes a line. You could have Tom Hardy complain about his face being strapped into a metal mask, sure, but it’s so much better to have this heathen outcast grunting and twitching and pulling at everything for the first 45 minutes of the movie like he’s a starving raccoon let loose in a restaurant walk-in freezer. He says his name once and I cried when he did even though I’m pretty sure he kills like 80 people for just doing their jobs as ripped albino death riders.

this review speaks to my soul (x)

“a starving raccoon let loose in a restaurant walk-in freezer,” yes.

(via stele3)