Tag: mad max

Loved the character of Capable because she showed how you can have a strong femals character who doesn’t necessarily kick butt and shoot things but uses compassion and understanding to shape the course of the narrative.

lierdumoa:

Furiosa isn’t the female action hero we’re used to. Furiosa doesn’t have a dad who taught her boxing or five brothers who taught her how to fix cars. Furiosa wasn’t a tomboy growing up, who preferred to play with the boys. Furiosa isn’t avenging the murder of her husband/brother/father or hunting down a rapist.

Furiosa comes from a community of women. She was raised by women. She works her way up through enemy ranks until she’s in a position to  rescue women. Furiosa is here for women, she is here with women, and she is here because of women. Her rage, her ruthlessness, her courage – these are all things she learned from women, and from being a woman.

hanzeedent-deactivated20160326:

make me choose → the splendid angharad or cheedo the fragile
      our babies will not be warlords
        who killed the world?
          WE ARE NOT THINGS.

I fell in love with this character when she opened the door to be a shield for the war rig. (Second to last gif on the right). In that moment she displayed a strength that was different than the “strong female character” trope of punching someone or being rude. She displayed the courage of a mother, the willingness to put herself in harm’s way to save others. It was 35 seconds of perfection.

verysharpteeth:

cadarnle:

So this was my absolute favourite moment in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Max can’t make the shot. Tries, fails, tries, fails, and there’s only one more bullet left. 

No belittling, no defensiveness, no shaming from either of them. It’s just the best person for the job. He hands the rifle over to her, without discussion, to do what she’s good at in the critical moment, and does what he can to support her success – acts as a motionless prop for her shot. 

Equals. Respecting each other’s skills. Relying on each other.

If this is madness we could do with a little more of it.

Also let’s not forget one of Max’s major traits up to this point was being jumpy. And he’s just so still here. And so passive to her. I say it that way because all we’ve seen this dude do up to this point is fight everyone and everything like a feral animal, eyes darting, snatching stuff, utterly confused. This is the equivalent of a wild dog letting someone use him as a prop and holding perfectly still for that. The level of trust Max has to give here is insane, and he offers it up willingly.

Source: cadarnle

thegreatnarwhalsmuffin:

One of the things about Furiosa that I appreciate is she is never super nice and sweet and squishy inside to “make up” for her rough exterior. Yes, we see her in tender and vulnerable moments, especially with the Vuvalini, but she never does that thing that is often done with rough/hard/brutal characters (especially female characters), where we see them secretly being all warm and fuzzy because they’ve just put up a front to protect themselves. Furiosa has been hardened and burned in the fires and horrors of the wasteland, but she has become strong and tough throughout. Her survival instincts and strength don’t exist only to protect some squishy interior, they are who she is to her core.