“That’s my car” “that’s my lancer”
I just had a shower thought.
If Max and Nux are elements of reformed/non-toxic masculinity in the overall theme of feminine power struggling against toxic masculinity…
I bring up the final chase. The War Rig has been shown to have had a commanding lead, and only one car was able to even pull up next to them at that point.
Max’s Interceptor, being boosted by Nux’s lancer.
The only reason the rest of the war parties even caught up was because the spikes dropped by the Interceptor took out the second engine and dropped the power of the first.
Let me rephrase: the path to getting the women to safety was hindered by elements from their allies’ toxic past.
(In Max’s case, he’d specifically was almost killed by the Interceptor driven by Slit.)
I’m squinting at this up, down, and sideways and I can’t help but think that Miller could have possibly made another vehicle instead of the Interceptor, or have that car battle at a different point, he could have had Slit appear on the Gigahorse or maybe on a vehicle Max swung to.
But no, instead it’s the lead vehicle, the one that messes up their escape the most. And that’s completely fascinating to me.
I’m going to laugh my ass off if someone ever asks George Miller about this stuff and he’s like ‘uhhhh ok didn’t think of it like that but ok’ (via cortibah)
I would like to point you to this post on something I’d written that someone pointed out to me as well as this post on Filmmaking Intent.
The spouse and I spent 5 minutes yesterday finishing eachother’s sentences like this:
spouse: …so during their fight, Max is…
me: fighting his best allies, the women, the other victims of oppression…
spouse: all while literally…
me: having his BLOOD SUCKED…
spouse: by the DEAD WEIGHT of TOXIC MASCULINITY…
me: robbing him of power! while chained between them…
spouse: is a broken piece of…
me: WASTEFUL INDUSTRIAL OVERPRODUCTION…
spouse: dragging them BOTH DOWN…
me: and all of this chained to a muzzle literally IMPEDING HIS SPEECH…
spouse: making him incapable of ASKING FOR HIS NEEDS TO BE MET…
me: or MAKING CONNECTION WITH THE WOMEN…
spouse: or even LETTING HIM FEEL FULLY HUMAN…
me: or letting the women PERCEIVE HIM as fully human…
spouse: because he must be, like all men, A MONSTER – the muzzle proves it
[at least, like, 5 more exchanges because the metaphor just. keeps going. doesn’t it?]
me: …..THIS IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS. THERE IS NO WAY GEORGE MILLER DIDN’T
1) KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOING WHEN HE ENGINEERED THIS SCENE OR
2) WILL EVER IN A MILLION YEARS ADMIT IT.both: AAAAUGH!
Okay yeah, there are endless metaphor and parallels available to us in ridiculously overanalyzing the movie…but I think having Max’s car and Nux’s lancer be what almost takes everyone down, and having Max’s blood being literally sucked away to feed the next generation of toxic masculinity impersonated…AREN’T THAT MUCH OF A STRETCH, ARE THEY. I mean, this isn’t even in the over-the-top country of fannish theory spinning – this is just ‘visual representation’ we’re talking about here :P
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Tags: fury road, text post, turtles all the way down.
