Mad Max Fury Road: 4th viewing
Notes I took while watching:
- “War Boy” is a title that infantilizes/diminishes in the same way that calling grown women “girls” does. Interesting flip in a movie that is being lauded as one of the most feminist movies, like, ever
- Slit definitely wants to be a lizard. He hisses/growls like a reptile, and crawls all over cars like a reptile. Slit is lizard trash.
- After fucking up in front of Immortan Joe, in the back of the War Rig, Nux says the gates of Valhalla have been opened to him 3 times…but we’ve only been shown 2 times up to this point in the movie (in the sand storm, and then when Immortan Joe sent him on a special mission). So there must be a REALLY INTERESTING PRE-MOVIE STORY ABOUT THAT OTHER TIME.
- At the end of the movie, Max is on the platform as it begins to rise, then there’s a cutaway, then when we cut back to the platform he’s not on it. MAX WHERE YOU GO. YOU SLIPPERY. Like did you just sliiiiide down like “oh wait I’m totally not ready to settle down, almost made a mistake there”
In order, because I loved each point you made.
- Exactly, yeah. Because feminism is about equality, and the wives, having seen clearly what Joe is doing to them, are emphatic with Nux before they toss him out of the cab that Joe is doing exactly the same thing to him.
- I never realized. But you’re right. It makes me wonder if the symbolism was intentional, tying in with Max’s encounter with the two-headed lizard in the opening shot.
- I wondered about that too. Maybe Nux is referring to the time in the cab, when he (briefly) had his chain wrapped around Furiosa’s neck before the wives pulled him off? Though granted, that wasn’t as dramatic as the other two.
- There’s a brief look Max gives Furiosa (who is looking the other way) just before the camera cuts away. And then the next time you see them Capable has taken his place supporting her on that side. My headcanon is that Max and Capable exchanged a glance before he left, and Capable knew he was going before Furiosa did.
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