“Miller’s purpose was to tell an honest story, and he let nothing else get in the way of that. Not…”
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Miller’s purpose was to tell an honest story, and he let nothing else get in the way of that. Not even the male gaze.
I’m just going to drop this quote from him in, because it relates to the same thing, “it couldn’t be a man taking five wives from another man. That’s an entirely different story.”
There’s words and there’s action; Miller may not label himself a feminist, may not have set out to make a feminist movie, but he put his ideas and dreams and heart and soul into this impossible movie. And that heart and soul says he respects women deeply; he respects them enough to understand that a man taking wives away makes it a different story. The movie is so consistently insistently precise that even if he says he didn’t mean to, I can see it.
If someone says they respect me as a person but cannot stop staring at my ass, I can see it. Does it matter if they “deliberately” look at my ass?
Actions matter.
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– bonehandledknife, from Filmmaking Intent v. Film Theory
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Tags: fury road, mmfr, meta, text post, george miller.
