icarus-suraki: fygeneralzod: Max+Warboys taking his…
Max+Warboys taking his shit.
THIS BRINGS ME TO ANOTHER THING that I think is interesting: how often the masculine characters in Fury Road refer to possession and ownership. A short sample:
- My war-rig (Joe)
- My Imperator Furiosa (Joe)
- My half-life warboys (Joe)
- My friends (Joe–I’d say this was just idiomatic except for how Toast says that because Joe owns the water, “he owns all of us”)
- My wheel (Nux)
- My lancer (Nux)
- My bloodbag (Nux)
- They took my blood, now my car (Max)
- My child, my property (Joe)
- That’s my jacket (Max)
- That’s mine! [the Interceptor] (Max)
And this is just the obvious stuff off the top of my head. And it is to say nothing of the calculations of loss that the People-Eater is carrying out. “Protect the assets!” indeed. And need we even mention the implications of possession inherent in the chastity belts? Nnnnnnnope.
Furiosa, though, refers to the war rig as “the rig”–no possessive language. And what’s the chorus among the female characters? “We are not things.”
There’s a much greater sense of shared ownership or collectivism among the female characters–especially the Vuvalini. They literally give Max a motorcycle, even though he’s said he’s not coming with them. Just give it to him. They share their food and clothing with the newcomers. It’s much less centered on ownership and control and more on what benefits the whole group, not just the individual members.
This is probably just identifying the toxic masculinity elements in action, but it really starts to get interesting and weird when you keep hearing the words “my” and “mine” over and over and over. (Got some other thoughts on symbols of control too, for later.)
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Tags: fury road, meta, text post, possession.
