“It’s about a man running away from his better self, and his better self catches up to him. It’s…”
“It’s about a man running away from his better self, and his better self catches up to him. It’s about a man that is ‘apart from,’ at the beginning; he becomes a part *of* at the end. The premise of it was that what’s broken is healed by love only. So these are organizing ideas that underpin not only the story, but how it’s going to be made and produced. In trying to articulate them, eventually, even as far as production, those ideas began to subtly change the choices that were made about the story. Not so much the storyboards, but the actual way the movie was made, and therefore what might be in any one of those hundred and fifty thousand frames.“
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“For the character of Max, we had a little slogan written above the Electro-board, which said, ‘Engage to heal,’ which means, as you become engaged, healing can happen, emotionally and spiritually.”
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The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road
, regarding underlying themes and Max’s characterization (via
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“In trying to articulate them, [the theme that love heals] began to subtly change the choices that were made about the story […] and therefore what might be in any one of those hundred and fifty thousand frames.“
This is so important though, the idea of picking such a concept of connectedness and placing it in each 1/24th of a second, that it might not be conscious but that it threads through. And subconsciously or consciously you can tell.
(via bonehandledknife)
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Tags: fury road, I think it's important to recognize how the movie grew in its creation, to become the work I love, it helps me better understand how the furiosa prequel comic went so wrong, george miller had final cut on the movie, but I strongly suspect he had nothing approaching that degree of involvement with the comics, he and nico lathouris were credited writers for both movie and comic, but from looking at the comic, I think it reflects much more the values and imagination of its third credited writer, whose only credit on the movie was lead storyboard artist, which is why I went off on this tag tangent, because of that line in the quote, Not so much the storyboards but the actual way the movie was made, and with that I return to my vow of silence about the comic, because I have a feeling that talking about it, leads away from my better self.
