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having gone to watch mad max for the second time last night, i can’t help but think about max and his unusual speech patterns. the popular idea of him “relearning to speak” seemed a bit… off to me, on the basis that if you listen closely, he actually says several sentences while he’s being used as a hood ornament, which are significantly longer and more complex than anything he says again until the conversations with the vulvalini. he’s evidently perfectly capable of speaking then, especially since he’s talking to himself largely.

it got me thinking about speech disorders (on the basis i’ve recently done a bunch of research on it for an essay), and wondering whether max had one – and it seems to me the most likely candidate is conduction aphasia.

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I love break-downs like this!  Considering George Miller’s medical background, one imagines that he and Tom Hardy worked out some basic rules for how Max returns to/uses speech (whether or not Miller went so far as to be specific about exact clinical info).  An actor needs something to go on, yk?  

As someone with an episodic drug-induced aphasia, I always get really excited to see actors pull off realistic portrayals of any species of aphasia – which Tom Hardy totally did.  My whole family has gotten used to me suddenly getting stuck in the middle of a sentence, standing really still, going ‘hhhnnnnnnggggg’ and either making it to the next word, or restarting with an entirely different syntax to get around the block.  Man, Tom Hardy just nailed what that FEELS LIKE in his portrayal.  I didn’t BREATHE when he was trying to give those longer speeches, and each word that he did put together sounds like poetry under that kind of stress.

[this also leads to some pretty hilarious descriptions – if you can’t say garbage disposal, ‘sink monster’ works pretty well, doesn’t it?  I mean, you know what it is right away!]  

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