It’s disturbing how this movie gains relevance with the passage of time.

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sqwace:

Ok, i announced that i’d post some thoughts here so i better keep that promise, eh?

So i was thinking about the skulls on the war rig – the first thought is of course that these are skulls of defeated enemies. BUT wouldn’t it make much more sense that it’s an incredible honour to be on the war rig after your death?

There’s two possibilities i can think of, either only the higher ranking imperators etc. get a place there or this is a way to redeem/honour war boys who ‘die soft’ because they weren’t ‘lucky enough’ to be grantd die a shiny death.

Plus, in the context of this and the cosplay references going around (with all the stuff that the war boys carry on their pants):
Do you think there would be a clean-up crew after a battle? I mean certainly for salvaging car parts but also…human parts?

So do any of you have thoughts on war boy post-mortem rituals?

I like that. I mean the ultimate death is suicide in battle, which probably doesn’t leave much to be salvaged, but is simply being killed in battle any less respected? The guys were really anxious about Morsov going chrome in his very last moments, but I don’t think it’s a dishonour to just get shot and die.

And possibly the Soft Death isn’t completely unacceptable either, if a War Boy has proved himself in battle enough times. There was a post going around (I forget whooo wroooote iiit so sorry :( ) about their black paint and how the amount used could reflect experience and acoomplishments instead of rank- the Pups are either all white or with just their eyes blackened. Nux has very little black, but he outranks Slit who’s got quite a lot- but Nux is also very worried about dying soft. Possibly because he knows he hasn’t done enough fighting to get into Valhalla.

This is just speculation, right. But I think these guys care a lot about death, I mean that’s clear, they care about everything from the manner of their death to the time of their death to whether anyone sees it- witnesses it. All of them are supposedly at the reaper’s door already, and they never know when it will open.

So the same way Witnessing is extremely important, I think anything done post-mortem would have to be very important as well. There wouldn’t be much weight placed on burial, for example, or on maintaining the same ritual every time, since that’s just impossible to guarantee- sometimes you’re gonna have someone pulverised or crushed into the desert and that has to be good enough.  But I can definitely imagine bones that were salvaged whole being given respect. 

Er…in short…yes? I think those could be honourable skulls?

All excellent points. And they make me think about Nux’s previous battle history, and how he acquits himself battle-wise in the events we see in the movie. He’s a great driver (those J-turns, for example), and the Nux car is the fastest vehicle in the war party. So my headcanon is that Nux is a top-notch mechanic and driver. But he’s not much of a fighter.

He wins the scrum for the handgun magazine and gets it to Max, but he doesn’t hurt any of the wives in the process; doesn’t even try. Max knocks him out of action (for a couple of minutes) with a single punch to the solar plexus. He tries to choke Furiosa with the chain, but is immediately pulled off by the wives, and basically manhandled right out of the cab. Despite the offer to pike Furiosa in the spine (or Joe’s preferred alternative of shooting her), well, we know how that turned out. In the final run through the canyon his only contributions are (crucial and awesome) mechanical work and driving.

Bottom line: Nux occasionally talks tough (“he’s gonna shred her!”), but he’s basically nonviolent. The most physically aggressive thing he does in the whole movie is head-butt Slit for the steering wheel. All he really wants to do is fix things, drive fast, and die historic on the Fury Road.

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softbuckybarnes:

i am a serious fan who makes serious gifs of serious source material

I don’t understand how I can not ship it and still want them to kiss here. I blame Nicholas Hoult. I’ve noticed he’s often photographed looking at people, male and female, like he’s about to kiss them or he’s thinking about kissing them. 

Also, I just realized that Nux not taking his eyes off Slit for a millisecond like that may mean that Slit has a history of fighting dirty and attacking people when their backs are returned or they thought a fight was over. 

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Sansa + Nux

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val-eris:

Thank you, Mad Max, for a romantic subplot that actually ADDED depth to the movie, instead of ruining it for me forever. *I’m looking at you, Age of Ultron*

No, this was so important though.  This whole movie was all about objectification.  All of our heros are people who have had their agency taken from them, who have value to society only so long as they have something worth consuming, from the wives, to the mothers, to the blood bags and the war boys.  Their sexuality, their fertility, their milk, their flesh and blood and their very lives, all of these things are taken from them by those ‘stronger’ than themselves.  Nux’s whole struggle is that he may not be strong enough to distinguish himself in the only way his society deems worthwhile (through feats of violence)– that he will never be historic, never be remembered as an individual.  It’s only when he is shown compassion that Nux is able to connect with others and experience life as a full person, and be recognized as something other than a cog in the war machine.  He becomes more than just a thing.

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“If I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die historic on the Fury Road!”

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emmazingemma:

Here’s another reason why Mad Max is important:

On the left here is my boyfriend Tommy. After gushing about this movie for a solid hour, I really got him excited to see it so we pulled a triple feature at the theatre today and saw Mad Max: Fury Road before we left. Even though I told him about all the amazing aspects of this movie, I think the selling point for him was the character Nux, featured on the right,played by Nicholas Hoult.

In the film, Nux is one of the very fascinating soldier type War Boys. These characters are interesting because even though they are warlords, their biggest killer seems to be a form of Leukemia. Whether it’s due to inbreeding or their less than steller conditions, these boys are called “Half-Lifes” because they aren’t expected to live very long. Nearly all of them have tumors protruding from their necks, and more than half of them (like Nux) require constant blood transfusions (supplied in this case by our very own Mad Max himself.) 

Even though the bald heads are not a product of chemo, and symbolize something entirely different, the imagery is there, and these boys spend the movie trying to die in battle with glory instead of wasting away with a disease. 

When Nux fails to find acceptance among his brothers and with his father/god, he turns instead to himself. Throughout the film we see Nux’s evolution from a cog in a machine to an individual human being with purpose and importance. His true goal in life is to be useful and needed, a goal that many of us can understand, especially those of us that are suffering from illnesses or disabilities. I know that there are countless posts about Furiosa on this front, but I found that for Tommy specifically Nux was a character he needed to see. 

Some of you may already know this but, about a month ago Tommy was diagnosed with stage 2 testicular cancer. Although he is well on his road to recovery, he has struggled with his masculinity, his pride, and most of all his purpose. I can tell that he feels like the world doesn’t need him sometimes, and being sick often makes you feel like a burden to those around you. Although this is not true in the slightest, it is very hard to convince him otherwise. However, tonight I watched as his eyes lit up at the sight of a very sick character making a very big difference, and being a total fucking bad ass while doing it. Please go see this movie, it is so important. 

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N U X + S L I T: precious homicidal warbabies.

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I was trying to explain this page to Linda, and said wait; I’ll show you. So I pulled it up and was reading the reviews out loud to her, and this one I failed to get through three times because I kept losing it at “FOR CERTAIN”.

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