Comments on: SXSW: Max And Furiosa Fight In New ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Footage Screened By George Miller https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sxsw-max-and-furiosa-fight-in-new-mad-max-fury-road-footage-screened-by-george-miller-20150317/ Mon, 23 May 2016 03:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: MEL GIBSON https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sxsw-max-and-furiosa-fight-in-new-mad-max-fury-road-footage-screened-by-george-miller-20150317/#comment-134629 Mon, 23 May 2016 03:58:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/sxsw-max-and-furiosa-fight-in-new-mad-max-fury-road-footage-screened-by-george-miller-266206/#comment-134629 a trashed vehicle belonging to Nux (Nicholas Hoult). He\’s unconscious and is chained to Max (Tom Hardy), who has a crazy mask that looks like what would happen if a medieval sword maker designed the Hannibal Lecter muzzle. Not only is Max chained to Nux, but he\’s also connected him by some kind of IV (he rips it out with a wet squish). He tries to get out of his shackles but cannot; he\’s chained to Nux\’s wrist. Max takes out his sawed off shotgun and points it at Nux\’s wrist, and in a great callback to "The Road Warrior," the gun misfires. So Max slings Nux over his shoulder and starts tromping through the wasteland

Eventually he comes across a group of women led by Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and including Capable (Riley Keough), Toast (Zoe Kravitz), Splendid (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) and Fragile (Courtney Eaton). They\’re washing themselves with water, to which Max growls "water" (after the footage was screened, Miller said that this was the first word that Max says in the entire movie, 20 minutes in). Splendid tries to free Max of his chains but can\’t. And that\’s when he and Furiosa start to brawl. And it\’s a terrific fight. The sequence is both comedic and intense, displaying Miller\’s gift for upping the ante in terms as it unfolds, although the footage appeared slightly sped up, like watching a Blu-ray at 1.5x speed (it was unclear if this was an issue with the usually peerless projection at the Paramount or a stylistic decision on Miller\’s part). At some point, Nux wakes up and joins in the fight, using the chain that links him and Max to trip Furiosa. Finally, Max gets his grubby hands on an actual working gun and fires several bullets at her.

Furiosa drives a magnificent big rig

one of the tribes worship a pile of steering wheels

a character cranks a music box that sounds just like the one in the Mel Gibson version

]]> By: MAX https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sxsw-max-and-furiosa-fight-in-new-mad-max-fury-road-footage-screened-by-george-miller-20150317/#comment-134630 Mon, 23 May 2016 03:58:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/sxsw-max-and-furiosa-fight-in-new-mad-max-fury-road-footage-screened-by-george-miller-266206/#comment-134630 Cant f***ing waaiit

]]> By: mr.t https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sxsw-max-and-furiosa-fight-in-new-mad-max-fury-road-footage-screened-by-george-miller-20150317/#comment-134631 Mon, 23 May 2016 03:58:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/sxsw-max-and-furiosa-fight-in-new-mad-max-fury-road-footage-screened-by-george-miller-266206/#comment-134631 any word on whether Miller is down for filming a sequel? i figure he\’s four of these already, he may want to hand the franchise over to other talented directors to maybe explore other aspects and characters of Mad Max\’s world. i\’d love to see a continuation of the feral child\’s story.

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