Surprisingly insightful analysis - I was shocked to see this video doesn’t have hundreds of thousands views. Can’t wait to see your future works and thoughts.
I felt exactly the same way. I rewrote it in my head canon to say she was at the citadel 'between' the events of the two movies for 10 years. Maybe room for a TV series in there?
I think the best film language is simple. In the simplest possible way, Furiosa's hair represented hope. It was the nest in which her seed was hidden. It was the secret lushness that only Praetorian Jack was privy to. Immorten Joe looked at her hair and saw the hope of a legacy, which he could sire in a fertile woman. She cut it short, but never gave up on it until she realized her very soul had been poisoned, and the hopeful self she longed to rescue from the wasteland had died. But as George points out, she transfers her hope onto the brides, who still have some soul left to save. And in them, she finds her own hope again. I think that's why her final confrontation with Dementus was less a battle than a reckoning. He'd already taken everything she had. And he never had anything that truly mattered to him anyway. Nothing mattered to him, except harming others. So defeating him was never going to be a victory. I think that's why the ultimate defeat for him was to become the fertile soil of new hope. Plus, it was a reminder that the whole story is best read for its meaning, not for anything literal.
11:26 the inclusion of the wives being branded as well told me she was a wife, or was to be taken as one before an accident (whether truly accidental or out of desperation to not meet that fate) took her arm. She was already branded and sworn to loyalty (in the eyes of the hierarchy) so she was taken in as a “son”
Fury Road is a master class in implied story and show don't tell. Like, for instance, Furiousa is a great shot with a rifle. And later, when we meet her people, well, they're snipers. And this never gets exposited on. Same with Max, actually - he's good with a pistol, which makes sense, because he was (maybe) a cop. And the WHOLE movie is like that. It's astonishing.
When I see shaved heads I think of a cancer charity event we have in Australia every year. As a teenager, my hair was down to my butt crack & I shaved it all off. Furiosa has not given up hope. If she had, she could have ended her life or just thrown the seed into the desert. Planting the seed was a compromise between that faithful little girl & the woman she knows she has to become.
I don't understand your comment. Your anecdote doesn't seem to be connected to Furiosa other than "bald". There's no cancer connection other than "bald" which seems eagerly presumptive. And it definitely has nothing to do with planting of the seed part. I dunno if you just really wanted to tell everyone you donate your hair to a charity. I think that "altruism farming" is what has made this a top-rated comment as it def is too confusing otherwise.
Really interesting analysis. When I grew out my hair (as a teenage man) it was also some sort of rebellious personal thing. I felt like I was dehumanized, so I wanted it long, basically the opposite of the collaborator women getting their head shaved during/after WW2. Society expects you to be a certain way and you refuse it. In case of the forced shave society takes away what you should be. I also felt like I wanted to hide the long hair occasionally, and there was definitely a simultaneous mourning and liberating feel to cutting it short and closing that chapter of my life. Just my two cents
@@folx2733 it was really cool to read this. Especially when military kind of made short hair for men the standard, it’s not far off from shaved when wanting to grow it out. Thanks for sharing that part of your teenage rebellion.
My own little headcanon is that Furiosa: a mad max saga is more of a story told about her in the wasteland rather than exactly what really happened. Partly because I don't want to give up my original back story for her😅 Partly because it was in chapters, and partly because I don't think a human could survive having a tree grow in them.
I like that a lot for this movie. The nod to it being a fable and the tree being a fantastical resolution def makes it feel like it’s a folk story the history man is telling you
I like this, as it is very close to the whole concept of the stories about Max being campfire stories. If I recall correctly that is the perspective Miller adopted after the first movie was a hit and he saw how differently Max was viewed in different cultures.
From the very first Mad Max film, I have waited for somebody to explain what logical chain of events that would make possible an apocalyptic Australia devoid of its indigenous peoples.
A prequel I really liked was the one for the Hunger Games about the young president snow. It doesn’t try to fill things that were left unexplained in the original trilogy, or only very little, rather it’s telling a story with a very different theme at its core. It doesn’t tell us the details of the war or the first hunger games or ends with Snow becoming president, no. It explores how Snow assumed his opinion about people and how a death tournament turned into a flamboyant spectacle for the capitol without showing a hard switch but a glimpse of them starting to change. I‘d say that ballad of songbirds and snakes had its own theme to explore was what essentially helped it in being a good prequel. It made it a story worth telling. Solo didn’t have a theme at all in comparison. They just built some rather uninteresting stuff around his greatest achievement. But we didn’t need any of that, neither to understand the character nor to explore a part of the world nor to explore any theme. It wasn’t a story worth telling.
The way you describe Furiosa's loss actually made me want to cry. Like I actually felt it in my throat, and some tears came to my eyes. But im on break at work, and I don't want to come back and have everyone know I was crying.
This analysis really made me appreciate Furiosa more, although I'm still more fond of the implied version of Furiosa's backstory in Fury road, and you made me realize why I felt that making Dementus Furiosa's "nemesis" sort of felt a bit...uhh unsatisfiyng or so speak and lessened the impact of her rebelling against Immortan Joe in the "sequel". But the way I like to look at franchises where I feel the next installment doesn't really align with the previous in continuity or just with the backstory I made up from the implied stuff is to consider them like a slightly different universe for each installment, and with every previous Mad Max movie before Furiosa actually doing this it's not hard for me to go "well, this is /a/ version of Furiosa's backstory and not the end all be all of what her story could be" , even sort of supported by the history man telling the story, a bit more like a legend and not strickly factual, at least this is how I like to see it ^^"
@@cornflakes-does-stuff I was having this talk with a friend where we both really like how Mad Max kind of lends itself to limber storytelling as a franchise because there’s a kind of fairy tale/oral tradition feel to the installments. All that to say, I’m fond of looking at it that’s was a well
Thanks for your interesting commentary and a great way of laying out your evidence. Felt like I gained a new perspective on things after seeing your video!
While I liked movies and wanted to understand them prior to Fury Road, Fury Road was the movie that lead to me wanting to dive deeper into how movies communicated with their audiences and remains one of my favorite movies of all time. I also expressed concern over a prequel for similar reasons to you since so many prequels spend so much time validating and solidifying broad fan theories or answering the worst questions. But I ended up loving Furiosa so much. And this video is easily among my favorite discussions of it I've seen. I especially was taken aback by your analysis of the tree planting because it felt off to me when I saw it. There was a moment of "hell yeah, he deserves it" but I felt a faint sadness that that was the fate of the tree. You finally put it into words the feeling I felt, and really solidified for me how Furiosa became a fallen hero who has a second chance to help others find their redemption. I'm going to go feel things now.
I loved reading this. Thank you. I just wanted to add that George Miller has such a beautiful thought process into his POV of the characters in that variety interview btw that I think you might appreciate if you have the time to check it out.
By no means am I suggesting that deep analysis of this kind isn't worthwhile in Mad Max movies. However, it is important to keep in mind that George Miller is a mad man, and that prolonged examination of his work will only result in your own madness.
Excellent video as usual. I couldn't help but keep thinking of Bisan cutting her hair because the artificially apocalyptic conditions she's going through and the painful parallels that can be made.
@@bisma1352 oh god yes, I'm sorry for causing confusion :')) that's what I meant! My comment comes from a place of absolute empathy with Palestinians and from being spiteful of the genocide
@@natasharedmane don't worry, your sincerity was quickly evident once i got past my misunderstanding of the word (second language english). Just the fact that you watch and listen to bisan enough to remember she had to do this and took the message to heart to even remind about it on this video on fictional apocalypse about the people who's world is ending right now, really made my heart happpy. Thank you, it's just support like this wasn't common on the internet before last year.
@@bisma1352 Every single day I keep Palestinians in my heart and mind, and in my soul I carry the deepest desire for a free Palestine in our lifetimes. All the love, sincerely
Why do people say the sequel was unnecessary? I was so happy to see both Gas Town and the Bullet Farm and they included the game exclusive son Scrotus. Not to mention The Bommyknocker! Frankly I'll be sad if there isn't more.
Because it was boring and overly explained things about Furiosa's backstory that were masterfully hinted at in Fury Road. Like this video mentioned in the beginning with Han Solo - we did not need to know why he's Han Solo. Same thing.
As far as pointless prequels go, Furiosa was not terrible. That said, the movie tells us nothing that we need to know in order for Fury Road to work. Lots of cool stuff to see and look at in this universe. A bunch of interesting characters. It wasn’t the most worthless prequel ever made.
I didn’t read her character in fury road the same as you. And that changes the interpretations you give in this. I saw it as she was accepted and found her purpose and place and the citadel. And never thought or tried to escape till the wives begged her to. Because they couldn’t thrive in the way she could there. So she took them to the only place she knew of in the world that was different. So in the prequel her shaving her hair was the moment she accepted that and wanted to wear the uniform of the war boys. That’s where she wanted to be.
Wonderful analysis expressed very well. It made me appreciate the film more. Initially I struggled to get into the movies because of Anya Taylor-Joy being cast as a younger Furiosa. Very talented actress but she's so petite and fragile looking. Charlize Theron really looked like she could hold her own against Max and is even taller than Tom Hardy. There was also a ferocity that fit the character and why she's the real hero of Fury Road. However, Anya really stuck out because of how tiny she is and no amount of engine grease can hide her prominent, expressive doe eyes. The long hair also constantly looked moments away from getting caught on something.
i had a similar thought about the first wonder woman. she is from a classical, tribal civilization with a first brush with the european culture of WW1. WHHHHYYYYYYYY IS SHE SO MADE UP?!?!? this is not to say that they can't get her into a makeup chair and do some work... but it's possible for women to have an "invisible" makeup look that still enhances. THIS IS NOT WHAT GAL GADOT LOOKED LIKE! in the "no man's land" slomo sequence, she looks like a COVER MODEL! she's made mabeline perfect. it makes sense for BLACK WIDOW to look like that. she's a modern woman living in an affluent western world. she is thoroughly of our time and culture. wonder woman in that first movie sooooo would not be. and it's not like she was pulled into action from a cocktail party. so where the hell did she get all dolled up?!?!?
I thought a similar thing with Dr Who - when Capaldi regenerated into Whittaker it was with full hair and makeup. Even though it’s a minor thing it really rubbed me up the wrong way. It was symbolic - that it wasn’t going to be “progressive” or truly say anything, but merely a faux-virtuous pandering façade.
I thought a similar thing with Dr Who - when Capaldi regenerated into Whittaker it was with full hair and makeup. Even though it’s a minor thing it really rubbed me up the wrong way. It was symbolic - that it wasn’t going to be “progressive” or truly say anything, but merely a faux-virtuous pandering façade.
I thought a similar thing with Dr Who - when Capaldi regenerated into Whittaker it was with full hair and makeup. Even though it’s a minor thing it really rubbed me up the wrong way. It was symbolic - that it wasn’t going to be progress or truly say anything, but merely a faux-virtuous pandering façade.
I liked the movie and was excited when she cut her hair for the first time. Seeing her hair super long again BROKE me. I still think, in her child mind, she would associate long hair with bad things, not with rebellion. That being said this video is amazing, great analysis!
Your analysis is thorough and well-researched and I couldn't agree more! I am such a big fan of this franchise for all how subtle the worldbuilding is. Every choice has context, even if it's not made clear by the text of the film, and the characters are so complex.
@@ashleykover1339 I would highly recommend George Miller’s Variety vid for more on his ideas when shaping the sets and the world if you haven’t already seen it. I found it after writing all of this and felt so rewarded to hear him say what I’d theorized
I appreciated how you pointed out many of the same faults I found with Furiosa, most notably how the arc of the character in the prequel does not really reflect how she is shown to be in Fury Road. Charlize Theron's Furiosa is portrayed as someone seeking "redemption", and who has not only had bad things happen to her, but as an Imperator has spent years doing bad things to others. (After all, where did the wives come from? Did Furiosa never assist in kidnapping them?) But the prequel isn't really interested in showing that aspect of her character and mainly follows Dementus as a foil to Furiosa as she learns to become a survivor. Maybe I was wrong for expecting a Mad Max spinoff to be more of a character study, but that was what I was really hoping for.
Well said and put together. Furiosa is a tricky one, I have a lot of suspension of disbelief issues with it. I decided is has some things in common with Last crusade and Raiders of the lost ark.
The only one I saw was Fury Road. And it was for the exact reason you gave for the prequel. I liked Fury Road, and I watched it at a time that it hit the strongest that it could. But I would never watch it again. If I had watched it any other time, or in theaters, I would have forgotten every second of it.
O yeah, I loved this prequel but that hair was the one choice that took me out of the movie to question while watching. Shouldn't she have kept her head shaved when she was pretending to be a boy? She was so quickly clever with crafting that decoy wig to escape! Why would she ever let it grow out so long while still stuck there? And it would be most practical for her occupation as a black thumb mechanic, and also for avoiding sexual attention, which could have been even more emphasized as a constant threat in that society, although I'm glad it wasn't the made dominant focus of her story. Probably Miller wanted to give her a second hair cutting scene as a symbolic transformation moment. But maybe something else could have worked too. Like a costume change, or applying the black face paint for the first time. Cutting off her own arm, with the map home, was impactful enough for me!
I think the best part is that all of this is apparent through the first movie without the need to explain it at all, let alone with exposition monologues.
Far and a way became the most compelling and complex character in a series named after a dramatically tragic character. I didn’t think I was going to like furiosa as much but I saw it so many times in theaters and at home. Just a great companion piece to fury road that gives you perspective that doesn’t alter the basic principles of fury road but does breathe even more life when you see people like the People-eater and the Bullet farmer chasing them down, there really is no fear of insurrection after the 40 day war. That’s why it’s so unexpected for them to drive straight back through them. So much richness. Everyone who didn’t see it in theaters poke yourself in the eye.
Wonderful analysis. Loved both Fury Road and Furiosa and the world-building crafted with such care by Miller. I am old enough to have seen Mad Max when it first came out ... and, like Bladerunner and Alien, Mad Max at the time also cleaved a space, captured a zeitgeist and occupied with film a fully realised, brilliantly told fable with such imagination and so utterly unlike all the usual studio-controlled dreck coming out of Hollywood.
For me it felt like it should have been the story of someone else in the world. Not Furiosa. We know all we need to know to make her a compelling character. The prequel felt more like fan fiction.
Boy do I feel dumb after watching this! My insightful analysis was I could not get beyond Chris’s prosthetic nose. I kept fixating on it and getting distracted from everything else in his scenes. I did the same with Nic Cage in LongLegs
My only gripes with furiosa had to do with the pacing and/or editing, seemed a bit jerky compared to fury road which was just a perfect ride the whole way through. Hard to top fury road as its one of the best movies ever made imo. I went in with no expectations and left feeling happy that i had just gotten to see even more of millers post apocalypse setting and characters. Hope to see more of it and of you soon! Easy sub 🤘
@@caseco4979 I’m with you where I also prefer Fury Road, partly because I think it’s def a smoother experience. And my take away from Furiosa was about that feeling as well.
It felt like a video game to me - go to point A to collect X, return to point B do Y. Idk, like a load a side quests tied together. Didn’t help that you knew the end position Furiosa would be in, just the whole time waiting for her arm to be cut off and lose the map, not really a satisfying experience. I’d have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t seen Fury Road, and that’s the problem with prequels. Also, I thought the world and designs and shots didn’t look as good or distinctive as the first movie, I’m not sure why though, I think it used a lot more CGI… and it was kind of weird that they’d go on to highlight that fact by including clips of Fury Road over the credits.
That rebellion symbol idea could have been made more apparent, maybe with a line from her lover questioning the impracticality of it. Like, why grow it just to keep it hidden most of the time. Also, the evil patriarchs both wear long hair as well, so it's less of a contrast than if she were the only one.
Okay this video may make me go back and finish Furiosa even though I initially gave up. I still think the implied backstory on display in Fury Road is superior and I would much rather have gotten a sequel Furiosa. Prequels are just not interesting at all. Get back Theron and make one last film Miller! Go out with a bang!
I really like furiosa! For me, it is the best movie of the franchise. The most important sequence for me is the one in which furiosa's mother tries to save her. THAT mother is the mother I want to be to my 2 children (7yo and 4yo). She is an unstoppable force, the true representation of strength and stoicism. She is so prepared and ready to fight every terrible aspect of life she faces silently. Is there a more amazing mother in movies?! Rosemary? Who wanted and loves her baby, even knowing he was demonic? Ripley, when she adopts the girl in aliens and uses the exoskeleton to save her later? Sarah Connor for terminator 2? Mothers are underestimated and underrepresented in movies... maybe because we are always tired, always sleeping less than we should, always busy... or overwhelmed.
Solo was indeed okay. Had it been anything but a Han Solo story it would have been and done a lot better. Also this might be one of the best videos about Furiosa and character design I have seen. Kudos! You earned a sub.
I am usually on board with the 'unnecessary sequel/prequel/requel' argument, but not here. For 1, this isn't a corporate cash grab. It's all from Miller and was always meant as a companion piece. Furiosa was always meant to get her own film. 2. The world beyond the citadel and the war boys was not fleshed out that well in fury road. 3. Fury Road itself was unnecessary and turned out to be great. Top Gun Maverick...also unnecessary, but was fun. Unnecessary is a problem when there is no heart behind it, and Miller put his heart into Furiosa. I loved Furiosa, but I think it didn't work for fans because it was too late and too different from Fury Road. People say the same thing about Kill Bill parts 1 and 2.
Thank you for talking about mourning your headcanon. It feels like such a juvenile thing but it absolutely sucks when you've built up something in your head only for canon to just table flip the whole thing. I've honestly given up on headcanons for certain properties because I've been disappointed too many times and it just makes for an easier viewing experience
OMG, thinking about this movie always makes me cry. Don't know what strings it pulls, its absolutly devastating for me rembering Furiosa. What a great movie.
Such a good video, I lowkey refused to watch it since I knew it was going to be probably good and the thumbnail was sarcastic, hinting on the deeper themes, but I was this close of not giving it a chance. But good thing that I did, fascinating watch and I agree with pretty much every word.
One of my dearest friends is a beautiful trans woman. She's been-- well I don't actually know what she's feeling, she won't or she can't tell me. But I've been worried. I think it's safe to say she's been in a pretty dark place since November 6th 2024. She had long, straight hair down to her waist and a smile like bubbles in your soda. Took years to grow, (and it was even longer before she knew she had to it cut for split ends periodically). The 6th was a Wednesday. When I saw her that Friday she had short parted hair and no bubbles. The last few minutes of your video I completely zoned out and forgot that you weren't just talking about my best friend. Hits hard.
Thank you for this analysis! I loved Furiosa and it saddens me that this movie was overlooked. It's perfect for me, the story is something really unique and it hits close to home. There's a lot of depth to her character it made me fall in love with Furiosa.
damn the ending of the prequel felt much cooler and inspiring than this very sad but very true analysis holy fuck like i was shouting fuck yeah when she was getting her revenge on chris hemsworth and when she planted the tree in him but holy fwick i didnt think it was her giving up like- ragefull grief fueled revenge for the love she found was greater than the childhood memory of familia love - till another source of familia love convinced her otherwise but, it was too late, and the green place was gone like- and then they defeated joe and claimed the citadel for better like like and then and then and then ahhhhh im just gonna watch the movies in chronological order to really embrace the full character arc of furiosa cuz omfg glorious cinema need an analysis video on her complete arc too like omg i love her
Your video helped me put into words why I've always disliked prequels. The first reason is that there's no progress made in the story. There's no forward momentum. There's no destination new or unexpected. You already know the ending so the mystery and tension are constrained from the start. The second reason is that it feels lazy. Instead of treading new ground, the author is just filling in details about established characters and settings that already have a predefined template to follow with predetermined parameters that must be followed leading to a predetermined destination. The third reason is that there's a disenchantment that happens when meaningful ambiguity and a sense of mystery are replaced by a dry recounting of information, as if reading from an encyclopedia. By their very nature, prequels divulge information, answering questions that didn't need to be answered in the first place. When this happens, we go from actively engaging in the storytelling process to merely being a consumer of information, like a student studying for an exam.
To the third point I mostly agree, however if the prequel isn't based around a character actor but a character setting or events you could have new characters emerge to tell the story leading to the inaugural film. Giving both films room to breath and stand on their own while maintaining a loose connection and avoiding overexplanation.
Furiosa was easily the worst part of Furiosa. Not only did I already not like her casting, but I don't think she changed her expression once the entire movie. It's not the only flaw in the movie, which I still really liked, but it is by far the main flaw in my opinion, Anya Taylor Joy is terrible in this.
I think there's a rub here, for a prequel to have real value it has to recontextualise something. If the story is exactly the way it appeared in the original it doesn't have a reason to exist so it has to veer, it has to make something you thought from the original wrong in some way. This means you must mourn the story you first had in mind, but when done right it can give you a new story that is interesting in it's own way and changes your reading of the original in a way that doesn't break either.
I like this point a lot but think recasting the character helped some small part of my brain gloss over it when I first watched the movie. Like some part of me must think “oh well furiosa has to grow into looking like Charlize Theron, so there’s enough time to fit my original imaginings into“ Also comparing immortans sons to backup dancers is great and true of all movie henchman in a way, thank you for that
Though I really enjoyed Furiosa and the change in context it gave me, I’ve found myself going to Fury or Furiosa separately when I’m in the mood for a different kind of story vs a linked one, if that makes sense
When haircutting is thematically important, the impact and value of the act is diminished with each successive shave, particularly when the media is only a single movie. There's too much repetition of it in this film. If it was a TV series, it would work better.
When you're a big name yt film critic I'll be able to point to my comment here and say I thought you were great before it was cool :) Do more film criticism.
It's been 40-some years that I've been telling people that the original Star Wars is the only valid one. The rest of the ninology are lame AF and I'd already constructed part 2 based off of Vader spinning into space surrounded by the rebel fleet, which gave me a few alternatives and none included a family tree going back to Alabama.
All of it doesn’t make sense. There’s a reason why through history conquering tribes killed or enslaved the boys, like in Conan. The boys get payback the girl blend in. Furiosa would have eventually just blended in w Thor’s tribe, and taken control of that tribe through Thor. All these feminist stories just don’t make sense, including Mad max fury road.
yes that hair during that scene in thumbnail is so stupid, I could feel the vibes of some expired men weren't having it and bribed them to included that man into for romantic scene. The kind of people that get lonely and pay editor/director to dopamine training girls to go for them that's gross, they need to stop self-inviting themselves and their culture into it as "good guys". Yes we know you want to be the "good guy", we're just not impressed
the whole time ur like "i don like prequels" im literally on the opposite side of the spectruim but THIS movie is an example of why i love prequels- when theyre executed, not even well, but correctly. and when its all preplanned like it was full on world building then a prequel is an opportunity for more complete worldbuilding- what you were saying about implications and the audiences imagination i understand but as a huge world building fan and someone who needs to be in control by knowing things- i cant handle these windows for interpretation, i will forever descend into the mystery of wtf is actually the truth- and so then if someone has a whole world living in their head and theyre only showing us the lives of a couple characters im gonna fucking beg for more of their world and especially if they only show us a fraction of the lives of those characters like even arcane? silco and vander? i NEED a prequel about their lives and what went down with them but we do not need that we know everything we need to know. a prequel would be an insane unneccesary cashgrab- but i know that all of these things are built out to a degree and its like i wanna see it all ME YAPPING AGAIN ANYWAY THATS WHY I LOVE PREQUELS AND YOU SHOULD TOO AHHHHH
Love the video, the vibe, the analysis. Subscribe people!!!! (Personally I love the mad max world, my head canon is complicated: I personally like to imagine these films as a version of traditional mythological story telling, where themes and archetypes and messages get passed along, but each time we visit the road, the details are different)
Surprisingly insightful analysis - I was shocked to see this video doesn’t have hundreds of thousands views. Can’t wait to see your future works and thoughts.
Thank you. It was fun making this one. I’m glad to hear you liked it 😁
Stumbling upon this channel feels like stumbling across a previously undiscovered gold mine. Best believe I'm gonna binge watch every upload.
@@The_Real_Black_Jesus thanks. there's some trash here too, but hopefully the more to come holds up
I felt exactly the same way. I rewrote it in my head canon to say she was at the citadel 'between' the events of the two movies for 10 years. Maybe room for a TV series in there?
As someone who spends hours in the character creation screen, I appreciate your analysis. Thanks for giving me new reasons to love these movies
I think the best film language is simple. In the simplest possible way, Furiosa's hair represented hope. It was the nest in which her seed was hidden. It was the secret lushness that only Praetorian Jack was privy to. Immorten Joe looked at her hair and saw the hope of a legacy, which he could sire in a fertile woman. She cut it short, but never gave up on it until she realized her very soul had been poisoned, and the hopeful self she longed to rescue from the wasteland had died. But as George points out, she transfers her hope onto the brides, who still have some soul left to save. And in them, she finds her own hope again.
I think that's why her final confrontation with Dementus was less a battle than a reckoning. He'd already taken everything she had. And he never had anything that truly mattered to him anyway. Nothing mattered to him, except harming others. So defeating him was never going to be a victory. I think that's why the ultimate defeat for him was to become the fertile soil of new hope. Plus, it was a reminder that the whole story is best read for its meaning, not for anything literal.
11:26 the inclusion of the wives being branded as well told me she was a wife, or was to be taken as one before an accident (whether truly accidental or out of desperation to not meet that fate) took her arm. She was already branded and sworn to loyalty (in the eyes of the hierarchy) so she was taken in as a “son”
Fury Road is a master class in implied story and show don't tell.
Like, for instance, Furiousa is a great shot with a rifle. And later, when we meet her people, well, they're snipers. And this never gets exposited on.
Same with Max, actually - he's good with a pistol, which makes sense, because he was (maybe) a cop.
And the WHOLE movie is like that. It's astonishing.
It’s insanely well done 🥳
When I see shaved heads I think of a cancer charity event we have in Australia every year. As a teenager, my hair was down to my butt crack & I shaved it all off. Furiosa has not given up hope. If she had, she could have ended her life or just thrown the seed into the desert. Planting the seed was a compromise between that faithful little girl & the woman she knows she has to become.
I don't understand your comment. Your anecdote doesn't seem to be connected to Furiosa other than "bald". There's no cancer connection other than "bald" which seems eagerly presumptive. And it definitely has nothing to do with planting of the seed part.
I dunno if you just really wanted to tell everyone you donate your hair to a charity. I think that "altruism farming" is what has made this a top-rated comment as it def is too confusing otherwise.
@@jesustyronechrist2330 I agree, I'm confused..
@@jesustyronechrist2330 Wow, that's some bitterness you have there, friend. Have a snack or a nap or something. No need to show up just to be mean.
Really interesting analysis. When I grew out my hair (as a teenage man) it was also some sort of rebellious personal thing. I felt like I was dehumanized, so I wanted it long, basically the opposite of the collaborator women getting their head shaved during/after WW2. Society expects you to be a certain way and you refuse it. In case of the forced shave society takes away what you should be.
I also felt like I wanted to hide the long hair occasionally, and there was definitely a simultaneous mourning and liberating feel to cutting it short and closing that chapter of my life. Just my two cents
@@folx2733 it was really cool to read this. Especially when military kind of made short hair for men the standard, it’s not far off from shaved when wanting to grow it out. Thanks for sharing that part of your teenage rebellion.
My own little headcanon is that Furiosa: a mad max saga is more of a story told about her in the wasteland rather than exactly what really happened.
Partly because I don't want to give up my original back story for her😅
Partly because it was in chapters, and partly because I don't think a human could survive having a tree grow in them.
I like that a lot for this movie. The nod to it being a fable and the tree being a fantastical resolution def makes it feel like it’s a folk story the history man is telling you
I like this, as it is very close to the whole concept of the stories about Max being campfire stories. If I recall correctly that is the perspective Miller adopted after the first movie was a hit and he saw how differently Max was viewed in different cultures.
From the very first Mad Max film, I have waited for somebody to explain what logical chain of events that would make possible an apocalyptic Australia devoid of its indigenous peoples.
They’re hanging out, completely chill, miles away from all that car worship nonsense
The indigenous people took one look at the white going wild and just said nope.
I just assumed they all buggered off to live normal lives away from all the psychotic vehicle cults 😂
Clearly they just moved to New Zealand where, much like the rest of the world, everything is normal.
I always wondered about it, too! It is so nonsensical
A prequel I really liked was the one for the Hunger Games about the young president snow. It doesn’t try to fill things that were left unexplained in the original trilogy, or only very little, rather it’s telling a story with a very different theme at its core. It doesn’t tell us the details of the war or the first hunger games or ends with Snow becoming president, no. It explores how Snow assumed his opinion about people and how a death tournament turned into a flamboyant spectacle for the capitol without showing a hard switch but a glimpse of them starting to change.
I‘d say that ballad of songbirds and snakes had its own theme to explore was what essentially helped it in being a good prequel. It made it a story worth telling.
Solo didn’t have a theme at all in comparison. They just built some rather uninteresting stuff around his greatest achievement. But we didn’t need any of that, neither to understand the character nor to explore a part of the world nor to explore any theme. It wasn’t a story worth telling.
The way you describe Furiosa's loss actually made me want to cry. Like I actually felt it in my throat, and some tears came to my eyes. But im on break at work, and I don't want to come back and have everyone know I was crying.
wow this was such a good analysis thank you for this enlightening work!
This analysis really made me appreciate Furiosa more, although I'm still more fond of the implied version of Furiosa's backstory in Fury road, and you made me realize why I felt that making Dementus Furiosa's "nemesis" sort of felt a bit...uhh unsatisfiyng or so speak and lessened the impact of her rebelling against Immortan Joe in the "sequel". But the way I like to look at franchises where I feel the next installment doesn't really align with the previous in continuity or just with the backstory I made up from the implied stuff is to consider them like a slightly different universe for each installment, and with every previous Mad Max movie before Furiosa actually doing this it's not hard for me to go "well, this is /a/ version of Furiosa's backstory and not the end all be all of what her story could be" , even sort of supported by the history man telling the story, a bit more like a legend and not strickly factual, at least this is how I like to see it ^^"
@@cornflakes-does-stuff I was having this talk with a friend where we both really like how Mad Max kind of lends itself to limber storytelling as a franchise because there’s a kind of fairy tale/oral tradition feel to the installments. All that to say, I’m fond of looking at it that’s was a well
Thanks for your interesting commentary and a great way of laying out your evidence.
Felt like I gained a new perspective on things after seeing your video!
Really appreciate your analysis, I won't lie I really hated the long hair originaly, but you changed my perspective completely
@@diatolkien9304 TY. I’m probably drinking my own brand of copeium but I like to think about it like this
Those veneers going the hardest in this vid.
great video, cant wait to see more from you!
The hair may just remind her also of her home so thats another reason to keep it despite impracticality
Not where I thought this was going, but I loved it
Furiosa is a masterpiece.
While I liked movies and wanted to understand them prior to Fury Road, Fury Road was the movie that lead to me wanting to dive deeper into how movies communicated with their audiences and remains one of my favorite movies of all time. I also expressed concern over a prequel for similar reasons to you since so many prequels spend so much time validating and solidifying broad fan theories or answering the worst questions. But I ended up loving Furiosa so much.
And this video is easily among my favorite discussions of it I've seen. I especially was taken aback by your analysis of the tree planting because it felt off to me when I saw it. There was a moment of "hell yeah, he deserves it" but I felt a faint sadness that that was the fate of the tree. You finally put it into words the feeling I felt, and really solidified for me how Furiosa became a fallen hero who has a second chance to help others find their redemption. I'm going to go feel things now.
I loved reading this. Thank you. I just wanted to add that George Miller has such a beautiful thought process into his POV of the characters in that variety interview btw that I think you might appreciate if you have the time to check it out.
@@FashionableCrow I will definitely look into that interview!
Oh you have such unique viewpoints, i love the things that hook you in movies! Instant subscribe 🎉
@@Janehaver well, thanks. More to come, probs, if you ever have a piece of media in mind, the community page is open to requests 😁
@FashionableCrow I shall do that!
I love your take on the hair. New subscriber!!
By no means am I suggesting that deep analysis of this kind isn't worthwhile in Mad Max movies. However, it is important to keep in mind that George Miller is a mad man, and that prolonged examination of his work will only result in your own madness.
Great review!!! Loved your perspective on pretty much everything, gave me a good new insight on the character / movie
Excellent video as usual. I couldn't help but keep thinking of Bisan cutting her hair because the artificially apocalyptic conditions she's going through and the painful parallels that can be made.
I was offended over "artifically" until i realised you meant because it is literally man made by the genociders
@@bisma1352 oh god yes, I'm sorry for causing confusion :')) that's what I meant! My comment comes from a place of absolute empathy with Palestinians and from being spiteful of the genocide
@@natasharedmane don't worry, your sincerity was quickly evident once i got past my misunderstanding of the word (second language english).
Just the fact that you watch and listen to bisan enough to remember she had to do this and took the message to heart to even remind about it on this video on fictional apocalypse about the people who's world is ending right now, really made my heart happpy. Thank you, it's just support like this wasn't common on the internet before last year.
@@bisma1352 Every single day I keep Palestinians in my heart and mind, and in my soul I carry the deepest desire for a free Palestine in our lifetimes. All the love, sincerely
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Great breakdown. Liked, subscribed, commented, bell rung. Keep it up.
Thank you for all the things 🤩
the way you put your feelings about prequels at 1:27 is exactly how i feel
Thank you for somehow voicing my issues with the idea of a prequel to fury road. Great video. Subbed.
Why do people say the sequel was unnecessary? I was so happy to see both Gas Town and the Bullet Farm and they included the game exclusive son Scrotus. Not to mention The Bommyknocker! Frankly I'll be sad if there isn't more.
Because it was boring and overly explained things about Furiosa's backstory that were masterfully hinted at in Fury Road. Like this video mentioned in the beginning with Han Solo - we did not need to know why he's Han Solo. Same thing.
As far as pointless prequels go, Furiosa was not terrible.
That said, the movie tells us nothing that we need to know in order for Fury Road to work.
Lots of cool stuff to see and look at in this universe. A bunch of interesting characters. It wasn’t the most worthless prequel ever made.
I didn’t read her character in fury road the same as you. And that changes the interpretations you give in this.
I saw it as she was accepted and found her purpose and place and the citadel. And never thought or tried to escape till the wives begged her to. Because they couldn’t thrive in the way she could there. So she took them to the only place she knew of in the world that was different.
So in the prequel her shaving her hair was the moment she accepted that and wanted to wear the uniform of the war boys. That’s where she wanted to be.
@@pulidoa1978 that’s a really cool difference. I like that read.
Wonderful analysis expressed very well. It made me appreciate the film more. Initially I struggled to get into the movies because of Anya Taylor-Joy being cast as a younger Furiosa. Very talented actress but she's so petite and fragile looking. Charlize Theron really looked like she could hold her own against Max and is even taller than Tom Hardy. There was also a ferocity that fit the character and why she's the real hero of Fury Road. However, Anya really stuck out because of how tiny she is and no amount of engine grease can hide her prominent, expressive doe eyes. The long hair also constantly looked moments away from getting caught on something.
Never seen the saga but this video made me care!! Good analysis
What a great video! Thanks!
i had a similar thought about the first wonder woman. she is from a classical, tribal civilization with a first brush with the european culture of WW1. WHHHHYYYYYYYY IS SHE SO MADE UP?!?!?
this is not to say that they can't get her into a makeup chair and do some work... but it's possible for women to have an "invisible" makeup look that still enhances.
THIS IS NOT WHAT GAL GADOT LOOKED LIKE! in the "no man's land" slomo sequence, she looks like a COVER MODEL! she's made mabeline perfect. it makes sense for BLACK WIDOW to look like that. she's a modern woman living in an affluent western world. she is thoroughly of our time and culture. wonder woman in that first movie sooooo would not be. and it's not like she was pulled into action from a cocktail party. so where the hell did she get all dolled up?!?!?
i mean, i agree, but the comics are just as agregious in that regard, if anything they just were loyal in adaptation to the stupidity of it.
I thought a similar thing with Dr Who - when Capaldi regenerated into Whittaker it was with full hair and makeup.
Even though it’s a minor thing it really rubbed me up the wrong way. It was symbolic - that it wasn’t going to be “progressive” or truly say anything, but merely a faux-virtuous pandering façade.
I thought a similar thing with Dr Who - when Capaldi regenerated into Whittaker it was with full hair and makeup.
Even though it’s a minor thing it really rubbed me up the wrong way. It was symbolic - that it wasn’t going to be “progressive” or truly say anything, but merely a faux-virtuous pandering façade.
I thought a similar thing with Dr Who - when Capaldi regenerated into Whittaker it was with full hair and makeup.
Even though it’s a minor thing it really rubbed me up the wrong way. It was symbolic - that it wasn’t going to be progress or truly say anything, but merely a faux-virtuous pandering façade.
I liked the movie and was excited when she cut her hair for the first time. Seeing her hair super long again BROKE me. I still think, in her child mind, she would associate long hair with bad things, not with rebellion.
That being said this video is amazing, great analysis!
@@leti_ci_a that’s a really great, horrifically sad angle to see it as well. Aghhhh 🫠
very interesting analysis!
Very interesting analysis, you made me want to watch the film which I had no desire to do at all. Also to re-watch Fury Road.
Oooh! Love your analysis. So happy to discover your channel!
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Your analysis is thorough and well-researched and I couldn't agree more! I am such a big fan of this franchise for all how subtle the worldbuilding is. Every choice has context, even if it's not made clear by the text of the film, and the characters are so complex.
@@ashleykover1339 I would highly recommend George Miller’s Variety vid for more on his ideas when shaping the sets and the world if you haven’t already seen it. I found it after writing all of this and felt so rewarded to hear him say what I’d theorized
I appreciated how you pointed out many of the same faults I found with Furiosa, most notably how the arc of the character in the prequel does not really reflect how she is shown to be in Fury Road. Charlize Theron's Furiosa is portrayed as someone seeking "redemption", and who has not only had bad things happen to her, but as an Imperator has spent years doing bad things to others. (After all, where did the wives come from? Did Furiosa never assist in kidnapping them?) But the prequel isn't really interested in showing that aspect of her character and mainly follows Dementus as a foil to Furiosa as she learns to become a survivor. Maybe I was wrong for expecting a Mad Max spinoff to be more of a character study, but that was what I was really hoping for.
Well said and put together.
Furiosa is a tricky one, I have a lot of suspension of disbelief issues with it. I decided is has some things in common with Last crusade and Raiders of the lost ark.
Good essay. Well done.
The only one I saw was Fury Road. And it was for the exact reason you gave for the prequel. I liked Fury Road, and I watched it at a time that it hit the strongest that it could. But I would never watch it again. If I had watched it any other time, or in theaters, I would have forgotten every second of it.
O yeah, I loved this prequel but that hair was the one choice that took me out of the movie to question while watching.
Shouldn't she have kept her head shaved when she was pretending to be a boy?
She was so quickly clever with crafting that decoy wig to escape! Why would she ever let it grow out so long while still stuck there?
And it would be most practical for her occupation as a black thumb mechanic, and also for avoiding sexual attention, which could have been even more emphasized as a constant threat in that society, although I'm glad it wasn't the made dominant focus of her story.
Probably Miller wanted to give her a second hair cutting scene as a symbolic transformation moment. But maybe something else could have worked too. Like a costume change, or applying the black face paint for the first time.
Cutting off her own arm, with the map home, was impactful enough for me!
I think the best part is that all of this is apparent through the first movie without the need to explain it at all, let alone with exposition monologues.
Far and a way became the most compelling and complex character in a series named after a dramatically tragic character. I didn’t think I was going to like furiosa as much but I saw it so many times in theaters and at home. Just a great companion piece to fury road that gives you perspective that doesn’t alter the basic principles of fury road but does breathe even more life when you see people like the People-eater and the Bullet farmer chasing them down, there really is no fear of insurrection after the 40 day war. That’s why it’s so unexpected for them to drive straight back through them. So much richness. Everyone who didn’t see it in theaters poke yourself in the eye.
21:44 " I crush your head"
Wonderful analysis. Loved both Fury Road and Furiosa and the world-building crafted with such care by Miller. I am old enough to have seen Mad Max when it first came out ... and, like Bladerunner and Alien, Mad Max at the time also cleaved a space, captured a zeitgeist and occupied with film a fully realised, brilliantly told fable with such imagination and so utterly unlike all the usual studio-controlled dreck coming out of Hollywood.
For me it felt like it should have been the story of someone else in the world. Not Furiosa. We know all we need to know to make her a compelling character. The prequel felt more like fan fiction.
Furiosa was a great movie
Boy do I feel dumb after watching this! My insightful analysis was I could not get beyond Chris’s prosthetic nose. I kept fixating on it and getting distracted from everything else in his scenes. I did the same with Nic Cage in LongLegs
My only gripes with furiosa had to do with the pacing and/or editing, seemed a bit jerky compared to fury road which was just a perfect ride the whole way through. Hard to top fury road as its one of the best movies ever made imo. I went in with no expectations and left feeling happy that i had just gotten to see even more of millers post apocalypse setting and characters. Hope to see more of it and of you soon! Easy sub 🤘
@@caseco4979 I’m with you where I also prefer Fury Road, partly because I think it’s def a smoother experience. And my take away from Furiosa was about that feeling as well.
It felt like a video game to me - go to point A to collect X, return to point B do Y.
Idk, like a load a side quests tied together. Didn’t help that you knew the end position Furiosa would be in, just the whole time waiting for her arm to be cut off and lose the map, not really a satisfying experience. I’d have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t seen Fury Road, and that’s the problem with prequels.
Also, I thought the world and designs and shots didn’t look as good or distinctive as the first movie, I’m not sure why though, I think it used a lot more CGI… and it was kind of weird that they’d go on to highlight that fact by including clips of Fury Road over the credits.
That rebellion symbol idea could have been made more apparent, maybe with a line from her lover questioning the impracticality of it.
Like, why grow it just to keep it hidden most of the time.
Also, the evil patriarchs both wear long hair as well, so it's less of a contrast than if she were the only one.
Good video. I also appreciated the cosplay, btw.
Cheers!
@@oberstul1941 gotta make the most of my googles 😂
oh hey! found a new cool channel.
Okay this video may make me go back and finish Furiosa even though I initially gave up.
I still think the implied backstory on display in Fury Road is superior and I would much rather have gotten a sequel Furiosa. Prequels are just not interesting at all.
Get back Theron and make one last film Miller! Go out with a bang!
I really like furiosa! For me, it is the best movie of the franchise.
The most important sequence for me is the one in which furiosa's mother tries to save her. THAT mother is the mother I want to be to my 2 children (7yo and 4yo). She is an unstoppable force, the true representation of strength and stoicism. She is so prepared and ready to fight every terrible aspect of life she faces silently.
Is there a more amazing mother in movies?!
Rosemary? Who wanted and loves her baby, even knowing he was demonic?
Ripley, when she adopts the girl in aliens and uses the exoskeleton to save her later?
Sarah Connor for terminator 2?
Mothers are underestimated and underrepresented in movies... maybe because we are always tired, always sleeping less than we should, always busy... or overwhelmed.
Excellent and heart felt analysis. George Miller and Mad Max film team are one of a kind. I hope we are blessed to see Max return in “The Wasteland”
A Mad Max video, and you say you discuss Arcane too? This is all tailored for me
Super Best friends play references!? I think I’m in love.
Solo was indeed okay. Had it been anything but a Han Solo story it would have been and done a lot better.
Also this might be one of the best videos about Furiosa and character design I have seen. Kudos! You earned a sub.
Like how the military shaves the heads of male recruits.
Very much so. Another great detail
@@FashionableCrowIt's also for hygenie, not just reducing individualism.
I am usually on board with the 'unnecessary sequel/prequel/requel' argument, but not here.
For 1, this isn't a corporate cash grab. It's all from Miller and was always meant as a companion piece. Furiosa was always meant to get her own film.
2. The world beyond the citadel and the war boys was not fleshed out that well in fury road.
3. Fury Road itself was unnecessary and turned out to be great. Top Gun Maverick...also unnecessary, but was fun. Unnecessary is a problem when there is no heart behind it, and Miller put his heart into Furiosa.
I loved Furiosa, but I think it didn't work for fans because it was too late and too different from Fury Road. People say the same thing about Kill Bill parts 1 and 2.
Supposedly there's two more movies on the way so maybe they'll change her story up as time goes on to be honest I'm not sure how I feel about that
I like the idea of a different place with different characters. Like max driving to a new town? Maybe?
Treat Mad Max stories like Robin Hood or a fairytale. They don't need to have consistent details between stories because that's not the point.
@@Dycehart def at heart, I agree with this, especially with the storytelling framework being so overt
I WAS SO MAD ABOUT THIS WHILE WATCHING THE MOVIE IN THE THEATRE. AAH
what a great video
THE most damaging element of any prequel.
You know the main character makes it. Theres no stakes, no matter what.
Thank you for talking about mourning your headcanon. It feels like such a juvenile thing but it absolutely sucks when you've built up something in your head only for canon to just table flip the whole thing. I've honestly given up on headcanons for certain properties because I've been disappointed too many times and it just makes for an easier viewing experience
Furiosa was such a good character in this move I am so heartbroken it failed. We dont get quality female leads like this anymore... like ever! 😢😢
Movies can't have conversations.
OMG, thinking about this movie always makes me cry. Don't know what strings it pulls, its absolutly devastating for me rembering Furiosa. What a great movie.
Such a good video, I lowkey refused to watch it since I knew it was going to be probably good and the thumbnail was sarcastic, hinting on the deeper themes, but I was this close of not giving it a chance. But good thing that I did, fascinating watch and I agree with pretty much every word.
Clickbait covers are annoying like that. 😂But I’m glad you gamboled and ended up liking it. Thank you 😊
One of my dearest friends is a beautiful trans woman. She's been-- well I don't actually know what she's feeling, she won't or she can't tell me. But I've been worried. I think it's safe to say she's been in a pretty dark place since November 6th 2024.
She had long, straight hair down to her waist and a smile like bubbles in your soda. Took years to grow, (and it was even longer before she knew she had to it cut for split ends periodically).
The 6th was a Wednesday.
When I saw her that Friday she had short parted hair and no bubbles.
The last few minutes of your video I completely zoned out and forgot that you weren't just talking about my best friend.
Hits hard.
@@Molly-ml1wn I hope the next time you see her she has that smile again, though I know that may be tough. I wish you both the best.
Thank you for this analysis! I loved Furiosa and it saddens me that this movie was overlooked. It's perfect for me, the story is something really unique and it hits close to home. There's a lot of depth to her character it made me fall in love with Furiosa.
Hell yeah
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damn the ending of the prequel felt much cooler and inspiring than this very sad but very true analysis holy fuck like i was shouting fuck yeah when she was getting her revenge on chris hemsworth and when she planted the tree in him but holy fwick i didnt think it was her giving up like- ragefull grief fueled revenge for the love she found was greater than the childhood memory of familia love - till another source of familia love convinced her otherwise but, it was too late, and the green place was gone like- and then they defeated joe and claimed the citadel for better like like and then and then and then ahhhhh
im just gonna watch the movies in chronological order to really embrace the full character arc of furiosa cuz omfg glorious cinema
need an analysis video on her complete arc too like omg i love her
Your video helped me put into words why I've always disliked prequels.
The first reason is that there's no progress made in the story. There's no forward momentum. There's no destination new or unexpected. You already know the ending so the mystery and tension are constrained from the start.
The second reason is that it feels lazy. Instead of treading new ground, the author is just filling in details about established characters and settings that already have a predefined template to follow with predetermined parameters that must be followed leading to a predetermined destination.
The third reason is that there's a disenchantment that happens when meaningful ambiguity and a sense of mystery are replaced by a dry recounting of information, as if reading from an encyclopedia. By their very nature, prequels divulge information, answering questions that didn't need to be answered in the first place. When this happens, we go from actively engaging in the storytelling process to merely being a consumer of information, like a student studying for an exam.
To the third point I mostly agree, however if the prequel isn't based around a character actor but a character setting or events you could have new characters emerge to tell the story leading to the inaugural film. Giving both films room to breath and stand on their own while maintaining a loose connection and avoiding overexplanation.
Furiosa was easily the worst part of Furiosa. Not only did I already not like her casting, but I don't think she changed her expression once the entire movie. It's not the only flaw in the movie, which I still really liked, but it is by far the main flaw in my opinion, Anya Taylor Joy is terrible in this.
Mention of Plague of Gripes!
I think there's a rub here, for a prequel to have real value it has to recontextualise something. If the story is exactly the way it appeared in the original it doesn't have a reason to exist so it has to veer, it has to make something you thought from the original wrong in some way. This means you must mourn the story you first had in mind, but when done right it can give you a new story that is interesting in it's own way and changes your reading of the original in a way that doesn't break either.
maybe i lack sleep but this video feels like a prequel lol. her hair is dumb but it's not but it is but it's detail but why
I think Furiosa was great but should be watched before Fury Road.
Its still the smart video. Thank you!
I'm gonna cut my hair! 😆🖖👏
I found the "treenis" at the climax to be a bit on the nose
(Star Wars, 2012)?
@@bannedmann4469 *trailer clip posted in 2012 on the Star Wars page
I like this point a lot but think recasting the character helped some small part of my brain gloss over it when I first watched the movie. Like some part of me must think “oh well furiosa has to grow into looking like Charlize Theron, so there’s enough time to fit my original imaginings into“
Also comparing immortans sons to backup dancers is great and true of all movie henchman in a way, thank you for that
Star Wars, 2012?
@@KNS1996DFS the Star Wars YT channel posting in 2012 of the OG trailer
@@FashionableCrow Ah, got it.
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It's sad to say but Furiosa feels disposable. I wouldn't have asked for a history of the Citadel and it's territory but I wasn't disappointed
Though I really enjoyed Furiosa and the change in context it gave me, I’ve found myself going to Fury or Furiosa separately when I’m in the mood for a different kind of story vs a linked one, if that makes sense
When haircutting is thematically important, the impact and value of the act is diminished with each successive shave, particularly when the media is only a single movie. There's too much repetition of it in this film. If it was a TV series, it would work better.
Great video❤
When you're a big name yt film critic I'll be able to point to my comment here and say I thought you were great before it was cool :)
Do more film criticism.
It's been 40-some years that I've been telling people that the original Star Wars is the only valid one. The rest of the ninology are lame AF and I'd already constructed part 2 based off of Vader spinning into space surrounded by the rebel fleet, which gave me a few alternatives and none included a family tree going back to Alabama.
All of it doesn’t make sense. There’s a reason why through history conquering tribes killed or enslaved the boys, like in Conan. The boys get payback the girl blend in.
Furiosa would have eventually just blended in w Thor’s tribe, and taken control of that tribe through Thor.
All these feminist stories just don’t make sense, including Mad max fury road.
The film would be more visually striking if her hair were red or blonde. As it stands everything is just so brown.
or even if it was a just more striking raven black instead of a brown based black
yes that hair during that scene in thumbnail is so stupid, I could feel the vibes of some expired men weren't having it and bribed them to included that man into for romantic scene. The kind of people that get lonely and pay editor/director to dopamine training girls to go for them
that's gross, they need to stop self-inviting themselves and their culture into it as "good guys". Yes we know you want to be the "good guy", we're just not impressed
... wat
the whole time ur like "i don like prequels" im literally on the opposite side of the spectruim but THIS movie is an example of why i love prequels- when theyre executed, not even well, but correctly. and when its all preplanned like it was full on world building then a prequel is an opportunity for more complete worldbuilding- what you were saying about implications and the audiences imagination i understand but as a huge world building fan and someone who needs to be in control by knowing things- i cant handle these windows for interpretation, i will forever descend into the mystery of wtf is actually the truth- and so then if someone has a whole world living in their head and theyre only showing us the lives of a couple characters im gonna fucking beg for more of their world and especially if they only show us a fraction of the lives of those characters like
even arcane? silco and vander? i NEED a prequel about their lives and what went down with them but we do not need that we know everything we need to know. a prequel would be an insane unneccesary cashgrab- but i know that all of these things are built out to a degree and its like i wanna see it all
ME YAPPING AGAIN ANYWAY THATS WHY I LOVE PREQUELS AND YOU SHOULD TOO AHHHHH
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Love the video, the vibe, the analysis. Subscribe people!!!! (Personally I love the mad max world, my head canon is complicated: I personally like to imagine these films as a version of traditional mythological story telling, where themes and archetypes and messages get passed along, but each time we visit the road, the details are different)