Talking 'Mad Max: Fury Road' with Director George Miller | VICE Talks Film
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2015
- Welcome to our first installment of VICE Talks Film, the series where we sit down with the most talented and creative minds in the movie world to discuss their work and how they're seeking to push the boundaries of the medium. In this episode, we caught up with director George Miller, creator of movies like Happy Feet, Babe, and of course the mythic Mad Max series.
Now he's back with his lastest venture Mad Max: Fury Road-which some have called a badass feminist action flick. We talked to the 70-year-old director about the challenges he faced in recreating the Wasteland, his new crop of iconic characters, the insane practical stunts and why it took 17 years to make this movie happen.
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It's hilarious how a 70 year old man who's spent the last decade making kids' films and a 72 year old cinematographer who he had to pull out of retirement have given the world a crash course (literally) in how to make an action film.
with like half the budget too.
It's just incredible how versatile Miller is
One of the best action movies I've ever seen. And the movie doesn't end in sequel bait, an actual rarity in most high grossing movies.
***** I'm with you on the sequel bait or opened ending, if there's a sequel well, awesome, if there's not, the movie stands on its own and has a pretty satisfying ending.
ds37 Like all other Mad Max-movies, Fury Road felt like a standalone movie. It was so good I'm going to the theater to watch it again. I had a constant :D on my face the entire movie, that never happened before.
***** I was a mad max virigin before fury road and wasn't comfortable with that fact but fury road looked and felt like a standalone movie which it makes it more accessible to newcomers. If I had the time and money I'd gladly go back a second time. But I'll wait for it to be on VOD next time.
***** and usually sequels that brings back the original director are not as good. (Prometheus, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Star Wars prequel trilogy)
Huke Chong Yeah how many directors have succeeded like Miller? It seems to me that all these guys pretty much failed to deliver movies as good as their old ones. Same goes with peter jackson and his hobbit movies.
I'm crazy about this goddamn movie.
***** I hear you man. Thanks for watching the Digs by the way.
Dom's Sketch Cast We all are. I've seen it 4 days ago, and I simply can't stop thinking about it.
I thought the same thing when the first one came out when I was young and am impressed with this one and I am not a fan of remakes, wether original or continuances....
Dom's Sketch Cast I've seen it three times and a 4th next weekend
LukeSchaeferFilms Damn bro, you got silver spray paint on your face yet?
Mad Max: Fury Road makes Furious 7 look like a rom com
Low budget
The fast and furious franchise are all just romcoms not compared to anything
I feel like everything is different now. This movie did something to me that no movie has ever done, including The Road Warrior. It just IMMERSED me completely.
Geahk Burchill really? no story and 2 hours of over the top action that's completely ridiculous immersed you completely and 'changed everything?'
Operator 9 relax. He had a good experience, let him have it. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it.
Operator 9 people liking a good movie that you did not like are whats wrong with the human race? Boy I fucking wish that was the worst problem about the human race, we sure would have a better world.
Also how is there not a stroy exactly? A female general working for a horrifying dictator decided to try and redeem herself by saving some sex slaves from said dicatator.
***** Very good description. I agree completely it's a blast from the past but done 10x better in every way. TV is so good these days that I can't usually get into movie stories anymore so I don't watch near as many movies anymore. But THIS movie reminds me of what was great about going out of the home to a real theater and experiencing something breathtaking you just can't find on TV.
***** Even me, a millennial enjoyed the shit outta Mad Max. I don't really mind CG if it is necessary and impossible to shoot practically (e.g Marvel Movies) but the practicality of 90% of the film is amazing and gives a sense of danger and fear for our character's life.
It was halfway through the film that I realised my heart was pounding and my hand was gripping my armrest, no other film has done this since I was a kid!
Splitting up the interview into segments with the title card was really helpful. Well done.
James Weir I agree, its pretty cool and many other channels should do this too.
James Weir It's a great way to present the interview, well done Vice!
it's a good way to make it simpler for those with shorter attention spans and those who can't listen without a guide to it! James Weir
James Weir
Vice do make good interview mechanics sometimes.
I couldn't agree more, I have zero attention span as well for any video over 3 minutes.
I loved this movie and wouldn't have even realized that it is considered "feminist" if not for overly sensitive 1% of people. It simply treats its characters as if they possess equal importance to the story, it felt right, honestly. Nobody complains that one of the main characters is a capable yet physically handicapped person and that is making people happy too.
huhhhhhhhhhhhh09 Treating women with equality actually IS feminist. The idea behind feminism is helping women achieve equality, so if you think the movie treated men and women equally then you agree it was a feminist movie.
Matthew K Right, I suppose that's true. It's just that the word and idea have become so warped by peoples negative views of them. I guess I just meant that I didn't view the movie as the "evil propaganda piece of male mutilation" that some wanted to label it as.
Matthew K No, treating women like they are better than men is feminist. Name one good reason how women are in ANY way disadvantaged?
Matthew K Sure Matthew you can consider it feminist and I'll just consider it egalitarian. As long as it's about equality, it doesn't really matter what different people decide to refer to it as, right?
***** I didn't mind the woman in the movie being the main character even though they called it "Mad Max" so they roped in people thinking it was another guy flick (kind of a bait and switch, but eh). I just don't like the fact they had to bring on a feminist to teach the actors how to act in the movie that's when I'm not a fan. Don't bring a controversial opinioned person into the planning of a movie and let the actresses act the way they see the characters. Sigourney Weaver didn't need a feminist consultant to be a strong female actress, neither did Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs. Woman can be great if they quit thinking of their gender being a handicap.
Fury Road is one of the best and most entertaining movies I've ever seen in my whole life, it's gonna be cult classic in 20 years no doubt !
Only problem is that I don't think that u can see it anywhere bet the cinema, because you just can't get all of that action on tv
The original definitely is!
chaoshallnotfall mediocre
oscar bainbridge I agree.
I'd highly advice either seeing this in a cinema or at least on a good home cinema set up. Sound and picture are both very important to this film for immersion.
oscar bainbridge Imagine watching movies on the Occulus right. It may somehow get the same effect!
George Miller is the man. Mad Max: Fury Road has pretty much convinced me that Spielberg's and Scorsese's generation of filmmakers is in fact the best there ever was. Miller defined a genre in the early 80's. Thirty+ years later, the now 70 year old director comes back to define it once again. Amazing.
Eveeryone, tell EVERYONE YOU KNOW about this film!!!!!! if it doesn't do that well, we won't get another one. support artistry. ALso, George Miller is known to be a very kind and good man in the industry
Agreed. I'm definitely going to get Fury Road on Blu-Ray or some other high quality disk when it comes out..really want to support this franchise and MORE MOVIES. MORE LIKE ROAD FURY!!!
Wemble Ton It's feminist propaganda.
Wemble Ton he is obviously a great director. i don't know why he went with the weird modern feminist narrative rather than the egalitarian form of feminism with his movie but still it was a mind blowing action adventure film and the creativity in the making of the film was off the charts.
***** you can just watch it on putlocker for free. lol
Edward Bernayse666 Fuck that - Miller can take ALL MY MONEY
I love the fact that it pissed people off that it was the woman who was the strongest role. I watched the movie not even thinking about any of than, and loved it just the same.
I know! All I saw was badass men, women, cars and explosions. How can anyone be mad at that?
Md Rd max can, he's pretty mad
ExMachina70 How was she the strongest role? Max had to tell her the correct path and talk sense to her when they were all going to run to the coast. He made her understand it was the wrong path and made no logical sense. It was actually perfectly natural - the man had to calm down the panic'd women and set them straight. Metal arm or not.
kryptman40k Well regardless of perception, I really was never too worried about it. Whether he was the strongest, or she was, it didn't matter. I just found it funny that so many people cared. I personally enjoyed the movie very much. You have good points though.
+kryptman40k "the man had to calm down the panicked women" jfc are you serious
A monster of a movie, one of the best ever
Easy best movie post 2010
Brilliant film, well worth the ticket price.
Edgar Abram MAD MAX FURY ROAD IS A LOAD OF BULLSHIT FEMINISTIC CRAP..Tom hardy spoke for about 2 minutes throughout the movie..Sick fill..Load of shit..DO NOT WASTE MONEY TO SEE THIS SHIT
blizzardxc12 Max has always been quiet.
blizzardxc12 If you have a problem with how much Max talked, you are not a Mad Max fan.
Point303Operator Good point, but what people are probably responding to is that he's not exactly the main character like he was before and that the movie is titled after. He's a feminist now, Lol.
2cents Max is a feminist because he's helping some women escape the evil warlord who enslaved him for his blood? Surely that's just being a nice guy?
Its quite disheartening that 'Pitch Perfect 2' is beating Mad Max at the box office. Film is subjective, but Fury Road is a objectively better film no question, what is wrong with general audiences.
It's cause mad max is a 15 and the under 15s is a large audience
R rating. A lot of kids and teenagers would rather go see pitch perfect 2. Me and my friends (we are 17) saw it last night and their wasn't many teenagers seeing it. Most teens were seeing pitch perfect 2
ROFLCOPTER195 Same reason MMFR will never make as much money as Transformer. Alas, things are not always how they should be. At least Pitch Perfect 2 is a OK film according to the critics.
TheEvilmonkey1216 I know the R rating doesn't help, but ideally that shouldn't matter. Look at the 80's when R rated films were the highest grossing ones. Not the bullshit now where artistic integrity is sacrificed to pander to a young/dumb audience, I'm 18 and just can't comprehend why people my age and a bit younger choose the films they watch. It seems people literally go to films now to fill their time, instead of going to appreciate a good piece of story telling. Although I'm being negative, having an R rated film with such a big budget and clearly not messed with by big corporate studios, is a glimmer of hope that more films of this production value will take more risks in the future, fingers crossed.
ROFLCOPTER195 Mad Max hadn't made any films for 30 years till now. Naturally, the new generation of movie goers may not heard of it.
Mad Max Fury Road was badass!!!
maxsonly iT WAS A LOAD OF FEMINIST bullshit
blizzardxc12 Get over it.
HELLO HELLO The feminist aspect.Can you brainwashed idiots not see the difference between the first mad max and this..All fucking feminist bullshit that has taken over hollywood and idiots are 2 stupid not to see it you bastards
If he is so bad ass, then why does he need a women to shoot for him?
YEAH WHY DOES HE NEED A "WOMEN" TO SHOOT FOR HIM
In addition to everything else, the minimal CGI really made this movie real. More directors could take a hint here.
chemistryguy there’s a ton of CGI rendering but the mix is good
This chick is adorable
Damjan Plamenac She's a great interviewer. She's done her research and knows what she's talking about. Hopefully she does more interviews. She's also absolutely gorgeous.
Damjan Plamenac she looks alot like Virginia Hey from the Road Warrior.
heroinhero69 Her teeth are cute.
Damjan Plamenac This chick has the most annoying vocal fry. Can't take her seriously because of that.
Damjan Plamenac Yeah, she is cute!
How are there so little comments, this film and film maker are AMAZING
It is kind of early and it's Sunday so any religious freaks are probably at church
Anthony Valdovinos Orozco LOL, religious freaks :D!!!
I watched MMFR THREE times in theatres because I just couldn't help myself. If it was in IMAX I'd go again at my theatre. I have never been so enamoured with an Action movie in my entire life. It was brilliant start to finish and quite inspiring.
All these movies available to go to, and I saw Mad Max in 2D, then 2D again, then in 3D, and I'm planning on going in 3D again because this is quite simply the most fun I have ever had at the cinema. This movie is bloody brilliant. So glad to be ALIVEEEE to witness how gorgeous and stunning this film was.
Furiosa is the best character. Her personality is awesome, and that steam punk mechanical arm really completes Furiosa's appearance. Charlize Theron was great portraying her. Theron was able to speak with her eyes. Great movie... love it
As an automotive journalist who is currently conducting a study of automotive culture, this movie hits a lot of points that tie humans to vehicles. I loved every minute and I thank you George for making a piece of art that will ignite the imaginations of gearheads for many generations to come!!!!
You should look up Mighty Car Mods: Mod Max, seems like something you would love!
JC Image Inc I love the way the world of Mad Max is still stuck in the 70s technologically, with all the vehicles and technology dating from that period and earlier even though it looks like about a generation has passed since the apocalypse.
Oh what a film! WHAT A LOVELY FILM!!!
That movie was so damn epic that I even cried in some epic parts... and had multiple goosebumps. Totally amazing!
"Witches of Eastwick" is a HIGHLY underrated film. Just an absolute blast, with excellent performances from all. That he was able to take a rather pretentious (in my opinion) novel and turn it into such a fun, mainstream film impressed me at the time. Every time I've seen it over the years I've enjoyed it more.
Great interview and more importantly love the UI menu within YT Player. Have been advocating embeds like this since 2010 and now seeing more and more use. Well done Vice.
The best cinematic experience i had since The Dark Knight !
Great in interview. Glad you made this. Makes me want to see the movie again even more.
Brilliant interview. Casual, insightful and very very relaxed.
Vice docs are just so good. So thoughtful and entertaining.
I love this guy and I loved this movie.
Great upload, thank you. A terrific insight into this humble but great artist here. Huge fan of George Miller. Such a fascinating guy. Ever so impressed by his cinema insights and history. What he's done in the imaginative world of global film culture is brilliant and astounding.
Great interview. Loved the Filmography part!!
Great interview. What a talented story teller.
LOOOL that very first sentence hit me because I just came back from watching it with subtitles in a theatre in Japan!
What a fantastic interview! Thank you for that.
awesome interview, George Miller is a genius!
George Miller: Mad Genius
Really good interview!!!! She does a fantastic job of asking the right questions. I went to this movie with no idea it would be this good. My wife and daughter loved it. Miller caught archetypes that covered gender and generation. Good work George and good work Vice for having a damn decent interview.
Fantastic interview! Kim is genuinely interested in what George has to say, and she has definitely done her research.
Oh.. breaking the video down into segments with topic tabs is a nice touch!
It's crazy how good this movie is , my expectations were high going in and the actual piece blew them out of the park
superb movie- great interview- the young lady interviewing was intelligent and charming and brought out more from George than any other interview I have seen
Amazing listening to him describe the world. He put so much thought into it.
Best interview I've seen on mad max yet!
So humble... great man
Easily in my top 5 movies of all time.
Could not get enough of it. Seen it twice so far, 2D and 3D. Can not wait to see it again.
best action movie in years. Miller has shown again that he's a master of what he does
The interviewer definitely did her research. Great interview. I've waited 30 years for this movie and it was worth the wait! I've seen it twice and I hope to see it a third before it leaves the theater.
Please please make another one omg amazing . bring mel back though
This film is an all time great.
I loved it! And now I realized that there are three more to watch! 😊
The stunts in this movie are insane, and the unique look of the characters and the vehicles look so damn cool, if they make a sequel, i can only hope it is as good as Fury Road, since this movie has become another favorite of mine
Loved how they used australian muscle cars like the old films, this movie was awesome!
this is a great interview about a great movie. well done vice!
thank you George Miller for a fantastic film!!! "what a lovely day" :D
Thank you George, take notes fellas. Mad Max 1-4 are perfect examples of you don't need CGI to help you with everything action scene. After seeing Fury Road and seeing practical stunts and CGI when needed I am still blown away and this man is in his 70s??? Ha wow. It is really nice seeing a 2 hour non stop action thrill ride with action scenes that I can clearly make out for once.
This man has perfected his craft.
i got so wrapped up in this movie! it was amazing. i love all of these movies so much! i was so excited when i saw the trailer
We need more people like George Miller making action movies. A guy who loves movies making movies. All the greats seem to have this in common. You can tell that there was so much detail and man hours worked into the costumes, cars, and effects. I was really impressed. The movie was great!
Brilliant, brilliant film - can't wait to see it again!!!
Absolute genius
I would love to read about the backstories for all those characters and vehicles.
Great interview. The movie is freakin SICK.
He's such a sweet and intelligent man. Loved all the Mad Max films. :)
I saw it yesterday and it's my new fav movie
I'm going to see it again.
I usually never do that.
Fantastic Movie. Liked your questions and how you let Mr. Miller speak without interrupting him or making it about you (as too many interviewers do). Liked that it was longer :)
thanks for this interview, both George Miler the master filmmaker and KTB as the interviewer were excellent. Thanks.
This girl is a great interviewer! Great job!
Instant classic.
Fury Road is pure awesome.
Have to see this 3x thrice!!!!!!!!!!
So happy George Miller got to make this MASTERPIECE! This epic Hot-Rod Apocalypse! Even more happy to discover it wasn't CGI cars on a CGI background - but REAL Hot-Rods and Monster Cars and Trucks! REAL stunts! Wow! George is 70 years old - it shows in his craft, that he's taken a life time to get this good at film making!
Best movie I've seen in a long time.
George Miller is a Rock Star to me!
Thank you George Miller. Make any movie you want man!
This movie is unbelievably insanely good
God I love George Miller! This movie was amazing!
Such a great film!
Only film I’ve watched 10 times. Brilliant!
WHAT A LOVELY DAY.
Too obsessed with this movie. I'd say I haven't been blown away by a movie like this in a very long time.
I really hope this genius lives a healthy life. He has to make more movies, and especially more Mad Max sequels. When this sweet old man kicks the bucket a part of me will as well.
Am i the only one who read the title and thought it was George Miller as in Filthy Frank?
Yes
NiallTheAwesome anata wa bakka desu
NiallTheAwesome Well there ya go folks, your average Vice fan.
NiallTheAwesome MAD MAX FURY ROAD IS A LOAD OF BULLSHIT FEMINISTIC CRAP..Tom hardy spoke for about 2 minutes throughout the movie..Sick fill..Load of shit..DO NOT WASTE MONEY TO SEE THIS SHIT
blizzardxc12 Max doesn't talk much anyway, he's what you call 'the strong and silent type'
Good questions A great interview
Great first Vice Talks Film, enjoyed that. Looks like Kim helped George settle right in....now to see the film!
good interview, great interviewer , great interviewee , great to watch well done :)
Just saw this in cinemas. Next chance I get I'm gonna go see it in IMAX. Then I'm gonna get it on blu-ray when it comes out :)
Great film
Awesome interview ! This chick is also damn beautiful!
"Oh what a day,what a lovely day!"
i,m looking forward to the seeing the film. it,s a shame we had to wait so long
Charlize Theron really reminded me of Sigourney Weaver in the Alien series. Anyone else?
God this movie was so fucking good. I want him to make another one of these films.
This is gonna be one of those movies that is held up one of the best action movies ever made. Like terminator 2, aliens, the matrix. Part of me wants to see another one but another part of me just wants the series to end on such a high note.
Masterpiece ! Thanks a lot George Miller
This movie (as Pacific Rim) is an example of what movies can be if the companies give freedom to good directors with great teams. Hell I'm even thinking about becoming a warboy full time....
That Guitar Solo
Vice has to be one of the best channels on the UA-cam platform right now.
They're essentially a channel that shows their opinions and views on things. But they don't force it down your throat
Hugh Keays-Byrne…. the villain "Toe-Cutter" from the first MAD MAX film, is BACK in Fury Road as "Immortan Joe"? WOW! That is SO Awesome! I love that… Wow. The epic Hot-Rod Apocalypse mythology is so complex and beautiful! Such detail and story has gone into every-thing we see on screen… such a great Film!