Mad Max: Fury Road is a spectacular film, and while it may not seem to be the most thought-provoking movie, there is a lot of hidden depth that can be discovered. Performing more than just a cursory viewing allows one to see the hidden themes and ideals presented in a seemingly vacuous movie, and looking past the dust and explosions allows one to see the characters develop along with the setting and landscape. The most prolific use of imagery in this movie is not even in the visual effects, which are spectacular, but in the sound. The visual effects, however, influence the movie nearly as much, from the specific color choice to the landscape and its specificities.
Sound, and it’s absence, is a very powerful thing. A simple soundtrack …show more content…
Every scene is a masterpiece, every rock and dust puff manufactured to allow the audience to see a very specific picture. One of the strongest manipulators of the scenes and landscapes is the color choice. The tropes for color are as old as the color schemes themselves, but no matter how old, they still have an incredible impact on the human psyche. Mad Max: Fury Road manipulates the landscapes in such a way that you’re told subconsciously what to expect from the scene before anything even happens. The initial “stronghold” of Immortan Joe, the film’s first of three antagonists, is presented as bleak and brown, covered in dirt and filthy. However, if one pays attention, the sights of plants and grass are visible, and water is plentiful; however water and the lack thereof are a fairly large plot point, so this scene can’t be considered subtle. Later, as they ride through the desert, the only colors besides the brown of dirt and tan of sand are visible on the characters themselves. There are characters introduces as “wives” who belong to Immortan Joe, and their garb is white, signifying purity and innocence. This is further explored by the hope of “escaping to the green place,” which is later shown to be a false …show more content…
What good is a book without a plot? Mad Max: Fury Road seems to have a simple story, albeit an exciting one. The entire movie takes place over the span of one day, beginning with leaving the stronghold and ending with coming back to it. However, the theme isn’t really related to the action at all! While it may seem the theme is something like “One must take affirmative action to achieve the goals one has set for themselves,” it’s even simpler than that, and much more humane, so to speak. The theme, one out of many that can be extrapolated from the film, is this very simple statement, one that has been trivialized by motivational posters and memetic postings everywhere: “teamwork makes the dream work.” The characters on the side of the protagonist all come together with one ideal and fight for it, while the three antagonists are all fighting together, but not as one cohesive unit. This brings the protagonists to victory, simply because they all worked together as a team and as one unit. Another theme, one that is pervasive through the whole movie, is “home.” Max is trying to get home, and in doing so he gets captured. Once captured, he ends up assisting Furiosa and the wives, who are trying to go to their “home,” which is the green place. They end up realizing that home is wherever you make it, and take over, then consequently move into the stronghold of Immortan Joe, due to it’s abundance of water and plants,
Sound, and it’s absence, is a very powerful thing. A simple soundtrack …show more content…
Every scene is a masterpiece, every rock and dust puff manufactured to allow the audience to see a very specific picture. One of the strongest manipulators of the scenes and landscapes is the color choice. The tropes for color are as old as the color schemes themselves, but no matter how old, they still have an incredible impact on the human psyche. Mad Max: Fury Road manipulates the landscapes in such a way that you’re told subconsciously what to expect from the scene before anything even happens. The initial “stronghold” of Immortan Joe, the film’s first of three antagonists, is presented as bleak and brown, covered in dirt and filthy. However, if one pays attention, the sights of plants and grass are visible, and water is plentiful; however water and the lack thereof are a fairly large plot point, so this scene can’t be considered subtle. Later, as they ride through the desert, the only colors besides the brown of dirt and tan of sand are visible on the characters themselves. There are characters introduces as “wives” who belong to Immortan Joe, and their garb is white, signifying purity and innocence. This is further explored by the hope of “escaping to the green place,” which is later shown to be a false …show more content…
What good is a book without a plot? Mad Max: Fury Road seems to have a simple story, albeit an exciting one. The entire movie takes place over the span of one day, beginning with leaving the stronghold and ending with coming back to it. However, the theme isn’t really related to the action at all! While it may seem the theme is something like “One must take affirmative action to achieve the goals one has set for themselves,” it’s even simpler than that, and much more humane, so to speak. The theme, one out of many that can be extrapolated from the film, is this very simple statement, one that has been trivialized by motivational posters and memetic postings everywhere: “teamwork makes the dream work.” The characters on the side of the protagonist all come together with one ideal and fight for it, while the three antagonists are all fighting together, but not as one cohesive unit. This brings the protagonists to victory, simply because they all worked together as a team and as one unit. Another theme, one that is pervasive through the whole movie, is “home.” Max is trying to get home, and in doing so he gets captured. Once captured, he ends up assisting Furiosa and the wives, who are trying to go to their “home,” which is the green place. They end up realizing that home is wherever you make it, and take over, then consequently move into the stronghold of Immortan Joe, due to it’s abundance of water and plants,