George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is a two hour action-packed thrill ride, complete with car chases, magnificent explosions, and a flame throwing guitar player. However, the most striking aspect of Miller’s film is the little amount of dialogue that is used. Fury Road has even been deemed the “loudest silent film ever,” because much like films of the silent era, Miller’s relies on editing in order to communicate meaning and emotion rather than through spoken word. Despite the fact that the film’s main two protagonists, Max Rockatansky and Imperator Furiosa, speak few words to each other, Miller uses various editing techniques, specifically eye-line matches, in order to convey a progression in their relationship from hostile to companionable
