Mad Max

female protagonist. In the article “Gendered Media: The Influence of Media on View of Gender,” Julia T. Wood argues that media forces the idea that both genders must represent a character that is concrete and stereotypical to the public. The movie Mad Max: Fury Road follows the established roles Wood discussed…

Early, as the film Mad Max: Fury Road was coming out, I heard a rumor that the feral kid from Road Warrior was going to be featured. As I watched Fury Road I was taken by Max. I had felt like I had seen the mannerisms of his persona before. I am convinced that the Feral Kid is “Max” in Fury Road. The way that he speaks, the way that he moves and fights; It points towards Max being the feral kid. How you may ask? I hope to explore and explain how this may be possible within this paper. I was…

I found that Mad Max: Fury Road had many elements of feminism throughout the film. The movie focuses on women escaping and fighting for their freedom from a patriarchal society. It portrays women very differently than many films and it’s a great representation of what women are truly capable of. The first moment that I noticed a form of feminism was with the appearance of Furiosa. She has a completely shaved head, scars, only one arm and is wearing some sort of a war uniform. She essentially…

Stage Models of Relationship Development in Mad Max: Fury Road Mad Max: Fury Road is a fast-paced post-apocalyptic movie directed by George Miller that does a unique job of telling a story and forming very intense bonds between the characters by having very little dialogue. For example one of the main characters, Max, only has 52 lines in the entire film. It is a perfect example of show-not-tell in a narrative, so the viewer is tasked with inferring many of the motives and interactions between…

Mad Max: Fury road is a riveting new take on the classic series, and it keeps the audience captivated the entire film. Besides the non-stop action and intense imagery, the film has a surprising amount of depth and character development throughout it. The movie reflects real ideas of nuclear disaster, war, slavery, sexism, propaganda, god status, oppression, and relentless vestiges hope. Mad Max: Fury Road is a fast-paced post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller that focuses on…

A Foreign Film Review on Mad Max: Fury Road By Ejy Emerenciana It has been thirty years since Mad Max movies was created. Luckily, director George Miller created a masterpiece we never thought we needed. In this Academy-Award winning film, our perspective on dystopian movies will change as Mad Max: Fury Road shows an exemplary execution on how it should be. In a stark desert landscape where humanity is extinct and people are on the brink of insanity fighting for the basic necessities in life…

What ethical reason can a person have for wanting to go out of their way to help people in need of assistance? After having read each of these reviews over the film, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, I feel as though the moral reasoning that a person can have for doing such a thing as risking their own life to help someone else, can be viewed as being a consequence of human decency. While many would suggest that the reason that the title character of this film would agree to risk his life to help this group…

books). The pop culture text I will be using to frame and analyze my issue is Mad Max: Fury Road. Mad Max is a movie that portrays women in a positive, feminist manner. The female characters challenge stereotypes and the film exhibits that throughout the movie. I am interested in using Mad Max: Fury Road because when I watched it for the first time, it left me thinking about how women should be portrayed more like…

Mad Max: Fury Road paints a society where the line between "machine" and "human" is aggressively blurred. The dependence on fossil fuels and the dehumanizing objectification of humans leads to exploitation of both people and the earth. Rob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor provides a deeper context of the resource curses and inequalities that may cause such a society, both in the film and in our own world today. In the world of Fury Road, both humans and the earth…

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,…