can i talk to you?
#GOD the way charlize delivers this line
#a rasp of a whisper that you could read as exhaustion & that’s part of it i think
#but she’s also about to be very vulnerable with max
#besides ‘can i talk to you’ which barely includes the implied question mark
#(she continues walking & he follows)
#(inexorably)
#his name is the only thing furiosa ever directly asks of max
#she gives him soft commands couched in mutual need (the need to survive)
#but otherwise she doesn’t specifically - verbally - ask anything of him
#and then; here:
#where she’s asking him to come with them but hiding it in the gift of a stocked motorbike
#anyway!! do u think she’s ever offered that before? to anyone??
#& he says no
#& her face twists & her shoulders slump & she turns to leave &
#[heartbreak emoji] for me but also for her probably
#(& also his hesitancy before turning her down -
#at this point i doubt he would ever have said yes; it’s too soon
#but i think he does recognize the fucking magnitude of her offer#and - just maybe - after it’s done - even regrets saying no. just a little bit.)
I’ve been waiting for this gifset for so long.
#CLUTCHES M Y HEART #look what fucking gets me about this is that #little pinch between her brows when she’s accepting that he won’t come #and how she turns when he says hope is a mistake #and he turns at exactly the same moment and they LOOK AT EACH OTHER #WHAT IS SHE THINKING IN THAT MOMENT #THERE’S A LOT OF MAX IN THAT STATEMENT A LOT OF HIMSELF AND HE HASN’T GIVEN HIMSELF AWAY LIKE THAT BEFORE #but now #she’s vulnerable as she asks him to come #so he exposes himself through his explanation #max you must be level 5 to unlock my tragic backstory rockatansky (via caddyl)
Okay there’s more tho, that first gif, she’s looking over at the Vuvalini, they’re standing there watching their conversation and can you, CAN YOU, imagine how the conversation with these people she JUST got reacquainted with goes down maybe like:
Hey, so it’s been super long since I’ve met you but can you spare a bike for my bro here? Well we can haul the misplaced vuvalini on a trailer. He might… come with us? He did good, he’s good in a fight, he’s reliable.
#head in hands
Ugh. She talked to the Vuvalini and whatever she said had them agree to give him a bike. In this Wasteland? That’s so huge.
AND THE VUVALINI ARE RIGHT THERE WATCHING THE CONVERSATION.
So much awkward.
This scene slays me so incredibly hard. There’s something so formal and polite about the wording of her invitation to him that’s been absent from the dialogue thus far. As though they were living in a different time and she’s inviting him to a BBQ with her mates, and she doesn’t want him to feel like he’ll be crashing it. When actually HERE LET ME GIVE YOU SOMETHING TOTALLY VALUABLE THAT OTHER PEOPLE WOULD KILL FOR LIKE IT’S NOTHING.
*dies*
IT’S NOT EVEN HER THING TO GIVE. She had to ASK for it, and it’s clearly a big deal because
1) Miller would not have put the Vuvalini in that scene
2) They’re waiting right there for his response.
Ugh. Max. Did u rly.
AND THEN SHE GOES AHEAD AND GIVES HIM AN IMPERATOR’S SCARF. LIKE.
Ugh. Furiosa. Rly.