Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

naamahdarling:

shobijinsandy:

Really we need to give a hand to the Mad Max marketing team for how they advertised because that’s the juicy little cherry on top of this massive piece of art

Did anyone get the plot from the tv spots? Anything about the wives? They let the cars and scenery and explosions take center stage without hinting at the main storyline, because exploding badass cars is what the fans and the hypermasculine dudebros/neckbeards cared about. So they went in droves to opening weekend.

And then they went public to bitch about the feminist plot, and that’s when the feminists flocked to the theaters.

So not only did the ad guys NOT have to mention the plot, since the angry butthurt meninists did it for them, those guys already paid to see it. They got the dudebro money upfront then sat back while people who heard the message came around.

That’s fucking brilliance there.

I have no idea if it was deliberate but it sure as hell worked, because everyone feminist I know and their literal mother is all over this shit.

(via thepainofthesass)

Mad Max With Its Visual Effects Worker

dyinghistoric:

lunokii:

So I went and saw Mad Max a second time with one of its visual effects workers, and we had some pretty cool discussions about the movie. He also let me flip through a storyboard book he was given really fast and so here’s a list of a bunch of stuff he told me…

• Angharad’s scars are from self-harm

• The scenes were filmed in order of how they appear in the movie

• Rictus Erectus’ baby head necklace represents that he has the mind of a child

• Mother’s Milk is turned into cheese

• Someone cut off Furiosa’s arm so besides that she’s completely healthy

• Immortan Joe is the most powerful out of himself, Bullet Farmer, and People Eater

• The Bird People (the ones on stilts in the Green Place) eat crows

• Rictus is pretty much immune to pain

• Originally History Woman/Miss Giddy was going to be killed by Joe to symbolize that he doesn’t care about the past, only the present where he is powerful

• On the original story boards there was going to be a scene where the wives are sitting in the War Rig and singing to each other

• The flashes of Max’s daughter represent his fears trying to escape so that Max can accept himself

• When Max is watching everyone go across the salts and his daughter makes him hit his head, for a brief instant her face turns into the face of the guy who shoots Max

• Nux imprinted on Capable and loves her because she was the first person to show him true kindness. They have more of a strong platonic bond than a romantic bond

THIS IS SO AWESOME

*shrieking*

(Source: killerfornia-isles, via dyinghistoric)

words-writ-in-starlight:

Having trolled some of the AO3 Fury Road tag, I’ve learned something interesting.

I am AGGRRESSIVELY here for everything involving Max and Furiosa.

I like them best as Epic Lifelong Drift-Compatible Postapocalypse Badass Bros.  They are the BroTP to end all BroTPs.  But hey.

Aromantic casual sex buddies who snark and spar?  I’m down, let’s go, I’m so down with that shit.

Asexual partners who drive around and sleep next to each other because it makes them feel safe?  Give it to me.

Soul mates in every way, sexual, romantic, practical, all of the above, who cobble together a slapdash system for running the Citadel and work through their issues?  Hell yeah, hELL FUCKING YEAH.

Long-suffering pseudo-parents to the Wives (who ship it like FedEx) and the War Boys (who worship both of their badassery in a much more healthy way than they worshipped Joe)?  I AM READY.

Witness me becoming absolute trash.

In maybe, MAYBE, eight hours, this post has gotten more notes than anything I’ve ever posted.  Scratch that, possibly more notes than EVERYTHING I’ve ever posted, put together.

What the fuck do I even do with that.

(via dyinghistoric)

Having trolled some of the AO3 Fury Road tag, I’ve learned something interesting.

I am AGGRRESSIVELY here for everything involving Max and Furiosa.

I like them best as Epic Lifelong Drift-Compatible Postapocalypse Badass Bros.  They are the BroTP to end all BroTPs.  But hey.

Aromantic casual sex buddies who snark and spar?  I’m down, let’s go, I’m so down with that shit.

Asexual partners who drive around and sleep next to each other because it makes them feel safe?  Give it to me.

Soul mates in every way, sexual, romantic, practical, all of the above, who cobble together a slapdash system for running the Citadel and work through their issues?  Hell yeah, hELL FUCKING YEAH.

Long-suffering pseudo-parents to the Wives (who ship it like FedEx) and the War Boys (who worship both of their badassery in a much more healthy way than they worshipped Joe)?  I AM READY.

Witness me becoming absolute trash.

thinkin about imperator furiosa (like i have been for the last 92 straight hrs whatever nbd)

caladblog:

and how she’s the only woman in the citadel we see who doesn’t directly belong to joe

and wondering how she got to be in that position

and wondering: what if it was something like what happened to max in the beginning of the movie (spoilers under the cut)

Keep reading

the inevitable post about imperator furiosa’s robot arm

caladblog:

*points loudly at blog title*

gonna put this under a cut so none of my followers get spoiled/are forced to look at my inappropriately intense scientific interest

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The Clan of the Boltcutter

joycesully:

or, Why Keys Are Not the Tools of Freedom

Science fiction is a genre that loves its stuff. For a genre of ideas, the invention frequently takes center stage as the manifestation of those ideas, as the crucial prop of the plot twists, and as the symbol of whatever deeper meaning we find in stories of the Future-That-Could-Be. In a world of outlandish vehicles, practical prosthetics, and that damn guitar, the humble boltcutter may be the most powerfully symbolic object in Mad Max: Fury Road.

The recurring skull/skull-in-steering-wheel motif certainly dominates the beginning of the movie. What are the women and the audience left with at the end, though? For a story of escape and freedom, in which locks and chains make repeated appearances, we need a symbol similarly oriented around getting out, away, loose. Not a key, I’d argue, nor a vehicle, but the boltcutter: a tool favorable for the physically weak, independent of any of their oppressors, and designed to dismantle that which binds.

(Warning: under the cut, spoilers for everything. Seriously, much spoiler, so details, very warning.)

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actuallyjoebiden:

I convinced 6 middle aged women that professed to hate action movies to go see Mad Max: Fury Road. You know how I did it? I said “The main character is a woman and she’s not sexualized at all.” And that was it. I had a whole speech prepared and I said one sentence before they all agreed to go see it. And they LOVED it. One woman saw it twice so she could bring her teenaged daughter.

All these years, all this industry moaning about how women don’t like action movies, and all it fucking took to change their minds was “The main character is a woman and she’s not sexualized.”

(via starwarsisgay)

mugsandpugs-deactivated20160917 asked: Doof gently strumming his guitar/ukulele above the new Pups' room/area when they're scared at night

dyinghistoric:

warboyheadcanons:

dyinghistoric:

flamingguitarhero:

mugsandpugs:

warboyheadcanons:

mugsandpugs:

warboyheadcanons:

flamingguitarhero:

warboyheadcanons:

dyinghistoric:

warboyheadcanons:

dyinghistoric:

warboyheadcanons:

mugsandpugs:

dyinghistoric:

Aawwwwe babe

I love Doof being secretly protective of the boys and pups

And then he slips and starts jamming out. Like, “Go to sleep/little pups<3/BECAUSE TOMORROW WE’RE RIDING ON THE FURY ROAAAAAAAAAD

*all the pups and ‘Boys in unison*
“SHUT UP DOOF WE’RE TRYING TO SLEEP”

Doof giggles and runs around tweaking people’s ears and then runs away

Basically Doof is everyone’s big annoying brother despite the fact that he looks like he popped out of a nightmare

Yaaas~ All the war pups are like HE LOOKS SO COOL when he really looks like some kind of horrid gremlin

*looks like a horror movie* *is actually a chill stoner music making master*

*is the metal papa if the Citadel*

Everyone comes to him for advice ok

Slit: “so there’s this person….that I like…..but I don’t know if they like ME…”
Doof: “just go fucking kiss Nux”
Slit: “WHA?! I didn’t say- nononono it’s definitely not Nux….”
Doof: “it’s fucking Nux and if you dont kiss him I will play love songs every time you’re around him”

*Nux and Slit walking together to the welding room*

Doof: NEEEAAAR, FAAAAr, whereEEEEVER you areeee…”

Slit: Odin help me.

*Slit and Nux quietly eating breakfast*

Doof: and IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will alwaaaays LOVE YOOOOU

YAAAAASSSS

Nux: “Hm, looks like Doof’s discovered a new genre of music.” *munches bug* How nice for him! He sounds really happy. Do you think he’s got a crush on someone?”

Coma: “ I LOVE YOU BAAABY, AND IF IT’S QUITE ALRIGHT , I NEED YOU BABY TO WARM THOSE LONELY NIGHTS”

I WAS GONE FOR TWO SECONDS AND YOU ALL DO THIS

I just can’t leave you war babes alone smh

Doof: “I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAAAAAND, I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND
OH PLEASE SAY TO MEEEE
YOU’LL LET ME BE YOUR MAAAAAAN
AND PLEASE, SAY TO MEEEE
YOU’LL LET ME HOLD YOUR HAAAAAND!!!!”

Nux: “wow Doof thats a really sweet song”

Doof: *looks pointedly at Slit*

omf i love the beatles

Slit just *grumble* “how’d'you even know these anyway”