Okay, so I was watching Mad Max…. and during this scene I noticed something…
Let’s take a closer look…
Now, pardon my bad gif making skills but…
IS THAT FURIOSA RESTING ON MAX’S SHOULDER!?
you’re right, that’s her
So not only are they sitting on the roof & holding hands while the car drives onto the lift, they’ve been resting against each other the entire way there!?
I didn’t know they were holding hands on the roof! I wonder if the car ride is missed out in the same way that Max killing the Bullet Farmer is missed out. Like Furiosa is out for the count pretty much so would it be too focused on Max? In the same way the other scene in other action films would have been included?
There would have been so much bonding through unspoken words and eye contact and touching tho omg I want to know what happened during this drive!!
Oh yeah they were. It’s like 95% to provide physical support for her but…that other 5%…
(And I kind of feel like after the moment of intimacy and vulnerability “My name is Max” ends on, both of them need and deserve a long drive with her napping on his shoulder. The more I think about it the more it feels right.)
I just want high-res screencaps of every millisecond of this last scene.
I’m still not over this. THEY’RE SO CUDDLY AT THE END
Furiosa is completely exhausted and all of Max’s barriers are down after the blood-giving scene. Like 95% it’s about literal physical support, but 5% is “oh god after everything we went through I’m so glad you’re alive let’s touch”
Benefits of having OTPS that can double as brOTP:
Always together (platonic or romantic)
Nobody can deny they aren’t important to each other
Their fucking friendships are a precious thing
A good relationship
Communication comes relatively easy
Simple things can’t shake their unbreakable bro-ship
Cons:
Did you mean MAX ROCKATANSKY AND IMPERATOR FURIOSA.
cygnaut asked: If Max Rockatansky was your boyfriend, he would never ask if the symbolic black scarf you gifted him is a male imperator scarf or a female one.
Look at the 2nd gif and tell me that doesn’t seem like part of some desperate wasteland wedding ceremony (also enjoy Toast, Cheedo, and Capable as the world’s most appalled flower girls.)
I’m just over here, dragging hands slowly down my face and giving up on any sort of pretense of objectivity.
I never noticed that he put his hand on the back of the metal one in that second gif, until you pointed it out. What. Even.
…true talk tho, the only way that arranged marriage fic might happen to these two is if there’s literal guns pointed at literal heads, and there’d need to be hostages involved, possibly multiple, and perhaps (given this universe) cannibalism, maybe some electrocutions.
And at least three explosions.
And a pint of blood.
Forced-Marriage-Vows Boy, bleeding gently: “By your command, shiny and chrome Immortan, we told Furiosa and the feral of your plans to force them into marriage and breeding.”
Immortan Joe, glaring: “AND?”
Forced-Marriage-Vows Boy, swaying due to blood loss: “The good news is, casualties were minimal and the pair did appear to be bonding as they stole a vehicle and fled into the desert.”
Immortan Joe, glowering: “THE BAD NEWS?”
Forced-Marriage-Vows Boy, curling into a fetal ball in a pool of his own blood: “There’s fire everywhere.”
Anonymous asked: That look that Max gets when he picks up Furiosa kills me every time, he looks so terrified. Poor hobo man doesn't want to loose his queen
do you mean this face anon?? this face?? because yeah. yeeeah. that is the face of the most frantic, most terrified, tiny baby ever to roam the wasteland.
or maybe you mean this face, where he’s realising exactly how hurt she is (and cheedo’s in the background like eh, tis a scratch).
or maybe you mean this face, which i like to call The Worst Face, because of how terrible it is. this is the face you make when you realise that you have to bail soon because you’re having feelings and that hasn’t happened in A Long Time.
Since I know there’s probably a fair amount of you out there who haven’t seen the first three Mad Max movies, I’m here to tell you a li’l secret about them:
All the people complaining about how Max “isn’t the main character” in Fury Road are big ol’ Fake Fanboys cause Max’s primary character trait in literally every movie is “I hate this, why is it happening, please leave me alone to brood in the desert in peace”.
He’s much more the central focus of the plot in the first movie but in Road Warrior and Thunder Dome he basically just gets kidnapped or beat up by wankers in weird bondage outfits and spends the rest of the movie trying to leave as soon as possible while other people are like “please solve our absurd post-apocalyptic problems”. There is not one single point where Max actively seeks out being a hero until it is forced upon him. He ACTIVELY TELLS PEOPLE WHO ASK HIM FOR HELP to take a hike.
Mad Max himself would like nothing better than to never, ever, ever be the main character.
He would also like for people to stop stealing his fucking car.
#let’s just save each other and casually share a meaningful glance aka WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME
Seriously, his face right here is killing me. They’re in the middle of a fight and Max just did an insane flying tackle while running down a moving vehicle to save her, but then Furiosa brakes for him and he takes this moment to stare at her like he can’t believe it. (I’m really trying to come up with an explanation that doesn’t sound
like it got filtered through my shipper goggles, but I can’t. He’s not
noticing Toast is gone – the eyeline is all wrong – and it could just
be a ‘we’re so fucked’ look, but he has to be visibly startled out of
looking at her by a guy attacking over the cab roof.)
On reflection, it’s a lot like the look Max gives Furiosa when she offers him a fully loaded bike.
We’ve talked a lot about how Max and Furiosa come to trust each other over the movie, but when was the last time someone protected him like that?
I’m biased for having read that the outright intention was to create a character (Furiosa) who is an equal to and in and of herself another Road Warrior–but it’s almost as if they look at each other and see themselves right there in the other.
“I’m me and I’m you. You’re you and you’re me. I’m you and you’re me and you’re me and I’m you. All at once.”
Also noticed on this go around the way he’s holding his left hand, it’s still wrapped up from when the steering wheel got harpooned. I love the consistency in this movie, how damage carries over.
I love that confused look on Max’s face, “you braked. you braked for me. Why. why. you keep moving. you need to keep moving.”
you need to keep moving:
Bonus: The War Boy who stabbed Furiosa managed to more easily climb back onto the Rig because she was braking to save Max.
So I thought this morning, maybe I was just nightblogging. Maybe it’s not the sort of the same expression he had during the my name is max scene.
Oh god no my heart. It kinda is? Still that confused concerned whyyyyyy. Ugh Tom Hardy do you even realize what your face is doing jfc of course you do, and so does Sixel.
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
