• DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Dude, what? Have you ever watched Mad Max? Do you even know what it is about? lol
    It has nothing to do with climate change, has no pro car message and is not even from Hollywood.
    This is just ignorant.

    • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I love the idea that someone in Hollywood okayed the idea of giving George Miller (who would have been like 70 at the time) $150 million and just sending him off into the desert to film two hours of complete lunacy, and it worked. The film like doubled its budget and won six oscars lol

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      1 year ago

      has no pro car message

      “violent car chases look fucking sick” is a pretty core part of mad max so it at least has a cars-are-cool message

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        Fury Road has a very strong theme of extractive/capitalist survival (represented by cars, gas, control of water etc) = bad, regenerative/communalist survival (represented by the mothers and plant life) = good. The action scenes are ofc designed to be cool but I think the broader environmental/social message is strong enough that the flame guitar doesn’t drown it out.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Yet there were further signs of the desperate measures individuals would take to ensure mobility. A couple of oil strikes that hit many pumps revealed the ferocity with which Australians would defend their right to fill a tank. Long queues formed at the stations with petrol—and anyone who tried to sneak ahead in the queue met raw violence. —McCausland on the 1973 Oil Crisis, defining the theme of Mad Max

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      Its been a while but I have watched all but the latest one. It definitely has something to do with climate change. The first film he was still a cop and now he wanders a desert because of ecocide and societal collapse. What do you think happened between the first and second films to cause a wasteland?

      It definitely has a pro car message because he spends most of the films trying to fuel his car.