“I wanted to tell a linear story–a chase that starts as the movie begins and continues for 110 minutes,” says the Australian writer-director. Fury Road features few digital effects and even less dialogue, he explains. “In this crucible of very intense action, the characters are revealed.”
The last time an aging filmmaker made that claim for a decades' later fourquel, we ended up with a movie that opened with a shot of a CGI gopher.AndyDursin wrote:Miller says the film is 80% non-CGI FX, mostly practical stunts.
lol. Somehow I have more faith Miller's claims are legit, seeing as it was in production forever.Monterey Jack wrote:The last time an aging filmmaker made that claim for a decades' later fourquel, we ended up with a movie that opened with a shot of a CGI gopher.AndyDursin wrote:Miller says the film is 80% non-CGI FX, mostly practical stunts.
Oh well, we all know it, but film music is dead. 
Yeah...AndyDursin wrote:My heart also sank with the words MUSIC BY JUNKIE XL too.
It seems like they're going the "Man With No Name" route, where Clint would play a variation on the same character who wasn't exactly the same character. This Mad Max isn't the Gibson character apparently but a variation on it. Seeing as there was no script with this film, only storyboards, I'm going to wager it's not going to make a difference really.I mean, this obviously isn't a sequel (as the V8 Interceptor was destroyed in Road Warrior) but seems to be a kind of re-imagining
I get the feeling Miller soured on Hollywood, because he didn't have much control over the films he made there. I don't know how definitive this anecdote is, but a guy I knew in college was on the set of The Witches of Eastwick, and said that Miller was keeping things moving but didn't seem to have much creative input -- Jack Nicholson basically directed himself, Vilmos Zsigmond lit the set as he saw fit, etc. I also read an interview with Miller (some years earlier) where he carped "Making movies in Australia is about going out and doing it. In Hollywood it's all about making the deal". So I wonder if he just threw up his hands and turned his back on Hollywood.AndyDursin wrote:I still can't get over Miller's career. Here's a guy who started out as one of the Important Directors of the 1980s, only to basically become a hermit who -- for over 20 YEARS -- has directed only three films, every one of them a kids picture with talking pigs and/or penguins.
Seems this film is what Thunderdome should have been. The original Mad Max took place in a society which was decaying, Road Warrior took place in a savage, lawless non-society, while Thunderdome depicted the rebirth of commerce and rudimentary communities. But while Thundome was "Mad Max Lite" (with its cutesy moppets and cartoon violence) Fury Road seems to return to the more brutal spirit of Road Warrior (i.e. Max being tattooed according to his worth as "raw material").AndyDursin wrote:Either way, it doesn't seem like this movie is aiming for BEYOND THUNDERDOME-type pretensions, which is, at least, fine with me.