posted December 15, 2020 #
Filmography Club, the podcast where host Jason Caviness gets to knows movies by dissecting auteurs and talking to cinephiles, just wrapped their second season with an episode all about
Mad Max: Fury Road. Host Jason Caviness and guest Will Fox take a deep dive into the insanely long production, the total lack of script and how rewarding the high-octane action of the movie is. More interestingly, they also discuss how well the movie works because it's not just a vapid action movie, it actually contains a number of empowering and poignant messages.
The advertising for
Fury Road is almost entirely desert races and flamethrowers and extremely
masculine energy but it's all a red herring. Yes, the movie is an adrenaline burst pretty much start to finish but it's so much more than that. I'm not sure if the marketing and advertising for the movie was intentionally misleading or just too difficult to really impress upon an audience what it's true goal is.
Long story short, it's a great episode of worthwhile discussion and a reminder to watch the movie - even for a second or third time.
