![]() ![]() ![]() We know now that Fury Road's feminist underpinnings are no accident. The same can be said of Nux, who transforms from a mindless drone drunk on the promise of glory in death, fueled by toxicity of all sorts, to become a helping hand and working in support of these women. He may be aiding Furiosa and the wives in their mission, but she and the wives are ultimately saving him. With no family, no roots, no ideology to guide him, Max is weaker and more prone to succumbing to his own demons he needs protection. But where this kind of hardened, silent, cold masculinity would be presented as an asset in the hero achieving his goal, the Fury Road Max is symbolically neutered. At the start of Fury Road, Max is the traditionally masculine action hero we have seen in past Mad Max films and what we'd expect to see presented in other action movies. While these women are never made to be responsible for healing the emotional or psychological wounds of their male allies, Max and War Boy Nux ( Nicholas Hoult), it is obvious as the movie goes on just how profound an effect being surrounded by Furiousa and the five wives has on them. These women seek to change the system in this post-apocalyptic world, fighting to the death if it means getting closer to achieving a restored balance of power. Fury Road sees women as fighters and nurturers, idealistic without being blinded by their optimism, ready to work for the good of all over one. ![]() The Vuvalini leader, Keeper of the Seeds ( Melissa Jaffer), holds the seeds which are the key to restoring crops, life, hope. The Vuvalini, Furiosa's all-female family from a previous life, still live and fight together as a group. The five wives and Furiosa work together, a single unit with a common goal of getting to the matriarchal "Green Place" and capable enough to fight off marauders or fix the War Rig charioting them there. Where the men of Fury Road are so unscrupulous in their need to satiate a hunger for singular glory - be it a War Boy asking to be witnessed as he sacrifices himself in an act of violence or Immortan Joe demanding to unquestioning support as he seeks control - the women are united. Joe begins collecting healthy and fertile women in the hopes of producing a viable son.Fury Road is an action movie, yes, but it's really a movie more interested in presenting a case for an immediate redistribution of power in times of great and dire need so that power is in the hands of women and, if possible, a collective. He has two sons, one huge and muscular but dull-witted, and the other intelligent but tiny and weak. All Joe needs is heirs, but the ruination of the world makes that difficult. The fat man takes over a nearby oil refinery and becomes known as the People-Eater, ruler of Gas Town. Kalashnikov becomes the Bullet Farmer, remaking a lead mine into an arms plant for Immortan Joe's army. Joe becomes the absolute ruler of the stone towers and their aquifer, which becomes known as The Citadel. After everyone has given up and believes him dead, Joe emerges victorious over the place's defenders, thus gaining his reputation as immortal. Aided by his right-hand man, Major Kalashnikov, and an unnamed "fat man," Joe invades a well-guarded tower of rock which sits over a huge natural aquifer. As told in the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel comic by George Miller, Nico Lathouris, and Mark Sexton, Immortan Joe was once a military veteran named Colonel Joe Moore, who became the leader of a gang of raiders after the collapse of civilization. The settlers got all their gasoline out on their bus! After a wreck kills both Wez and Humungus, it turns out that the tanker was full of sand. Left unguarded, the other settlers are free to escape to the North, unpursued. When the tanker is attached, Max drives it out himself, with Humungus and the Marauders in pursuit. With the help of the Gyro Captain, Max returns with a semi truck. When Humungus offers to let the peaceful settlers go if they give him all of their fuel, Max makes them a better deal: He'll procure a truck that can haul their oil tanker if they'll refuel his car and let him go on his way. However, Max befriends the unsocialized Feral Kid (Emil Minty) and soon wins over more of the local population. Max soon gains entry to the compound, but the leader Papagallo (Mike Preston) wants nothing to do with him. The Gyro Captain leads Max to the aforementioned oil refinery compound, which is under siege by the Marauders, the much larger gang that Wez belongs to, which is led by the masked Humungus (Kjell Nilsson). ![]()
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