Movies MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (Dragonlord's Review)

[minute bull]

I'd say that a lot of its appeal beyond a typical blockbuster audience is exactly because its not strongly plot focused. Its a meeting of an action film and arthouse(look at the rest of the list you posted it winning), as with the latter its lacking complex plotting and instead depends on more subtle characterisation and indeed the atmosphere of its scenes. Its probably a lot of why reaction to it can be somewhat mixed as the drama is a little harder to pickup on than is typical for a blockbuster.

It's kind of the same thing with AVATAR -- in that the visual storytelling is overlooked and/or taken for granted. There's a lot of technique that goes into controlling the eye's focus and maintaining both clarity and intrigue. These films qualify as visceral thrillrides, but beyond the typical nature of action spectacle after action spectacle -- the storytelling keys into spectacle as well, and is alive.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Update: December 2, 2020

Hugh Keays-Byrne, Who Played Toecutter and Immortan Joe in MAD MAX Films, Dies at 73

Hugh Keays-Byrne, who portrayed Toecutter in Mad Max before returning 36 years later to play another villain for Australian director George Miller, Immortan Joe, in Mad Max: Fury Road, has died. He was 73.

Brian Trenchard-Smith, who directed Keays-Byrne in the 1975 film The Man From Hong Kong (also known as The Dragon Flies), reported that the actor died Wednesday in the hospital. No other details were immediately available.

Keays-Byrne also was known for his turn as the back-stabbing Grunchlk on the Australian American series Farscape and a 2004 miniseries.

Born in Kashmir, India, Keays-Byrne was a theater-trained actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company when he remained in Australia when a tour of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Brook, ended there in 1973.

Miller cast Keays-Byrne as the ruthless biker/gang leader Toecutter in the low-budget Mad Max (1979), then asked the actor to return to the franchise as Immorten Joe, the oxygen-mask-wearing leader of a postapocalyptic village who uses women to birth his followers, in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

In an interview with USA Today, the filmmaker said he wanted to bring back Keays-Byrne because an early print of the original Mad Max was released with a poor American dub of his voice. "I always felt so guilty about that. I thought I had to make up for it in some way," he said.

Keays-Byrne also was reportedly on board to play the Martian Manhunter in Miller's Justice League film that was set for a 2009 release but abandoned.

Born on May 18, 1947, Keays-Byrne and his family moved to Britain when he was young. He started out with the RSC in 1968 and appeared in productions including As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing.

His feature résumé also included Stone (1974), Mad Dog Morgan (1976), The Trespassers (1976), Going Down (1982), Strikebound (1984), The Blood of Heroes (1989) and Huntsman 5.1 (1999), and he appeared in miniseries versions of Moby Dick and Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1998 and '99.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...astardly-villains-in-mad-max-films-dies-at-73

 

[minute bull]

 

[Long Dark Blues]

You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome!

 

[minute bull]

WITNESS

 

[FyrFytr998]

WITNESS

 

[Brom Bones]

RIP Toecutter. Cundalini, Johnny The Boy, Bubba Zannetti and The Nightrider are somewhere pouring one out for you.

 

[neverwas]

Fuck me 2020 is trying to out do 2016! Rip to the toecutter.

 

[kingkokong]

MEH, movie is shit, maybe I'm not a fan of Mad Maxes

 

[Cherry Brigand]

Remember him when you look at the night sky!

 

[Fork]

 

[minute bull]

Remember him when you look at the night sky!

What the hell was I watching? Anyway it's a thing with Robert Rodriguez talking to someone -- maybe it was that show he had on his channel (not sure if that's still around). So he's talking about how he first watched MAD MAX with an American dubb, and he said how the "Night Rider" speech was stupid to him, until he discovered the original dubb whereupon he found the same speech much better told when it was with an Australian accent.

Apparently "Noit Roida" significantly did more for him. He was quite enthused.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Pouring out some guzzolene for my homie

 

[90 50]

Rip toecutter.

Also always liked the Theory that Toecutter IS Immortan Joe, and gives credence that “Max” in Fury Road is actually the ferel kid

 

[Cherry Brigand]

What the hell was I watching? Anyway it's a thing with Robert Rodriguez talking to someone -- maybe it was that show he had on his channel (not sure if that's still around). So he's talking about how he first watched MAD MAX with an American dubb, and he said how the "Night Rider" speech was stupid to him, until he discovered the original dubb whereupon he found the same speech much better told when it was with an Australian accent.

Apparently "Noit Roida" significantly did more for him. He was quite enthused.

I just watched the Australian dub for the first time about 2 months ago and it was MUCH better. Even though I knew a lot of the dialogue, I had to turn on the subtitles.
That said, the original is about 30 mins too long...

 

[Jesus X]

10/10 witness me all shiny and chrome

 

[minute bull]

That's like LOVE BOAT lyrics.

Shiny and chrome, come aboard, I'm expecting dome.

 

[TheNinja]

 

[Jesus X]

I suspect embarrassing shenanigans when the cause of death isnt revealed.

 

[Gandzooka]

He lives. He dies. He lives again.