Max and company then find themselves struggling to survive in surreal, hellish landscapes awash with creepy creatures and gun-happy lunatics.
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The movie shows off blue-dominated interior sets here, as it does later on in the story when night sets in.
We get plenty of scenes set in Immortan Joe’s home base The Citadel, where water still exists in ample supply. Filmed in Namibia by Oscar-winning cinematographer John Searle, Fury Road makes simple sand dunes and rusted metal look like glorious visual masterpieces.ĭon’t fret, Fury Road may focus on rocky and sandy desert locales, but it’s by no means a one trick combat vehicle. Instead, Max comes into conflict with local warlord and ex-military officer Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne from the first Mad Max movie), who leads an army of crazed war boys.Īll of this takes place in a beautifully-captured desert environment that has shades of yellow and orange we didn’t think even existed until Fury Road put them up on its HDR-enriched screen. But of course, this being a George Miller action movie, nothing of the sort happens. In Max’s delusional mind, his long-dead family could even be alive in this alleged safe haven.
Max’s world is one of post nuclear war desolation, where water is scarce but ironically there’s oil aplenty, making sure cars run fast and loud.ĭriven to insanity by loneliness and violence, Max reaches the edge of the desert in a bid to enter the Great White, or a sort of promised land where he imagines peace may be found. In this case, he’s truly mad, having spent decades on the road in his famous car, the Black on Black Pursuit Special. It stars Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky, or Mad Max. The movie released 30 years after the initial trilogy starring Mel Gibson ended in 1985, meaning Fury Road takes place years after the last installment. As the film’s production designer said, “Every army needs a Little Drummer Boy.” Joe’s army had the Doof Warrior, a blind, bungee-attached psychopath who wielded a fire-breathing guitar.Created and directed by Mad Max franchise author George Miller, Fury Road serves as a soft reboot of the Mad Max series. Personally, I may put in a bid for the Doof Wagon, the speaker-staked “morale machine” of Immortan Joe’s army of War Boys, intended to rally the troops and keep them pumped up for battle. Or picking up your kids from school in the Nux Wagon, the super-turbocharged, nitrous-boosted Deuce Coupe driven by Nicholas Hoult’s chrome-lipped true believer. Imagine going for a grocery run in the War Rig that was driven by Tom Hardy’s Max Rockatansky and Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa. Nitrous, noxious, and no-nonsense harbingers of hell, marking man’s uncanny ability to wring beauty even from that designed for death and destruction, art from power, meaning from machine. WITNESS ME!īlown, super-turbo charged and armed to the teeth with weaponry and War Boys, the machines that outran the end of civilisation have been unearthed in the greatest barn-find ever recorded. Reading through the descriptions of each vehicle - and hats off to the auctioneers, they really did a commendable job describing each lot - really made me want to fire up George Miller’s blood-and-sand-drenched movie for another watch.
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The vehicles will be available for bidding in a series of auctions held by Lloyds on September 25th-26th. Over a dozen vehicles from the 2015 cult classic Mad Max: Fury Road are being put up for a virtual auction.