Mad Max: Fury Road - Part 6

[Octoberist]

It could've been a station wagon at that rate. It was too easy to take it down like that.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

What's odd is that it is actually dispatched really, really quickly in the Road Warrior as well.

It at least made it through 2 3rds of the road warrior before being destroyed, here it didn't even last 5 mins.

 

[Drizzle]

CinemaSins finally got their hands on this. They clearly loved it as much as most people did, so it's mostly just minor nitpicking.

 

[biolumen]

Apparently WB is pushing Fury Road for Oscar consideration in the following categories. Best Picture, Director, Original Score, Actor, Actress, and Supporting Actor.

http://www.themarysue.com/mad-max-oscar-road/

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I finally purchased the blu ray over the weekend.

 

[Lord]

Apparently WB is pushing Fury Road for Oscar consideration in the following categories. Best Picture, Director, Original Score, Actor, Actress, and Supporting Actor.

http://www.themarysue.com/mad-max-oscar-road/

While it definitely won't the the win for Best Picture due to how things there work, it definitely deserves a nomination. I doubt anyone would have guesses decades ago that a Mad Max movie would go to the Oscars race.

 

[Voltron]

Charlize, Miller, the movie, Junkie XL, the editor/s, sound, and the cinematographer most especially deserve oscars. Some past oscar winners in the same categories are less deserving.

 

[aNarcHy2day]

Wait. What about these:

Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Academy Award for Best Production Design
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Academy Award for Best Original Score
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

These are the ones I'd consider the film having a realistic chance of competing.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Really it should be nominated for best picture but we all know it won't be. Shame as it deserves it.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I would love for it to be nominated for best picture, but I doubt it'll happen.

It should be nominated for pretty much all of the visual/sound/technical awards, as well as costume/makeup.

I would also like to see Nicholas Hoult nominated for best supporting.

 

[Voltron]

Yes, definitely for all the production, and technical awards.

Hugh Keays-Byrne or Nicholas Hoult are more than deserving of best supporting since b l o o d y Dame Judi Dench got one for Shakespeare in Love where she was in it for barely 5 minutes and she just played a glorified version of herself! Also Gwyneth Paltrow? Life's unfair.

 

[Leenie]

There is no question that this film SHOULD win all of the technical awards, in my opinion.

I would absolutely love it if it got a Best Picture nomination. It is still easily my favorite movie of 2015; nothing I've seen has come close, and I've seen a lot of movies this year.

 

[jmc]

For this film to have any shot at glory the campaign has to be about George Miller, his time in the industry and his past work, not the film. The film on it's own is too out there despite how good it is, so WB have to make it about Miller. 70 year old master craftsman returns to his roots and directs a high octane action movie that is universally praised by critics and loved by audiences.

 

[Farren]

I think it's possible it could earn some nominations for major awards. The Academy has been branching out a bit in the last decade.

 

[CB Fan]

You know I actually think it has a chance for a nomination in at least one of the big categories be it actress, director, or picture, but I don't see it getting noms for actor or supporting actor though. That said I think it will stop with the nominations it wont win anything for the big categories id love to be surprised though.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I seriously doubt that Mad Max will get any major Nom's but it would be neat if it did.

 

[Willi Berg]

George Miller gave a talk here at the Sydney Opera House last weekend about Fury Road. He was joined by co-writers Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris. Designers/artists Mark Sexton and Peter Pound were also there. It was pretty cool. As they talked there was a projection of concept art, storyboards and photos behind them.

Some things they talked about:

-How the process took so long, from the late 90s to the stops and starts of production throughout the 2000s.

-Lathouris talked of Max being a "wounded animal" that finds his purpose in the world.

-Everything in the movie had a logic, every character a backstory. Everything was made up found parts.

-George was interested in making a movie where everything was revealed on the run, where it looked like the tip of the iceberg, but people could find the whole iceberg underneath.

-Brendan McCarthy originally wrote it that Max was to stay with Furiosa at the end, but Miller and Lathouris didn't feel Max had earned that yet.

-The War Boys had half-life paint on their faces, while Furiosa had full-life paint on her face.

-Brendan McCarthy was a huge Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) fan growing up, watching it repeatedly. He even wrote George a fan letter. George hired him when he became known to help work on the story. Brendan wasn't a huge fan of Beyond Thunderdome. He said he had to get George back to the Mad Max mindset, after the Babe and Happy Feet movies.

-George envisioned the story set in the heart of Australia, in the centre of the desert.

Here are some photos:

(Peter Pound and Mark Sexton)

(Peter Pound, Nico Lathouris, George Miller)

 

[ThePhantasm]

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Awesome! I thought that part looked a bit iffy in the cinema, but on BD it looks brilliant!

 

[CapedCrusader14]

I went to the same presentation as Willi as well and it was fantastic. One of my favourite nuggets of info that was let out was that George originally had an idea for a Mad Max TV series in the 80's where Max would go around doing jobs for scrap to rebuild the Interceptor. I can imagine how much of a logistical nightmare that would have been.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

That scene is awesome. Like looking at some nightmarish painting. It was then I realized this is next level ****.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

That scene is awesome. Like looking at some nightmarish painting. It was then I realized this is next level ****.

Same, that was the part in the movie which made me really stand up and realize this was going to be amazing. The score in that scene is brilliant as well.

 

[Voltron]

Okay so I was considering buying the food silver color mist spray from amazon where the mad max fans hijacked the review section.

And I noticed in the Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought section were

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[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Lol that's brilliant!

 

[redhawk23]

http://toyland.gizmodo.com/your-halloween-costume-will-never-be-as-amazing-as-this-1738655282