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If I see one more thing about Mad Max not having a plot…
It did. It really did. It had one of the most human and fundamental plots there is.
Hero leaves home. Hero returns. See Odysseus for the most famous example of this.
That’s it. That George Miller didn’t clutter that up with endless subplots and fart jokes doesn’t mean it didn’t have a plot. It means he understands plot and story arc better then most of the people in Hollywood today.
And if you’re reading this thinking, “but Max didn’t leave home…” then slap yourself. The Hero was Imperator Furiosa. Even Max understood that.
From my other blog which is becoming the place I stash all things post-apocalyptic.
It had the. simplest. plot. But that’s why it was so much better than all the other action movies where twists and subplots and halfplots and ‘this makes no sense but it will look cool’ types of scenes are crammed in until there’s no room left for any logical and meaningful development.
augh, yes!! And right up there in the ‘slap yourself’ category, insert ‘there was no character development.’ HONESTLY, did I see a different movie or something? There were character arcs all over the damn place! An astonishing amount of change was packed into about a 3 day story line.
What of Cheedo’s change from a grief-stricken desire to return to the safe and familiar, to using her previously-known rep. to trick her former captors and give Furiosa a chance to get to the villain?
What of Nux discovering a completely different meaning of victory, of what it means to be human, of what it means to offer one’s self as a sacrifice?
What of Max starting at ‘feral and without words’ and going to ‘I have the chance to help change the destiny of these people with the right quiet words at the right thoughtful time’? Not to mention his transition from victim of bodily theft to without-a-second-thought giver of his blood?
What of Splendid’s full flowering into a warrior right before our very eyes?
What of the Vulvalini’s decision to change their destiny from one of gradual extinction to deliberate sacrifice on the pyre of enabling the rebirth of their hard-held valuing of a life lived in freedom and abundance?
What of Furiosa’s transition from angry running-scared vengeance ‘He stole what was most precious to me, I will steal what is most precious to him’ – to ‘I will join with my sisters and brothers to re-make a broken society into a whole one.’
DAMN, people, I’ve seen epic SAGAS that didn’t have this much character development!
