{"id":142285,"date":"2015-08-06T22:39:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/06\/max-you-done-this-before\/"},"modified":"2015-08-06T22:39:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T22:39:47","slug":"max-you-done-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/06\/max-you-done-this-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Max: You done this before?"},"content":{"rendered":"

fuckyeahisawthat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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bonehandledknife<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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thoughtfulfangirling<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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bonehandledknife<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy:<\/p>\n

Max:<\/b> You done this before?
Furiosa:<\/b> Many times. Now that I drive a War Rig, this is the best shot I\u2019ll ever have.
Max: <\/b>And them?
Furiosa: <\/b>They\u2019re looking for hope.
Max:<\/b> What about you?
Furiosa:<\/b> Redemption.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Er pardon my butting in and also deletion of the convo because long but also because almost none of the above was my stance on this scene in the movie, because of the essential factor that neither of them are nice people and are both positioned as anti-heroes in the narrative\/themes and also that despite their working together there\u2019s still elements of trust missing (that I think people forget because of fanon), but also things they can\u2019t flat out say, being the people they are.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I feel like their conversation really goes, taking in all the context, their tones, their face, and their body language:<\/p>\n

Max:<\/b> Can I trust you to get to this place?<\/p>\n

Furiosa:<\/b> Yes, even though I haven\u2019t succeeded before.<\/p>\n

Max:<\/b> Why did you bring them along even though they\u2019ve probably brought the war parties down on your head? Thought you wanted the \u2018best shot\u2019.<\/p>\n

Furiosa:<\/b> because they asked, and I couldn\u2019t refuse them with the way they asked. They still believe in hope.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Max:<\/b> Do you still believe in it?<\/p>\n

Furiosa: <\/b>I don\u2019t think I can. I\u2019ve seen\/committed too many terrible things and I want it to stop weighing on me.<\/p>\n

And what\u2019s key here is that Furiosa spends all of this conversation with a thousand yard stare<\/a>. She\u2019s throwing off ptsd like paint fumes, her mouth is held in that way reminds me of the way people hold it when they don\u2019t want it to shake visibly shake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Watch\/Listen to the delivery of Max\u2019s lines.\u00a0\u201cHow do you even know this place even exists\u201d is delivered with actual doubt, \u201dThen why\u2019d you leave?\u201d with confusion, and everything else is like\u2026 gentle, after she says\u00a0\u201cstolen, as a child.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compare his delivery of\u00a0\u201cHow do you even know this place exists?\u201d with\u00a0\u201cYou done this before?\u201d<\/p>\n

And then how he keeps on looking at her until she says Redemption and then how he looks away.<\/p>\n

This to me was a great scene of talking around<\/i> things, there are things that Furiosa would never say to Max like the line,\u00a0\u201cI used to be a wife.\u201d But she says it here in a way that had Max changing his tone with her instantly.<\/p>\n

The information in this scene was almost completely stripped from the dialogue itself, like much of the movie, it\u2019s all <\/i>visual and tone and context, and I can\u2019t watch it some days because I can\u2019t watch the trauma on her face and on how she holds her mouth like people hold it in that careful way when they are in public and can\u2019t cry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is really enlightening. Thank you! I mean, I got kind of the gist of all that, but not parsed out so clearly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Being who I am though, I still can\u2019t figure out where\/how the\u00a0\u2018many times\u2019 fit(s) in. In the conversation you present, is it essentially the part that says\u00a0\u2018I can get us there\/you can trust me to get us there\u2019? Is she essentially posturing then? Because she really hasn\u2019t been there in a long time, so it can\u2019t mean\u00a0\u2018i\u2019ve been there many times already\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sorry I\u2019m so damn pedantic; I just get really stumped. It takes the movie from being this perfect masterpiece where everything fits into place and has meaning, to this one piece of the puzzle not fitting. I am wholly willing to believe that it\u2019s some lack in my understanding that makes the piece not fit. In fact, I can\u2019t help but think it really does! And that drives me crazy, because I hate being clueless bout something I feel I should\u00a0\u2018get\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think she might have tried? I honestly don\u2019t get too hung up on it; she says it lightly in a way that I honestly wouldn\u2019t be surprised was posturing, at least to a degree because it clearly hadn\u2019t worked before.<\/p>\n

I put it in the same category as the milking mothers, logistically it doesn\u2019t make the greatest of sense but it works as a theme and we might get more details in future movies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a better analysis of this scene than what I had going on tbh, because it gets to the heart of what the scene is about, rather than what the characters are saying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

fuckyeahisawthat: bonehandledknife: thoughtfulfangirling: bonehandledknife: flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy: Max: You done this before?Furiosa: Many times. Now that I drive a War Rig, this is the best shot I\u2019ll ever have.Max: And them?Furiosa: They\u2019re looking for hope.Max: What about you?Furiosa: Redemption. Er pardon my butting in and also deletion of the convo because long but also because almost none … <\/p>\n

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