{"id":148749,"date":"2015-06-22T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/22\/the-thing-that-people-were-chasing-was-to-be-not\/"},"modified":"2015-06-22T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:04:47","slug":"the-thing-that-people-were-chasing-was-to-be-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/22\/the-thing-that-people-were-chasing-was-to-be-not\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing that people were chasing was to be not an object, but the five wives. I needed a warrior. But it couldn\u2019t be a man taking five wives from another man. That\u2019s an entirely different story. So everything grew out of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cInitially, there wasn\u2019t a feminist agenda,\u201d director George Miller insisted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This quote about Mad Max: Fury Road<\/b> made me want to gnaw on my own knuckle in cartoonish excitement because DO YOU SEE WHAT HIS LOGIC DOES THERE? Too many directors and writers would stop at\u00a0\u201cI needed a warrior.\u201d They never take that next step to understand that\u00a0it couldn\u2019t be a man taking five wives from another man.<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n

For most action movies, the first half of this quote is enough. It\u2019s enough to be Liam Neeson or Jason Statham or Clive Owen as a good man rescuing the poor women from the bad man. Easy money, right? \u00a0But Miller had the instinct to realize that a woman helping other women is not only a more interesting story to tell\u2013it\u2019s the story we should<\/i>\u00a0be telling all along.<\/p>\n

(via rashaka<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Just because it\u2019s a woman taking the five wives doesn\u2019t make them LESS OF AN OBJECT, for fuck\u2019s sake, they\u2019re still being treated as property by the antagonist and the story still hinges on a hero rescuing people who were deemed unfit to rescue themselves.<\/p>\n

(via sciencemyfiction<\/a>)<\/p>\n

NOOOOOOOO. No no no. Did you even watch the movie???? \u00a0One of the first lines of the film is from the old woman at the Citadel. \u00a0The woman says\u00a0\u201cShe didn\u2019t take them, they begged her to go!\u201d \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Later, it is again repeated that the plan to leave was Angharad\u2019s master plan, and Furiosa was brought in as their instrument for escape. The Wives have agency since the very beginning of the film. \u00a0<\/p>\n

(via leclairage<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Like, compare with Max, who is literally unable to rescue himself (the best he managed is to keep from getting blown up before a sandstorm intervened).<\/p>\n

(via ayyysexual<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Yes, they ARE being treated as property by the villain (I\u2019m not going to call him the antagonist, because an antagonist is not necessarily evil, merely opposed to the goals of the hero).<\/p>\n

The villain treats everyone<\/b>\u00a0as his property. That\u2019s what makes him a villain, not just\u00a0\u201cthe guy in charge who keeps everything running smoothly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Personally, I still think the movie would have not been essentially different if Furiosa had been a man – but obviously I have to bow at least somewhat to the thoughts and creative processes of the writer.<\/p>\n

The wives couldn\u2019t rescue themselves because they\u2019d been kept in a harem for years. They\u2019re tough women who do their best in every situation they\u2019re in, they show tremendous courage, but they couldn\u2019t rescue themselves because they were sheltered and didn\u2019t have the survival skills<\/b>. So, they asked for help. They show a solid motivation for their escape – to keep their kids from being raised by an abusive villain who treats other people as property (In many cases, a battered wife will only flee her husband when he starts threatening the children).<\/p>\n

Not being able to do something is not the same thing as not having agency. Not knowing how to fight, how to survive, or what to do on the road doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t have agency.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d suggest that very few of the people reading this post would last five minutes on the Fury Road.<\/p>\n

(via jenniferrpovey<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The thing that people were chasing was to be not an object, but the five wives. I needed a warrior. But it couldn\u2019t be a man taking five wives from another man. That\u2019s an entirely different story. So everything grew out of that. \u201cInitially, there wasn\u2019t a feminist agenda,\u201d director George Miller insisted. This quote … <\/p>\n

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