MAD MAX FURY ROAD: PERSEVERANCE & GLORY

We’re very excited to chat about Mad Max: Fury Road this week! It was an interesting challenge to do a close reading of a film with so little dialogue, but there’s so much going on here on so many levels, we loved getting stuck into it! Our themes were perseverance and glory which proved perfect for the post-apocalyptic nature of this film.

This episode was recorded on 22 January 2022 - sorry for the summer holiday chat, we miss it too.

Show notes

Jenn D read Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon - find out more here.

Jen V stans High Fidelity: the tv show, the film and the book.

Not that much to share this week so just have some extra credit reading:

Check out a fantastic piece here from the NY Times on the oral history of the film.

Here is an article from The Conversation on “The filmic poetry of Mad Max: Fury Road”.

Read more here about the depiction on the commodification of human life (Feels relevant in this pandemic world we’re in!)

Here is a piece from Rolling Stone on the film’s stunts.

And here is a great interview with editor Margaret Sixel on editing the film. What a boss!

Here is one of Jen V’s favourite shots from the film:

And let’s just take a moment to recognise our queen, Furiosa.

We’ll be back with season 6 next week, reading Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. Our foundational theme is expectations, find the full list here. It’s going to be so fun!

We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where this episode was recorded - the Guringai and Darug people, and tangata whenua of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

Our intro and outro music is by the excellent Scott Buckley. Check him out here.

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