It is completely unbelievable that a young doctor decided to start making experimental films to study the development of graphic violence in the history of cinema and ended up becoming the architect of one of the best extreme action franchises ever. And also one of the greatest filmmakers that ever lived. What things are.
Truly George Miller’s career is a cluster of incredible coincidences happening together, because nothing in his career fits conventional patterns. It is difficult to imagine a similar case occurring again, and that is why his most powerful films, those of the ‘Mad Max’ saga, are almost a miracle that deserves to be celebrated and admired.
It’s a really crazy world
The arrival of the first two films to streaming through HBO Max completes the most amazing and probably most influential saga in terms of action and apocalyptic science fiction. Some films that established key concepts in the genre, showed the power of the desert as a setting for this kind of world, reflect with incredible force a society collapsing and going mad and make one of the best examples of the lone hero which is reluctantly.
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All without ever repeating the kind of movie that is being made. In these aspects, ‘Mad Max. Salvajes de autopista’ turns out to be against the current due to its austerity, still maintain a realistic rawness, although the ideas about humanity desperate in the face of scarcity (inspired by the real oil crisis in Australia) are already present, with that gang of dangerous bikers. Mel Gibson also manages to be a very inspired choice for the protagonist, wearing the leather of the uniform wonderfully and using his physique very well to be charismatic.
The incredible intelligence to shoot the action, showing it in its most destructive and chaotic facet but without ceasing to be clear and effective, make that first film still look like a great genre exercise. Although it is impossible to deny that ‘Mad Max 2, the road warrior’ is much closer to the intentions sought by Miller when creating this world, using desert landscapes, riding hierarchies led by bizarre subjects and showing the protagonist in his solitary dynamic helping a community in need even if he didn’t intend to at first.
Great variations on the same story
These movies work enormously because Max Rockatansky can’t stay out of trouble, even though he seems to want to. Places a hopeful note amid the madness and car action. Although perhaps he went too far with ‘Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome’, where he starts strong with the confrontations in the dome (two enter, one leaves, great concept) but loses the thread when he decides to introduce the story influenced by ‘Lord of the Flies‘.
That seemed like the end for the character of Max, but Miller never stopped thinking about how to pick it up again. And he did it in the best way with ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, probably the best genre work of the last decade (or the best movie of the last decade, for that matter). Miller puts a spin on it to turn the film into a single giant chase that never misses a beatHe never tires and never stops coming up with amazing ideas in the midst of top-notch action. He is an impressive whirlwind that swallows you and then spits you out with incredible violence.
There are plenty of reasons to watch each and every one of these movies. Each one offers an interesting variation on how to approach the same story, showing that action cinema can offer versatility within a sustained pattern of spectacularity. Miller gets the magnum opus from him throughout an imaginative, devastating, frantic and satisfying saga to the extreme.
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