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Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth instalment in the action movie Mad Max franchise, a successful co-production of Australian and American film industry. The movie is directed by George Miller, and stars Tom Hardy in the pivotal role of Max Rockatansky, with Charlize Theron starring as Imperator Furiosa. While it is backed by Hollywood studio Warner Bros and was mostly shot in Namibia, Fury Road benefited substantially from Australia's filmmaking incentives. And it has a raw, rambunctious energy and an originality that is entirely Miller's.
The Australian – American Co-production
Firstly, the series is owned by Kennedy Miller Mitchell Production, with distributor partner Warner Bros , which financially
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Moreover, the storyline is based on a post-apocalyptic Australia set background. Along with the Australian locations, there’s the Australian director and the cast and crew members, including the talented Margaret Sixel who won Oscar Best Film Editing Award, John Seale who was a retired cameraman, recruited by Miller for MM:FR, then got nominated for Oscar Best Cinematography, Colin Gibson won Best Production Design and David White who won Oscar Best Sound Editing and et cetera. These aspects not only prove Mad Max: Furry Road is an international Australian film, but also has brought Australian films globally ,representing the country’s promising industry with 6 Oscars, becoming the most successfully Australian film in history.
The co-production also brought in Charlize Theron, who clearly, with director George Miller, worked feverishly to create this stunning characterization of a woman on a mission of rage and redemption. “Vulnerable yet invincible, Theron’s Furiosa is a truly unique and powerful character that transcends gender expectations and stereotypes to create one of the most notable, unique and thrilling performances in the annals of film.” This crucial cast positions the co-production as a successful collaboration, cinematic wise and marketing
Australian films are usually criticised for their poor cinematography, weak storyline and terrible stereotypical actors. However, this is not the case for the superb all age 2011 film entitled ‘Red Dog’. Based on the true Australian legend, Red Dog is loved by many Australians; he roamed the outback in search for his owner John. This emotional movie amazed the whole of Australia, finding his way into the hearts of everyone he meets. The film portrays a positive picture of Australia’s national identity as many of the landscapes and Australian spirit can still be found across Australia nowadays, which is why Red Dog should enter the ‘Cannes Film Festival’. The portrayal of the setting, characters and language have all played
Fury, directed by, David Ayer, starting Brad Pitt as Sgt. Don Collider, is a fictional film that portrays how hard life can be for a soldier during war. The film takes place in around April 1945 in the ending stages of World War II. Sergeant Don Collider has the mission to lead his 5 man team in a Sherman tank to a final push against the Nazi’s. The platoon faces many obstacles on the way, and one of the major ones they face is having a young rookie soldier in the platoon. The young soldier, Norman Ellison acted by Logan Lerman, is scared and lost and doesn’t know what to do in time of action. He puts the whole platoon at risk not only once, but multiple times.
This movie was filmed among Australian land and in each shot the outback was clean, healthy and wasn’t proposed in any way dirty. The extreme wide and broad shots shown in this film capture the aspects of Australia which aren’t always seen. The visual of the panning camera and the bird’s eye view shots show Australian for its true natural beauty, which should not be taken for granted. If people at this year’s film festival notice how beautiful our country is and truly can be, this could help to promote discussion on how to keep Australia alive and
The last extreme long shot shows the rural desert which contrasts with their bright costumes, letting the audience feel their accomplishment of climbing King Canyon in full drag. The music in the background is a soft slow song that gets more dramatic the longer it plays finally getting at its climax when they reach the top. This music can mean that their journey was slow at the beginning but got a lot more interesting the longer they drove.
It is no secret that there is an obvious difference of how women are portrayed in the media versus men. This movie discussed female characters never having lead roles and stated that when they did it ended in the women depending on, loving, or having to have a man. One young high school girl said, “Women never play the protagonist. The girls are
One of the issues that was raised is the idea of the relationship between femininty, technology and sexuality. The relationship between all of these qualities converse in one character, Maria. The real Maria has many roles thoughout the movie, including one who cares for the workers children, a preacher of peace for the workers, and one who loves Freder. The machi...
The movie Fury is an American war film which was produced in the year 2014. The movie revolves around the events that transpired in the last days of World War 2. It was developed based on what the director (David Ayer) learnt about the kind of service that his family who were now veterans of World War 2 offered to the United States and the Allies as a block. During its production, Ayer who now had some touch with some of the participants of the war tried as much as he could to make the movie as accurate as he could with regards to the military attacks, weapons, uniforms and maps. However as much as it has been said that most of the events in the movie reflect the real experience of World War 2, not everything in the movie really resonates the
“Raging Bull” (1980) is not a so much a film about boxing but more of a story about a psychotically jealous, sexually insecure borderline homosexual, caged animal of a man, who encourages pain and suffering in his life as almost a form of reparation. Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece of a film drags you down into the seedy filth stenched world of former middleweight boxing champion Jake “The Bronx Bull” LaMotta. Masterfully he paints the picture of a beast whose sole drive is not boxing but an insatiable obsessive jealously over his wife and his fear of his own underling sexuality. The movie broke new ground with its brutal unadulterated no-holds-bard look at the vicious sport of boxing by bringing the camera into the ring, giving the viewer the most realistic, primal, and brutal boxing scenes ever filmed. With blood and sweat spraying, flashbulbs’ bursting at every blow Scorsese gives the common man an invitation into the square circle where only the hardest trained gladiators dare to venture.
The Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, constructs an underground world of men fighting with one and other to find the meaning to their lives. Ed Norton and Brad Pitt are the main characters who start the fight club. They make a set of rules in which everyone must follow.
"What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women . . .. I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need." These words are from Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club. Tyler Durden is the alter ego, and only known name of the fictional narrator of the novel. Tyler suffers from Dissociative Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Primary Insomnia, and probably a host of other disorders that I am not qualified to properly diagnose.
The casting of both Leonardo DiCaprio and fresh-faced Claire Danes influence how the film is viewed. Baz Luhrmann is smart in using young, attractive characters to make the adaptation more appealing to a more adolescent
The movie Fight Club made a great achievement in the film industry, and significantly depicted the social system of the late 20th century. According to most of the reviewers, the success of the film lies behind the fact that almost every American man over 25-years of age is going to inevitably see some of himself in the movie: the frustration, the confusion, the anger at living in a culture where the old rules have broken down and one makes his way with so many fewer cultural cues and guideposts.
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The main themes of the story are loneliness, materialism, and freedom from society. Tyler was created because of the lack of connection the narrator had with the people around him. The narrator was lonely and attended so many support groups because of it. He was not rejected at the support groups because the members thought he was sick just like they were. Materialism is a reoccurring theme as the narrator mentions how he has worked his entire life for the Ikea items in his apartment. He tried to fill the void in his life by buying worthless, meaningless stuff. People spend too much time working for things they do not need. The narrator comes to the conclusion that, “You are not your job or your possessions.” Only once a person realizes that can he or she finally let go and start living. “It’s only after you’ve lost everything,” Tyler says, “that you’re free to do anything.” In order to be free, we must not care about the stuff we own. Our whole lives are spent working to pay for stuff. If we did not have stuff to pay for, we would not have to work as hard and our time could be spent doing something more meaningful.
In conclusion, despite the many disparities and liberties taken by the film’s writers, producers and directors – it was a very enjoyable movie and was entertaining to watch. It also served to introduce and unlock potential interest of Greek mythology to numerous young viewers who have not been exposed to such a dramatic and lavish fairy tale style of ancient characters that once captivated the imagination of numerous audiences. Numerous elements in the film have been taken directly from Greek mythology, yet there were composed in a different manner to create a story of their own. Despite this, most of the characters were indeed real, yet combined like chess pieces to form a new story as seen through the eyes of all the individuals that created the film.