![]() Meanwhile women exist to provide ‘mother’s milk,’ several of them literally strapped to milking machines, and to bear children, specifically Joe’s sires. The power structure is top-down and autocratic. The society Immortan Joe has helped create is patriarchialism gone mad, a cult with Joe as Father ruling over the masses. However to look at the movie strictly through the feminist lens misses out on the larger context, something we have touched on this week: Matriarchy vs. The Dissolve: The feminine desert of Mad Max: Fury Road The extent of this theme extends to the visual nature of the storytelling as per this article: NPR: The Women Pull No Punches In Fiery, Feminist ‘Mad Max’ Grantland: The Masterful, Maniacal, Surprisingly Feminist ‘Fury Road’ Women and Hollywood: Oops! I Made a Feminist Manifesto This has been discussed quite a bit among bloggers and film critics witness these articles as examples: Perhaps the central theme of the story has something to do with feminism. If you have seen Mad Max: Fury Road, I invite you to join me in breaking down the movie to its component parts and analyzing why this movie kicks ass in almost every single way. Monday: General Comments Tuesday: Plot Wednesday: Characters Thursday: Themes Friday: Takeawaysįor those of you who have not seen the movie, do not click MORE as we will be trafficking in major spoilers. This week’s movie: Mad Max: Fury Road, written by George Miller and Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris, directed by George Miller, starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. Decisions get made in Hollywood in large part depending upon how movies perform, so watching movies as they come out puts you in the same head space as reps, producers, execs, and buyers. Let me add this: It’s important to see movies as they get released so that you stay on top of the business. If you immerse yourself in the world of film, it’s like a Gestalt experience where you begin to grasp intuitively scene composition, story structure, character functions, dialogue and subtext, transitions and pacing, and so on. Moreover people who work in the movie business constantly reference existing movies when discussing stories you write it’s a shorthand way of getting across what they mean or envision.īut most importantly, you need to watch movies in order to ‘get’ how movie stories work. Every movie you see is a potential reference point for your writing, everything from story concepts you generate to characters you develop to scenes you construct. ![]() To be a good screenwriter, you need to have a broad exposure to the world of film. Here are my reflections from that post about the importance of watching movies: Why? To quote the writing mantra I coined over 5 years ago: Watch movies. This week we launch a new bi-weekly series in which we will be analyzing movies currently in release.
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