Friday, May 15, 2015

70-year-old Mad Max-comeback- hailed as cinematic masterpiece – Aftenposten

Mad Max: Fury Road explode with wild chases and creative action, and is likely to be this summer’s big audience magnet the movies.

Kona clip movie

At the press conference in Cannes, where the film is shown out of competition, asked director Miller with actors Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult. On the podium also put his wife Anne Saxel, who has edited the film.

– She never clip an action movie before. I wanted a cut that made the film not looked like any action, says George Miller.



Started with Mel Gibson

Miller was behind the first Mad Max movie in 1979 with Mel Gibson in the lead role. Later he followed up with Mad Max 2 (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

But since the late 90s, he has Thus most concerned himself with the family film, as Lucky Pig Babe and Happy Feet.

– I was convinced I would never make more Mad Max movies but then I got the idea in his head. It grew and grew, and finally it was decided that we’d go for the film anyway, explains Miller.



Took 12 years to create

– I had no idea it would take us 12 years to do the job. We were ready for just two weeks ago, he smiles. Miller is very pleased to have made the film in 3D, and recommend everyone to see it that way.

The director was asked how he planned the lavish and grand actionfilmen- with endless car chases in a futuristic desert world.

– I would do it as an extended hunting. I like to call this visual music. As Hitchcock said: You do not need subtitles for the people of Japan to understand this, he explained.

– It was all written as one long comic, he added.

All car scene and crashes are made authentic, with a film crew of about 1,000 people, including extras. Desert scenes are filmed in Namibia.



broke not a single bone

– It was dangerous during the filming, but we managed it without breaking a single bone. We had bruises, yes, but no serious injuries, lo George Miller.

The director had not written anything screenplay, but remained a picture added storyboard.

– It would be great to have a script, yes, said Tom Hardy, who has taken over the heavy legacy of Mel Gibson as lead actor.

– I was even excited. There are many who love Mel in that role. He and Millers travel with Mad Max lasted three films. Now we’ll see, he said.



This year’s feminist film?

Still, says many critics that South African Charlize Theron actually overshadows himself Mad Mad, as the one-armed heroine Furiosa in the movie.

– The idea of ​​an arm was already in the first draft of history. She had to be a wounded heroine, even though it was expensive, explained George Miller.

– Yes, because we certainly would not cut off my arm, joking Theron.

A number of critics has pointed out that Theron’s character, and five long legged dictator wives on the run, together constitute a female impact strength that has made Fury Road to one of the year’s most feminist films.

While playing both director and actors the alleged feminist aspect down during the meeting with the press.

– Is there now another Mad Max sequel, a journalist know.

– I feel like a woman who has given birth a big baby. Not until I’m out of the hospital so I will be asked about when I’ll have the next. I have not come me just yet. But the characters are there, backstoryen too, so we’ll see if the appetite returns, he said.

Mad Max: Fury Road, , which premiered on Norwegian cinema Thursday this week, now has a solid critic score of 99 out of 100 points on the film website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 174 international reviewers.

Aftenposten Kjetil Lismoen gave the film a mark of 5, and called it “an insane action-opera”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”: A frantic action-opera

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Published: May 15. 2015 7:50 p.m.

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