She’s the one with the gaze that could melt steel. She’s the one who installs killswitches on her rig so that no one else can drive it. She’s the one who rescues the wives and books it across the desert on the run from Joe.
Without her, none of this movie would have happened. More than Max, Furiosa is the “Get Shit Done Now, Talk Later” action hero of this film. If one character in this film has my heart in her hands though, it’s Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa. My personal favorite was Toast the Knowing (Zoë Kravitz), a genius with guns that spat in the face of Joe towards the end of the movie. Even though Immortan Joe was nearly impossible to understand as he shouted their names, the five young women were all distinct from each other that it didn’t matter that I didn’t know their names until the end of the film. Instead, we get five characters that are never sexually assaulted on screen, who make the statement of “We are not things” to their abuser, struggle with said statement, are never shown through a male gaze-y lens, and have their own distinct characteristics visually and through their actions. The Wives are characters that could have easily been cast off to the side as sexy lamps. They’re also characters that due to the context of their lives before could have been accompanied by visual sexual violence.
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While Tom Hardy does a great job of being the gruff Max and Nicholas Hoult as Nux is a wonderful example of how to put a character through a redemption arc without it feeling forced, there are no characters I loved in this film more than The Wives and Imperator Furiosa. Really though, this film belonged to the women. Plus, do any of the Fast and Furious movies feature a guitar player in red long johns playing a flaming guitar non stop on a vehicle made of speakers and war drums? No, no they do not.
I love dumb action movies more than I would like to admit, but Fury Road takes chase scenes and explosions to a new level. Just the scope of the chase scenes is enough to take my breath away.
AHHHHH! First off, the film is a visual treat, especially if you’re watching it on a large format screen like RPX or IMAX.
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