Have you ever noticed racing movies never quite nail the action?
Maybe future directors could take notes from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the latest installment in director George Miller’s post-apocalyptic franchise.
Disclaimer: I’m no expert on movie action or anything of the sort (And yes, I know the featured photo is of Erik Jones‘ Mad Max car promoting the video game from 2015, but Mad Max: Fury Road came out months prior, so it’s close enough).
With Fury Road and Furiosa, Miller’s doing things few other directors are at this point in time — and he’s doing them at 79 years old. And, after seeing Furiosa in IMAX on its opening Thursday (May 23) night and then rewatching Fury Road on Saturday and loving it as always, it got me thinking about how action is presented in movies now and how that relates to how motorsports films are choreographed.
In this week’s installment, I’m going to attempt to break down how action unfolds in well-regarded flicks within the genre; what typical, run-of-the-mill modern-day action is like and how good action could be incorporated into future motorsports movies.
Fury Road does what few kinetic action films have done, maybe ever, in that essentially the entire film is one prolonged action scene. However, it’s got a beginning, an end, a reason, internal conflict and everything else a cohesive story needs. And it’s gorgeous. Anything the viewer doesn’t know going in, they’re able to gather pretty easily.
Furiosa, for its part, is far more plot-driven, as we follow Anya Taylor-Joy as the younger version of Charlize Theron’s character. This doesn’t mean, though, that we don’t get our share of fantastic action set-pieces, as she duels with the psychotic Dementus (Chris Hemsworth in a wonderfully maniacal villain role, where he’s clearly having a blast).
Sure, there’s no Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky, but when have the Mad Max movies ever been exclusively about him? They’re about the various people he ends up helping along his nomadic travels in the Australian wasteland.
Despite the box-office bomb overreactions (though it’s definitely not making as much as it should), it’s yet another installment of a pretty phenomenal franchise.
I want to delve into Fury Road, since more clips of that are online since it’s been out for ages, and just what makes it so engaging. The five-minute scene below during the opening portion of the chase is a pretty…
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