Analysis
Symbols and Tropes
Hero's Journey
Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...
Setting
Rocky canyons, unforgiving salt flats, sandstone cliffs, gloopy gray quagmires—everywhere you go in Mad Max: Fury Road, you're faced with a world that isn't all that interested in helping you get...
Point of View
"Nonverbal." That's not exactly the first word we think of when we think of modern-day movies. After all, there are people in movies, and people have a tendency to, you know, verbalize—even if it...
Genre
Action, Road MovieLike any good old-fashioned action movie, Mad Max: Fury Road is written in sequences, rather than scenes. It's all about one action movement to the next. First we've got the bit i...
What's Up With the Title?
We've got three things to deal with here:the Mad Max partthe Fury partand the Road part.Let's break it down, shall we?Mad Who?This may be the first time Tom Hardy has played the role, but we're her...
What's Up With the Ending?
The full-throttle ending of Fury Road comes barreling in like a freight train, wrapping up storylines and blowing up rides left and right. In the final race back to the Citadel, we seem both Max an...
Shock Rating
RFury Road doesn't earn an R for swear words or sexual situations. In fact, it's got zero of those. Nope, this movie earns the R for good old-fashioned violence and gore. We've got guns galore, a r...