Mad Max: Fury Road - Review - Top Speed
Not "circus" in the P. T. Barnum sense, though that probably wouldn’t be entirely unfair either. More in the Roman sense, referring to places like the Circus Maximus, where chariot-borne gladiators engaged in high-speed duels to the death. George Miller deliberately filmed Fury Road as a follow-up to The Road Warrior, and based a lot of the visuals and styling on the classic Japanese anime Akira. But he could just as well have drawn Fury Road from 80 B. C. than from 1980 A. D. From The Colosseum, with bits of Sparta, Greek naval warfare, and even a bit of Exodus thrown in for good measure. So, how did Miller work this circus together for Fury Road. Think of the penultimate chase scene in The Road Warrior — Mad Max, defending the semi against the incoming hordes of the Humungus, in order to protect the truck’s human cargo. Now, imagine extending that scene by 110 minutes or so. Fury Road. We were told early on that Fury Road was a follow-up to Thunderdome, but that’s immediately belied in the pre-title sequence. "My name is Max. Fury Road doesn’t give you much time to light on the details. Quicker than the speed of thought, Max looks over his shoulder. Engines roar, and the movie immediately rips into high gear. Max ends up at a place called "The Citadel,". Source: www.topspeed.com
