![]() ![]() ![]() Get the five stories that will challenge you to rethink the world by signing up for MicCheck Daily.'Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation' Paramount/Viacom It was really amazing of him to know that he needed a woman to come in who had experience with this." I think George Miller is a feminist, and he made a feminist action film. "One out of three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime - it's a central issue of our time, and that violence against women relates to racial and economic injustice," Ensler told Time. Ensler, who's worked with women around the world who have experienced trauma, helped guide the outlook and motivation driving the varied female characters on screen. Miller even hired Vagina Monologues author and feminist Eve Ensler to consult on set. "She had never cut an action movie, and she said, 'Why on earth would you want me to cut the movie,' and I said, 'Because if it were the usual kind of guys, it would look like every other action movie you see,' and she said, 'My job here is to stop you from embarrassing yourself,'" Miller said, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Miller hired his wife, Margaret Sixel, to edit the film to help avoid doing just that. The film treats all its female characters as more than sexual objects. Even the filmmaking process had a feminist mission.ĭirector George Miller and cinematographer John Seale frame Theron as a true hero and an equal to Hardy instead of sexualizing her through shots that lingered on her skin or her body parts, as is the case in so many action flicks. Each woman is varied and has her own motivations. From the women Joe pumps milk from (who turn on the water pumps at the citadel for the masses in the end) to the all-female biker gang who help Furiosia and Max take down the tyrant, not one woman in that film is a thoughtless waste of a character or a stereotype. The pregnant Angharad (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) pushes the limits of her own body to save the other women in a violent fight, and by the end of the film, Joe is taken down by one of his wives, Toast (Kravitz), and Furiosa through a dashing mix of strategy and satisfying violence. Each of the wives has innate capabilities and are willing to use their own muscle to fight. In Fury Road, however, even the damsels turn their distress into action. (Happily in Beyond Thunderdome, Tina Turner plays Aunt Entity, a ruthless tyrant. The earlier installments of the Mad Max series seemed to have all the traits of ridiculous '80s action movies, including gratuitous female nudity and a limited number of female characters with strong motivations or actions, particularly in the first two films. ![]() It shows the destruction caused by a truly tyrannical patriarchy. Having a strong female character at the top of this installment of Mad Max doesn't necessarily make it a "feminist film," but it ends up being so for many reasons: 1. By the end of the flick, their relationship is one based on simple respect. Not since Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise joined forces in Edge of Tomorrow have we seen such an equitable pairing between two people of opposite genders in a herculean battle to save humanity. Even more refreshing is the fact that Furiosa and Max share virtually no sexual tension. She sets out to save a band of women imprisoned by Immortan Joe, an overlord who controls his people through fear and limiting resources. To Joe, humans beings are just bodies that supply milk, uteruses, muscles or blood. Together with Max (Tom Hardy), Furiosa and a group of Joe's escaped wives ultimately set out to save civilization (at least, as much can be saved in a post-apocalyptic world). ![]() Its protagonist - the turbocharged, war machine-driving savior of humanity - is a woman.Ĭharlize Theron's Imperator Furiosa is a force to be reckoned with. There's a reason a bunch of men's rights activists are urging a boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road. ![]()
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