Furiosa’s Perfect Filmmaking - Video Essay

[@ThomasGanschOFFICIAL]

I was wondering why everyone seems to dislike Furiosa. When i saw it a couple of weeks ago i was in total awe. Great frickin movie !

[@WatchMaga]

Men are just tired of girl bosses. Yes. This movie got the girl boss right. But it doesn’t matter. We are sick of it. I believe millet made a deal with the studio. Two girl boss movies before he gets to make another true mad max film. That said. This film is a masterpiece.

[@josuebenvindo]

I asked myself the same question. This film is a masterpiece. Unfortunately, the woke virus poisoned everybody.

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

Four factors: 1) Shortened attention spans, thus people not being able to process complex mise en scene. 2) Movie watching as collective social event rather than individual interest in storytelling, thus people not willing to continually focus on screen to process complex mise en scene. 3) Large ultra-commercialized cinema complexes renting out the majority of mass-seats crammed in at shitty angles to the screen, thus not allowing most audiences to comfortably process complex mise en scene. 4) People watching movies or trailers for movies on small mobile devices with shitty screens in shitty lighting conditions, thus bereaving themselves of the chance to fully enjoy complex and detailed mise en scene. Take all of that together, and you will end up with a perfect pearls before swine scenario.

[@UmbrellaGent]

From what I've seen, everyone who hasn't seen it dislikes it and everyone who has likes it. It was released at an unfortunate time when we often get cashgrab sequels/remakes/reboots of classics with "a new, modern lead," very often a woman, which end up being terrible as the creators forget to make the films actually good. People assumed that this was another dismal example, and once in ten times they were wrong. It did not help that the film features more CG effects that stand out more than they did in Fury Road, which was especially noticeable in the trailers, another thing about most modern cashgrab revivals etc. being they tend to drench everything in computer effects, generally out of thrift and not for artistic reasons.

[@natesmart9959]

@@UmbrellaGentI saw it. Didn’t like it. At all. Lol

[@ruurdm.fenenga2571]

The director of "Furiosa" is 79 years old.

[@geoffhoutman1557]

79 years young! George should be on the $500 bill

[@mdd4296]

2 years younger than scorsese

[@HorrorTactico]

Tarantino is wrong and should abandon this idea that past certain age he will lose his touch

[@flirtingdisaster]

He already lost it.​@@HorrorTactico

[@BryceMwenda]

The copyright gods have given us this blessing.

[@giggajames1903]

Modern cinema is so infested with shot reverse shot, generic closeups and narrow angles that it's refreshing to see a movie that actually looks like it was filmed by a professional.

[@Fiveash-Art]

Na .. This movie looked just like another CGI mess. Fury Road was so much better. This thing looked rushed unfinished and cheap in comparison.

[@giggajames1903]

@@Fiveash-Art Ironic for a movie that spent almost a decade in development and cost over 150 million dollars.

[@Fiveash-Art]

@@giggajames1903 That may be.. It still looked like a video game. There're plenty of productions that studios have thrown tons of money at that I really could care less about. Stuff like Avatar is a pretty good example. Now we have Furiosa. The movie looked bad, and I don't care how much money they spent on it. It was definitely a downgrade from Fury Road. They should've spent that money on more practical effects and less on the cheesy CGI. Something like Romulus only cost 80 million and looks way better than this trash.

[@directorchris2]

narrow angles = NO MONEY FOR WALLZ

[@chunkenchunkinanimation873]

Miller knows how to direct a damn good movie, and he’s a true master of action scenes. It boggles my mind how Furiosa failed to make an impact, there’s not a lot of modern blockbuster crafted with such care and talent. We need more mad max in the future.

[@BaggeyTrowsers-w2n]

Sadly the parts are greater than the whole...

[@mdd4296]

Above and beyond quality have very little to do with market successes

[@chunkenchunkinanimation873]

@@mdd4296 yeah I know. That's a fact I'm sadly far too aware of.

[@will_tzu]

Probably a victim of woke girlboss fatigue. Audiences weren’t ready to give it a chance.

[@ricblessing3400]

People should see what they want to see, but most of the reasons given - “girlboss” fatigue, prequel fatigue, movie prices, theater compared to home theater quality, Max not at center of Mad Max, etc. never really seem to stand up to scrutiny.

[@janezverbic2093]

I love Furiosa, so underrated. Its beautiful, dinamic, gripping, funny and so much fun, which is rare these days. Only thing missing is just a little cameo from Mel Gibson as a random old man.

[@hughleigh3959]

Its a shame this bombed at the box office, beacuse it seems like everyone who's seen it (including me) loved it.

[@LordBaktor]

I've seen it and didn't like it at all but I'm told I got weird taste so don't mind me.

[@ethanhegel8576]

@@LordBaktor the movie has a problem opening plot points and abandoning them. it sets up issues that should come to conflict later, and then it skips time and forgets about them. Makes the film feel very dissatisfying. at least that was my impression in the theater. I intend to re-watch and see if I feel the same way.

[@LordBaktor]

@@ethanhegel8576 I saw it first alone and then again a couple days ago with a couple friends who hadn't seen it. I didn't tell them I had seen it to avoid tainting their judgement. I wanted to see if I was being overly picky or if the movie actually was slow and bloated as I felt. They disliked it as much as myself if not more.

[@Fiveash-Art]

I've seen it and I was bored out of my mind. It's garbage.

[@josuebenvindo]

Once more, one of the best cinema channels makes a great analysis about one of the best cinema directors. George Miller loves Kurosawa. I'd love to see your analysis about one of Kurosawa's films.

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

Kurosawa also deeply inspired Leone's work, so no wonder Miller's style reminded this video's creator of a Leone film. Yojimbo would be a perfect object of study for more mise en scene. (And its remake Last Man Standing one for montage.)

[@wolandpersonal2407]

This little scene is lifted straight from The Seven Samurai. I love it so much. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p36lh5uXrLSNgqc

[@Spectalys]

Furiosa is a masterpiece

[@juniorgamersfire1184]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Anubis22774]

It really is

[@Spectalys]

​@@Anubis22774 I like this movie so much, I really want anothers Mad Max movies from Miller, or Any action movie from Him, that is so good and Furiosa cames from the futur, i'm sure. So epic

[@Fiveash-Art]

@@Anubis22774 It's garbage.

[@lukedoyle2770]

Hands down my favourite film in the Mad Max universe. The world building and character arc is just unparalleled by any previous instalment. And wow don’t even get me started on that end scene. Dune Part 2 and Furiosa alone have made this a fantastic year for cinema. Pushing production to its limits while holding staggering depth that keeps you thinking long after the end credits. What a time to be alive

[@lanolinlight]

In FURY ROAD, Miller made accelerated montage digestible and coherent, something blender directors like Michael Bay can't do. At first I was disappointed that FURY ROAD wasn't shot with anamorphic lenses, as they lent such gravitas and beauty to all prior Mad Max films, but the rapid, centered montage style of FR left you no time to grieve that loss. We were too busy marveling at the relentless chaos. In FURIOSA, with its sprawling mis en scene, I *really* miss the anamorphic dreaminess that would have lent it BEYOND THUNDERDOME levels of grandeur. We understand that epics like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and the DOLLARS trilogy (Techniscope) were not shot anamorphic, but they had so many other physical elements enforcing a sense of place and presence. (In Lawrence's case, having Freddie Young shoot in 70mm goes a long way...) As it is, FURIOSA is impressive but stagey. You feel the actors neatly hitting their marks as if at a Universal park stunt show. All other Mad Max films felt like they were raging out of control, even though George Miller has always been fully in control.

[@MahRahman1]

I think they should've named the movie Furiosa. No mad max in the title. And market it by calling it a totally different type of movie than other mad max movies. I think with the mad max title association we expected a movie with similar flow to mad max movies.

[@badinfluence3814]

I agree with your last point. This is also how I feel about many of Spielberg's films over the last 25 years. So well staged and technically incredible, but because of this somehow they lose some of the magic which his earlier films possessed.

[@TheClassicalSauce]

Good analysis. I agree.

[@thatRyzzle]

Honestly, I didn't watch this movie because all the trailers suggested that the filmmakers relied more heavily on CGI compared to Fury Road, in which the CGI is expertly hidden (like, removing ropes and harnesses during stunts, some matte painting and compositing, etc.). Maybe I should give this one a shot, it seems.

[@Anubis22774]

Same here and when I saw it a month ago I was shocked to say that it is now my favorite of the franchise.

[@Fiveash-Art]

It looks like a freakin video game .. The CGI effects were glaringly bad and the action sequences were a total confusing mess to watch. I couldn't make heads or tails out of half of what was going on. Fury Road has this movie beat by miles.

[@Fiveash-Art]

@@Anubis22774 "favorite of the franchise" .. 😂 You've got to be kidding me.

[@josiahferrell5022]

​@@Fiveash-ArtI doubt they are kidding. I have watched the entire series in the last 5 weeks, and I thought the same thing, though Fury Road is my 2nd favorite

[@spacemanspud7073]

No they were right, looks like a Pixar movie. It's almost a "why make the film", real cars and real Stunts are part of the appeal of these films, especially after fury road.

[@HousatonicLive2]

This is one of the best reviews I’ve seen yet. I’ve grown to love this movie, but it has a lot of haters and I need someone to put into words what I am enjoying, but apparently not enough others can appreciate. This actually made my day. Thank you.

[@centpushups]

Reminds me of dancing. Such as swing dancing, where you pull close together face to face and hold the waist and spin out to barely hold the fingers seeing each other from a distance. Than you spin back together. And its that rhythm of close to separate that makes swing dancing pleasing to watch. You can definitely feel that rhythm being here just as the jump cuts in the previous movie.

[@recetasfaciles2816]

So much brilliance. It will probably be ignored by the Oscars or any other awards. Your channel is amazing. You help me to get things that I didn't get the first time I saw it. It's so well done that I could barely think about it because of how invested and immersed I was in the experience.

[@MrJfairbrother]

What you just said? That's what I thought when I first saw Furiosa back in May. The work of a master; a mythic yin to Fury Road's rollercoaster yang. For me, no other new movie this year has delivered such purely cinematic ecstasy (although the animated flick Flow comes close).

[@brianstorm5488]

Yes! I had to rewatch this in the theater immediately to confirm it was as surpassingly great as I thought. Good to see a great analysis of why IT IS. I must add Hemsworth IMO gives the greatest performance of the entire saga. He gives the family grief-twisted villain (a dark side mirror of Max) a disarmingly fresh take; the oscillating humorous swagger & explosive rage, the nose prosthetic that obliterates Thor’s charming mug, the thick Aussie accent - seemingly demented until you remember it’s from Hemsworth’s native land. Most effective though is the vulnerability - his barking shouts gradually take on an increasing quality of uncontrolled sobbing. Not coincidentally he became Marvel’s most vulnerable lead character against reasonable expectations. I find him riveting in every scene, a perf likely to reveal more notes broad and subtle with every viewing. One of the boldest, most colorful and viscously committed popcorn movie villains of this century. Critical, IMO to making Furiosa even more emotionally engaging than Fury Road with its relatively one note monster-eyed devil mask faces.

[@n0tthemessiah]

Hemsworth looks like he had an absolute blast being in this movie. Definitely my favorite performance of his; he makes a really compelling villian.

[@hab0272]

I was curious if he was as memorable as Joe and i was not dissapointed.

[@HereForTheClips]

Awesome review and insights into the complexity of the direction and editing. It appears a simple action movie, but clearly far from simple. You have opened my eyes to the Art of his directing and style and helped me understand why I adored this movie. Thanks.

[@HereForTheClips]

Oh, and btw, keep the background music. Your presentation is perfect.

[@williamwong1982]

One of my absolute favourites of the year. George Miller is truly one of the great visual storytelling geniuses of our time. It's a shame that the general audiences don't realise this.

[@tobilobaojuroye9024]

I think my major issues with Furiosa were the story and the casting. The story felt lighter than what we were used to in the franchise. The cast wasn't as intense as Fury Road. Oh... And the choice to go for more saturation and CGI than practical effects. Other than that. I think what you said has been eye opening and I'll definitely look at Furiosa again.

[@patrikneperfekta7575]

But The world-building was better imo.

[@patrikneperfekta7575]

And although i had my worries about Ann Taylor Joy, she delivered perfectly. And so did Chris Hemsworth, who was the standout of this movie imo.

[@tobilobaojuroye9024]

@@patrikneperfekta7575 They delivered. Sure. But unfortunately, Anya didn't match Charlize's intensity. Also Pretorian Jack didn't match Tom Hardy's performance. Chris Hemsworth played his role well but the character shouldn't be in the world of Mad Max in the first place. I agree about the world building

[@fakechuck7659]

What do you mean by an "intense" cast?

[@theostragonidis7548]

@@fakechuck7659 As in someone who can actually act.

[@tygorton]

Agreed. Unfortunately, I listened to initial sentiment about Furiosa and was in no hurry to see it. When I did, I was shocked how good it is. I'm in the "better than Fury Road" camp. The character interactions in Furiosa are incredible fun, something we don't really get that much of in Fury Road. The shots, the pacing, the performances, and the perfected Mad Max style are a joy to experience start to finish.

[@josiahferrell5022]

It sounds like people don't care about whether they care about what happens to the characters. In this one, I cared a lot and that gives the action scenes real meaning

[@TheGeekyAmreeki]

The effort and time put into this edit, nay, this piece of art is evident. Kudos to you. Defo earned a new sub from me.

[@WonsPhreely]

Such an amazing film. Miller deserves so much more credit, this is his best of the Mad Max saga. Great video, thank you for explaining Mise-en-scène.

[@JCarrera27]

I liked it, but definitely a lot of the enhanced practical effects, visuals, CGI whatever, they look muddied, blended without details, it won't do magic but I hope the black and chrome version makes them look better now that we don't have color🤷‍♂️

[@LycanVisuals]

It's no Fury Road to me personally, but I still had a blast watching this and enjoyed your interpretation of this. Need to give this re-watch.

[@Anubis22774]

I never thought I would say this, but it is now my favorite of the mad max franchise.

[@nathanieldugdale9549]

Bravo maestro. Agree with everything. I think the montage style makes beats hit much more VISCERALLY than the mise-en-scene approach. Mise-en-scene is great for character and world exposition, but affects me on a more intellectual level. Montage when it comes to action is more raw, pronounced and emotive, and for that reason I responded much more to Fury Road than Furiosa!

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

That's why I love a compositional well balanced combination of both: mise en scene for world building, characterisation, emotional and motivational immersion, the pull factors that make me want to suspend my disbelief and leave my personal everyday concerns outside of the movie experience; but also for beauty, escapism, elevation out of my all-too-subjective and compartmentalized mode of perception into a more multicognizant panoptical mode of perception where it is an easier, more flowing, less disconnected process to try and make sense of things; in action scenes to appreciate the skill behind tactical orientation and improvisation as well as execution speed and accuracy, but also the more strategic aspects regarding positioning and utilizing the environment; but then also montage as an affective, emotional push-factor, to catapult me into sudden empathy with characters' augmented or limited subjective perception, their situational hyperfocus or overstimulation; but dynamically and measured, with perceptive purpose and psychohygienic pauses to it, not in turned-up-to-eleven twenty-four-seven sensory overload mode until I get desensitized and all its signaling effect is being lost in a meaningless barrage of white noise.

[@chrisfury6316]

I loved Furiosa - its a pity that it flopped. But from the action it was not quiet as great as Fury Road. Still a great movie!

[@BenjaminSteber]

I regret not seeing this in theaters.

[@geoffhoutman1557]

Thank you Moviewise. The Lean& Leone point was a vg call. The shot from OUATITW was also borrowed for Fargo S1, when Malvo goes into the office building and we track all over glazed windows with only the sound to guide us. Until... Great vid as usual

[@monomakes]

Wonderful! What you highlight about film direction has increased my appreciation for my favourite films. Thank you very much!

[@TheClassicalSauce]

It's a little Wes Anderson for my tastes. Sometimes the "perfect shot" ends up being more surreal than real, which removes its grittiness and takes you a bit out of the scene. If that's the intention, fine, but it's definitely a matter of taste. And Chris Hemsworth is too ham to make anything realistic or believable. Miscast. I'm not saying I don't like the new MADMAX but it's definitely showing its MCU modernity. The same thing happened with Game of Thrones. In the first seasons it was very grounded until it needed to go full comic book by season seven.

[@Fiveash-Art]

The movie was embarrassing to watch .. I can't believe there are people who fell for its tricks. It's total trash.

[@andrewmilesbroughton8222]

I agree , this is the swiss watch of action films!

[@xgreenxcloverx]

I loved it! I suppose I'm one of the seemingly few who appreciate the world George has created and continues to expand on. Even the Mad Max game for PS4 was great imo. Hopefully there's more to come from George if he's willing to put in the work for us once again.

[@DreamLogicPictures]

Not to be pedantic about it, but there actually is an "invisible" jump-cut in the Furiosa shot @2:28. But the point still stands. Good video, as always.

[@Mandibil]

I had written this one off, judging from other reviews on YT ... but you convinced me that it is one of the rare cases of a modern movie I want to watch :-)

[@menorcaventura3442]

Another great shot in the movie is while young Furiosa sabotages a motorcycle in the Green Place, the audience can still see the bikers moving between the front fork of the bike. The danger is never off camera. Furiosa is a masterpiece. I liked it much more than Fury Road, and part of that is the mise-en-scene style. Much less jerky and better suited to sweeping, epic films. The movie is almost perfect, the only tiny flaw being that Miller tells rather than shows “this is Gastown!” as if the audience is too stupid to figure that out themselves. Other than that nitpicking, Furiosa is IMO one of the best epic films ever made.

[@manikn4585]

great video. For the wasteland i would prefer furiosas style because i love longer shots i wrote an essay on furiosa after i watched the film but its more characer focused. (its pretty long):- Furiosa Dementus might have become my favourite villain in film. I want to elaborate his character through the following 3 scenes: 1. In the meeting with Immortan Joe, Dementus says that he only ruined Furiosa's life so that he could make her a better version of herself and help her survive in the Wasteland. 2. When he conquers Gastown, we see everything go upside down. There is no stability but Dementus still believes that all will be well and that he should retain control. 3. Now comes the scene where it all clicked for me. We see Dementus hang furiosa from his truck and have Praetorian Jack dragged around in a bike. He seemed very into it at first but later says "I am bored" (Mind you Chris Hemsworth’s performance added a lot more nuance) And therein lies his character. He lost his child and family. Throughout the film we see him Escape into Chaos and Instability whilst he believes that he is doing something Good and Orderly or that some Good will eventually come out of that Chaos. This Absolute Belief is why we see him in such grandiose fashion referring to himself as the Great Dementus. But it has always disappointed him. Never has it brought him any peace and never was he proven right in his way of thinking. This is why he seems like a mirror image to Furiosa and that insanely well written dialogue scene at the end is at the very heart of the film. Like Dementus Escapes into the idea of Chaos, Furiosa Escapes into her Vengeance believing something good might arise out of it. By the climax scene Dementus knows that his ideology of Stability being eventually born out of Chaos is wrong. And he wants to show it to Furiosa that her path of Vengeance will make her like him and will lead her to nowhere. Furiosa instead chooses to use Dementus as a conduit to give Life and hope at the end. Remember seeds signify hope in fury road (and bullets are called anti seed). Dementus made her realise that she is better than this Vengeance. Furiosa leaves Dementus suffering for the rest of his life. She leaves the citadel in fury road to seek "Redemption" for this act of Vengeance. Furiosa looking for Redemption made the tree (seed from the Green Place) grow in the citadel itself. So Furiosa had this green place in the very citadel itself. The problem is that she tries escaping to this fantasy place where there are no hardships. Only through Max does she realise that she was wrong. The entire point of fury road is that the green place is within our grasp. When the women expelled the men from the green place, their society collapsed. When immortan joe imprisoned the women in his citadel - well his society is far from ideal. When Furiosa and Max solve their respective internal psychological issues(Max - a man who had been reduced to the lone instinct of survival - regains his humanity through Furiosa and furiosa learns not to run from her problems through Max - - by not escaping to the green place i.e. a fantasy land to escape to where all your problems will be wiped away) and then decide to "Go Back" - instead of running - and reform society i.e. when man and woman become better people individually and then decide to uplift society only then does the world become a better place. Only then do the common folk get that fountain of Water. The green place is within your grasp and not a distant place where you can escape to to solve your problems. That is Mad Max fury road That's why a prequel is needed for Max and furiosa both because fury road is the perfect conclusion. There is so much to unravel in what could be very well called the greatest prequel ever made. Miller never exposits or spells anything out about his characters. His storytelling is purely visual. The title Mastermind is well earned after this brilliant film.

[@HorrorTactico]

What I really disliked about this film is how it skipped over the massive deployment of Immortan's warband for the "40 day Wasteland War". No Doof Warrior even though we clearly see him, no Bullet Farmer actions even though he see (for a mere 2 seconds) him in his TANK (The only tank in the wasteland). It felt like they took something from me. A narcisistic injury.

[@anarchisttutor7423]

The heavy, noticeable CGI in the ads disinterested me. I was delighted and surprised when watching the movie. And Anya Taylor-Joy often irritates me, but not in this movie.

[@Fiveash-Art]

Because she was non existent .. Just an empty vessel for a mess of bad CGI and confusing action sequences. They could've stuck anyone in the role and it wouldn't have mattered. They even went as far as dubbing her voice with Theron's .. Stupid movie and a total waste of time. I was rooting for it, but when I finally saw it , I couldn't believe people were speaking positive about it. Just another garbage cartoon .. Felt like I was watching a Marvel movie set in the wasteland. Doesn't hold a candle to Fury road or any of the other Mad Max movies .. and it's not because I care if it's 'woke' or not. It's just a bad movie.

[@seansuperflymason]

Brilliant video essay! And George Miller is a GOD. Best film of the Year ❤

[@kingKokoPops]

This is such a great video. Thank you!

[@kieranodea2804]

When done right I think I prefer Mise-en-scène. But nowadays it feels like filmmakers are overindulging in this style which takes you out of the movie.

[@TheClassicalSauce]

I agree. It should be more subtle. The film-making should be subservient to the intention of the story. "Mise-en-scene" was never a style when I was learning film, it was a artistic sensibility that was present in every shot set up. FURIOSA is a good example of a mindful and well executed devotion to this principle, but it can go too far. You can tell that this movie was heavily storyboarded and every shot follows it perfectly. It's fine, but I wonder if such a stringent approach curtails some of the natural instinct of the actors and director on the set, things which might have given the film more life and naturalness. It's all subjective, but not everything you look at in real life is perfectly staged, which makes you stand up and take notice when something comes together just right. Instead of a whole film being one staged picture after another, it might have been better to let the audience breathe a bit with some static camera which would have brought the other scenes into better focus.

[@GeahkBurchill]

For my film I’ve chosen Mise en scène and to use Academy Ratio. In part because it’s a drama, with little action but also because I like the verticality to compose the scene. The big inspiration for my story is 12 Angry Men, and knowing that I think my choices are obvious. I love long takes and carefully composed shots but Scope doesn’t give me the headroom to make the ceiling as oppressive as I want. Scope a way a a great choice for a desert action spectacle. I’d be interested to see if Miller would choose Academy if he had a project that benefitted from it? For instance, I could imagine The Wasteland being about the takeover and building up of The Citadel, and how a cliff-side focus could encourage a director to play with vertical space more.

[@mpgamer55]

I love these breakdowns! While I can appreciate the technical craft, what matters most to me is the storytelling. Everything else - the direction, acting, effects, cinematography is only meant to enhance the telling of the story, not supplant it.

[@mattymcfabb]

Please let there be justice in the world. Let us have the wasteland

[@TreforTreforgan]

I watched it on a rental for the first time the other night. I remember a lot of the criticism it got, even by critics whose opinions I value. Mark Kermode betrayed the fact that the star only turns up some 40 minutes in. Like what, Mark Kermode?! The star is the character not the actors, you otherwise respectable fool!

[@Fiveash-Art]

I'm happy Kermode didn't like it. Because the movie is utter garbage. I usually appreciate his reviews.

[@TreforTreforgan]

@@Fiveash-Art no it wasn’t! It was class. Whassamatter with you!

[@gregbors8364]

I thought it was great, recommended it at work and inspired a coworker to go see it in the theater, and he absolutely hated it. Just goes to show that there is no accounting for taste. On a side note, I think the franchise has suffered economically from the fact that the first three movies absolutely centered around Max as played by Mel Gibson, but in Fury Road Max was recast and was basically more of a side character, whereas in Furiosa (which is billed as “a Mad Max saga”) he’s basically not a character at all, other than one fan-service cameo. “A Mad Max movie without Mel Gibson? F-- that!” - Quentin Tarantino (paraphrased)

[@felipeoa9474]

There's always, every year, at least one great movie that unfairly bombs. Lately we had The Northman, Blade Runner, Nope, and now Furiosa, amongst others, but Jurassic World Dominion made 1.5 billion. What a waste.

[@PerfectHandProductions]

An excellent video as always. The cinematography is great in Furiosa but I have a difficult time ignoring that extremely obvious CGI.

[@brightstonepictures]

Great! This movie deserves all the love. Have you seen HOPE AND GLORY - A Mad Max Fan Film? It is complimenting FURIOSA with telling the chapter of Max becoming the feral we meet in the beginning of FURY ROAD and can be watched here on KZbin.

[@mathewwright4129]

Furiosa is incredible. Dune part two can’t be beat for me though. This movie does come close.

[@mikithehat]

You had it in ya to make it epic.

[@manikn4585]

Also i cant believe you didnt mention the shot where dementus' men capture a tanker before invading gas town That was pretty cool

[@danielmalchovichcorleone4031]

You just made my day!

[@colinbarnard6512]

Ah, Gen Ritilin!

[@ДарьяФирсова-л5к]

I think it was fantastic. My only problem is cgi, I expected more practical things after FR, but overvise it's a bold harsh movie with author's vision and the best villain in Hollywood since long gone Disney reneissance.

[@LordBaktor]

I have nothing but praise for Millers directorial abilities. Everything I disliked about Furiosa is confined to the script and has nothing to do with the overall execution.

[@YellowJello57]

Glad to see you break this one down. Would you consider looking at the original Mad Max movie? Or even Mad Max 2?

[@Fiveash-Art]

Watch The Road Warrior .. and flush this Furiosa movie down the toilet. It's a major stinking turd wrapped around the bowl.

[@sisboombahshow]

Great editing and shot composition don't make up for low-stakes (its a prequel so we know who survives) lackluster storytelling in this overly long, meandering film that ends up where we started last time in Fury Road. IMHO, Furiosa is two hours and 28 minutes of backstory that we didn't need for a movie we already watched.

[@WatchMaga]

You have little imagination.

[@sisboombahshow]

@@WatchMaga 🤣🤣🤣

[@slimshady2612]

My favorite youtube channel 🔥

[@pourquoicbon]

Furiosa is brilliant.

[@Fiveash-Art]

No it's not.

[@marqc.9904]

I already wanted to see this film. Now, after seeing this breakdown, I MUST witness it!

[@oobrocks]

Yes it’s excellent. Joy is a wonderful actress ❤🎉😊

[@akshayde]

This was a good movie. I quite enjoyed it. Wish I'd seen it in the theatre.

[@FC25-n3p]

2024 Best Movie. Dune part 2 and FURIOSA. I Watched again in 4K UHD.

[@retlwiz]

This is great analysis and I haven’t even seen Furiosa… People say there was a lot more CGI in Furiosa, but my understanding is Fury Road had loads, but that it was blended in a bit better. Furiosa has that (to me) unfortunate digital look - the whole “no CGI” thing is BS anyway and just designed to get more people watching.

[@matthews7805]

Furiosa is second to The Road Warrior, IMHO.

[@Detonator111]

Finally the copyright claims were lifted! Something I'd love to add specifically about this shot here @14:44 is how at first, Dementus does actually disappear in the cloud of fog/sand and despite the fact that the speed at which the camera, and thus we the observer move seems to be constant, once Furious enters the frame with her car, Dementus once again becomes visible slightly off in the distance. Realisticaly this shouldn't happen due to the constant speed of the camera but visually it shows how strong Furiosa's grasp is on the situation. Even nature bends to her will and Dementus really has nowhere to run to.

[@ParentsNightIn]

This movie rules

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Not seen it yet. Starting to wish I’d gone to the cinema. If our local did a Fury Road / Furiosa double bill I’d be there.

[@Fiveash-Art]

Na man .. be thankful you didn't actually pay to see it. These people are delusional because the movie is total garbage. I'm glad I waited for it to drop on HBO .. I almost went to the theater for it.. thankfully I didn't.

[@DFMoray]

Who needs film school when we have MovieWise?! I have to say mise en scene but little bursts of montage are always welcome. This must be why I enjoyed Furiosa so much more. Question: You mentioned cutting on movement. I saw Walter Murch talking about how he cuts NOT on movement. (I think he said he favors cutting before movement? I could be mixed up though) can you help me out here? What is he on about?

[@macandcrafting2190]

i wish i had watched this in the theater. your videos are great. i've learned so much. thank you!

[@AScreenwritersJourney]

Which style do I prefer between montage and mise-en-scene? An artistic blending of the two!

[@Anubis22774]

Fury road was epic, and Furiosa is an epic.

[@johnpaulbenoy3317]

How do you do this man? Jesus! You are the HIGH art

[@Jezzascmezza]

If I hadn't been subscribed already, the joke at 8:46 would've made me do it.

[@ellisvener5337]

What is as important as framing, composition, movement and blocking in Furiosa is how Miller and Cinematographer Duggan use color, brightness l, and contrast to direct and structure what 😢 a watcher’s attention moves to and through through a scene

[@GEMINIEARTHWALKER]

agreed, but somehow the Black and Chrome editions are just as engaging

[@ellisvener5337]

@@GEMINIEARTHWALKER it’s my experience as a photographer that if a color image doesn’t work as a monochrome image it really doesn’t work as a color image either. In cinematography and photography also not a matter of simply completely desaturating the color when doing a black and white conversion. In the film days we had physical contrast filters, lighting gels, wardrobe, and makeup to make red, orange, yellow, green, or blue- to make those colors render as brighter and other colors darker. With digital processes the same color wheel (if you are not familiar with the color wheel concept, look it up) principles apply but now can be easily localized to specific areas of the frame to control monochromatic conversions. I suspect this was done by Miller and the sites for the Chrome versions.

[@GEMINIEARTHWALKER]

@@ellisvener5337 I agree, one of the best examples of a Black and White version being miles better than the original is Frank Darabont's The Mist. . The studio forced him to release it in color, but the released film felt muddy and desaturated, because it was always filmed with the intent of releasing it in Black and White. . The CGI effects that looked wonky in color, now look starkly real and the atmosphere is perfect and the image pops visually because of it.

[@ellisvener5337]

@@GEMINIEARTHWALKER I’ll check that film out. And agree with the rest of your comment

[@StephenRansom47]

Jan de Bont is smiling … he drove the editors crazy when he moved the camera in Die Hard. - legacy is worth waiting for.

[@MelIssa-rb9mq]

Mr. Moviewise👑👑👑👑👑👑

[@TheSwwiss]

How would you compare the Hamlet(movie) with this movie? Direction wise, narrative wise, dialogue wise.

[@natesmart9959]

Not even close to Hamlet imo Lol

[@TheClassicalSauce]

@@natesmart9959 I've never seen the "To be or not to be" scene portrayed in such a way as Brannaugh's Hamlet, which I watched on this dude's recommendation. It was actually disturbing. Shakespeare himself couldn't have done better.

[@ConradSpoke]

Definitely rewatching - and re-assessing - Furiosa.

[@fredscallietsoundman9701]

Have you seen Challengers ? I'd love to hear your thoughts about it. I found the directing astonishing.

[@bartolomeus441]

Wow, after that goofy looking trailer and too much visible CGI in shots I was sure it was a cashgrab and slept on this movie, but it seems really fun, I might give it a chance.

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

I prefer slowly built up mise-en-scene adding meaning layer by layer for epic characterisation and storytelling mixed up with a bit of rhythmic montage to stress moments of emotional turmoil or a fragmented mode of perception characters go through. You know, stressing what needs to be stressed but otherwise giving me an entire panorama to immerse myself in. World building, but not at the expense of character study or empathy. A compositional balance, I guess, with an almost musical flow to it.

[@TheMattyNation]

I liked it more than Fury Road. More world building.

[@leandroschenone7253]

I think his, on porpuse, choose different style of filming, because he was telling us different kind of tales, about different kind of characters...

[@wilmergimenez]

A shame this movie flopped, I just hope the flop didn't bury any possible sequel, in the actual state of cinema if a franchise deserves a bunch of sequels is definitely Mad Max

[@Fiveash-Art]

I'm glad it flopped .. That way the movie studio won't make any more of this sort of trash. This wasn't a Mad Max movie anyway.

[@TheNightrider88]

And I like Furiosa' leather jacket.

[@JesusIced]

Furiosa Is So Much Better - depends on what to compare it with lol

[@martins.muleya5742]

I don't care what anyone says fury road is better than furiosa in writing, acting and visual effects. The plot holes and green screen in furiosa are hard to ignore. I'm surprised you of all people didn't see the flaws in the screenplay. It is something you would catch and point out.

[@Fiveash-Art]

Furiosa is hot garbage.

[@tom-vj9lz]

Furiosa was a silly Mad Max flik when seen at the picture house. When rewatched at home, it was a absolute masterwork. Haven't seen the video yet oh boy! It's gonna be hard the top that Hamlet video.

[@_Braised]

For me I thought the action was better in Fury Road, and the story was better in Furiosa- but the reverse was still great in both. I certainly respect the changing up of styles even if it unearthed the weaker side of each film. At the end of the day I'm just happy that they both exist. What a ride!

[@Fiveash-Art]

Everything about Fury Road buries Furiosa. These people calling it a masterpiece are smoking crack or something.

[@creepshow314]

Mise-en-scène!

[@musicalcolin]

What is UP with all the weirdos making up strange nitpicky reasons to dislike Furiosa?

[@lbdeyo]

I'm a fanatical Moviewise fan. Absolutely love these videos. But Furiosa was not a great movie. It was entertaining and very well shot, but filmmaking is not just shot selection and editing. It's storytelling. Furiosa's story was average at best. Its characters were shallow and cartoonish, as was its violence. It had none of the power of The Road Warrior.

[@driellgomes1150]

Hey man! Are you Brazilian? Your accent, esta me dizendo isso Nice video by the way!!

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

Just don't make a video saying Casino Royale is the best Bond movie ever. My heart won't be able to take it.

[@OldFashionedCinephile]

I don’t think he likes the Craig Era. However, I would make a case that Casino Royale (2006) was not only the last great bond film but the last one to stay true to the series identity.

[@WatchMaga]

@@OldFashionedCinephilecompletely agree. It was the apogee of Bond. I was so disappointed by what they did with the series afterward.

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

@@OldFashionedCinephile You may even make a case that Casino Royale stayed true to the Fleming novels (which I disagree), but you can't possibly make that case regarding the film series. It's anti-Bond, spitefully so. The torture scene alone is an obvious symbolism for punishing his manhood. I was surprised they didn't take the chance to say Bond has a small wiener while they're at it.

[@OldFashionedCinephile]

@@WatchMaga I think people now want a return to the nonlinear timeline. Although Brosnan’s Era did have some characters brought back in other films. Honestly, the future of Bond is kinda up in the air. Will Eon Productions quit or sell the rights to someone else?

[@OldFashionedCinephile]

@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 I haven't read any of the Bond novels, but I have seen all 25 films. Many of them more than once. I view Casino Royale as re-grounding the character. Like with On Her Majesty's Secret Service, For Your Eyes Only, and Dalton's Era. They brought Bond back to basics after Die Another Day cartoon-ish climax. ( I still enjoy Die Another Day for what it is) Eyebrow Cinema made a pretty good video on the Craig Era: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXm3lauBodSfoNE

[@randbrannigan2590]

It's fun and enjoyable, but "high art" is overselling it.