Dude, what? Have you ever watched Mad Max? Do you even know what it is about? lol
It has nothing to do with climate change, has no pro car message and is not even from Hollywood.
This is just ignorant.I love the idea that someone in Hollywood okayed the idea of giving George Miller (who would have been like 70 at the time) $150 million and just sending him off into the desert to film two hours of complete lunacy, and it worked. The film like doubled its budget and won six oscars lol
has no pro car message
“violent car chases look fucking sick” is a pretty core part of mad max so it at least has a cars-are-cool message
Fury Road has a very strong theme of extractive/capitalist survival (represented by cars, gas, control of water etc) = bad, regenerative/communalist survival (represented by the mothers and plant life) = good. The action scenes are ofc designed to be cool but I think the broader environmental/social message is strong enough that the flame guitar doesn’t drown it out.
So is combat & fighting in video games & movies, doesn’t mean they are pro murder or violence.
From your post and from the replies, I see the film has a dual message: it appeals to environmentalists because it critiques what led to the wasteland and places the bad guys as the big oil car drivers, it also appeals to self-reliant ultraneoliberals because it indulges the fantasy you talk about of fighting for resources on car chases, a hierarchy of violence and owning people like cattle…idk.
I mean, the Matrix is supposed to be a ‘trans metaphor’ (edit: not my words, it was the Wachowskis who said it :/, I don’t see it) https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53692435, but probably a lot of conservatives and conspiracy nuts adopted the whole red pill metaphor as a symbol of liberation from whatever.
Rocky I is also good at this dual message, it has rugged individualism, but it also does some social critique and takes the view of the underdog, who suceeds against all odds.
Good films hit all the right buttons and end up pleasing greeks and trojans, that’s why they’re good I guess…but I don’t like and have never finished watching the last Mad Max or any of the previous films…so what do I know 🙃
And Harry Porter was a gay dwarf the whole time.
