~Swinton: Miller devised it as homage to John Martin’s “Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum”! Martin was the blockbuster spectacle guy of the early 1800s

Power is back and we're home so all that can be done is clean out the freezer, load up the dishwasher, get zoot'd and watch every MAD MAX movie

Toecutter unpleasant!

The kid puffing up his legend and Toecutter's thug saying "you just don't have the style" and it's fun to consider characters in Mad Max movies being *aware* of the theater of how they're behaving, like it's all a conscious performance

In that way, all the manners and performances, it's like a regency drama with a body count

So like if they adopt their own monikers is that with their final role in mind? Like a guy who takes on a goon-ass nickname, is he aware he's doing that to himself? In converse, would a guy named Immortan Joe ever be anything but the boss?

Guy named Toecutter is aiming for exactly "leader, but a sergeant, not a general"

Feral Kid... get a haircut. Smdh

Happy Pride

Into BEYOND THUNDERDOME, man there is not a slouch in this series, huh

Pronouncing "apocalypse" like "pox-eclipse" 🤌🤌🤌

Fire tornados in FURY ROAD... makes my scalp tingle every time

Miller devised it as homage to John Martin’s “Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum”! Martin was the blockbuster spectacle guy of the early 1800s

And an influence on my guy Bulwer-Lytton, whose LAST DAYS OF POMPEII (1834) essentially created the disaster novel.

Man, the early 80s was a weird historical miniseries golden age

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