# Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 1, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937 "2023-12-01T03:45:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/81 "2024-06-16T13:41:56Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > But he did settle down and rule a town. He ruled Gastown for 15 years. I mean, I’m sure things were ok for a while but by the time we catch up to them 15 years later everything is pretty dire. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/82 "2024-06-17T03:55:17Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Yes, they seemed to have skipped over Immortan Joe’s reaction to her being found after being MIA for over a decade. I don’t think anybody had any idea this woman recruited by Jack was the little girl that went missing 15 years earlier. She never told anybody her name when she was a little girl. Rectus almost recognized her but got distracted before he could see the tattoos on her arm. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/83 "2024-07-06T04:30:14Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I mean, I’m sure things were ok for a while but by the time we catch up to them 15 years later everything is pretty dire. That’s the part that didn’t really make sense – it’s 15 years later. There’s no younger generation. The only women are the ones in Immortan’s vault, a couple of randos “I’m a mother too!”, and the 8-20 back at the Green Place. It’s all men! 15 years from now, the 20 yos are 35, the 30 yos are 45. Everyone is too damn old to take over Gastown! ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/84 "2024-07-06T14:30:25Z")
What’s all men? Dementus’s gang? I would not expect many people to be old; what do you think the life expectancy is around the Wasteland? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/85 "2024-07-06T14:58:25Z")
I assumed the children were with the poor people that live under Immortan Joe, we even see a woman trying to get a baby up on the lift in Fury Road. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/86 "2024-07-06T16:36:07Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > What’s all men? Dementus’s gang? Yes. I’m rewatching it now. I’ve seen exactly 3 women in the gang before they take over gas town. > [@DPRK](#): > > I would not expect many people to be old; what do you think the life expectancy is around the Wasteland? Exactly. So who is rioting in Gastown? Those invisible 5-10yo kids we didn’t see who are 25 now? I suppose this doesn’t bear much examination. Where did the 967 War Boys come from? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/87 "2024-07-06T16:46:55Z")
As @DigitalC points out, there is a rabble somehow ekeing out a living, some of whom want their kids to be accepted as War Boys or other roles. Maybe even a second-rate mob is better than nothing, if they can’t get them into the Citadel. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/88 "2024-07-09T04:34:01Z")
I was wondering about this visual, shown extremely briefly (11s) after the Bullet Farm fight. Is that Max and the Pursuit Special V8 Interceptor? As shown next just when Fury Road begins and he’s captured? Furiosa is the dot to his right hobbling toward the Citidal sans arm. [![](https://i.imgur.com/ZQXrNOm.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/ZQXrNOm.png) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/89 "2024-07-09T14:38:17Z")
It definitely is. There’s an actor (not Tom Hardy) credited as Mad Max in the end credits. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/90 "2024-07-09T17:30:41Z")
If you hadn’t told me, I would have thought that was a screenshot from the Mad Max video game. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/91 "2024-07-10T02:40:18Z")
Thanks, I watched this with my wife and read later there was a Mad Max cameo in it, but I missed it during the viewing. ---
**Author:** ![nate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nate/32/13085_2.png) [@nate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nate)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/92 "2024-08-22T13:23:24Z")
Loved the movie, but man Hemsworth took me out of it every scene he was in. I don’t understand the praise for his performance. He’s captain jack sparrow dropped into Valhalla and it doesn’t jive with the rest of the mood. It’s a wink wink look at me playing this part performance that is just jarring. Otherwise, great movie. It kept my attention which is really impressive for anything in the last several years. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/93 "2024-08-22T13:53:46Z")
Saw this a couple times in the theatre and now got the 4k disc. I just watched The Stowaway chapter and wonder if they did some editing refinements for the disc release. On the first theatrical viewing there was a sequence where one of the gliders made a pass at the war rig dropping fire and on its second pass Furiosa raises the mechanical arm. I didn’t see the actual collision as it seemed to cut quickly to the glider smashed and entangled on the arm. I thought I had missed it so on the second theatrical viewing I watched for it but noticed the quick cut again sans the collision. I assumed they just never had a cut of the collision to insert there. But on the disc viewing the collision is there as it happens. Did I just mis-remember the theatrical cut I saw twice? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/94 "2024-08-25T21:31:04Z")
For the most part I liked Furiosa. I didn’t love it like Fury Road or The Road Warrior. I think maybe because like many prequels it tries to tell too much story without really telling us much we didn’t already know (including the outcome) from Fury Road: - Furiosa was kidnapped as a girl and worked her way up to a War Rig-driving Imperator in Immorten Joe’s organization. - There is a trio of linked communities - the Citadel, Gas Town, and the Bullet Farm. Sure, it was interesting to see all that in more detail. But it’s not really telling a new story I didn’t already know. > [@squeegee](#): > > I was wondering about this visual, shown extremely briefly (11s) after the Bullet Farm fight. Is that Max and the Pursuit Special V8 Interceptor? As shown next just when Fury Road begins and he’s captured? Furiosa is the dot to his right hobbling toward the Citidal sans arm. > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://i.imgur.com/ZQXrNOm.png) I know the Mad Max films play fast and loose with the timeline, but it’s my understanding Fury Road takes place some years after Furiosa. At the very least, we know Immortan Joe fought a “40 Day War” against Dementus and both the Bullet Farm and Gas Town were back up and running during Fury Road. So it would be odd for Max to be camped out on that bluff with his V8 Ford Falcon for months or years. Bit of trivia, Chris Hemsworth’s wife (Elsa Pataky) plays two roles. A general in Furiosa’s home and the dark haired woman who wins the bike-off (getting her face all jacked up in the process). ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/95 "2024-08-25T21:49:26Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > So it would be odd for Max to be camped out on that bluff with his V8 Ford Falcon for months or years. Not sure it was completely clear, but couldn’t it have been Max who initially rescued Furiosa after she collapsed? In which case he was definitely not sitting idle for months. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/96 "2024-08-26T00:45:16Z")
I think we’re supposed to get the impression that Max rescued Furiosa. But it’s a weird throwaway scene to shoehorn in. Sort of a deus ex Maxina. It looks exactly like the opening scene in Fury Road but we know that film takes place some time afterwards. And Max made no indication of recognizing Furiosa later on. And it raises a whole bunch of questions as to why Max might be lingering around for however many years. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/97 "2024-08-26T15:50:34Z")
Nah, I completely disagree. The whole point of Furiosa is that she doesn’t need rescuing. She’ll tear her own shattered arm off and walk across the desert just to get her revenge, and doesn’t need anyone’s help to do it. They threw the scene with Max in as a fun cameo, not to imply he had to save her. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/98 "2024-08-26T18:57:46Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Nah, I completely disagree. The whole point of Furiosa is that she doesn’t need rescuing. She’ll tear her own shattered arm off and walk across the desert just to get her revenge, and doesn’t need anyone’s help to do it. Agreed. You’d think if he rescued a one-armed girl one of the two of them would remember the other. In Fury Road they were at each other’s throats when they first met trying to kill each other in a throw down until they decided to team up. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/99 "2024-08-27T00:04:07Z")
In all fairness, in that time Furiosa grew a couple of inches, bulked up, and had the face of a totally different woman. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937/100 "2025-01-10T15:48:29Z")
FYI, this is now available on Netflix (in USA at least) – know what I am watching tonight. Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/993937.md?page=6)