Some years back, I built a 1965 Mustang for a customer and installed a smaller version of the Roots style blower used in the movie on his 289 engine. It was stated in the instructions that if you lost a blower belt that the car would start and run without the drive working, although it would be very sluggish on acceleration.
I did fire the engine up and run it a bit before finishing up the blower drive system, though I didn’t take it out on the road, and it would run okay but was slow to build up RPM due to the restriction.
I would imagine that the unit depicted in the movie was an old unit with worn rotor seals due to age and abrasion from the inevitable dust and grit that would find its way into the drive. It would probably pass a fair amount of air through compared to when it was new.
For a wild and sensationalized movie premise, I call it plausible.
The Fanwank is that Immortan Joe drinks it for whatever reason and that it’s highly prized as a trade good with other settlements. “Mothers Milk” is also given to war boys as a special reward when they please immortan joe, so it has symbolic / ritual value.
True, but someone above said there was “little CGI”, which is incorrect. But your explanation is spot on - the things we’ve gotten used to being done in CGI were actually done with practical effects.
But Immortan Joe doesn’t care about keeping as many peasants alive as possible. He cares about keeping himself in power. So if keeping the mystique going with mothers milk requires some peasants starve to death, that’s not a problem.
Talking about* Fury Road* with anyone who hasn’t seen it is a bit weird, at least for me.
The movie is a three-hour chase scene, with a fairly basic plot, and lots of over-the-top cartoony action. All true. And all that sounds like a description of a movie I should hate. Just another crappy action movie, right?
But I absolutely love Fury Road. I want to marry it and have its babies. It’s a very, very good movie. And strangely, certain things that would make any other movie horrible are all part of what makes this particular movie awesome. Which doesn’t really seem to make sense, but there you go. I suppose it goes to show that it’s not about what you do, but how you do it.
I wouldn’t say that Immortan Joe was any worse than Wez, the Humongous, Master-Blaster, Ironbar Bassey or for that matter, Byrne’s prior Mad Max role of the Toecutter.
Mad Max villains look outlandish; that’s part of their charm/menace.
At any rate, it seems kind of silly to say Fury Road is dumb and silly, and hold up the other 3 movies as paragons of tight plotting and realism.
Sure, but we don’t live in post-apocalyptia :). The people who live in real hard-scrabble country (Greenland, the Sahara, the Kalahari, the badlands of Australia etc…) don’t typically herd cattle for food for example.
I like the religious theory more, along with the fact that it is a dispendious, decadent luxury. Also the whole tumors and disease every one of his folk seem to struggle with, and his obsession with having healthy sons - he or they might superstitiously believe that Mother’s Milk has healthy properties worth every effort.
And that’s the point, really : Immortan Joe’s tribe is powerful enough that he can, in fact, do that kind of stuff in the middle of the desert. Look on his works, ye mighty, and despair. He is awaited.
The reasons Australian aboriginals never domesticated animals was because there wasn’t any suitable animals for domestication in Australia pre European colonisation, same goes for Greenland. Although when settled by the Vikings they did raise cattle there that they brought with them. Kalahari, it seems to be cultural why the san people don’t keep domestic animals, you certainly could there, this is the Kalahari, plenty of vegetation to raise goats nomadically:
