Mad Max Fury Road Analysis

Glory road is a film based on the 1966 Texas Miners, the first all-black NCAA Championship winning basketball team. When the coach, Don Haskins decided to recruit players based purely on ability, and not race. With the purpose of telling the story of the Texas Miners, their experiences and lives leading up to, and becoming the NCAA Champions. At the forefront of this movie are racial issues which we know were rife at the time throughout America. The relationship between sport and psychology is not abundantly clear in this film. I believe, however that, that is because the film was not made for that purpose, as a documentary or article may have. The film was made for the purpose of entertainment, and to tell the story of the Texas Miner -Which it effectively does. In saying that, being a sport psychology student and after critically watching and examining the film, I was also clearly able to see many psychological concepts and issues woven throughout the film, there relationship to sport, and the effects it had on the Texas Miners, and their Championship winning team.

In the recent years, movies have become a popular form of mainstream entertainment. Arguably, one of the most successful films released in 2017 is The Fate of the Furious, which is the eighth installment in the Fast and Furious Franchise. It is an action flick that is written by Chris Morgan and directed by Felix Gary Gray. The motion picture follows the story of Dominic Toretto, who has settled down with his wife but is coerced to work for a cyber-terrorist called Cypher to retrieve a nuclear football. From the start, Toretto’s work for Cypher turns him against his team forcing them to track him down and bring Cypher to justice. Although critics have argued that the movie’s plot is not up to standard, the action sequences, performance, soundtrack, and themes are commendable making it worthwhile.

“Iron Road” has successfully shown why Chinese workers came to Canada in the 1880s as well as the challenges they confronted. Most of the film’s storyline occurs in China, where it uses the point of view of a Chinese peasant called Little Tiger, to display the daily struggles of the Chinese. The setting is full of war and destruction, thus destroying many farms resulting in famine and poverty. This has resulted in peasants having insufficient funds to support themselves and making them live in unsanitary living spaces. As a result, this gave the workers more reason to move to Canada as there was also better income and resources there. However, once they arrived in Canada, they discover that the conditions there weren’t as good as they thought. Although they had a better income than they did in China, there was a lot of discrimination, dangerous working conditions and horrible living spaces. There was worse pay for the Chinese workers and they had to do the most life-threatening jobs like working with explosives as well as working on the side of a cliff with no harnesses. Throughout the film, “Iron Road” has used the setting, characters and point of view of a Chinese peasant to show that there were horrible conditions and chaos in China, as well as the racism, dangerous working conditions and poor living space the peasants faced in Canada.

Die Hard, a film directed by John McTiernan, successfully utilized several aesthetics, which offered viewers various meanings throughout the duration of the film. Although the diverse meanings grasped by viewers may differ, it was clear to me that McTiernan effectively applied elements of cinematography and mise-en-scene that resulted in viewers being allowed to interpret a range of different meanings or functions of the elements.

In order to go into more extensive detail, I have selected Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and David Fincher’s Fight Club – two contrasting texts with diverse ideologies and technical codes yet both linked by

Mad Max: Fury Road is an exciting, tastefully shot and edited, beautifully designed post-apocalyptic chase directed and produced by the outstanding George Miller. The film takes place in a future desert wasteland where there is an entire religion that revolves around cars, gasoline, and Valhalla. It follows the story of Max Rockatansky, a former captive, who forges an alliance with warrior Imperator Furiosa to escape from tyrannical Immortan Joe in a long and fatal battle through the wasteland. Despite the clear evidence of gender bias that persists within Hollywood films, director Miller displays no interest of following the status quo when it comes to stereotypes and assigned gender roles. Mad Max: Fury Road shows movie audiences a leading

In the film Ex Machina, most of the dialogue is composed of questions, every question is a test for

Genres are malleable; though they have the same key characteristics, genres change with the time and setting. A movie can be part of more than one genre. The lines separating one genre from another are not concrete and taking bits and pieces of genres can create a well-respected movie. As society changes, a genre changes with it. One can observe what was once important to society and what interested society using the genres that were popular at a specific point in history. The audience changes as time goes on and it is the audience that influences filmmakers. Films need to stay with the times in order to maintain popularity. This paper will explore the changes within the crime genre, more specifically, the “couple-on-the-run” genre using

In the movie Ex Machina, the plot revolves around a robot, Ava, and its ability to pass a claimed variation of the Turing Test. I will argue that Ava passes the original Turing Test as well as Nathan’s claimed version of the Turing Test. I will first explain and elucidate the significance of the classical Turing Test and Nathan’s Test. Secondly, I will argue that Nathan’s “Turing Test” is not actually a version of the Turing Test but a significantly different test. Finally I will argue that Ava passes the classical Turing Test and Nathan’s Test.

Race to Nowhere is a documentary film that captures stress placed on students due to demanding workloads. This film gives us an inside look on the education system: how it works, and its effect on those connected to it. Ables uses a variety of methods to suck the viewer in. The creators aim for our hearts with personal anecdotes and their soundtrack, followed by a string of families and psychologists who deal with the problem firsthand. By attempting this juggling act of impacting the viewer, maintaining credibility, and providing factual information, Ables’ film begins to lose substance.

In making this comment, Crewe argues that Mad Max’s reflects economic inequality and environmental destruction, which is all true, however, Gallaher makes a better point about the reflection of sexism and patriarchy issues in the film that reflect today from a feminist

Mad Max; Road Warrior and Fury Road are Australian dystopian films directed by George Miller. The two films were released, with 34 years between them, allowing the audience to explore the different representations of stereotypes and ideologies in each time period. To a certain extent, the characters in each film contrast with one another, displaying a change in social and political context, specifically with the concept of feminism. This is due to the changes of media content as society has progressed.

George Miller’s action packed film Mad Max: Fury Road, shines a new light on the role of women in contemporary culture. Mad Max takes place in what is called the “The Citadel”, a post apocalyptic wasteland, where an infamous tyrant by the name of Immortan Joe rules all women and war boys as servants. As the fourth installment in the Mad Max trilogy and an honorable rating of 8.1/10 (Imbd.com), what really makes the film one of a kind is that the movie, usually lead by the vengeful male protagonist, Max Rockatansky, is actually centered on a female cast this time around. By centering the film around a female cast, it alone challenges the views of feminism in popular culture because it portrays women in successful leadership roles, otherwise given to men in a notable action film and popular media. Miller provides the film with the reoccurring role of Max Rockatansky but this time focuses on a new strong and willing female cast, led by a determined Imperator Furiosa who is played by the talented Charlize Theron. In the film, Furiosa and the fives wives are obligated to serve Immortan Joe as slaves and breeders, so the five wives put their lives on the line and with the assistance of the Vulvani, challenge male authority in hope of winning back their freedom. By closely examining feminist ideologies and the actions of the female heroines in the film, the audience can determine the feminist tendencies and message Fury Road is sending popular

The apocalypse is a common subject addressed in films and such Doomsday scenarios have become increasingly popular since the beginning of the Cold War. These films provide a different cause for the downfall of human kind and approach the subject with various degrees of despair and hope. Despite the obvious differences in approach that different directors take, these films all serve to highlight not only the negative qualities of human kind that led to and are represented by the agent of destruction but also to highlight the strength of the survivors who keep the will to fight for their lives despite the bleak circumstances. For the most part, The Mist, adapted from a Stephen King novella, sticks closely to the archetype. The Mist, a

D.O.A and Mad Max are thought provoking films with unique plots and characters who make you feel sympathetic towards their situation. Even though both films have a diverse setting and time period, similar ideas can be found between the two. That being said, with such differing plots it is also fairly easy to find contrasts between the films.