While Fury Road’s action depicts the creepy warlord as nigh-on immortal right up until his gruesome demise, the tie-in comics explain Immortan Joe is a very much mortal, and deeply devious, former general who used his military experience to lead a violent militia in the wake of the apocalypse. From that cryptic, brief introduction onwards, audiences are thrust into a wild dystopia wherein nothing is explained onscreen, but everything has a canny explanation for viewers willing to look hard enough.ĭespite their devotion, the War Boys are ultimately unable to save Immortan Joe. The sheer pace of Fury Road, as well as the plot pivoting to Furiosa’s perspective for much of the movie, means Max’s Fury Road voiceover is almost all of the insight viewers get into the sequel’s backstory. ”Chrome" and "chroming" are Australian slang terms for inhalant abuse, while around the time of the movie’s release Isis members used Captagon for much the same reason.Īs such, this process is both believable and rooted in reality, while also being left ambiguous enough for viewers to see the ritual the way Max would-as a surreal, unexplained oddity no one stops to clarify.
In an interview with CraveOnline, recurring Mad Max series villain Hugh Keays-Byrne said that although the War Boys think what they’re doing is purely ritualistic, it actually involves inhaling " a very euphoric drug" which makes them suicidally devoted to his character. Mad Max: Fury Road - 2015 - Movie Poster / Film Poster - A3, A4, A5 Prints - Our Movie Posters are remastered and produced at our offices in Liverpool. The process of spraying chrome-colored spray paint across their bared teeth is seemingly just a tribal display of power and courage, but Immortan Joe’s actor once offered an answer for why the character’s devotees do this. Related: Hell Comes To Frogtown: Roddy Piper’s Wild Mad Max Rip-off For example, few viewers are likely to understand why the War Boys spray chrome in their mouths before battle-but there’s a clever explanation for this strange ritual. However, this type of storytelling does sometimes leave details unexplained and elements of the movie unclear. The Mad Max franchise’s stripped-back, dialogue-light storytelling has proven effective throughout the series, with Fury Road being so economical in its plotting that Miller’s approach was cited as an influence by Parasite helmer Bong-Joon Ho. Broadly speaking, George Miller’s post-apocalyptic action-thrillers let viewers fill in the blanks and rarely stop to outline exposition.
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The Mad Max movies are not overly concerned with explaining their fictional universe. Mad Max: Fury Road - Advance A Tweet: Product : 15443 Year: 2015 Type: Poster. Mad Max: Fury Road features many odd, unexplained details in its nightmarish dystopia, but there is an explanation for the War Boys’ habit of spraying chrome on their mouths before battle.