Posted on 05/05/2015 10:44:08 AM PDT by drewh
At first glance, George Miller’s upcoming film Mad Max: Fury Road seems to share a few standard themes with its three Max franchise predecessors, and while the thriller is sure to be (and looks) action-packed, an Esquire interview with female co-star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley reveals the introduction of a new element: feminism.
According to Huntington-Whiteley, who is playing one of several female characters to be rescued by legendary rogue enforcer Max Rockatansky, Fury Road will be less of a story about damsels in distress, and more about the empowerment of female survivors, thanks to Vagina Monologues author and feminine activist Eve Ensler.
Vanity Fair reports Austrailian-born Miller, who is now 70, sought out Ensler for that very purpose, and speculates it is possible Miller “recognized the limitations a male director and three male writers faced in trying to cover every nuance of a story about female exploitation and survival.”
Huntington-Whiteley spoke to Esquire of Ensler’s impact on her character, and her excitement to work with the notorious figure:
We were so lucky that George arranged for Eve Ensler, who wrote the Vagina Monologues, to fly in and work with us girls for about a week. We did extensive research with her. Eve herself has had a very intense life. She’s spent time in the Congo working with rape victims and women who have had unthinkable things happen to them through the power of men’s hands. We were able to pick her brain for a week. She told us the most tragic stories I’ve ever heard in my life, which gave us so much background to our characters. We really wanted to kind of showcase that. It was a privilege to have her around to make these characters something more then just five beautiful girls.
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In other words, she is being asked to make sure that the movie sucks.
So the future apocalypse will bring talking vaginas that lean left?
Ping.
Wasn’t that Tina Turner’s job?
Why are liberals so obsessed with genitals yet so incapable of recognizing them?
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That should make the movie a whole lot of fun. Or not. How many people go to movies to listen to whiny women complain about institutional sexism - in a post-apocalypse world with no institutions?
Sure does. Instead of automatically going, I will now wait for reviews and check the biases before deciding.
Yep, that’s what I thought from the trailer. Last week there was a thread with people discussing this movie with those saying they were, or were not, going to see it.
My response was that after seeing the trailer it looked like the amped up the psycho chick to be the lead character. Meh. You can keep your new PC movie.
Previews look ok, obviously a lot of CGI used which is expected these days. The long chase scene at the end of ‘The Road Warrior/Mad Max 2’ was brilliant and should be required viewing by film maker wannabes. No CGI, just a lot of action, great stunts and excellent film editing.
We don’t need another hero! (the liberal battle cry)
As is common on these remakes, the trailers indicate that the new one ignores all the magic of the Road Warrior, and is just going to do more, more, more, more gasoline explosions, more silly special effects that look like a cartoon, and this new feminist angle.
The feminist thing is so contradictory, leftist, anti-gun anti-man, tofu eating feminists, that want Hollywood to have females playing John Wayne and Mel Gibson and man like figures of testosterone driven action and violence.
OK, am I the only one who looked at the title and saw “Furry Road”?
When it comes to a Vagina Monologues thread - you do not want to see Furry Road. You just don’t.
So they’re all homosexual child molesters?
Eve Ensler, pro statutory rape activist.
Look mate... you ain't Al Gore, and I ain't Naomi Wolf.
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