What Writers Should Learn From Mad Max: Fury Road

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WHAT WRITERS SHOULD LEARN IS VERY, VERY CLEAR:

MORE ELECTRIC GUITARS PLAYED ON THE BACK OF SPEEDING MONSTER TRUCKS.

MUCH MORE. NOW.

My only regret in life is that I didn't take my ass to the theater and watch Fury Road more times while it was still on the big screen.

It really annoyed me when I had a bunch of friends say "The script and writing is so simple and basic. It's just a chase with no dialogue." I tried explaining how it was all done visually and how rich with detail it was, but sadly modern audiences are used to excessive exposition. You explained what's brilliant about it better than I could.

Is mad max fury road the best example in history of the saying: “show, don’t tell”

For the Alien chest burster scene, all it says is "this thing emerges".

I was blown away when I found out that “immortal Joe” the big boss was the same actor as “toe cutter” from the original Road warrior

The major reason Fury Road feels so good to watch is because of the painstaking effort to ground the story in an Ethos. The visuals, the motivations, all of it stems from the characters reacting to the world. This gives the actors SO much to work with in making their characters believable. A good script is about giving the actors something rich to work with. I think its a bad take to say a story isnt capable of "good writing" because its methods cant be summarized in a script.


A serious amount of effort went into the world building, character backstories and motivations. And this most certainly didnt begin with the storyboards. It started with the director researching concepts and getting great edits from his wife who also worked on the production, while also calling in consultants who could give specific frame of reference for stuff like sexual slavery. I know you wanted to emphasize the use of storyboards but did so to make a point that only works by omitting ALL the other work that went into preproduction.


A real lesson for Hollywood writers would be to do some damn research into culture, religion and psychology before churning out a half-assed script.

What I adore about this film is Furiosa’s arm, it’s never explained. That’s amazing because it allows the audience to theorise her backstory. You let the viewer imagine this worlds characters. Mad respect to George Miller for not treating us like toddlers.

Fury Road does such a great job of developing its themes visually without any dialogue.

I love how the movie starts with young people, the warboys, fighting and dying to preserve the power of the old and corrupt. The movie ends with old people, the many mothers, fighting and dying to create a better future for the young and innocent.

I appreciate the use of examples along with the associated script. I guess the rule of "show, don't tell" also applies to videos analyzing movies.

Whenever I see a video or a screenshot from this movie, I immediately get an urge to watch it again. And I always do.

Fury Road has so much lore that isn't explained and yet we the viewers know exactly what's going on and what it all means.

Writing Action pieces is SO much harder than people think. Specially in a book, you have to constantly make it interesting without constantly using the same words 'as' 'then' 'whilst' etc. Bringing an action piece into the readers minds so they can easily visualize it, perhaps one of the hardest things to do in a story.

So, in the end, it is kind of a comic book made into a movie.

As a storyboard artist, Mad Max has inspired me more than nearly any other film.

"Mad Max 2" had Max get only 16 lines of dialogue in a 90 minute film.

Mad max fury road is one of my favourite films but I always found it hard to explain why other than just saying “it’s awesome!”. But you put it really well. I always thought the screenplay should be as detailed as possible, it’s weird that it’s not the case.

A new just write video Ooh What a day WHAT A LOVELY DAAAY.

Witneeeeesss.....the storyboards

This movie came from the same guy who did Happy feet...


Huh