Mad Max: Fury Road is a perfect action movie, but it almost was a different story entirely.
The king is dead.
Long live the queen.Maybe.
The laconic drifter has escape, vanishing into the mob.
He is returning to his home, to his Wasteland.
It is a perfect ending for a perfect action movie.
Max is forever the warrior and brute who walks alone.
Through it all, Millers kinetic vision remained strong and undiluted.
The film could have even had an entirely different ending for Max and Furiosa.
To read it, one had to travel all the way down to Millers office in Sydney.
It of course did not get going either then or five or six years later.
Hes now become reintegrated into society and regained his humanity.
He ends his stories as he begins, in search for something that will never come.
He also quickly added, How corny.
What was there simply appeared to be a sketched-out idea.
As it turned out, they would have some help.
At least not the way he intended.
We never shot that ending, art director Shira Hockman said.
This is never going to be in the film, the director apparently said.
Its an ending that fits with the rest of the movie much better.
He was not ready to love somebody, Lathouris said.
It almost happens with Furiosa, but hes not ready for that kind of life.
He hasnt learned the lesson yet about grieving.
Meanwhile Sexton was astute to point out that this was a new Mad Max played by Tom Hardy.
He was younger, and there was the option of making more movies as a continued story.
Although for a time even that was also in doubt.
Initially, whenever the Immortan arrived, the crowd would point to him and start chanting, He.
He., Miller explained.
The crowd below, as the platform rises, is calling out, She.
Watch out for the snake in the grass.
It made sense that Furiosa alone ascends to the top of a dominant hierarchy, Miller said.
The question becomes what is she going to do with it?
This is a questionMiller previously told mehe always liked to leave up to viewers.
Can she improve it?
Miller toldDen of Geek.
Or is she going to do what often happens in many stories where there is some revolution.
As [Joseph] Campbell said, Often yesterdays hero becomes tomorrows tyrant.
And thats a story told over and over again as well.
It is an end and, maybe, a new beginning.
But it is up to you what kind.
