Why is Mad Max: Fury Road so highly rated?

Mad Max is an amazing franchise. Three films were made in six years after the first film in 1979. But it would be 30 years before the fourth sequel, Mad Max: Fury Road, came out, and this sequel didn't sit on the hot seat, it didn't sit on the empty seat, it did something bold, and it did something great.

Why is Mad Max IV regarded as a masterpiece by many because it does not break the limits of time and space in its narrative? Because of its innovation in setting, it's easy to make a good story, but it's even harder to remake a new world, and Mad Max IV climbs the mountain.

After the world was completely destroyed, mankind retreated to primitive civilization. The survivors set up a code of existence for themselves and ran it into a new world, the Wasteland.

In the wasteland world, all three concepts do not exist, only to live. Human beings are like mole ants, for the conditioned reflex to survive, hope no longer exists, dignity trampled on the foot, the thought is difficult to civilization, Max and Felrosa incompatible resistance represents awakening. On the run, they let Mad Max 4 unfold like a road movie and interpret existentialism in its fury. People live should not be meaningless, should not even how to live freedom are unable to obtain, to the years with civilization, so that the end can also become a home, be covered by warmth.

To highlight the cross and cross of hope and despair, the director keeps the warm and cold colors changing so that the audience can tell at a glance. Such as in the daytime in the endless yellow desert escape, in the sun's yellow warm light fighting, although a close call but hope is not extinguished. At night, the world is quiet, but there is no warmth, but into a cool blue purple color, cool, depressed atmosphere strong. But this kind of night does not take up much space in the film, and after each disappointment, the director let the fight start, to welcome the sunrise again.

What follows is a fast-paced, high-frequency narrative that makes the cult elements of Mad Max 4 feel right, crazy, cool and cool. Crazy is that every role in the movie is disorderly, cool is no nonsense, do not refuse to do, like the punk style fire guitarist, cool is the movement design, clean, flowing.

If only the concept, without the support of technology, it will be scattered, like castles in the air, look useless. The reason why Mad Max IV can hold up these big scenes and small details is that its film technique is also perfect.

Some of the desert Wars are staged with the most dexterity in a commercial film. The first battle begins with the camera panning from left to right, showing a panoramic view of the battlefield and an imminent battle. Then, with the help of different changes in landscape, I first took a close-range view and then a panoramic view, and then pulled a distant view. The overwhelming sandstorms created by the special effects made the sense of doom come into view, and also made the composition of the last shot full of beauty.

Plus a variety of camera angles, do not miss any good picture. There are also silky, fast cuts, several short shots stitched together into a single frame that keeps the audience in a constant adrenaline rush.

But there's more to Mad Max 4 than that. The art design in the film is almost an encyclopedia of waste soil movies. The industrial carved chariots, the doomsday fortress formed by the combination of machinery and nature, and the costumes full of ruins and aesthetic feeling are all amazing. Sometimes a good movie doesn't necessarily have a good story. It can make a concept land and make the world in the movie stand out, which is another kind of classic. Mad Max 4 is a good example.

The character design is excellent, too. Max and Ferrosa are the swords of a martial arts man and woman. Max alone, captured after a blood bag, finally managed to break free from the shackles, can live freely, but the Ferrosa chivalrous makes him shocked. A female flow unexpectedly fearless, with the doomsday castle "race" in the desert to find oasis, in order to get rid of the undead old Joe monopoly of water resources, to establish a new home.

Max was moved and wanted to atone for his broken promise. So this could have walked away from the two rangers, with the Xiaogu big Haoran Zhengqi, and not dead old Joe to the end.

In some ways, Mad Max IV is like a cross between East and West. The Chinese martial arts style is happy, enmity, swords and swords, while the American cult classic is violent and bloody, swords are on the edge, and the mainstream and non-mainstream are perfectly integrated. It does not pay too much attention to any logic, does not follow the tradition, and does not stick to reflection. It is enough to let the film become a simple art, so that the audience can understand and enjoy it. With the same kind of martial arts, only people in rivers and lakes, green forest heroes, regardless of the high of the temple is worried about its people, far from rivers and lakes is worried about its king, is happy to live for themselves, for others.

On top of that, most of the scenes in Mad Max 4 were filmed live. With fire-breathing guitars, chariot chases, pole-vaulting movements and a scene in which Nax crashes his car at the end, the director strives for the ultimate authenticity. After all, special effects can make you tired, but the real action is a classic forever, which is the fundamental reason why the Mad Max series gets better and better while the Fast and Furious series gets worse and worse. One does not forget the original intention, return to the essence, a family man all day long, close to Marvel, the production of special effects flying garbage, there is no technique and art in the film, can only be reduced to a temporary fast food.

No matter at any time, the film should pay attention to technique and art. If the blind aestheticism, it will become empty and tasteless, if the entertainment, it will be eliminated. The reason why Hollywood has come so far is that they did not forget the artistic quality of European films while pursuing the popularization of films in the early stage. They invited many European directors to Hollywood to shoot.

At the same time, after the end of the golden Age of Hollywood, the New Hollywood was also deeply influenced by the French New Wave. It was the combination of art, commerce and technology that revitalized Hollywood. The new Hollywood quartet, Martin Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg and Lucas, represented art and technology respectively, but also managed to combine business, which is the main reason for Hollywood's resurgence.

This suggests that Hollywood, and the rest of the world, needs more Mad Max 4 than Marvel in the commercial space.

Because Marvel's approach is to dry up their waters and focus on their immediate interests, Mad Max IV is a forward-looking film that may not be a huge box office hit right now, but is fit for the long haul. Film is a comprehensive subject, including art, technology, techniques, philosophy, etc. If it is too long, it will eventually become boring and be rejected by the audience. It is too late to make up for it until then.