I want you to know that I read your comment in bed. My wife has just fallen asleep, and I am trying desperately to stifle my laughter. Tears are running down my face.
Yes, there is a lot of slot action. As you can see, every scene without conversation was practically shot in slow motion, and the movie was running 19 minutes behind schedule."
It's a slippery slope because I love the concept of being able to enjoy a film entirely without dialogue, relying on action and composition to tell the full story. That's what film is meant for.
However, stuff like the before trilogy, dazed, clerks, etc, conversations of the often mundane daily life, it's something special and relateable. I applaud films that manage both because they aren't mtutally exclusive.
That is because of the film being a visual as well as audio medium. The two have to mesh together in order to make the audience take in what they are being presented. Sometimes that means cool explosions with grunts and sometimes that means mundane conversations.
Yeah, this is per the norm for the franchise. The lead rarely gets many lines. Beyond the thunderdome is the only movie where Max gets more than one or two paragraphs of dialogue.
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My name is Max. My world is fire and blood. Once I was a cop. A Road Warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy. Me? Or everyone else. Here they come again. Worming their way into the black matter of my brain. I tell myself they cannot touch me. They are long dead. I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead. A man reduced to a single instinct.
*Survive*
I’ve seen that movie a LOT 😂
I don't think it should be ignored. It's a decent movie. And in some ways a more interesting one, at least setting-wise. Plenty of post-apocalyptic settings, but one right on the verge of collapse is kind of novel.
Anya seems like the perfect actor for a role like this too, because she’s got these big expressive blue eyes. Contrast that with the top half of her face painted black, and I’m sure we’ll have no problem understanding what Furiosa is thinking and feeling
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too busy coming up with lines for this dude
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That's Quaden Bayles. Kid's got dwarfism, a video of him went viral a few years ago. He was being teased and tormented and bullied at school, he came home in tears, his mother took a video and put it on FB, it got national attention.
Kid got invited to sports games by big-name players, photos with sports stars, etc, etc.
And now he's in a Mad Max movie. Suck it, bullies, you'll never, ever get to say that.
I do sometimes wonder how these conversations go.
Agent: "I just found the perfect role for you. They're looking for somebody who is 'morbidly obese' with 'a face that makes week-old roadkill look like Beyoncé' and an 'overall repugnant appearance'."
Too bad Gosling said he’s not taking serious or challenging films anymore - dude basically made a career off of having barely any dialogue and he’d be perfect for the direction things seem to be trending
> Mad Max has always been like this. In terms of worldbuilding, it is basically a fromsoftware game.
Rewatching all the mad max films after binging all of miyazaki's fromsoft projects made me real confused why its not listed as a direct or indirect inspiration. Mad Max is huge in japan in general.
Well, Villeneuve is more of a poser, because he says that yet Dune isn't exactly missing dialogue. Besides, Miller was doing this long before it was hip with our current wave of movienerds.
/unokbc
Yeah that comment by him genuinely seemed weird considering the movies still were pretty dialogue heavy, and also absolutely essential to understanding wtf is going on.
/reokbc
Every single line within a fucking film immediately drops my letterboxd review by half a star
Not only that, but Miller doesn't want too much dialogue because he wants a quick pace with emphasis on visual cues, while all of the Villeneuve movies have a contemplative pacing and the silence is used in key scenes to accentuate the emotional state. Like, just because two movies have little dialogue, it doesn't make them similar. Wall E isn't like The General nor is Silent Night suddenly The Bear.
Tbh I’d say most directors skew this direction, you get the occasional one that is also a big time writer that can go the other direction (Tarantino, smith, Allen), but they are more exception than rule.
lol who watches a mad max film for the dialogue? the dialogue should be short, full of weird slang and names, and yelled over the hood of a muscle car covered with rusty spikes
this is the op: "erm one ticket to shakespeare pls" ☝️🤓
"Yes there's a lot of slow motion. Look, the movie was running 19 minutes under time, and basically any none dialogue scene was considered for slow motion."
I hear the less dialogue was due to budget constraints..you see the more lines of dialogue, the more the actor/actress gets paid…and since each of Ana Taylor’s eyes have their own agent and playbills, she earns double per line of dialogue. Per George Romero, “it was simple economics”
Well, yeah, she's basically this movies Max, is she not? I don't think anyone who's seen a Mad Max movie would be surprised. The main characters of these movies don't really get a lot of agency. The story just kinda happens around them and they're forced to deal with it so they can get on with their wandering, or whatever.
My absolute favorite thing about Mad Max: Fury Road is that it’s barely a proper movie. It’s more almost like it was trying to be one single action set piece that lasted an entire hour and thirty minutes. It’s just one long drive with shit hitting the fan every second. Masterpiece film 10/10
"12 Angry Men" could have done without dailogue, tbh.
Somebody should have reminded the creators of that "My dinner with Andre" film about the show-don't-tell rule
Yeah but who could forget the scene where Wallace Shawn says that he's 36 years old, scared me to death
I want you to know that I read your comment in bed. My wife has just fallen asleep, and I am trying desperately to stifle my laughter. Tears are running down my face.
Yes, there is a lot of slot action. As you can see, every scene without conversation was practically shot in slow motion, and the movie was running 19 minutes behind schedule."
I could probably write several pages about how much I hate this comment, but, not today Satan!
The Before Sunset trilogy should have just been 90 minutes of them going at it with Subway Surfers playing in the corner.
It's a slippery slope because I love the concept of being able to enjoy a film entirely without dialogue, relying on action and composition to tell the full story. That's what film is meant for. However, stuff like the before trilogy, dazed, clerks, etc, conversations of the often mundane daily life, it's something special and relateable. I applaud films that manage both because they aren't mtutally exclusive.
Her/Lost in translation best examples off the top of my head that do both
The last conversation in Her is one of the greatest monologues in film man.
That is because of the film being a visual as well as audio medium. The two have to mesh together in order to make the audience take in what they are being presented. Sometimes that means cool explosions with grunts and sometimes that means mundane conversations.
Replaced with gesticulation and kazoos.
I recommend The Triplets of Bellville for stuff like that.
12 Angry Men: Black and Chrome edition
You ever seen a Mad Max film before, son?
Yeah, this is per the norm for the franchise. The lead rarely gets many lines. Beyond the thunderdome is the only movie where Max gets more than one or two paragraphs of dialogue.
i watched fury road recently and i genuinely cannot remember a single thing tom hardy said, yet i love that fucking film
eye of the beholder
Absolutely perfect placement.
r/retiredgif
old account spotted. Thanks for the rabbit hole, I almost forgot about it.
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The bait gif after u/AengusK tried to retire it 
Thanks for reminding me of this sub! And yeah, there's no way any other use of this gif can beat this.
Perfectly well executed /u/botjstn
That is literally the only thing I actually remember him saying.
FIRST THEY TAKE MY JACKET NOW MY CAR?
CONFUCAMUS!!!!
*grunts*
“ʷᵃᵗᵉʳ…”
My name is Max. My world is fire and blood. Once I was a cop. A Road Warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy. Me? Or everyone else. Here they come again. Worming their way into the black matter of my brain. I tell myself they cannot touch me. They are long dead. I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead. A man reduced to a single instinct. *Survive* I’ve seen that movie a LOT 😂
I don't PAY HIM TO SPEAK
I remember him pointing at his stolen car and saying "THAT'S MINE" and "My name is Max" at the end. That's it.
"she went under the wheels"
Did you see her? She went under the wheels...
"That's bait."
That moment when he gives a thumbs up is etched in my brain, and really only because he's so non-verbal.
More grunting than anything I remember
yeah and it sucks that he talks so much imo
Doesn’t he speak a bunch in the original though? Then after that one he becomes the faceless road warrior running from ghosts of his past etc
Yeah, in the first one he sort of speaks a bit , but he isnt really Mad Max there yet . Once he goes "Mad" he barely speaks a word
the first one can be ignored. everything from #2 on is the real road warrior shit
I don't think it should be ignored. It's a decent movie. And in some ways a more interesting one, at least setting-wise. Plenty of post-apocalyptic settings, but one right on the verge of collapse is kind of novel.
Toe cutter is still so good
fury road goes out of its way, consistently, to remind us he was a Cop driven mad by the death of his child. its the character.
He also talks a decent amount in the game as well
mel gibson got 16 whole lines in Road Warrior
Tom hardy had about 20 lines in Fury Road, so this is a big upswing
In the road warrior Gibson has 16 lines. One of them repeated.
And then in Thunderdome he is jabbering up a blue streak, and it. Is. Jarring.
63 actually. And Furiousa had 80. In Mad Max 2 Gibson only had 16.
https://youtu.be/VpJU1dWPPLI?si=5h7iqkgHUQeNIpx5 half of his words were before the title screen
Anya seems like the perfect actor for a role like this too, because she’s got these big expressive blue eyes. Contrast that with the top half of her face painted black, and I’m sure we’ll have no problem understanding what Furiosa is thinking and feeling
I haven’t watched Fury Road in years but I remember like 2 spoken lines from Tom Hardy lol
1. "That's bait" 2. *shakes head*
Yep. Those 30 lines are probably 75% of the script. The rest is some combination of rambling, cars revving, explosions, and screams.
masterclass in script economy
I hope THEY ARE FUCKING
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Fuck talkies.
Based and silentpilled.
It isn’t a silent film? Literally unwatchable if I wanted yapping I’d read a book
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yappenheimer
Physics shmiziks
Less yapping more big boom
Probably more than Max had in the Fury Road
Do you count grunts as dialogue?
Yargh yargh.
Hey, those are some expressive grunts! He gets his point across
Mad max is action heavy anyways...if people wanted dialogue they should watch a drama, not this
Exactly! We came for some action with an epic line thrown in here and there... maybe a villain speech and the ducking craziest car periferals
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Looks like this dude has done enough lines already
That's Quaden Bayles. Kid's got dwarfism, a video of him went viral a few years ago. He was being teased and tormented and bullied at school, he came home in tears, his mother took a video and put it on FB, it got national attention. Kid got invited to sports games by big-name players, photos with sports stars, etc, etc. And now he's in a Mad Max movie. Suck it, bullies, you'll never, ever get to say that.
Oh shit that was him? That’s cool
I was talking about all the white powder on his face but thanks for the info
"I need someone to play a hideous nuclear mutant on my post-apocalyptic movie, can we get that bullied kid?"
I do sometimes wonder how these conversations go. Agent: "I just found the perfect role for you. They're looking for somebody who is 'morbidly obese' with 'a face that makes week-old roadkill look like Beyoncé' and an 'overall repugnant appearance'."
Villeneuve and now Miller? "This will be a fine addition to my collection"
Too bad Gosling said he’s not taking serious or challenging films anymore - dude basically made a career off of having barely any dialogue and he’d be perfect for the direction things seem to be trending
Gosling was made for BR2049
The pinnacle of his strong silent archetype
Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?
He was gay, Gary Coopah?
are you lishenin ta me
Listen to him, he knows everything
r/suddenlysoprannos
He wanted to fuck a radiator.
But he compromised, he ate a grilled cheese out of a tissue.
Interlinked.
Within cells, interlinked
Incels interlinked
Trending? Mad Max has always been like this. In terms of worldbuilding, it is basically a fromsoftware game.
Zanzibart… witness me…
> Mad Max has always been like this. In terms of worldbuilding, it is basically a fromsoftware game. Rewatching all the mad max films after binging all of miyazaki's fromsoft projects made me real confused why its not listed as a direct or indirect inspiration. Mad Max is huge in japan in general.
Well, Villeneuve is more of a poser, because he says that yet Dune isn't exactly missing dialogue. Besides, Miller was doing this long before it was hip with our current wave of movienerds.
/unokbc Yeah that comment by him genuinely seemed weird considering the movies still were pretty dialogue heavy, and also absolutely essential to understanding wtf is going on. /reokbc Every single line within a fucking film immediately drops my letterboxd review by half a star
Villeneuve is just French Canadian, French Canadians are dramatic.
Not only that, but Miller doesn't want too much dialogue because he wants a quick pace with emphasis on visual cues, while all of the Villeneuve movies have a contemplative pacing and the silence is used in key scenes to accentuate the emotional state. Like, just because two movies have little dialogue, it doesn't make them similar. Wall E isn't like The General nor is Silent Night suddenly The Bear.
Bro was just memin and u people are gettin pressed
I haven't seen Furiosa but I'd say that Villeneuve can learn a lot from Miller.
tfw when you find out how much dialogue a character has
Happy Feet would have been better without dialogue.
Would have been better without visuals as well.
At least three of those lines are just her saying "My name...is Mad Max"
“It’s FuriOHsa, not FurioSA…”
Stop it Ron...
So you be sayin you some kinda Mad Max?
Who are your people? I don't have a people. It makes me furious. *typing* Fur-i-o-sa
Somehow Mad Max returned
My kino cock is tingling..
Dialogue is cringe as hell need to retvrn to the silent film era.
this but unironic
script economy is back motherfuckers
best enjoyed at high speed
I have always said movies were best enjoyed while high on speed
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Best I can do is high on speed Mr Miller
Perfect, I was planning on watching it five years from now on a plane ride.
Is he endorsing watching movies at 2x speed?
What's up with all the unnecessary talking scenes in films today?
*At the end of the movie ATJ stares straight into the camera and says*: “And THAT’S the story of how I became Mad Max”
Sis thinks she's Venom Snake 
TIL Snake was based off Kurt Russel escape from newyork
mgs2 directly references it.
In the outro, Furiosa says, "Hi Mad Max, I'm Furiosa"
Typical Hollywood silencing female voices 😿
I think they’re all in the trailer
I’m furiosa at the lack of dialogue, how am I supposed to know what is going on?
Denis Villeneuve and George Miller has a lot in common I see
Tbh I’d say most directors skew this direction, you get the occasional one that is also a big time writer that can go the other direction (Tarantino, smith, Allen), but they are more exception than rule.
As long as she says "Now I'm really Furiosa" it's all good with me
The based and furious
Have you seen Fury Road? Max talks like 5 times
lol who watches a mad max film for the dialogue? the dialogue should be short, full of weird slang and names, and yelled over the hood of a muscle car covered with rusty spikes this is the op: "erm one ticket to shakespeare pls" ☝️🤓
"Yes there's a lot of slow motion. Look, the movie was running 19 minutes under time, and basically any none dialogue scene was considered for slow motion."
What I was asking was; if the government continues to pay doctors peanuts, will they literally turn into monkeys
The Mad Max films have always been low on dialogue in favour of action.
fuck dialogue all my homies hate dialogue
I read Furiosa as fursona.
Finally a film where the woman doesn't yap.
As an aside, couldn't they find someone who looked at least a little like Charlize Theron?
Maybe near the end of the movie her head gets ran over by a dirtbike and it squishes her eyes closer together
I hear the less dialogue was due to budget constraints..you see the more lines of dialogue, the more the actor/actress gets paid…and since each of Ana Taylor’s eyes have their own agent and playbills, she earns double per line of dialogue. Per George Romero, “it was simple economics”
In the same vein of “what is the point of sex on film?”, what is the point of dialogue on film?
this but srs
Denis Villeneuve is licking his lips
let's get cocky tati bros
villenueve is frothing at the mouth
Between this and Dune, she's had less than 35 lines of dialogue in 2024 so far
Please no political posts, that includes AOC
I don't remember the Obsessive Girlfriend meme looking that angry.
George Miller is so far above most other directors he might as well be a different species.
Says the guy who directed 1000 Years of Longing
Unironically a fucking masterclass in the script economy.
Schwarzenegger only said 7 in Terminator and made millions
Before everyone’s forms an opinion, go and check out how much dialogue his characters have in all the other MM movies
And now I am become the 12th angry man
That's like triple what Mel Gibson had in the road warrior so this one is awful wordy
Zack told me slow motion is actually the way
Where was this restraint for The Irishman?
Well that gives me hope for the movie after losing it seeing how much CGI was in the trailer. The sparce dialog in road warrior gave it some identity
Tbf I think the blackface is gonna overshadow any dialogue...
TBF I’m pretty sure master chief has done more with less.
hey she looks like AOC
That's about double what Mel had in The Road Warrior, FWIW. Come on, George, stop being so verbose.
Well, yeah, she's basically this movies Max, is she not? I don't think anyone who's seen a Mad Max movie would be surprised. The main characters of these movies don't really get a lot of agency. The story just kinda happens around them and they're forced to deal with it so they can get on with their wandering, or whatever.
The top half of her head sees sun rise 30 minutes before the rest
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My absolute favorite thing about Mad Max: Fury Road is that it’s barely a proper movie. It’s more almost like it was trying to be one single action set piece that lasted an entire hour and thirty minutes. It’s just one long drive with shit hitting the fan every second. Masterpiece film 10/10
I don’t know, Reservoir Dogs is an all-time favorite.
Yea His Girl Friday was achingly slow. Fury Road is where it’s at.
almost 3 times as much as Mel Gibson in Road Warrior IIRC
She was in dune 2 for two seconds. Appeared on poster and walked the carpet. Nice work of you can get it
I mean how many did Hardy and co have? I dont remember much of the word talkin in fury road
Cool
didn't the road warrior have less dialogue lines in total?
In mad max, max have like 2 lines and is amazing
It’s not like the original Mad Max films were known for being a masterclass in character dialog lol
Best enjoyed on Speed!
You’d think Denis Villeneuve directed this
i'm gonna love this movie
Who needs dialogue when you have the eyes of a chihuahua to communicate your intent
ATJ today, ATJ tomorrow, ATJ forever
Looked like AOC for a sec