![]() ![]() Instead of simply creating a more-of-the-same sequel, Miller studied enduring protagonist archetypes in sources like Joseph Campbell to create an entire mythos for his post-apocalyptic wasteland. ![]() Fueled by vivid characters and elaborate car crashes, the dystopian thriller found a worldwide cult audience to propel Miller and his drama school discovery, Mel Gibson, to fame and fortune. Reaching back to the late 1970s, the filmmakers recount how an Australian ER doctor, George Miller, worked double-shifts as an EMT to fund his first feature film, “Mad Max” (1979), a violent revenge tale where law-and-order yields to biker and hot-rod gangs as the Outback falls into anarchy. The pop culture reporter for The New York Times assembles scores of voices that rev up a narrative that will excite Mad Max fans specifically, and entertain film buffs generally, on how ideas are realized as epics. Each features a suffering auteur beset by money men, clashing actors, blown schedules and more, all while threatened with professional extinction.įortunately, Kyle Buchanan’s oral history “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’” pulls away from clichés by tossing the keys to the filmmakers themselves. Leo Tolstoy’s adage that “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is inverted in the making-of film book genre: They are all unhappy in the same way. “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’” by Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow): This cover image released by William Morrow/Harper Collins shows "Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road" by Kyle Buchanan. ![]()
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