PODCAST – MAD MAX: FURY ROAD & The Engine of Structure

The reason that Mad Max: Fury Road works is not because of it's plot. It works because of its structure. And that structure begins with the primal needs driving its main characters. Interestingly, Furiosa really is the main character in Mad Max.

She is the character who drives the story. At the center of Furiosa's drive or struggle in this movie is a desperate need to hope. A desperate need to believe in a better place. And desperate need to build that better place, not only for herself, but for the five concubines/wives of the evil, tyrannical, cultish dictator by whom she was taken captive. She is driven by a primal need to find that green place that was taken away from her when she was a child. That green place in the desert - that personal symbol of hope. And underneath that need is a need for justice. A need that we can all connect to, whether we have ever been trapped in a desert wasteland, chased by Cirque du Soleil performers or not. We all know what it's like to feel injustice.

We all know what it feels like to feel like the world is not fair. And we all know what it's like to hope against hope to somehow, in some way, return to that better place.

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