![]() ![]() Staggering out of the cinema in 2015, I mentally compared Miller to Hieronymus Bosch. Mad Max: Fury Road is weirder, more irrational: more dreamlike. Most action movies take place in a notionally rational present day world and they are about crime and violence. And that’s what made audiences react so passionately. What I didn’t grasp at the time is that the stunts weren’t CGI. But Hardy’s alleged behaviour did not seem to affect the finished product, and may even have bolstered the defiant disdain in Theron’s performance. According to a new book, Blood, Sweat and Chrome by Kyle Buchanan, Hardy was persistently late, making everyone wait in the burning sun, and when Theron confronted him he was “aggressive” so she requested a female producer as “protection”. As with so many movies that involve a tough location shoot, the atmosphere was rancorous. With the dedication of the entrepreneur Fitzcarraldo in Werner Herzog’s classic movie, transporting a steamship through the jungle, Miller dedicated himself for decades to making this film happen, eventually decamping to the desert in Namibia.
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