{"id":8806,"date":"2015-06-04T06:13:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T11:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2015-06-04T06:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T11:13:59","slug":"mad-max-fury-road-is-a-resource-conscious-blockbuster-for-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8806","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMad Max: Fury Road\u201d Is a Resource-Conscious Blockbuster for Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"content-title\" class=\"article-title\"><span id=\"parent-fieldname-title-0f0b6775ab9943738ebb8ca35fe3ac5c\" class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/people-power\/mad-max-fury-road-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMad Max: Fury Road\u201d Is a Resource-Conscious Blockbuster for Our Time<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"content-description\" class=\"article-description\"><strong><span id=\"parent-fieldname-subheadline-0f0b6775ab9943738ebb8ca35fe3ac5c\" class=\"\">Who ruined Mad Max\u2019s world? The new film isn&#8217;t afraid to lay blame \u2014 and suggest a way forward.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>When the first\u00a0<em>Mad Max<\/em>\u00a0was released back in 1979, the era\u2019s reigning existential threats were nuclear winter and, to a lesser extent, peak oil. Set in a not-too-distant dystopian future and against the harsh backdrop of rural Australia, viewers\u2019 ability to map their own fears onto the screen was crucial to that film\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote\"><p>The film doesn\u2019t just rebuke the greedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the fears have changed, you could say the same thing about\u00a0<em>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em>, the series\u2019 long-awaited fourth installment. Released this month in the midst of California\u2019s historic drought and increasingly bleak studies about the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, the film plays more on viewers\u2019 anxieties about a carbon bomb than a nuclear one.<\/p>\n<p>Director George Miller\u2019s pitched focus on resources reflects today\u2019s embattled context to a tee.\u00a0<em>Mad Max\u00a0<\/em>is not only a rollicking, white-knuckle action flick on spiked 6-foot wheels. It also carries an important and all-too-timely message, shouted defiantly by no less than an aged, graffiti-scrawling woman wielding a shotgun: \u201cYou cannot own a human being!\u201d nor the planet on which they live.<\/p>\n<p>Miller\u2019s eponymous antihero, Max Rockantansky (Tom Hardy), inhabits a parched dystopia created by dual resource crises. Invoking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It%27s_the_economy,_stupid\">political strategist James Carville<\/a>, the movie\u2019s opening-by-way-of-background announces, \u201cIt\u2019s the oil, stupid,\u201d briefing viewers on the water wars, oil shortage, and subsequent state suppression that jolted humanity into chaos. As the world\u2019s supplies of fossil fuels and water dwindle, its citizens are reduced to a single instinct: survival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMad Max: Fury Road\u201d Is a Resource-Conscious Blockbuster for Our Time Who ruined Mad Max\u2019s world? The new film isn&#8217;t afraid to lay blame \u2014 and suggest a way forward. When the first\u00a0Mad Max\u00a0was released back in 1979, the era\u2019s reigning existential threats were nuclear winter and, to a lesser extent, peak oil. 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