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Originally Posted by Ancestor
It was so over the top and bizarre that it was, in my opinion, an excellent retelling of the Mad Max saga and worth the very long wait.
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Well see that's the thing, it's not a retelling, remake or a reboot. It's meant as
another tale in the legend of the Road Warrior.
We're meant to view these movies the same way we would view the tales of any mythological figure. Fury Road is basically part 4 of the franchise.
The article Rae linked to states the implication in its final paragraphs --
"Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves," reads the final title card of the film. It’s a quote from The First History of Man, a fictional book that exists within the Mad Max universe. It implies that humans continued on, improved and recovered to the point of writing books and chronicling their history. Max is sure to be in that history, but as a myth, not as a man.
Max is the man, the Road Warrior is the myth and what we are watching are the tales of the Road Warrior.
Apparently Miller intended Fury Road to be a 3D animated movie with the second movie to be live action. Miller mentioned Akira as an inspiration for how he wanted to approach this animated movie but at some point he decided to drop the idea for an animated movie and keep it live action.
He appears to have very well formed ideas for the franchise and seems intent on crafting the entire legend of the Road Warrior, I'm confident the next movie will be damned good as well.
And Miller has recently revealed that the next movie will be titled Mad Max: The Wasteland.
As an aside, if anyone is interested in another Aussie movie that highlights societal decay, the Guy Pearce movie
The Rover can be seen as something of a lead up to the break down of society in the first Mad Max movie. I'm not saying the movies are connected or related in any way but I found it very easy to imagine the world depicted in The Rover as the beginnings of the Mad Max world.