"There is no hope!"


I really enjoyed this scene, juxtaposed against Fury Road. It's very dark and brutal as Dementus snuffs out all hope in the heart of Furiosa. Fast forward to the future, here comes Max, teasing her with hope once again, possessing all the characteristics of her dead mentor Praetorian Jack. How truly difficult it must have been for her to bite the apple once again. Was there something different in Max's mettle, I wonder? Or was she simply desperate? In this respect, the movie succeeded a great deal. I'm truly of mixed feelings about it. It was both awesome and why?

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I think, with Max, taking this new material as canon, Furiosa felt something in that cab very familiar, a fever dream almost, of something she had lost, much like the green place itself. Something she may have known was fleeting but desperately clung too, like some guardian angel made flesh. In Fury Road, Furiosa repeatedly does things against her instinct. Shown wonderfully by Theron's subtle facial expressions. Jack fills in those bubbles. (By the way, I felt the film hinted two, maybe three times, that Jack may have been a double agent for Dementus, but they didn't go that way with the final edit.)

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All good points.

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Yes, the platonic (but more than just Mentor / Mentee) relationship between Furiosa and Praetor Jack in 'Furosia' is nice and sheds a very different light on the sequences you mention in 'Fury Road'...
I find it interesting also that in 'Furiosa', just after Jack has died and Furiosa has escaped, there is a single shot of Max next to his famous Dodge Interceptor looking at the whole thing from afar on a cliff's edge (which could possibly chronologically link to the very first shot of 'Fury Road' minutes before Max is captured...).

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