Before the movie "Mad Max: Fury Road" I had no idea who the director George Miller was. I began to hear how good of a movie this was and seeing it was nominated a lot at this years Oscars, I had to hear about the interview on The Treatment about Miller. Elvis Mitchell has know Miller for over 40 years and this isn't the first time he has interviewed Miller before. The interview i listened to took place in February 24 2016.
What I found interesting right off the bat was that George Miller got introduced to film due to his curiosity. I learned that he likes to play around with the angles while making a film. Most of George Millers inspiration in making this film was from the fact that he loves cars and grew up with open roads.
In the movie Mad Max: Fury Road I feel like George Miller did a great job in taking up space in the whole screen to give his audience something to see. As he states "Create a much sense of volume 3D volume of a 2D screen" he does just that. He felt that the way the angle was it would take up much more space than going from the X-Y plane so he likes to go through the Z plane and he found himself doing it unconsciously. I feel that sometimes greater things come when you arent as focused on it. What i mean by that is if Miller was actually working just to make the 3D stand out more he would look out for more mistakes and try to perfect it but the outcome might not have been the same.
Mad Maxx: Fury Road had a variety of unique cars and that was one of the passions Geroge Miller had. He was able to combine his love for cars and film and make it into one masterpiece film. Miller states that he got the idea when he said "Grew up in Australia with big endless roads" Mad Max was in a big open road environment and just like he grew up with his Hot Rods, they were in the film. Its nice to see that some directors can put what they like into the eyes of the audience.
Movies have come a long way and when George Miller says that a movie is like "Its public dreaming" made me realize that he is right. We get to see someones imagination into a film and get an understanding for what they intended to show. When we read a book we picture what its like in our head so we day dream, a film is someones day dream in the big screen. I feel that this was probably one of the best things I got out of Miller and will begin to see it this way next time i see a film.
I enjoyed listening to what George Miller had to say. It was nice knowing where some of these directors get their ideas and how they sometimes look up to other directors and get ideas from them as well. I also like how Miller combined both his passions and made them into one film. He showed that it doesnt take a big budget to make a great movie when he made the first Mad Max. You have to have will to make it great abd as best as you can. He did it with as little as 30 people and its a film people still talk about when The new Mad Max came out.
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