The “Mad Max” saga is back with a fifth film “Furiosa”, centered on the famous character of the Empress, played here by Anya Taylor-Joy. Do you have to have seen “Fury Road”, which introduces the character, to understand “Furiosa”?
Revealed in The Witch and popular since Split and Queen’s Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy was chosen to play a legendary role in pop culture: that of Furiosa, a badass heroine from the universe of Mad Max, previously played by Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Fifth film in the franchise, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was an opportunity for its director George Miller to return to the Croisette since it was previewed out of competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
A few privileged people were therefore able to discover a week before the general public this new film about the young years of the famous Empress Furiosa in a world in decline. Everything changes when she is torn from the Green Earth and captured by a horde of bikers led by the fearsome Dementus. As she tries to survive the Desolation, Immortan Joe and find her way home, Furiosa has only one obsession: revenge.
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Do you have to have seen “Mad Max: Fury Road” to understand “Furiosa”?
You should know that Furiosa is a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road since the new film in the saga focuses on the young years of the future Empress. It is therefore not imperative to have seen Fury Road before discovering Furiosa in the cinema.
If the film Furiosa fits perfectly into the universe of Mad Max: Fury Road, with the same graphic quality, the two feature films do not share the same issues, nor the same temporality.
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At the film’s press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, director George Miller emphasized the idea that every Mad Max should be different. And to add: “If you just repeat what you’ve done, there’s no appetite to make a film again!”
Indeed, Fury Road boils down to a chase over a few days while Furiosa is an epic which retraces around fifteen years, divided into 5 chapters, of the life of the heroine, introduced in Fury Road.
Obviously, fans will be able to find in Furiosa the winks and the answers to the questions that Fury Road could ask, but people who have not seen Fury Road will not be particularly left by the side of the road. They will discover the character of Furiosa in another way and this new film will certainly make them want to discover Fury Road next.
The film “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is released in theaters on May 22.