INTERVIEW – The director of the fourth installment of the adventures of the road warrior tasted the joys and pleasures of the Croisette. They would even be seen include the selection of films running for the Palme d’or.
For spring 70, director George Miller might have sit on the well-earned laurels of his Mad Max trilogy. It’s wrong to know the man. Australian stubborn, full of ideas and energy, he comes back with a fourth installment of its post-apocalyptic saga, as violent as whirring. Mel Gibson who really does age cavorting, the young Tom Hardy who succeeded him in the iconic role of the Warrior of the road. Miller is clearly delighted to strut on the Croisette thirty years after the first Mad Max. The proof …
LE FIGARO – Do you think that Mad Max has a place in Cannes? Did he come to destroy the Croisette
GEORGE MILLER – (Laughs) France has always been one of the great dérenseurs Mad Max. I remember that at the Avoriaz festival they had planned Mad Max 2 and that critics had defended the film calling it “Western on wheels”. It’s a bit why when the Cannes festival asked me to come this year to present Mad Max: Fury Road, I accepted with pleasure. I am very heureuxd’être here. The fact of inviting us is to recognize that the film is not just a simple action movie but also a work of director.
Are you disappointed not to encompétition be?
No. This is not a film for the Cannes competition. I was twice a member of the jury in Cannes. The projected fims have more gravity, are more serious than Mad Max! Fury Road is a big movie, a little pompous, a little crazy …
Finally, you are like Woody Allen, you are happy not to be in competition …
Ha! No. I would have loved to compete! Come to Cannes and not in competition, it’s a bit like we were aware that there was a party, but that was not invited … (laughs)
A rumor on the fact that Mel Gibson would have made a brief appearance in the film. Is that true?
I have heard many people say that. But this is absolutely false. It’s a bit like Sean Connery had a cameo in a James Bond with Daniel Craig. This is not possible.
How did you get the crazy idea to dive back into the Mad Max die after thirty years?
In fact, the idea dates back to the first millennium previous. In 1999, I wanted to rekindle the Mad Max engine featuring a chase continues in two hours. That’s what excited me. The second thing was to transform the object of the quest, as the Mc Guffin said Hitchcock, into something human. In Mad Max 2 was the oil tanker, here it is the young women in Immortan Joe. It all started from there.
Over the years, the Mad Max saga has become a benchmark in post-apocalyptic films. Hit the road, it was risk disappointing tracing your footsteps. Why was it a shot?
Because my vision of the future has changed. Today, I would tend to say: “Full speed ahead toward the past”! And like all storytellers, what I like is that a plot can be read as an allegory. That’s why I wanted to make Mad Max: Fury Road timeless film. It is a challenge still very attractive for a director
When you see Fury Road, we realize that deep inside you, you remained a kind of punk with the famous motto.: “No Future” …
(Laughs) I, a punk? Why not, but then a punk Australian then!
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