In 1979, George Miller knows a triumph with his first feature film Mad Max , a violent road movie set in a near future where he presents Max (Mel Gibson) a cop who switches to the criminal folly and vengeful in a society that has no markings. The legend of the road warrior is born … with Mad Max 2, the challenge , released in 1982, Miller signed a real post-apocalyptic masterpiece, higher than the first part, where the hero solitary, wandering renegade and traumatized, found part of his humanity in a desperate world. An advance hyperviolent film that follows the archetypal Western. With Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), the filmmaker revisits the epic and its hero becomes the savior of those who embody the hope of a renaissance of the civilized world …
If the trilogy Mad Max was a great success in the world, it’s probably because she knew revisit (in his way) the myth of the hero, this form of narrative founder and universal in the collective consciousness and often told, anywhere and any time, through the lonely hero, cowboy, samurai, etc., whose shares are extended by others and whose exploits are often stories reported by other characters ( Mad Max 2 and 3 and possibly Fury Road ).
In 1987, George Miller realizes the fantasy comedy in Hollywood The Witches of Eastwick . Although the American experience was painful for the filmmaker, he manages to deliver through this extravagant work an ironic parable about the battle of the sexes and identities by comparing it to the theme of witchcraft. Amazing.
Five years later, the filmmaker depicts Lorenzo (1992). The story is that of a child with an incurable disease. Despite opposition from doctors, parents (formidable Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon) are doing everything they can to prevent the evil worse. A tearful medical melodrama? Not at all! George Miller (who was a doctor before filmmaker) delivers a powerful thriller inspired by Chairman of Men ! Lorenzo’s parents, true hero, “are not so far from Max” by the director. “They go the classic pattern of a quest.” Abnegation, stubbornness … they are changing the world at their level. In the end, a strong and disturbing work, treated with boldness.
Babe: Pig became shepherd (writer and producer) and Babe 2: Pig in the City (1998), he realizes himself, George Miller portrays the story of a little pig. But this is not just a children’s story gentillet: this animal social comedy is a metaphor (sometimes brutal) of the Company and its through. A world where beings feel tormented, cursed, lonely, banished and where the hero takes the form of a small pig and makes figure of the Messiah. A brilliant work, often caustic and sometimes very dark. Who would have thought?
Finally, with Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet 2 (2011), George Miller delivers two films Stunning musical animation. Again, treatment is bold. The heroic deeds of the little penguin manifested by a universal form: dance. In the first movie, the hero in search of answers and truths excels, faces the greatest enemies than each other, going crazy in the middle of the film (an amazing idea), grows through experience and get back home share knowledge and save his people. In the second part, the notion of heroes is deployed on a collective scale. Heroic figures of the movie multiplied and succeed in a philosophical tale where the concepts of existentialism mingle, harmony, and where will the infinitely small and the infinitely large constantly meet.
With the arrival on the screens of Mad Max: Fury Road , it is certain that George Miller (who finds his director of photography Lorenzo ) will deliver much more than spectacular action film, rubbing again the archetypes that underlie the great mythological stories. And if you bet, under the various trailers, a feminist work?
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