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That was always one of the weird things in both the original and Fury Road to me: there are sort-of hints that there are lush (or at least non-desert) lands wit
by roel_v 10y ago
That was always one of the weird things in both the original and Fury Road to me: there are sort-of hints that there are lush (or at least non-desert) lands within a few days, or weeks at most, driving. Why do they spend all their time wasting fuel by driving around in small local circles?
- DanBC 10y agoThose lush lands might just be rumours, and people are trying to find them but just finding more desert. Or those lush lands are highly desirable, and thus heavily fortified.
- justinator 10y agoMainly, because that's where you go, if you're a bandit. The first movie showed a relatively normal city, bordered by a no-mans land. Max + family vacationed on the coast. The last scene, before Max drives out into the desert is basically in a forest. Max's job was to keep the bandits out of the relatively normal area of civilization. The third movie showed a paradise hidden from most people, cut off by a lifeless desert. It was only by using a plane that they were able to get to a former city with enough resources to build families, again. It sounds like there's islands of habitable land, and difficult if almost impossible distances between them. No one knows what's happening outside their sphere, except rumors.
- crooked-v 10y agoTrying to make all of the Mad Max timelines fit into a single-generation timeline is hard at best. Think about the kind of timescale needed for those War Boys to exist as an entire subculture, or for the Green Place to be populated and well-known before withering up and disappearing. The only way it makes sense to me is to consider it happening over generations - and yet in the first movie, the collapse of society is still only in progress.