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weren't all the mad max characters in law enforcement and he may of been a Honorable person even with the world in chaos?
To be fair, the initial trilogy did not have any story connections between the movies either. I think each movie in the franchise could and should be considered its own isolated story with only general themes (post apocalyptic desert settings, cars, a dude called Max) being the connecting tissue.
I mean, part 2 and 3 have the same actor playing the same archetype (pilot) but as two clearly distinct characters with different names. (This really confused the hell out of me, when I saw Beyond the Thunderdome for the first time). There is no story or character consistency between any of those movies, only thematical consistency. So Fury Road wasn't any different here.
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TLDR: The "Reluctant Hero" and Max's constant "Circle" of development the character goes through are standard fare in the previous movies. He starts off selfish, ends up saving people anyway.
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I know it's not directed at me, but:
Well, the original character was pretty jaded and broken by what had happened to his family and that "law" would no longer help create a stable society or protect the innocent. "Society" may not have really been worth the trouble, anyway...
In both "Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)" and "Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome," he was a "reluctant hero." He would act in his own best, selfish, interests at first, then find himself helping others along the way.
In essence, yes, it doesn't seem possible that he can escape "The Circle" - No matter how selfish he starts out, he ends up still being the Reluctant Hero.
In Fury Road, Max goes full-circle much more obviously and quickly. His own salvation is not tied to the goal that he finds himself trying to reach, which doesn't match with previous titles. So, he takes on a much more altruistic personae a lot more quickerer... 'cause there has to be much more room for many more 'splosions all the time, all the time.
(His turnover happens before they approach the blockade by the Biker Gang peeps, which is sooner than in the other movies. And, there's nothing significant, IIRC, prefaces it other than grating respect for Strong Woman. (Note: I liked the characters, I just thought the movie was pushy, obvious, and dumb... /shrug :)))
That's fair, assuming the continuity is there and Tom Hardy's Max is the same one from the original film. Perhaps he was an ex-police officer still holding on to his ethical core, rather than a desert rat anti-hero who just decided to help on a whim.
As I said earlier, there is a lack of continuity in the movies from the 80s. I think we should consider each movie like a new Batman movie. A different interpretation of the same themes. Even if all these interpretations are by the same director in this case ;)
Revisiting To sum.... :
A young girl is abducted by Aggressive Males from her safe Green Place Lesbian Commune. Her childhood is taken away from her and she is then sold into slavery by Pedo-Thor, likely to Boomer Oligarch, but escapes and becomes Strong Woman. Somewhere along the line, she masquerades as an Aggressive Male, finally becoming True Strong Woman by cutting off her overly feminine hair. Tue Reverse-Samson Strong Woman wants to return to her Magnificent Mother, but must protect Green Place Lesbian Commune from Aggressive Males, Boomer Oligarch's Anemic Male Milkers, and a deranged Pedo-Thor.
And, then, some 'splosions.
This is a "Mad Max" movie? It's not anything like a Mad Max movie, it just has desert, 'splosions, and war-cars in it... Is that what a Mad Max movie is supposed to be?
Dang, I hate Hollywood these days.
Just look at Ghostbusters sequels. The one that crapped on the original was a total failure with fans and got discarded almost immediately. The one that respected the original was well received and even got it's own sequel already.
Both movies starred a female lead. One was loved, and one was hated.
Couldn't possibly be that it had something to do with one movie being bad as a movie and the other one being somewhat decent and not with any perceived culture war nonsense...
If feminist movies would create no interest in the audience, "Barbie" would not have generated 1.4 billion dollars.
People don't care about this artifical "culture war controversy". Only terminally online people do.
Why? Are you going to tell the creator of the whole franchise, what kind of story he wants to tell? It's his creation. Nobody in "woke Hollywood" forced him to make Fury Road the way he wanted to make it. He had full control of the project. He co-wrote the screenplay.
By the way: The movie is called "Furiosa" and not "Mad Max". So it is a "Furiosa" movie, that is set in the "Mad Max" universe. I really don't see the problem here.