Film Review: Mad Max: Fury Road - Exploitation Film
The film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) directed by George Miller is the 4th in this set of films that are an example of an exploitation film.
Exploitation films where a type of B-movie that started about the 1930s and 1940s. One of the main trends of this type of film was to play around with the audience's fears at the time or to focus on subjects that would end up being banned by the censors. The only way that they got round the censors was claim that the films where in someway meant to be educational.
Also the plots for theses types of film are very staightforward and in someway don't really play a key role in the film as the audience would only be watching for the act and not paying any really attension to the story, so any big indeeph backstory or reasons are not mentioned. It basically goes from A to B.
The plot of Mad Max is an example of this as the main point of the film is that Max comes across Furiosa as she tries to out run her gang's leader, Immortan Joe, and bring his 5 wives to a safer place away from him. However, they end up going back to where they started in one big u-turn. It's every easy to work out the plot from the start of the film as it not that hard to follow and none of the characters talk about the world they are in and what they are feeling about it.
Another thing that the film does that is a key point of exploitation film is that the characters are not expanded upon. The plot of a film is meant to help in being a key factor in the characters' story arcs, however, if there isn't much of a plot then there isn't much character development. The only way that the characters in Mad Max change as the story goes on is that they learn to trust each other but even that doesn't seem to have much drama behind it, it's as if the characters only spoke to each other by nodding their head. You would expect Max to stay behind with the others at the end, as that seems to be the norm in films if the main starts out as a Lone Wolf, but he walks off with out giving reason.
Exploitation films where a type of B-movie that started about the 1930s and 1940s. One of the main trends of this type of film was to play around with the audience's fears at the time or to focus on subjects that would end up being banned by the censors. The only way that they got round the censors was claim that the films where in someway meant to be educational.
Also the plots for theses types of film are very staightforward and in someway don't really play a key role in the film as the audience would only be watching for the act and not paying any really attension to the story, so any big indeeph backstory or reasons are not mentioned. It basically goes from A to B.
The plot of Mad Max is an example of this as the main point of the film is that Max comes across Furiosa as she tries to out run her gang's leader, Immortan Joe, and bring his 5 wives to a safer place away from him. However, they end up going back to where they started in one big u-turn. It's every easy to work out the plot from the start of the film as it not that hard to follow and none of the characters talk about the world they are in and what they are feeling about it.
Another thing that the film does that is a key point of exploitation film is that the characters are not expanded upon. The plot of a film is meant to help in being a key factor in the characters' story arcs, however, if there isn't much of a plot then there isn't much character development. The only way that the characters in Mad Max change as the story goes on is that they learn to trust each other but even that doesn't seem to have much drama behind it, it's as if the characters only spoke to each other by nodding their head. You would expect Max to stay behind with the others at the end, as that seems to be the norm in films if the main starts out as a Lone Wolf, but he walks off with out giving reason.
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