Thursday, November 26, 2015

Anne Thompson : Trust me , Mad Max Fury Road is an Oscar contender !


According Thompson : "The Steak Eaters  —and many women Oscar voters as well—will come through for George Miller in the same way they did Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" and Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity." It's about the nuts and bolts recognition of the craft of fashioning cinema spectacle that makes your eyes pop. 

Organic. That's not a word you hear in Hollywood very often. That's George Miller's credo. If something doesn't fit or sit well, it doesn't happen. That's why his movies are so great—the ones he actually makes, from "Babe" to "Happy Feet." (Some have been left by the wayside, like "Contact" and "Justice League.") "Mad Max: Fury Road," dreamed up on an airplane and realized by a 70-year-old director 35 years after his feature debut with the original "Mad Max," does not follow any formula that any studio executive would recognize. "

Continue reading "How George Miller made MMFR" here

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