Road War 2015: ‘Back off – I’ve got the leather face, so I get to swing the chainsaw.’
It usually makes me cringe when a label of high praise gets slapped on a director in a film’s trailer. The worst offender is the term “visionary”. It conjures up images of a filmmaker twitching on the floor while having hallucinations from ingesting/smoking/shooting up prohibited substances. And then the finished product usually indicates that actually might have gone on during filming.
So when the trailers for Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller’s three-decades-on follow-up to his last Mad Max movie, began labelling him “mastermind”, I was naturally quite worried.
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