"Crash Course In Being A Road Warrior": Furiosa's Practical Action Sequence & Its BTS Filming Explained
Action designer Guy Norris and director of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga George Miller dissect the pragmatic techniques applied in filming one of the most important set pieces in the film. Complementing Mad Max: Fury Road, the most recent addition to Miller's well-known apocalyptic series provides a genesis narrative for the figure of Furiosa, played this time by Anya Taylor-Joy. Like its predecessor, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has received positive reviews and boasts a few amazing action scenes, one in which Furiosa aids in thwarting an attack on the War Rig.
Miller and Norris, in a recent Men's Health interview, discuss how Furiosa's "Stowaway" Action Sequence with the War Rig came together and why it's significant for Taylor-Joy's character. Miller and Norris could prepare things digitally before then recording them on camera thanks to a technology called Proxy, which helped shape the sequence. Particularly in the scenes involving sand skiing and parachutes, Norris' son Harlan was a major stunt performer helping to bring the entire thing to life. View remarks from Miller and the members of the Norris family below:
The most fury road set piece in Furiosa was Stowaway Sequence.
Alert: Little hints of spoilers for Furiosa ahead.
Considered as one of the best action movies of the past few years, Mad Max: Fury Road basically runs as one extended automobile chase. Furiosa uses the War Rig—which is essentially the key vehicle in the narrative—to smuggle Immortan Joe's wives out of the Citadel. Apart from Immortan Joe's army, outlaws of the wasteland challenge the War Rig all through the movie. The War Rig turns into this huge rolling fortification that both Tom Hardy's Max and Charlize Theron's Furiosa must guard at all means.
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Although Fury Road and Furiosa have several narrative devices, the latter is more of an odyssey than a chase movie, and the War Rig turns out to be a vital prequel vehicle finally. As Miller suggests, the first significant War Rig sequence is one in which viewers first truly see Furiosa in motion. She scrambles in, over, under, and around the great rig defending it, proving herself a competent warrior.
Furiosa Anya Taylor-Joy
George Miller: "Basically, it's a road warrior crash course. She must pick things up on demand. She has to improvise her way through it; she has no time to reflect. We can see what she has produced.
"These are Movies where we follow the rules of physics. We do not challenge them. Flying vehicles and humans are not found here. Realistic rendering of humans and vehicles makes their physics far more plausible.
"Everybody's safety is the main worry I have about a movie. When you are doing an action movie, especially on a remote location with lots of people, when most days feature major stunts, it is "preparation, preparation, preparation." And then ensuring you are several degrees away from fatal mistake.
Guy Norris: "[Proxy] felt like a digital sandbox. We could design all the action live, in real time, inside this digital 3D world, and bring in all the vehicles, cars, and people.
"That was all in-camera when it came time to fly; they would pop him off the bike, he would be skiing, and then he would be pulling his chute as he ascended in- camera. They might then grab him from the air and carry him across to the ship. All of it was a large-scale, well coordinated sequence.
The Creation of Furiosa
Harlan Norris: "My act was merely a minor cog to the mechanics of effectively completing the trick. All credit goes to the amazing stunt rigging department, Tik-Hub [a polecat run by six riggers] drivers and operators in charge of my safety, and the stunt flying under way. Any small mistake would set off a chain reaction among the operating components, therefore undermining the activity.
One of the most well-known directors globally, George Miller has had a very long and prosperous career. Aside from a few other films, the filmmaker has worked on Babe and Happy Feet.
Prequel to Mad Max Saga:
Action-adventure picture Furiosa, which chronicles the origin tale of the headstrong and fearless Furiosa, precedes Mad Max: Fury Road. Set soon after the "end of the world," Furiosa is abducted and presented before a strong warlord now under orders to labor for him. Furiosa will adjust to the new hostile and dry environment as she evolves into the Furiosa she knows to be her path back home.
One of the elements people would want to see the movie is Anya Taylor-Joy's portrayal of Furiosa, the title heroine. The popularity of Taylor-Joy will surely entices more moviegoers.
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