SJW’s Turn ‘Mad Max’ Movie into Feminist Propaganda
As you probably have heard, the new Mad Max: Fury Road film is the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max and The Road Warrior has been made into basically a feminist propaganda reel. The main plot is basically The Handmaid’s Tale with car chases; as a take-charge feminist rescues women who’ve been held as breeding units by a male warlord rapist, and must take them to a sanctuary maintained by enlightened pacifist womyn.
The women, leaving behind graffiti reading, “We are not things” and “Who killed the world?” (Answer: men, obviously), run off hoping to restart a normal life in the verdant, distant world Furiosa remembers from childhood.
Along the way they angrily pry off their sawtooth-lined chastity belts. Later they run into a motorcycle gang/feminist collective called, somewhat suggestively, the Vulvani, and shoot it out with Joe’s troops, the Warboys. In a touch that shows an appreciation for a feminine quality of guarding and advancing life amid so much death, one of the Vulvani has a secret keepsake box. It’s full of seeds. Full of the future.
The New York Times sees the feminist messages too, and approves:
She and her comrades evolve from eye candy into a feminist guerrilla force. They are joined by a band of older women called the Vuvalini, who along with Furiosa, decide to give Immortan Joe’s patriarchy a taste of its own medicine.
“Mad Max: Fury Road,” like its namesake both humble and indomitable, isn’t about heroism in the conventional, superpowered sense. It’s about revolution.
Still, if you have hankering to have feminist propaganda hammered into you in all its misandist glory, a $10 movie ticket is cheaper than a semester at any university.
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Come on! Just because women are in the focus doesn’t make it feminist propaganda! Lighten up!
Comment by Jonathan G — May 14, 2015 @ 10:17 pm - May 14, 2015
So nice of the NY Post article to post to Return of Kings. Even the worse
Anybody who doesn’t see the very, very obvious and heavy-handed moral dichotomy that equates men with evil and destruction, and women are equated with good and civilization, is blind.
It’s pure nonsense. It was predominantly men, with women running interference on the homefront, who did the necessary blood-letting and city building needed to get us from squatting in caves to walking the streets of Rome. Women have played a key part in the story of civilization, but much of the literal and metaphorical heavy lifting has been done by men. To equate men with just destruction and women with civilization is quite reductionist, and reeks of a social agenda and political philosophy that has produced nothing but rotten fruit.
Comment by Sean L — May 14, 2015 @ 10:42 pm - May 14, 2015
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Pingback by SJW’s Turn ‘Mad Max’ Movie into Feminist Propaganda - Citizens News | Citizens News — May 15, 2015 @ 5:50 am - May 15, 2015
@Sean L, you are very good with words and concepts. Well put! You too, V the K! “a $10 movie ticket is cheaper than a semester at any university,” ROTFL LOL LOL! (Laugh out loud AND lots of love for that).
Comment by Eremon — May 15, 2015 @ 9:48 am - May 15, 2015
MAD MAXipad. I doubt when the SHTF that women will be doing anything empowered. The winner of the strongest woman in the world contest was caught on video losing arm wrestling to men with smaller arms than her. Maybe I will see it when it is on cable just to Mystery Science Theater 3000 it if Rifftrax doesn’t do it first. http://www.rifftrax.com/
Comment by Steve — May 15, 2015 @ 4:36 pm - May 15, 2015
I saw the movie yesterday. A few things everybody is ignoring:
1. The enlightened women ruined the last good place they had, called the green place, in the film.
2. All but one (and one half) of the women are shown to be completely incompetent throughout the film, mishandling guns, giving in to emotional out bursts, losing in direct confrontations, wanting to go back to the evil rapist warlord, etc.
3. The one half of a woman who is not completely incompetent uses the fact of her pregnancy as a weapon against the main villain to prevent him from killing the main woman: you know, a VERY feminine thing to do.
4. The practice of women carrying the seeds of useful plants across wastelands was done in the pioneer days of the US.
Was there SJW-ing? Yes, but it was not THAT bad. It only really became annoying towards the end. Of course the ending also fell prey to being blatantly redistributive, which I find more disturbing, but endings are usually ham-fisted.
Was it a good movie? Iffy, parts of it were really good and parts were really bad. It did not really feel like a Mad Max film to me. Also, max apparently can teleport now. Only way the last shot makes sense.
Comment by Cthulhu — May 15, 2015 @ 7:36 pm - May 15, 2015
Saw it. High production. Low interest. Save your money.
Comment by innocent bystander — May 15, 2015 @ 8:59 pm - May 15, 2015
The script is very underdeveloped, but there is plenty to commend about the film. I’m not sure why people are calling attention to the feminist angle. It’s just there. Big deal. Get over it.
Comment by CrayCrayPatriot — May 16, 2015 @ 5:15 am - May 16, 2015
@ CrayCray Patriot: I object to the feminist subtext because it’s not so much subtext as it is text (seriously, “Vuvalini”? Was “Vulvanistas” taken or something?); the film makes a clear dichotomy: the vulva is good, the penis is evil (a prize to anybody who knows what obscure 70s film I’m referencing). Additionally, I’m annoyed that the film was marketed as a Mad Max movie, and Max Rockatansky is essentially relegated to playing second fiddle to Charlize Theron’s feminist power fantasy character. This film continues the current trend of using franchises headed by male characters to push progressive narratives. Either it’s a cynical ploy because executives don’t think that men will watch anything headed up by blacks, women, etc. without a male character’s name slapped on it; or, it’s a cynical ploy to make films that would otherwise flop due to their message and agenda into hits through deceptive marketing.
Instead of introducing a new Asgardian female heroine, or emphasizing a previously-established character (Sif, anyone?) some unknown broad walks up, takes Thor’s hammer, and starts spouting hackneyed go-girl lines that here tired and trite in the 90s. Instead of introducing a new Green Lantern who is gay, Hal Jordan is retconned to be gay, with the worst superhero origin story/motivation ever (my boyfriend died in a train accident, and the flames became my Lantern Ring, so I’m going to fight evil now).
The trend is quite obvious.
Comment by Sean L — May 16, 2015 @ 12:28 pm - May 16, 2015
Beta Max.
Comment by Zimriel — May 16, 2015 @ 2:54 pm - May 16, 2015
Zardoz… “the gun is good”
Comment by sl — May 16, 2015 @ 4:43 pm - May 16, 2015
Sean L, You sound like a conspiracy theorist.
Nolan’s Batman = Straight white male (franchise also had a conservative bent according to conservative site Big Hollywood).
Tony Stark = Straight white (war-loving) male.
Captain America = Straight white (All-American) male.
WB’s Superman = Straight white male.
Fast & Furious = Straight white (car-race-loving) males.
GotG = Straight white male.
Thor = Straight white male.
George Miller made a smart move by reintroducing the Mad Max character the way he did, because it was a unique film (unlike most sequels), and the character was infamously tied to another actor. The fact that it uses the premise it does only makes for a intriguing story. That people are whining about makes me believe they feel cheated, because they weren’t offered the same pablum they usually get.
Comment by CrayCrayPatriot — May 17, 2015 @ 8:53 am - May 17, 2015
Btw, The Green Lantern was a flop by most people’s standards, so I’m unsure as to why you’re citing it as an example.
Comment by CrayCrayPatriot — May 17, 2015 @ 8:54 am - May 17, 2015
This Mad Max follows in the tradition of former. The inclusion of a bunch of Amazons doesn’t constitute a feminist message. It doesn’t matter what the NYTimes has noticed. I’ll agree w/ a previous comment to lighten up. Inept volleys are grasping & small.
Comment by Hanover — May 17, 2015 @ 12:41 pm - May 17, 2015
@ CrayCray Patriot: My examples are taken from the comics themselves. You may remember the ruckus a couple years back about DC making Green Lantern gay in the reboot of their comic lines.
Comment by Sean L — May 17, 2015 @ 4:12 pm - May 17, 2015
We’re talking about Hollywood movies here (I thought).
The actual comic world is different.
You failed to support this statement:
It’s lmao-worthy.
Comment by CrayCrayPatriot — May 17, 2015 @ 5:22 pm - May 17, 2015