Of course, Furiosa’s story is punctuated by the women in her life as compared to Aunty who is flanked by men at every turn. Furiosa has honed her body to be a weapon for war and protection, which she utilizes as a key tool to ascend in power amongst Immortan Joe’s favorite warlords. Abducted as a child by Immortan Joe for the presumed purpose of sexual slavery has left her with a seething revenge that she utilizes as fuel to flee with the other women he’s kept in his harem. Warlord FuriosaĬonversely, Furiosa is a much younger person navigating two worlds of internal/external conflict. If there’s ever a Mad Max miniseries, we need to witness the rise of the Aunty. Plus, whoever helped craft that iconic chainmail dress for her. Tina Turner also gives the Aunty character such gravitas and an air of mystery that’s enrapturing to watch. Moreover, her creation of a place entitled Thunderdome where individual parties can hash out disputes rather than letting them spill over into the community or outside of her territory is very ingenious. She has advisors and bodyguards that follow her out of respect rather than fear like Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road. Intriguingly, Aunty Entity is presented as less of a fighter and more of a politician and tactician. As seen throughout the film, she’s not above using her wiles and cunning to keep the machine running that is Bartertown. Where there was opportunity and necessity for some semblance of order, she rallied a community together for survival. She survived the fallout of nuclear war and the chaos that came after the ‘end of the world’ and rose to a position of prominence on her own accord. Prior to Bartertown’s standing as an ideal location with its prime access to food and methane-based eco-gasoline, there was merely dry sand. I have always been fascinated with the unseen but briefly mentioned story of Aunty Entity’s rise to power and authority because Bartertown is a place that she created out of nothing but her own grit and determination.
The titles of Aunty and Furiosa are earned and lauded titles with immense reverence, with the exception being that Furiosa was born with this name but her actions have made her name legendary. There are no ‘politics’ in the traditional sense with ballots and elections, but more so how you display your strength, will, and fortitude as an individual. Outside threats seem minimal because the films also focus on territorial boundaries and the importance of brokering relationships with others for financial or political gain.
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It’s overt throughout George Miller’s epic series that women exist in the world’s oftentimes at the behest of men or can potentially be unseated at any time by their own community. The worlds of Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road are very similar, wherein the power structure is constantly shifting in a tug-of-war for control.
Queen Entity already rules a kingdom of her own in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Furiosa becomes the de-facto leader at the end of her film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Their stories are further punctuated by the powerful positions that they occupy and the respect that they garner-especially within this new world order. Beyond the titular Mad Max, the most intriguing characters of the franchise are the female characters Queen Entity (Tina Turner) and Furiosa (Charlize Theron). Therein, the existence of new factions of warriors rule the roads and hoard the remaining aqua and agricultural resources. The setting of Writer-Director George Miller’s Mad Max franchise is nestled in the irradiated wastelands of Australia.
The highlights of the Mad Max series are the women and for that we have no choice but to stan.
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