Witness me! We're so back! What a lovely day! In this first episode of the new season of 'The Reel Thing', Joe talks about the heart-racing, blood-pumping, car-driving production of George Miller's smash hit 'Mad Mad: Fury Road'. Specifically touching on the decades the film took to make, they also explored the notion of 'climate fiction' and environmentalism in fiction. -------- The whole RSS feed is available here > https://rss.com/podcasts/thereelthing The Reel Thing on Social Media: Instagram > https://www.instagram.com/thereelthingpod --------- All music by Wise John. https://wisejohn.com/ Follow them on Instagram > https://www.instagram.com/wisejohnofficial/ --------- Bergen Filmklubb > https://bergenfilmklubb.no/ --------- Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic by Kyle Buchanan (Published 2020) NYT ‘A fetish party in the desert’: the making of Mad Max: Fury Road , March 2022, Peter Bradshaw Time Out Magazine: Mad Max: Fury Road's George Miller on his post-apocalyptic classics and Mel Gibson by Joshua Rothkopf Challenging Narrative and Gender Representation in the Action Genre, Kyle Barrett Writer/Director George Miller Talks MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, Returning to the Post-Apocalyptic World, Thousands of Storyboards, and More at Comic-Con by Christina Radish (2014) Lights! Camera! Infraction! Mad Mad shows why Hollywood indulges bad behaviour by Ryan Gilbey (2022) Stories to save the world: the new wave of climate fiction by Claire Armistead https://tabitha-whiting.medium.com/climate-fiction-is-now-our-reality-a267bd1db4c7 ‘It’s Not Climate Change - It’s Everything Change’ Margaret Atwood (essay)