Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Dir. George Miller
Cinematography: John Seale
literally my favorite thing is seeing a friend from a ways away and just pointing at them like I’m in mad max and I’m about to run them off the road
- me seeing my dear friend from across an empty room
crow men concept art
Stuart Thomas
WETA Workshop
I have thoughts about the practicality of the stilt extensions, but this is really cool!
I ACTUALLY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! !!!
The Landes region of southwestern France was for much of its history impoverished, with few roads and vast swaths of marshy and treacherous terrain. To navigate the soft and unsteady heathlands, shepherds developed a unique adaptation — they traveled on stilts.
Locally referred to as tchangues, or “big legs,” the five-foot wooden stilts were strapped to a person’s legs and supplemented with a long staff which a shepherd used to direct his flock and as a support for resting. Perched comfortably atop this tripod configuration, a shepherd was afforded an elevated view to keep track of his sheep and watch for wolves.
The people of Landes were trained in stilt walking from a young age, and were capable of astonishing dexterity and balance, easily running, hopping and even bending down to pluck flowers.
When the Empress Josephine visited the region in 1808, an escort of stilt walkers greeted her, their long strides allowing them to keep pace with Josephine’s trotting carriage horses.
Another notably efficient demonstration came in 1891, when Sylvain Dornon walked from Paris to Moscow on stilts in just 58 days clad in the distinctive sheepskin vest of his region.
Stilt walking gradually died out in Landes in the late 19th century as the planting of forests and draining of marshland changed the terrain, but it is still practiced in local folk performances.
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Rule 7 of Mad Max: The stranger something is, the more likely that it’s based in reality.
Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves? - The First History Man
Stranger Things is an amazing show. I can’t recommend it enough.
This comic isn’t very spoilery but it won’t make a lot of sense until you’ve watched the show. The entire first season is on Netflix. Go check it out!
okay but like THERE IS AN ACTUAL CONNECTION:
“When Millie auditioned, she had long brown hair down past her shoulders. But Eleven was written as having hair “buzzed almost to the scalp.” Millie and her parents were understandably hesitant to chop it all off. Would it look ugly? Would it cost her other roles? Fortunately, Mad Max: Fury Road was about to come out, so we pulled out a magazine photograph of Charlize Theron as Furiosa and showed it to Millie. “Charlize looks totally badass, right?” Millie agreed; Charlize looked badass. And that was it: She agreed to buzz it all off.
“When the day of the haircut finally arrived, Millie’s mom brought out a camcorder, while her dad ran away with tears in his eyes, unable to watch. It was a pretty dramatic scene. But also very quick. Within 10 minutes we had shaved it all off and slapped a fake “11” tattoo on Millie’s wrist. Millie looked at herself in the mirror, gave her best Furiosa scream — and Eleven was born.”
I just. LITTLE GIRLS BEING INSPIRED BY FURIOSA WHILE GROWN MEN CRY.