ROAD WARRIOR Analysis by Rob Ager

[flaccideagle]

hello everyone first post new member to the forum but a longtime reader. long long time max fan.

Rob Ager has done an amazing video anaylsis of MM2... you can find it at youtube.

part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59flQ5lNGJQ

part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUmgAWhxWWQ

check his site too, there is a bunch of great reviews there.
http://www.collativelearning.com/

[Big Bopper Bart]

It was a good review but I felt he was wrong on a few things such as the reaosn for Humungus wearing the mask and he read too much into some of the reason for how some dressed in the film and the politics of it. But all in all it was a good review of the film.

[Bad cop]

Yeah it was good and your right I noticed things that weren't right. It seemed he thought everything had some sort of poetic or figure of speech to it like the way the gang covers there faces. The reason they do so is because they prefer to dress that way or keep dust out of their face. Other than the little flaws like that it was a groovy review.

[PacificMuscle]

My only real "Huh?" moment was the suggestion that the Gyro Captain was the brains behind the ol' switcheroo of the fuel and the tanker filled with sand. Maybe he's right but I figure there's a whole lot of assumption involved.

There is an almost completely different way that film critics view movies. They even have their own language and talk in terms of film grammar. Students here at the film school do several units of 'screen studies' where they disect every frame of films and write lengthy tombs on what it all 'really' means.

Personally I find it exhausting and would rather just watch the film but they delight in attaching meaning to every item and action in the frame.

That said there is very little that gets to the screen that is there accidentally.

Every day I listen to student filmmakers discussing what a characters colour palate is and the backstory that they have all agreed to ... that is what happened to the character before we meet them on screen. My wife is a Production Designer so I haver to feign interest in all this stuff ... actors are even more of a pain ...

Sometimes a cigar ... is just a cigar ...

[venom666]

i haven't seen it because i don't have speakers so it'd be useless watching it, but the fuel switch being the gyrocaptain's idea? big rebecca says "all we do is switch the fuel..." before getting cut off in the debate after humungus "comes with an offer". pssh, this reviewer clearly has never dealt with die hard fans like ourselves.

[medievil One]

I agree with you on that Pacific Muscle, I dont see that it was gyro's idea to put sand in the tanker. I always figured it to be Pappagallos idea, or at least a colaberation of his and others in the camp. It was an interesting video, but I just think he put entirely to much thought into it.

[WastedFuture]

I watched this two part review. The sand for fuel switch was gyro’s idea?
The word Earth sprayed on the trucks door that was ripped off… all deep symbolic meaning interwoven bla blaa bla… really? The dry droning monotone voice over confidently delivering this hitherto hidden profundity was pretty irritating itself.
I read his review of the movie Alien too. That was more interesting… made some good points on that one I hadn’t thought of before…

[Big Bopper Bart]

I felt too that the'door' thing was bullshit.Yes the MIghty Wez in the heat of the battle to take the tanker ripped the door off becuase it said 'earth' No wez took the door off because he was going to tear poor Maxy a new corn chute! The Max eats dog food becuase he's going Fido on us was tardilicious as well.

[medievil One]

Max eats dog food because hes hungry, If he had a pizza he would have eaten it. If he had steak and taters he would have eaten that.
Hell he probably would have preferred that.

[flaccideagle]

since it seems some of you guys don't know the meaning of the word...

Symbolism

Symbolism is the applied use of symbols: iconic representations that carry particular conventional meanings. Usually pictures.

The term "symbolism" is often limited to use in contrast to "representationalism"; defining the general directions of a linear spectrum - where in all symbolic concepts can be viewed in relation, and where changes in context may imply systemic changes to individual and collective definitions of symbols. "Symbolism" may refer to a way of choosing representative symbols in line with abstract rather than literal properties, allowing for the broader interpretation of a carried meaning than more literal concept-representations allow. A religion can be described as a language of concepts related to human spirituality. Symbolism hence is an important aspect of most religions. However, not all use it, but most do at some point in time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism


despite some *very very minor flaws* the anaylsis is great- i don't understand why people on this board feel the need to put down and insult peoples who's ideas are not 100% in line with their own, or not something they came up with.


and what a shame, when newcomers come to this site, you cut them to pieces with your Stupid Knife. it's not everyone, but obviously you can see who they are right here in the post.


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