Only 30 lines for Furiosa! Anya Taylor-Joy, Tom Hardy and Mel Gibson: Who Talks the Least in Mad Max?

Although Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga follows 15 years of Furiosa’s life as she transforms from captivity to warrior, Furiosa herself will only have 30 lines of dialogue in the entire two-and-a-half-hour film: here’s what the new profile is. Posted by The Telegraph, director George Miller confirms.

In an interview with the New York Times, Anna Taylor-Joy said that she spent “monthsSpeechless on the set. He added:I have never been so alone as I was during the shooting of this film. I don’t want to exaggerate, but everything I thought was easy was difficult.When asked what turned out to be more difficult than expected, the actor answered:Next question, sorry. We will talk about this again in 20 years. We will talk about this again in 20 years.“

Ultimately, this shouldn’t surprise fans of the franchise, as Tom Hardy and Mel Gibson already had little to say in Miller’s previous Mad Max films. According to Écran Large, overall, Mad Max of Tom Hardy Fury Road only had 63 lines of dialogue – most of which were brief exchanges with Charlize Theron’s Furiosa, who had 80.

It is said that in Mad Max 2, Mel Gibson Had only 16 lines of dialogue: a figure mentioned everywhere on the Internet, including IMDb. That said, according to the site Mutedhorn.net, which did the counting, it ended up being 38 (out of a total of 326 words). The site doesn’t count the grunts or little clicks of the tongue that the character uses to send the dog to the gyroplane pilot in plain sight. For voiceover, he did this: “Everything Max says until another character speaks or the scene changes” is a line of dialogue. You can find a detailed calculation here.

If we take this new calculation into account, it seems that the main character who speaks the least is our new Furiosa with her 30 short lines of dialogue!

A deliberate stylistic choice

for that George Miller, this is a deliberate stylistic choice. The reason is simple: for the filmmaker, such films need to be fast-paced, and therefore feel that too much dialogue slows them down. He actually admitted to being a student of the silent film era and used the type of cinematic visual storytelling used by such greats of the era as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. It is also inspired by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock.

“Hitchcock defined films as those for which it is not necessary to read the subtitles shown in Japan– said Miller.

At least one cry of rage please!

One thing thatAnya Taylor-Joy It became clear that Furiosa needed a moment of female rage on screen, though Miller tried to keep it as internal as possible: so she struggled to scream at the camera.

“I want to start by saying that I love George 100% and if you’re going to do something like this you want to be in the hands of someone like George Miller“, he explained. “But she had a very, very strict idea of ​​what Furiosa’s war face looked like, and that just kept me going for a lot of the movie. It really was “mouth shut, no emotion, speak with your eyes.” That’s all you have.“

“I am a strong advocate of female anger“- she added, noting that she is a little tired of female characters in movies who often endure hardships and can only shed one tear. He told Miller that Furiosa deserved an outburst of emotion.

“We are animals and there comes a time when we break down“, he explained Anya Taylor-Joy. “There are screams in this movie and I’m not kidding when I tell you I struggled for three months to scream. It’s a long game with George.“

However, the actor stressed that when he had input on his character, he made sure it was always “talk“with the director and that he was never there”All insolence” : “Ultimately, it’s his vision. I can present all that I have, but his word is king.“

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga hits theaters on May 22, 2024.