@Templari said:
@Autumn Latest rumor is that Max is actually the feral kid from the second movie all grown up and identifying himself as Max. I'm trying to find the article again raised a few valid points and a few stretches, but that's how conspiracy theories work.
I dunno, from the stuff I have read it seems like they put kind of a lot of thought into it. Its true that its kind of a non-stop visually fascinating action fest, but at the same time there are lots of little details that make it feel like a pretty fully rendered, thought-out world. In a Reddit comment thread I read all this stuff about the guitar playing guy who has not a single line the other day and boggled a little bit:
His name is Coma-Doof Warrior. And he actually has a backstory. He was a child musical protégé who witnessed his mother's beheading. He was found by Immortan Joe still carrying his mother's head. His mask is made from his mother's face. Here is an article with an interview with Iota, the real guitarist that plays him where he talks about it. https://www.yahoo.com/movies/mad-max-fury-road-guitar-player-actor-doof-warrior-118997835292.html
More backstory on him from Miller:
"I want to tell a story about him in a comic if there’s an opportunity. For me, it was all about how someone who is blind survives in this place. How does someone weak survive the apocalypse? He survived because he was blind – because he lived deep in an unlit mine, where it was an advantage to be blind."
Miller explained: "So, deep in the mine, he would sit there and eat rodents and get the water from the sea bed -- and he would also play his guitar where no one could hear it. One day Immortan Joe came past, and someone heard the music. Then he was called upon when [Joe] needed a bugler or the bagpipe -- someone who helps call everyone to war."
Which... is a LOT of effort and thought to put into a dude who essentially just rocks out through the apocalypse.