(Really, wouldn’t “universal donor” have been a better label than “INRI”?)

kontextmaschine:

Everyone and -where I know has been praising Fury Road, correctly.

Though. You talk about directors able to succeed big with big-budget action blockbusters with a distinctive, suit-unfriendly vision, you know who comes immediately to mind? Mel Gibson.

(His creative signature is the twinned themes of freedom and the violation of the human body.)

Hollywood has a legend that the McCarthyite blacklist was broken by prohibited filmmakers “secretly” working behind frontmen and then revealing their involvement after the films in question racked up praise and awards.

I’m not saying, I’m just… saying.

Now what would you expect from a Mel Gibson movie?

- huge D.W. Griffith-style set pieces, with a ton of exotic-looking extras

- a scene of self-surgery

- some biblical thematics, like say a man and woman cast out of a garden, their return barred by an angel with a flaming… sword, followed by an end to the old order where evil, violent superhumans mate with fair women to produce warriors, all washed away in a flood of water

(What if it wasn’t an origin story because it was an Origin story?)

- or, say, salvation through the blood of the crucified

I really really think I might be on to something here.

Everyone and -where I know has been praising Fury Road, correctly.

Though. You talk about directors able to succeed big with big-budget action blockbusters with a distinctive, suit-unfriendly vision, you know who comes immediately to mind? Mel Gibson.

(His creative signature is the twinned themes of freedom and the violation of the human body.)

Hollywood has a legend that the McCarthyite blacklist was broken by prohibited filmmakers “secretly” working behind frontmen and then revealing their involvement after the films in question racked up praise and awards.

I’m not saying, I’m just… saying.