![]() “I just said, ‘I have to shave my head,’” Theron recalls. It was Theron herself who unlocked the image of the androgynous warrior-a woman who has escaped the fate of other women by erasing her gender. Moreover, the reason Imperator Furiosa is not sexualized by the villains is not because the men don’t objectify women, but rather because Furiosa has taken great pains to make herself genderless under their gaze. The movie makes it quite clear both that the villains went out of their way to sexualize these women, and that the filmmakers went out of their way to humanize these same women. When they see max, they take on fearful, closed off expressions, and project fearful, closed off body language. Instead we see a bunch of women perfunctorily rinsing off legs and feet, looking exhausted. Neither can you argue that the gauze bikini’s are in the movie for the benefit of a the movie’s male audience. Even when they are literally bathing together, we don’t see any water running down chests while the models arch their backs and run their fingers through their hair and sigh pleasurably. You don’t dress women in those ridiculous gauze bikini getups unless you’re sexualizing them. The gauze bikinis are in the movie, undeniable. The wives are absolutely sexualized by the villains. The OP is mistaking filmmaker perspective for world perspective here. This should be the norm but it isn’t and Miller needs to just freaking make movies forever like I would legit give him some years of my life at this point if he would make more of these things. The belly, the belt, and the wives clothes highlighted that they were sexualized by the men in power, but the story itself didn’t reenact this violence on them.Īnd that’s, sad to say, amazing. The movie not only didn’t dwell on sexual violence but also didn’t use the ‘camera’s gaze’ in a sexual way on the wives (there were no lingering shots on breasts/legs/ass, there was just the prominent pregnant belly and the highlighting of the chastity belt). I’m pretty sure it’s a directorial/authorial decision rather than something inherent in the world, given how the rest of the post also points out things attributable to storytelling choices rather than the world itself. I’m not sure that it was that the world didn’t have sexualization, as that the sexualization wasn’t what Miller wanted to promote. It also shows the director really respects and put thoughts to those characters, not just eye candies in an action movie. You can say everyone is fair in this terrible way.Īnd for an story angle, I think by letting the characters in the movie not dropping any “sexy babes” comments onto the wives (despite how easily this “sex slaves as breeder” troop can be hella sexist), it really helps the audience not to focus on their sex appeal but on the fact that they are not treated as human, thus seeing them as human beings. There’s nothing “sexual” in it despite it’s all about survive and reproduce. It’s kind of like how we keep the cows for milk, oxes for steaks, and dogs to hunt. High commanders can have) male as cannon fodders with short life span, their value not more than dogs healthy captives and probably non-combatants as blood donor (Max was captured and forced to donate blood to the War Boys). Everybody else in the movie are objectified in the same, almost animal level kind of way: fertile female as breederĪnd milk producer (the scene is shot clearly not because “hoho male audience must love to see some big titties”, but to show mother milk is a precious nutrition source (which is true) only the The wives are reduced to objects for their “functions”, not because they are eye candies. Not in a way “Slave Leia” is sexualized in Star Wars anyway, which is obviously to please the male audience and the male villains. Take the wives as an example, they are called pretty and precious by Immortan Joe and the War Boys only because they are not only fertile but also have no developmental deficiency, which is a rare thing in that world, not because they are, well, sexy.Įven though the wives are kept as “sex” slaves, and rape were involved, but they are not “sexualized” both in the eyes of the audience and the movie characters. I think the director not only didn’t sexualize the female characters, he also set up an terrible yet interesting world where sexualization is probably too much a luxury to even exist. None of the people in this movie use a character’s gender as an insult. ![]() None of the people, including the villains, call Furiosa a “bitch” for all I can remember, which is a common thing for movie villains to say to a female protagonist. ![]() Some subtle but nice things about Mad Max I just noticed:
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