Mad Max: Fury Road Analysis

Mad Max: Fury Road Analysis

This is the opening of an action movie called Mad Max: Fury Road. To show that it is an action film, there is a car chase scene happening. This is effective because in most action films there are always a car chase scene, because it makes the scene more thrilling for the audience as this will make them engage more in the film. For example there are many car chase scenes in these films, such as Spectre, Ride Along, The Dark Knight etc. Other thing that it shows it is a action film, is that there is a big fight scene happening between one guy and some bad guys because this guy who looks like he is the main character, runs off and fights off the other men and it ends up being one big fight scene. This is effective because in any action film there will always be a fight scene and normally this happens between the hero and the villain, but in this film it is between one guy and a lot of bad guys. This also makes the scene thrilling for the audience as there is a lot of tense moments happening.

We then have the camera shots and angles of the opening scene. One of the camera shots would be long shot, wide angle and this is shown at the start of the opening scene, where Max is standing next to a vehicle, looking over at the view in front of him. This is effective because not only that we can see Max in the scene, but we can see a lot in this scene and what Max's view actually is and this is because of the wide angle. One other shot type is a medium shot, this is shown later on in the start of Mad Max, where a guy goes and burns a skull imprint onto his skin, but before that happens, we see Max's facial expression of what is going on and he looks angry, confused but also scared because he doesn't know what is going on. This is effective for the audience because we can see Max's facial expressions of what is going on and this makes the scene very tense, thrilling and kind of wild because it is different to any other fights from other action films.

In the opening scene of Mad Max: Fury Road, there isn't much music being presented, as we can hear the sound effects of the cars getting exploded or the cars swirling around, also we can hear Max talking over some of the scenes, telling us his background story of what had happened to him, which is good because the audience get to learn something about the character. We then hear music when Max gets taken away from the bad guys, the music sounds very tense and thrilling which makes the film 10x better because it most action films, you need the music to make the scene much better for the audience so that they can still stay engage with the film.