Blood, sweat & chrome: the wild and true story of Mad Max: Fury Road
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An oral history of the film that has been hailed as the greatest action movie ever made features interviews with the cast and crew, including director George Miller and stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
It won six Oscars, but it is a miracle Mad Max: Fury Road ever made it to the screen... or that anybody survived the production. Production stalled several times; the stars clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert, and director George Miller's crew engineered death-defying action scenes that were among the most dangerous ever committed to film. Buchanan takes readers through every step of nearly two decades of obstacles, from Fury Road's unexpected origins through its outlandish casting process to the big-studio battles that nearly mutilated a masterpiece. As the cast and crew fought and endured in a wasteland of their own, the only way forward was to have faith in their director's mad vision-- and almost everything seemed to be stacked against him. -- adapted from jacket
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Buchanan, K. (2022). Blood, sweat & chrome: the wild and true story of Mad Max: Fury Road. First edition. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Buchanan, Kyle. 2022. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Buchanan, Kyle, Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Buchanan, Kyle. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road. First edition. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: Building a world gone mad. Eyewitness accounts of those who survived -- The mad mastermind -- Everyone in the old world had a show -- The history men -- Who killed the world? -- I live, I die, I live again -- Where are you, Max? -- Pick up what you can and run -- Witness me -- "We were basically defeated" -- Part II: Shoot to thrill. Preparing for war -- Oh, what a lovely day -- My name is Max -- "It was all in George's head" -- Figuring out Furiosa -- Out here, everything hurts -- All hail the Immortan -- "The last great action film" -- The war party -- Shiny and chrome -- We are not things -- The many mothers -- "Dudes were coming in through the roof" -- Fire and blood -- Some furious vexation -- "Spent and enriched" -- Part III: End of the road. If you can't fix what's broken -- "That's not a Mad Max ending" -- The final battle -- What was lost -- Some kind of redemption -- Awaited in Valhalla -- "Nothing good comes easy." | |
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