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Book

Blood, sweat & chrome : the wild and true story of Mad Max: fury road

Call Number

  • 791.4372 M1781B (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Physical Description

xvii, 361 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Contents

  • 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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