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A review by luluwoohoo
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Blood, Sweat and Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
▪️ This is a book that, like the movie it's all about, seems too good to be true. How can all of these setbacks, struggles, crimes, triumphs, and tests of will have actually occurred in real life!? How did people survive this, and how did we get such a brilliant movie out of it?
▪️ The structure of this tell-all is shaped well to set up the ridiculously long time that Fury Road took to exist from its initial lightbulb moment - it breaks down the history of the franchise and the 20 odd years George Miller was forced to fight for this movie to be made at all, and then to his exacting standards
▪️There sheer volume of contributors to this book shows not only how many people this movie took to make, but also how many are willing to overlook the toughest of experiences in favour of talking up Miller and this movie and what it represents for them and for audiences everywhere. It's a film that somehow transcends much of the drama of its creation, and reading about it only heightens my appreciation for the final result
▪️I think my jaw dropped at least 20 times reading this. The insane stories that seem too good to be true range from inspirational to horrifying and all manage to paint a picture of an experience that cannot possibly be replicated again for anyone involved
▪️ Reading this reiterated my love and appreciation for this movie in its completeness; it made me remember why I love working on productions and how meaningful (or traumatizing) they can be; it made me immediately turn on Mad Max: Fury Road to watch again.
"Almost every movie is hard to make, but few movies have a making-of story as wild, long, or difficult as Fury Road, and absolutely none of them turned out as influential and awe-inspiring."
"Of course, all that attention to detail begs the question: What does it feel like to build something so elaborate, only to see it be destroyed in such a spectacular fashion?
Colin Gibson: Absolute joy. That's what it was created for. We're a temporary gallery, not the Smithsonian."
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
▪️ This is a book that, like the movie it's all about, seems too good to be true. How can all of these setbacks, struggles, crimes, triumphs, and tests of will have actually occurred in real life!? How did people survive this, and how did we get such a brilliant movie out of it?
▪️ The structure of this tell-all is shaped well to set up the ridiculously long time that Fury Road took to exist from its initial lightbulb moment - it breaks down the history of the franchise and the 20 odd years George Miller was forced to fight for this movie to be made at all, and then to his exacting standards
▪️There sheer volume of contributors to this book shows not only how many people this movie took to make, but also how many are willing to overlook the toughest of experiences in favour of talking up Miller and this movie and what it represents for them and for audiences everywhere. It's a film that somehow transcends much of the drama of its creation, and reading about it only heightens my appreciation for the final result
▪️I think my jaw dropped at least 20 times reading this. The insane stories that seem too good to be true range from inspirational to horrifying and all manage to paint a picture of an experience that cannot possibly be replicated again for anyone involved
▪️ Reading this reiterated my love and appreciation for this movie in its completeness; it made me remember why I love working on productions and how meaningful (or traumatizing) they can be; it made me immediately turn on Mad Max: Fury Road to watch again.
"Almost every movie is hard to make, but few movies have a making-of story as wild, long, or difficult as Fury Road, and absolutely none of them turned out as influential and awe-inspiring."
"Of course, all that attention to detail begs the question: What does it feel like to build something so elaborate, only to see it be destroyed in such a spectacular fashion?
Colin Gibson: Absolute joy. That's what it was created for. We're a temporary gallery, not the Smithsonian."