Our movie guy Ben O’Shea went on a junket to Sydney for the new Mad Max movie, Furiosa-A Mad Max Saga, he told Clairsy what the movie was like plus his very unexpected encounter in the hotel gym with Chris Hemsworth.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Read the flick with Ben Oshe. Good morning man, Good
morning guys. Welcome. Been looking forward to hearing all about Furiosa.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh yeah, we've been waiting for the backstory. Who should
we get that out of the way first?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah? Please, you can give me a review of this story.
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So a couple of weeks ago, very fortunate to go
to Sydney for the Australian premiere of Furiosa, a Mad
Max Saga, the prequel to Mad Max Fury Road. I
got to speak to George Miller, the director who's been
there from the starts forty five year journey, yeah, since
nineteen seventy nine when the first Mad Max movie came out.
I got to speak to Anya Taylor Joy, who plays Furiosa,
(00:41):
the character made famous by Charlie Staron in Fury Road.
And got to talk to Chris Hemsworth. So interviewed them
all fantastic and then have gone back to my hotel,
did a bit of work and thought, oh a bit bored.
Go down to the hotel gym off. I go, I'm
the only one in there doing a bit of a workout.
Next minute a Ben, look up, guess is noworth George Miller.
(01:03):
It wasn't you imagine, it wasn't George Miller. It was
it was Chris Hemser. So we then we chewed the
fat about we both grew up in the Northern Territory.
We talked about mad Max, talked about some other stuff,
and then worked out side by side. It was the toughest,
toughest on the toughest workout I've ever had in my life.
Off ye, keeping up, I think more than showing. And
(01:28):
then I sort of you know, waves, see you later, mate,
And then I was dragging myself around the corner.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I had to go back to my hotel room.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I had a forty five minute hot bar, just hoping
that my muscles would reattach themselves to my body. Man,
it was. It was tough, but he is such a
lovely guy, and he told me that he had so
much more fun playing Dementis the villain in Furiosa, than
he does being a superhero. And you look a bit
(01:55):
comical you watch this movie. Dementus is hilarious. He's so
good and this is the best performance of Chris Hamsler's career.
He gives Dementus like some insecurities. This bravado there's a
bit of nuance there. He's funny but also evil, like,
he's believable as a funny guy and believable as a
pretty dastardly guy as well.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Really good, really really good, very good. And so to
get you up to speed, by the way, this story
got five bicep.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
For five more than I had attached to my arms
at the end of it. And so this film is
a prequel to Fury Road, which came out in twenty fifteen,
and is also probably one of the most challenging things
that audiences will find with Furio. So so Fury Road
was incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Why do they make these things in order? Yeah, well,
I think the problem.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
The problem was it took a while to make this
other movie, and George Miller, the director, realized Charlie's thereon
is getting a bit older, and so I know, I know,
and as time has going from past so physical nine
Jeorge Miller and so, and he looked at the aging
(03:04):
technology and just just he didn't like it. And he thought, well,
maybe maybe we'll rethink this and we'll do a prequel.
And because you don't really learn much about Furiosa in
Fury Road, you know that she you know fights for good.
You don't know much about her backstory. You know she's
missing an arm, and the good news is you find
(03:27):
out how she loses that arm in this movie and
it's pretty thanks the wa and so so that movie
was such a hit. It was huge at the box office.
And also like for me, it's one of the top
five action movies I've ever seen. It is a phenomenally
good movie. It was shot in the Namibian desert instead
of the mad Max Heartland of Broken Heel in New
(03:48):
South Wales because of because of rainfall, Like there was
a wildflower bloom when they were trying to make it,
and George Miller walked out of his hotel a minute.
In a minute, this is supposed to be a world
there's no water and there's a dystopian. We can't have
these pretty wild flowers. So I went to Namibian desert.
Most of it was made with practical effects the film.
That film was set over three days, and it's so bonkers.
(04:11):
It's just one action sequence after the next, and so
compared to that kind of breakneck pace, Furiosa might initially
feel a bit slow to people like, especially if they've
just watched Fury Road. You come to this new film
and you go, okay, takes place over a fifteen year period,
and you might go, oh, geez, so the pace of it,
I'm just I'm not sure about it, but you've got
to stick with it because it just picks up pace.
(04:33):
And the whole point is to get a pile on
the trauma of this character, Furiosa, played by first by
Alia Brown the young kid, and then by Anya Taylor
Joy when she's an adult, and just like one bad
thing happens to her after another, and most of them
are done by Chris Hemsworth's character Dementis, who's a warlord
who's in charge of a horde of bikers and he
(04:55):
read at one point he rides a chariot of like choppers,
like chopper motorbike. He's standing in a chariot with rains.
I don't know how it works, and in none other
saying he's in this six wheeler monster truck and the
cab ism The vehicles are just insane. And the film
sort of follows like Furiosa's journey as she sort of
deals with all this trauma and.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Then of course she wants vengeance, and.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Then that's what it's all about she wants vengeance on dementis,
and it doesn't matter how many years go past. It
just that sort of desire for revenge just burns hotter
and hotter and hotter, and then you know, we get
to see what happens as the film unfoults. It's I
think the film is brilliant, but it's not perfect. It's
got Tom Burke, the English actor who does a pretty
good Aussie accent, because of course mad Max is Australian.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Said in Australia.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He plays a sort of a mentor of a young furiosa.
But that relationship is so ambiguous it doesn't feel very authentic.
You can't work out if it's a romance, if it's
a mentor situation. And so there are some stuff that
happens towards the end of the film that it kind
of doesn't have as much power as it could because
the Bird character is not perfect. Okay, also because it's
(06:04):
you know, a bit slower than Fury Road, that is
probably something else that audiences might find a little bit challenging.
It doesn't mumble like, oh my gosh, what a mumbler
that guy is. And then right at the end, of
the film, they decide to have like a like a
literal recap of Fury Road, like actual footage from Fury Road,
like for a little like three minute recap, which, to
be honest with you, is a bit weird and it
(06:26):
feels like it takes some of the impact away from
the conclusion. So that aside, like this is a spectacular
movie visually, it's a you know, another George Miller masterpiece.
Some of these some of these scenes which were shot
in Broken Hill, they didn't get any rain, there were
no wildflowers, and around Silverton and the town of Hay
just amazing. The cast is all really really good and
(06:50):
if you get into Mad Max, you will love this film.
And I think it's a film that Australians should be
proud of. The most expensive movie ever made down Under
and it's it's going to be huge around the world,
and it's so ozzy and I think that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, And you interviewed Anya. I heard a bit aloof
for he. She it's just just a different kind of character.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
She's a different kind of person. She sort of floats
through the world. She's sort of this ephemeral character. But
she was lovely to talk to. And she is brilliant
in this movie. Gosh, she's never really done this type
of action blockbuster before, but she's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So good.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
All right, well, how many I can still play chess
with one arms?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I like what I'm going to give it for very good.
They look like they're having way too much front Maker Samsworth,
Oh my gosh, he's having so much funny. He's brilliant.
You mean my mate, Chris, mate Chris, and you get
to talk to George. What a trio? Well done, fantastic
you guys
Read the flick with Ben Oshe. Good morning man, Good
morning guys. Welcome. Been looking forward to hearing all about Furiosa.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh yeah, we've been waiting for the backstory. Who should
we get that out of the way first?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah? Please, you can give me a review of this story.
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So a couple of weeks ago, very fortunate to go
to Sydney for the Australian premiere of Furiosa, a Mad
Max Saga, the prequel to Mad Max Fury Road. I
got to speak to George Miller, the director who's been
there from the starts forty five year journey, yeah, since
nineteen seventy nine when the first Mad Max movie came out.
I got to speak to Anya Taylor Joy, who plays Furiosa,
(00:41):
the character made famous by Charlie Staron in Fury Road.
And got to talk to Chris Hemsworth. So interviewed them
all fantastic and then have gone back to my hotel,
did a bit of work and thought, oh a bit bored.
Go down to the hotel gym off. I go, I'm
the only one in there doing a bit of a workout.
Next minute a Ben, look up, guess is noworth George Miller.
(01:03):
It wasn't you imagine, it wasn't George Miller. It was
it was Chris Hemser. So we then we chewed the
fat about we both grew up in the Northern Territory.
We talked about mad Max, talked about some other stuff,
and then worked out side by side. It was the toughest,
toughest on the toughest workout I've ever had in my life.
Off ye, keeping up, I think more than showing. And
(01:28):
then I sort of you know, waves, see you later, mate,
And then I was dragging myself around the corner.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I had to go back to my hotel room.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I had a forty five minute hot bar, just hoping
that my muscles would reattach themselves to my body. Man,
it was. It was tough, but he is such a
lovely guy, and he told me that he had so
much more fun playing Dementis the villain in Furiosa, than
he does being a superhero. And you look a bit
(01:55):
comical you watch this movie. Dementus is hilarious. He's so
good and this is the best performance of Chris Hamsler's career.
He gives Dementus like some insecurities. This bravado there's a
bit of nuance there. He's funny but also evil, like,
he's believable as a funny guy and believable as a
pretty dastardly guy as well.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Really good, really really good, very good. And so to
get you up to speed, by the way, this story
got five bicep.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
For five more than I had attached to my arms
at the end of it. And so this film is
a prequel to Fury Road, which came out in twenty fifteen,
and is also probably one of the most challenging things
that audiences will find with Furio. So so Fury Road
was incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Why do they make these things in order? Yeah, well,
I think the problem.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
The problem was it took a while to make this
other movie, and George Miller, the director, realized Charlie's thereon
is getting a bit older, and so I know, I know,
and as time has going from past so physical nine
Jeorge Miller and so, and he looked at the aging
(03:04):
technology and just just he didn't like it. And he thought, well,
maybe maybe we'll rethink this and we'll do a prequel.
And because you don't really learn much about Furiosa in
Fury Road, you know that she you know fights for good.
You don't know much about her backstory. You know she's
missing an arm, and the good news is you find
(03:27):
out how she loses that arm in this movie and
it's pretty thanks the wa and so so that movie
was such a hit. It was huge at the box office.
And also like for me, it's one of the top
five action movies I've ever seen. It is a phenomenally
good movie. It was shot in the Namibian desert instead
of the mad Max Heartland of Broken Heel in New
(03:48):
South Wales because of because of rainfall, Like there was
a wildflower bloom when they were trying to make it,
and George Miller walked out of his hotel a minute.
In a minute, this is supposed to be a world
there's no water and there's a dystopian. We can't have
these pretty wild flowers. So I went to Namibian desert.
Most of it was made with practical effects the film.
That film was set over three days, and it's so bonkers.
(04:11):
It's just one action sequence after the next, and so
compared to that kind of breakneck pace, Furiosa might initially
feel a bit slow to people like, especially if they've
just watched Fury Road. You come to this new film
and you go, okay, takes place over a fifteen year period,
and you might go, oh, geez, so the pace of it,
I'm just I'm not sure about it, but you've got
to stick with it because it just picks up pace.
(04:33):
And the whole point is to get a pile on
the trauma of this character, Furiosa, played by first by
Alia Brown the young kid, and then by Anya Taylor
Joy when she's an adult, and just like one bad
thing happens to her after another, and most of them
are done by Chris Hemsworth's character Dementis, who's a warlord
who's in charge of a horde of bikers and he
(04:55):
read at one point he rides a chariot of like choppers,
like chopper motorbike. He's standing in a chariot with rains.
I don't know how it works, and in none other
saying he's in this six wheeler monster truck and the
cab ism The vehicles are just insane. And the film
sort of follows like Furiosa's journey as she sort of
deals with all this trauma and.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Then of course she wants vengeance, and.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Then that's what it's all about she wants vengeance on dementis,
and it doesn't matter how many years go past. It
just that sort of desire for revenge just burns hotter
and hotter and hotter, and then you know, we get
to see what happens as the film unfoults. It's I
think the film is brilliant, but it's not perfect. It's
got Tom Burke, the English actor who does a pretty
good Aussie accent, because of course mad Max is Australian.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Said in Australia.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He plays a sort of a mentor of a young furiosa.
But that relationship is so ambiguous it doesn't feel very authentic.
You can't work out if it's a romance, if it's
a mentor situation. And so there are some stuff that
happens towards the end of the film that it kind
of doesn't have as much power as it could because
the Bird character is not perfect. Okay, also because it's
(06:04):
you know, a bit slower than Fury Road, that is
probably something else that audiences might find a little bit challenging.
It doesn't mumble like, oh my gosh, what a mumbler
that guy is. And then right at the end, of
the film, they decide to have like a like a
literal recap of Fury Road, like actual footage from Fury Road,
like for a little like three minute recap, which, to
be honest with you, is a bit weird and it
(06:26):
feels like it takes some of the impact away from
the conclusion. So that aside, like this is a spectacular
movie visually, it's a you know, another George Miller masterpiece.
Some of these some of these scenes which were shot
in Broken Hill, they didn't get any rain, there were
no wildflowers, and around Silverton and the town of Hay
just amazing. The cast is all really really good and
(06:50):
if you get into Mad Max, you will love this film.
And I think it's a film that Australians should be
proud of. The most expensive movie ever made down Under
and it's it's going to be huge around the world,
and it's so ozzy and I think that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, And you interviewed Anya. I heard a bit aloof
for he. She it's just just a different kind of character.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
She's a different kind of person. She sort of floats
through the world. She's sort of this ephemeral character. But
she was lovely to talk to. And she is brilliant
in this movie. Gosh, she's never really done this type
of action blockbuster before, but she's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So good.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
All right, well, how many I can still play chess
with one arms?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I like what I'm going to give it for very good.
They look like they're having way too much front Maker Samsworth,
Oh my gosh, he's having so much funny. He's brilliant.
You mean my mate, Chris, mate Chris, and you get
to talk to George. What a trio? Well done, fantastic
you guys
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