If you like Mad Max: Fury Road, you should read this book. If you are interested in the process of creating art, and filmmaking, you should read this book! If you like a little tea (but not so much that it drowns you) with your behind the scenes info, read this book! It’s really good!
Also, it is fairly mind-blowing the amount of work and perseverance that went into the creation of the movie. It’s a miracle (or several) that it even got made. It’s several miracles and more that people did not die while filming.
This is actually an oral history, a format I love, so you get to hear directly from everyone involved in making Fury Road, from director George Miller and the actors (lots of both Charlize and Tom) to the writers, the people who made all those insane vehicles, the set designers, tons of people. Not a bit of it wasn’t interesting.
Something else cool about this book is that because the movie took so long to be made (almost twenty years), we also get a sort of working biography of George Miller and insight into his other films, as well. I loved hearing about Babe the most. It made me feel guilty that I still haven’t seen Babe 2: Pig in the City. The man has an incredibly creative and varied filmic output when you stop to think about it.
Which reminds me, did anyone see Three Thousand Years of Longing? It looked so interesting but I so rarely go to the theater anymore, for obvious reasons.