We went out, we found things that were beautiful in and of themselves - now whether that's the curve of an airless spray gun, or a hills hoist, or a small jackhammer, but we'd repurposed them to weaponry, or to the forks of a motorbike, or to something else."Īnother one of the deserts Gibson visited: Burning Man's outpost in the Black Rock Desert. "We designed everything the way they would have come to it. One of the key parts of how the film was constructed, Gibson says, was designing the design process. So all that flotsam and jetsam that washed up at the end of the world, we just put it to new and slightly brutal use." "I wonder what that was? What did they use it for? And now I'm going to repurpose it for war, for battle, for thirst, for the end of the universe. They wanted objects that were beautiful enough that people would want to salvage them, and inspire people to think about those items' histories. So what we wanted to do was to build up a stockpile of things that had inherent interest or beauty, and that we could then take out of context and reuse." "There's been a lot of degraded use of the idea of the apocalypse - anybody thinks you can weld a piece of barb wire to a Camaro and, my God, it's the future. "All the objects became a fetish," Gibson says. ![]() Mad max fury road cast little person movie#The movie is built on the idea of found objects, with recycled items being made new again. That meant different departments working together to make vehicles that could fly through the air at high speed, ultimately delivering an explosion "safely but spectacularly." Rebuilding the past for battle So each of the vehicles was designed with safety in mind, but also with each and every one of their specific stunts - their deaths, their character arcs, built into the design, into the very DNA of how they were put together." Which was a little antithetical to the idea of 300 stunts at high speed. "Apparently that meant you're not meant to go out and hurt anybody on purpose. Gibson says that one problem they ran into was that Miller is, in addition to being a director, also a certified doctor who'd signed on to the Hippocratic oath. And so we designed all of that into the vehicles as we went." "And so we wanted to make it the last real action film, and to do the stunts as real as possible. ![]() He had spent far too many years with pixels that did anything he wanted - tap-dancing penguins and pigs whose lips moved," Gibson says, referring to Miller's work on two "Happy Feet" films and two "Babe" movies. Sometimes harnesses holding the actors were removed in post-production, but the film is basically what you see is what you get. "Fury Road" features a huge number of practical stunts, with real things happening in front of the camera rather than CGI. The film's cars were initially designed for that area, so they ended up being put to the test in a new environment. "The heavens opened up and the inland lakes filled, and the sea that people imagined existed actually formed, the desert bloomed, flowers were everywhere, the pelicans were dancing, and we had to go looking for somewhere else." The production had previously looked at Broken Hill in Australia's New South Wales, but a flood of rain ruined that plan. The desert he found for the film ended up being in Namibia, with four different kinds of desert near a seaside town that Gibson notes came with its own brewery. Potential deserts include Chile's Atacama Desert, Tunisia's Chott el Djerid salt lake and a location in Azerbaijan. ![]() For those of us who are already sure of our own insignificance, there's nothing like it being confirmed again." So I got to go to pretty much all the places no one else wanted to go to, which suited me fine - I love deserts. ![]() " was looking for dead, flat, absolute nothingness on which to play out his story. Gibson was tasked with finding a desert that was just right for "Fury Road." They'd wanted to shoot in Australia, but found that what they called deserts had enough scrubby vegetation that they weren't quite right. "George first took me into a small room filled with storyboards in the year 2000." Finding the right desert "Mad Max: Fury Road" production designer Colin Gibson says director George Miller's last post-apocalyptic vision has been a long time coming.
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