Mise En Scene Analysis: Fury Road And The Road Warrior

Javier Garduno
Film Studies 1
Cynthia Morrill Mise en scene analysis of George miller movies
George miller is an Australian movie director who is well recognized for his Mad Max films, Fury Road and The Road Warrior. Both these films have been voted as two of the greatest action films of all time and have been notarized for their outstanding revenue of 534 million worldwide. Happy Feet is another great film by George Millers that was designed for a younger audience but share some key features with the Mad max films. George Miller’s uses of props give his films a greater sense of meaning to the scene and helps develop the story the movie progresses. Miller’s use of blocking helps to identify the point of focus as well as creating emotional
He grew up in the tiny Australian town of Chinchilla but then moved to Sydney where he and his twin attended high school and then medical school together at the University of New South Wales. During his time at college George would often skip class to watch movies while his brother went to class and took notes for both of them. In 1971, John, his twin brother and George won a course at the Melbourne Film Workshop after entering a one-minute film completion and winning. That same year John and George graduated medical school while john remained in medicine, George chose to attend the film course. After attending the course he became close friends with a fellow student by the name Byron Kennedy. They would later collaborate on making screenplays and experimental short films. In 1972, Byron and George created their first film called Violence In The Cinema - Part One from only 1,500 dollars they managed to raise. The film was shown in Sydney and Moscow film Festival and won two Australian Film Institute Awards. After that George and Byron formed the Kennedy Miller production company with the hope of making more feature films. It wasn’t until seven years later that the company managed to raise $350,000 to make the first Mad Max film. This investment paid off very well for the company as Mad Max gained global recognition and many awards. The success spurred the Mad Max series and in 1981 Mad Max 2 was created. In 1983, after, Kennedy’s terrible death in a helicopter accident, Miller began directing the film The Witches of Eastwick in 1987 for an American studio and although his involvement in the movie was disappointing he still managed to learn a lot from this experience. Miller then turned to producing two John Duigan films, The Year My Voice Broke and Flirting but later returned to directing Lorenzo’s Oil in 1992. The movie earned Miller and co-writer Nick Enright an Academy