In Violence in the Cinema, Part 1, an academic delivers a speech on brutality in film while he suffers – and commits – various violent acts
terrible sense of amorality clings like a rash to Mad Max, which is the core reason it’s still shocking to watch today. George Miller’s 1979 classic is considered a violent film but the vast majority of that violence is only implied – such as during its gut-busting finale, whentitular road warrior gives a bad guy the chance to save himself only by hacking through his own ankle.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningMost audiences won’t know that the person who wrote Fyne’s speech is the revered Australian broadcaster and public intellectual Phillip Adams, who’d delivered it a few months before the film was made during a keynote presentation at a psychologists conference in Melbourne.
Creating a film like Mad Max, that is violent through implication, requires craft and cunning, and an understanding that the power of editing isn’t about cutting from one image to another, but creating a third that exists only in the mind’s eye . Splurging on graphic images, on the other hand, is a crude and nasty course. Thank goodness Miller’s style soon matured.
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