Can we discuss how when Furiosa slams the rig into the other vehicle during the storm and all the war boys are launched into the storm effectively freeing her for the moment from those chasing her (aside from Nux) the music isn’t triumphant, but sad. Like this isn’t a triumphant moment for Furiosa, she has just killed her crew and I think in many movies these types of deaths are seen as good but here it isn’t. I hope that makes sense haha
Yeah! I know exactly the part you’re talking about, when they’re inside the sandstorm and that big orchestral string theme just opens up, starting around here:
I think it’s one of the first times in the movie we hear something in the music that’s more classically orchestral instead of industrial and electronic, and it’s big and epic but also sad. And it continues through this part:
…which looks like the friggin’ gates of Valhalla opening up in the middle of a sand tornado.
Some of her crew members are definitely still clinging to the top of the Rig when she goes into the sandstorm:
And if you look carefully you can see three and maybe four bodies get sucked off the Rig after the other pursuit vehicle is already high in the air:
(This would be much clearer in a gif, where you’d be able to see that the bodies are coming off the Rig instead of falling down from the car, but I lack gif-making skillz.)
One of my fellow fan-friends observed that this is also the moment it hits you how destroyed the world is, that giant toxic sandstorm tornados are just the ecological norm now. People know they’re dangerous and scary, but no one seems surprised.
I would like to add two more things.
1) Nux looks at these glorious deaths and is inspired, as they are as natural to him as the toxic mega sandstorm.
2) Max, our POV character, expresses our horror (”It was hard to know who was more crazy – me or everyone else”).
