Blood, Sweat & Chrome

“Of all the films that Miller has ever made, this is the one where it feels like he bled for it to exist. For him to have been the age he was, for him to have come back into the studio system the way it is now, and to have navigated that system and come through it with this movie, it's pure win. You're going to see young filmmakers who are doing press and when people ask, “What got you interested in directing?” They'll say, “I was nine, and my dad took me to see Fury Road.”


This book is incredible for the sheer fact that this movie is an impossibility that somehow was made possible and this book chronicles that. I admit I was skeptical when I saw there was an oral history for Fury Road. I saw the film in theaters and liked it, but didn't really think about it again. The trailers for Furiousa got me curious to rewatch it since people rave about it. Rewatching it and also reading this book makes me understand that Fury Road is a masterpiece. There is truly nothing else like it and the story of how this film went from George Miller's brain to your theater screen is nothing short of miraculous.

Oh, what a book...what a lovely book.

An amazing oral history of an amazing movie.

A lot of interesting anecdotes, but they don't really add up to a great book.