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George Miller's New Movie "Furiosa" to Premiere at Cannes Film Festival
May 15th, 2024
George Miller is a movie maker who used to be a doctor. He made a new movie called "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga." It stars Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy. They are very excited about the movie. It is about a world after a big disaster where everything is sand and people fight for water and other things they need.
"Furiosa" is a story that comes before another movie called "Mad Max: Fury Road." Everyone is talking about "Furiosa" at a big movie event in Cannes, France. The movie will show there on a special day, but it is not in a competition.
Making this movie was very hard because there was a lot of sand and tough action scenes. Anya Taylor-Joy only says a few things in the movie, but she worked hard on a big action part that took a long time to film.
Chris Hemsworth plays a bad man in the movie. He worked hard on his character and says it is very different from other roles he did before. Both Chris and Anya wanted to be kind to everyone while making the movie.
George Miller's movies are very exciting and look like they are about the future. They show us a world that is tough and where things can go wrong. But they are also about nature and how the world can change.
"Mad Max" started in 1979, and now "Furiosa" is another part of that story. George Miller thinks his medical knowledge helps him make these movies about people and the world. He also talks about it with his brother, who is a doctor.
The movie "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" is coming to cinemas soon, and many people are excited to see it!
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💭 Discussion Questions
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. Who used to be a doctor before becoming a movie maker?2
. What is the new movie 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' about?3
. Where is the big movie event where 'Furiosa' is being talked about?📖 Vocabulary
🌐 Cultural context
George Miller is a well-known Australian filmmaker who had a career as a medical doctor before making movies. "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" is linked to a popular action movie series set in a post-apocalyptic world from Australia. The Cannes Film Festival in France is an important event where new movies are shown.
🧠 Further reading
Dogme 95
In 1995, two filmmakers from Denmark, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, wanted to make movies that focus on good stories and acting instead of using lots of special effects. They made some rules for this called the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vows of Chastity." They hoped this would give directors more control over their films.
Von Trier and Vinterberg wrote their ideas quickly and shared them at a big meeting in Paris. People there were talking about the future of movies. Von Trier surprised everyone by giving out red papers about their new plan.
Some people didn't like their ideas, but the two filmmakers just wanted to do something very different because movies usually cost a lot of money to make. They even used their own movie, "Breaking the Waves", as an example, even though it did not follow all their rules.
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalyptic stories are a type of story where the world is ending or has already ended. This can happen because of many reasons. It could be weather problems like really bad climate change, something from space hitting Earth, people causing big harm with weapons or using up all resources, sickness spreading everywhere, or even strange events like zombies or space creatures attacking.
In these stories, we might see people trying to stop the end of the world. Other times, we read about what happens after the world has ended. We learn about how people feel and try to survive without much technology or how they live with only a little bit of the old world left.
A long, long time ago, even the Babylonians and others wrote stories about the end of the world. But these kinds of stories became much more popular after World War II because people were really scared about the whole world being destroyed by nuclear weapons.
List of Walt Disney Pictures films
Disney has been making movies for a long time. They started making movies in 1929. The movies made after 1983 are called Walt Disney Pictures. Before 1983, they were called Walt Disney Productions. Disney has its own company to show their movies in the United States. This company has had different names over the years.
The oldest Disney movies were shown by other companies, but now Disney shows them itself. Some Disney movies can also be watched on Disney+, which is an online service.
Disney makes different kinds of movies. They make live-action movies, which are movies with real people or animals. They make animated movies, which are movies with drawn or computer-made characters. They also make documentary movies, which are movies about real life and nature.
This list is about Disney movies that have Disney's name on them. It doesn't include movies from other companies that Disney owns, unless those companies helped to make the movie with Disney.