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The Scavengers
As Max and the Furiosettes drive through what was the Green Place we see a
startling vision of strange creatures on stilts traversing the sludge. “They are the
Vuvalini who stayed behind” Miller says referencing the troop of warrior women
Max and Furiosa later meet. “As the Green Place became a toxic quagmire the most
effi cient way to get across it was on stilts from tree to tree. Their clothes are made
of crow feathers and netting.”

Ride Of The Valkyrie

If Miller’s Justice League movie had gone ahead we’d

have seen Megan Gale as a warrior long before she shows

up in Fury Road as The Valkyrie. Miller had cast her as

Wonder Woman and when Fury Road kicked into gear

he remembered the Australian model. “She’s fantastic”

he says. “I knew she would step up.” Intriguingly The

Valkyrie was meant to survive but life had other plans.

“Her partner’s an elite footballer in Australia and they

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Immortan Joe’s Look

The look of Fury Road’s arch-villain

was as practical as it was designed

to strike fear into the hearts of his

enemies... And followers. “He needed

a breathing mask but it couldn’t look

like an invalid’s mask” explains Miller.

“He had to have that chest plate

because he had diseased skin so he

had this carapace built so it would

look from afar like armour and skin.”

Those enormous chompers on Joe’s

mask: horse’s teeth.

The People Eater’s Feet

The People Eater (John Howard) enjoys downtime by

having a pedicure. Pity the poor War Boy scrubbing his

grotesquely swollen feet. “Everyone had in some way

to be damaged by The Wasteland” says Miller of the

metal-beaked maniac. “I imagined he had some

elephantiasis-like disease. He was a bean counter

who survived because of his brainpower.”

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The Killing

Of Splendid

The movie’s most shocking

moment sees the heavily

pregnant Splendid Angharad

(Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) fall

beneath the wheels of Joe’s car.

“It’s a moment on which the whole

movie pivots” explains Miller. “It

affects Max very deeply. He smiles

for the fi rst time in the movie and

a moment later she’s lost. He then

becomes committed to going along for

the ride rather than being all for himself.”

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