00:00I'm Lucrezia, I'm from Italy. Mr. Miller, how are you?
00:04I'm good, thank you.
00:05First of all, congratulations for Furiosa, it's amazing.
00:10Thank you.
00:11It has been almost 10 years since the debut of Mad Max Fury Road.
00:17What should we expect from Furiosa Mad Max saga?
00:21Well, I'd say it's the story that leads up to the beginning of Mad Max Fury Road
00:31and it basically tells the story of Furiosa from the age of 10
00:37when she's taken away from her mother in the green place, her childhood,
00:43and how she becomes the road warrior that we meet at the beginning of Fury Road.
00:50She's the Praetorian Furiosa and it's a saga, it's an odyssey
00:57where we see the character forge, how she becomes this almost mythic sort of figure.
01:04Furiosa is resilient, she does not suffer the world inhabited by ruthless men like Dementus.
01:13In your point of view, what do these characters tell us about today's world?
01:17I think what's interesting about this, about it, is she starts off in a world in extremis
01:29where everything is thrown at her and she has to use her resources,
01:34what she has intrinsically, to overcome all the obstacles.
01:38Where she has to get home, she makes a promise to her dying mother
01:42that she will find her way home and in that she changes, she evolves.
01:48There's a kind of crucible of life in this extreme world.
01:53And I don't know, it's not only about today's world,
01:57I think right through all of time people undergo these trials
02:01and through telling stories about them, we understand what their essence is
02:07and who they become and maybe we have some sort of understanding,
02:10it might give us some meaning about our own lives.
02:13I think that's what happens.
02:14Mr. Miller, how do you create Saga as Powerful as this?
02:19Well, it comes from the characters, it comes from the stories.
02:26Wanted to tell the story of Furiosa.
02:32And it's basically, as I say, driven by characters and what they do to each other.
02:40All stories are based on conflict in some way
02:44and you're looking for a rise in conflict.
02:46And what happens, some essence is revealed of the people.
02:52You get to understand them.
02:54You get to see who they are and how they become in that way,
03:00the good and the bad.
03:02And so I think that's basically the thing that's essential in all storytelling.
03:07And I think why we want stories like this.
03:15Stories need to be allegorical.
03:18They need to somehow have meaning to you according to your own worldview.
03:26So these stories like Furiosa are in the eyes of the beholder.
03:30That's why it's so interesting to see what people are going to make of the film
03:34as it's now going out into the world
03:37and people will decide to make of it what they will.
03:40Does that make sense?
03:42Yeah, makes sense.
03:42Can this movie be considered as a feminist manifesto and what icon is Furiosa?
03:49Oh, well, it could be considered to that according to how you interpret the story.
03:59For me, aside from being female or male,
04:05it's a story of an heroic character, almost mythic character,
04:11regardless of their gender.
04:13She could be a male.
04:15She could be...
04:16You know, we tell stories like this with animals sometimes.
04:21I've done it in the past, Babe and Happy Feet.
04:24But they are all part of the heroic myth, I think.
04:29And so this is a female version of it,
04:33but she could have just as easily been a male version,
04:36like we have Mad Max.
04:37And as I say, she could have been a penguin or a pig.
04:40Yeah.
04:41Mr. Miller, thank you for your time.
04:43It was a pleasure talking to you.
04:44I'm very kind of you.
04:45Thank you.
04:46Thank you.
