#Geroge Miller

[winterxgardener]

I can't stop laughing! Courtney's and Angela's characters being cousins is one of the highlights of the recent Dread Smosh video.

[clownenergyy]

Most new pieces of news about furiosa fill me with dread

[cromwelll]

Happiness is a Full Bookshelf 😊📚

My goal is to collect every Penguin Classic that has a black spine and cover, white title, and orange author name because they’re sooo aesthetically pleasing to me. My fun challenge of collecting/amassing them is by finding them exclusively through secondhand purchases (resale shops, ebay, garage sales, used bookstores, etc.) Then I only have to shell out $0-$7 each instead of $10-$30 each!

Penguin Classics

A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrick Ibsen

A Nietzsche Reader by Fredrich Nietzsche

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Dolye

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Angel of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin**

BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara

Caleb Williams by William Godwin

Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London*

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer*

Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

Confessions by Saint Augustine

Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chestnut

Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius

Crucible by Arthur Miller

Daisy Miller by Henry James

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane

Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley**

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck**

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen

History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë*

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman*

Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*

Middlemarch by Geroge Eliot

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Mysteries by Knut Hamsun

Narrative of the Lige of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas

Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle*

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Odyssey by Homer**

On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Suart Mill

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Passing by Nella Larsen

Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant

Portable Sixties Reader

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne**

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Song of Roland

Summer by Edith Wharton

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

The Aeneid by Virgil

The Ancien Régime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Bhagavad Gita

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Guide by R.K. Narayan

The Habor by Ernest Poole

The Hound of Baskerville by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Iliad by Homer

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano

The Lais of Marie de France

The Marquise of O—and Other Stories by Heinrich Von Keist

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Odyssey by Homer

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli*

The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturlson

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Three Theban Plays by Sophocles

To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Utopia by Thomas More

Villette by Emily Brontë

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Washington Square by Henry James

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Non-Penguin Classics

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath**

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank*

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood**

House on Mango Street by Sander Cisneros

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Last Man by Mary Shelley

The Song og Bernadette by Franz Werfel

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien*

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Collections, Compilations, Biographies, and Anthologies

100 Best-Loved Poems (American & British)

101 Great American Poems

A Book of Love Poetry

English Romantic Poetry (1996)

Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson

Five Metaphysical Poets

John Donne

George Herbert

Henry Vaughn

Richard Crashaw

Andrew Marvell

Four Great Comedies of the Restoration & 18th Century

Four Great Elizabethan Plays

Great Poems by American Women

Great American Short Stories (1985)

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad

• “Youth”

• Heart of Darkness

• “Amy Foster”

• “The Secret Sharer

17. Louisa May: A Modern Biography by Martha Saxton

18. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

19. Possibilities of Poetry (1970)

20. Selected Poetry by D.H. Lawrence

21. Selected Writings by Gertrude Stein

22. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

23. Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories (1983)

24. Short Story Masterpieces (American & British, 1982)

25. Six American Poets (Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Williams, Frost, Hughes)

26. Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

• “A Scandal in Bohemia”

• “The Red-headed League”

• “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

• “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”

• “The Final Problem”

• “The Adventure of the Empty House”

27. Six Plays of Strindberg

28. Tales of Henry James by Henry James

• “The Aspern Papers”

• “The Pupil”

• “Brooksmith”

• “The Real Thing”

• “The Middle Years”

• “In the Cage”

• “The Beast in the Jungle”

• “The Jolly Corner”

29. Ten Plays by Euripides

30. The Essential Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

31. The Complete Plays of John M. Synge by John M. Synge

32. The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories

33. The Underground Railroad by William Still

34. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990)

35. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

36. The Novels by Samuel Beckett

• Molloy

• Malone Dies

•The Unnamable

37. Victorian Love Stories (1997)

Literary Criticism

38. Women & Fiction (1975)

39. Barchester Towers and The Warden by Anthony Trollope

On Poetry and Poets by T.S. Eliot

Speaking of Chaucer by E. Talbot Donaldson

Symbolism and American Literature by Charles Feidelson, Jr.

* = Started & didn’t finish (yet)/Read parts

** = Read ≥5 years ago

Strike-through = Read

Updated: June 17, 2024

Total count: 162

[lazerv4]

Thoughts on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Just my raw thoughts not a review or anything

Man what a movie, I remember Fury Road being incredible but this was just so fucking good. Furiosa is a prequel to Mad Max Fury Road and tells the backstory of Imperator Furiosa which we already saw breadcrumbs of but there is a lot here that we were lacking. First things first, it’s a shame Charlize Theron couldn't come back, she was one of the highlights of Fury Road and a stand out performance, but development hell made it impossible to make it convincing with cgi according to Geroge Miller himself so instead we got Anya Taylor-Joy who also completely disappears in the role of not only Furiosa but Charlize playing Furiosa to the point where even her voice is basically unrecognizable and I had to google if they didn’t dub Charlize over it was that good.

The movie begins with Furiosa as a child in the green place that we finally get to see after all this years and it does look like paradise so it gives a lot of validity to Furiosa in Fury Road in hindsight as well and how she is kidnapped, we see the death of her mother which was also mentioned in Fury Road and we meet the showstopper, after so many years of dumb roles, stupid performances and just well Thor I kind of forgot how good of an actor Chris Hemsworth is, he steals the show every single frame he is in as the most hateable and fun motherfucker in the Wasteland and having him as more of a presence to Furiosa through her life as well as through the movie gives him more gravitas as the lead villain than Imortan Joe had in Fury Road. Speaking of Imortan Joe, a lot of the Fury Road baddies show up in this movie and are greatly expanded upon and developed to the point where they stop being forgettable characters with cool looks and become stupid memorable characters that look cool like most of Mad Max characters tend to do.

I really don’t want to spoil to much more besides that the movie is incredible, it’s breathtaking visually and while the action is not as outstanding as Fury Road (I’m sorry for the constant comparisons but they’re basically sister movies) the world and story are better and both movies enhance each other anyways so if you already liked Fury Road there is no reason to not watch Furiosa, please at least make it succeed on streaming, it deserves better and George deserves to end the Fury Road trilogy before he gets too old to direct the one actually about Max.

Bonus game take a shot every time I mentioned Fury Road.

[pipelinelaserraygun]

Thursday May 23rd was the local premiere of what I now consider the VERY BEST "Mad Max" 🍿 movie of ALL.

It's 1 of the GREATEST action movies EVER created, stand alone.

AND, as is often the case with God, it's a MAJOR 🎥 Pop Culture event that has significant SPIRITUAL Intel embedded into it: Protect the GREEN place (Eden). Find your way home (Heaven).

The road to 👿 perdition is a dystopian path cluttered with debris, which with God's help needs to be "crossed"/ ✝️.

Even at its bleakest, Mankind is on an ongoing mission: a Return-to-Eden.

Return to Paradise: This IS going DOWN, @ 🔚 of Days.

MUST 🙈🙊🙉 SEE‼️The 👺👺 weeds/globalists are getting trimmed.

MUST 🙈🙊🙉 SEE‼️The 👺👺 weeds/globalists are getting trimmed.

THEIR 🪳 bug spray, 🌎 intended to harm God's people, WILL backfire‼️

You are being asked to think about TITLES given to the World's Savior and Messiah as they relate to those who are wed to THAT person: For example, ✝️💍 Christ is acknowledged as the Lion of Judah, so THAT makes the 👑👰🏽 Bride of Christ the 🦁 lioness of Judah.

In THIS devotional example, another title for our Spouse Jesus is The last Adam.

THAT would mean that another title for Mrs. Christ is The last Eve.

[alltimesupdate]

Three Thousand Of Years Of Longing: 15 Things You Missed

“Three Thousand Years of Longing” is written and directed by Geroge Miller and co-written by Augusta Gore. This movie A.S. Say. The film stars the brilliant Tilda Swinton as Althea Benny and the always serious and relatable Idris Alba as The Jinn. Without wasting time let’s read further Read More

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George Miller & George Ogilvie’s MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME, 1985.

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I am on my Mad Max bullshit; you have all been warned. 

Last night, I attended a stream done by @docholligay of Sergio Leon’s “For a Few Dollars More.” I had never seen any of these movies nor were they really in my consciousness beforehand, so it was really fascinating to be able to hear not just about the West, but also these movies in general (her commentary). As she talked about how you don’t need to see any of the other films to watch any of them and observed the characterization of The Man with No Name, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the Mythic!Max take and be, in general, reminded of Max Rockatansky. 

Of course the character is a pretty iconic one, and it only stands to reason that we will see similar like him as the media that comes before--whether consciously or not--will effect that which comes after. But still, I was curious if George Miller might have been pretty explicitly inspired by these movies. 

TURNS OUT HE WAS!

“When Miller and Kennedy decided on filming Mad Max in the anamorphic widescreen format, their creative touchstone was Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy and their successor, Once upon a Time in the West (all filmed in Techniscope, a cheaper alternative to CinemaScope). The pair told cinematographer David Eggby that shooting anamorphic would crucially enhance landscapes. Cars driving in packs would look especially potent. But filming in Panavision or Techniscope proved financially unviable and logistically prohibitive, so they opted to use a set of knackered but still beautiful Todd-AO 35mm lenses, which had been located at a Sydney rental house. Previously used on Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway (1972), only one of them in fact worked.

While Max isn’t as laconic in the original as he’d become in later Mad Max films, there is also a distinct flavour of Leone’s antihero, The Man with No Name (played by Clint Eastwood), in the rogue cop’s overall genetic makeup.”

It actually does make me want to see the other Sergio Leon films with The Man with No Name, because I love the idea of Mythic!Max even if I can only watch one of the Mad Max films repeatedly (and never could get myself to watch the orginal). I love the concept of “heroes” trying to mind their own business and begrudgingly pulled into helping someone else find closure. I dunno; apparently it’s a trope I like! 

I’d love to hear from other Fury Roadies who are familiar with the other franchise if they have any thoughts. I’ve now only seen the one film, but there were a lot of beats that just had the spirit of the Mad Max films I watched for people who are me. 

Yes. I will make everything as much about MMFR as I can, shut up. =P 

An aside: One of my favorite tidbits of info that sparked my MMFR connection was the fact that the villain in this movie played another villain in another movie which of course immediately invoked Hugh Keayes-Barnes to mind as Immortan Joe/Toecutter

Edit: I forgot to add (unnecessarily but shush) that apparently (I don’t explicitly remember it) in Thunderdome when Max fights... in the Thunderdome, they announce him as The Man with No Name XD 

[sleepyboyjoji]

OoOoh btw feel free to request me some joji and brian imagines to write, i’m bored as hell, and am down to write just about anything. i also draw so if you wanna hmu for that too, that’s coo. ;,,,)))) 💞👌🏽👌🏽😊😊

[winterxgardener]

I am finking about them: Savannah and Bernardo 🥎🖌️

To learn about them, check out the recent Smosh Games video. I am excited for episode 2 💃

[cineasc]

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) George Miller

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Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy Open Up On 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Feud

Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy Open Up On ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Feud

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After years of speculation, actors Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy have finally admitted that they didn’t get along with each other while working on Mad Max: Fury Road, saying everything was about survival.

In a piece for The New York Times, Theron and Hardy opened up about their feud while working on the 2015 action film, reports people.com.

Theron, 44, feels she and Hardy, 42, were…

[nitrateglow]

I noticed while watching Mad Max: Fury Road that it and Buster Keaton’s The General have a similar plot structure. Obviously the other similarity is that they’re both chase movies, but the boomerang structure both use is even more striking in likeness.

[kookieallen]

Ok, bye. I know this is an old post of his. But ooh my god does he make melt. Damn. He's a broodingly handsome man. But don't forget the sexy Australian wavy haired Australian in the back. ;))))