#Praetorian jack

[manny-jacinto]

“The stars be with you.”

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA (2024)

[verified-villain-fxcker]

I’m gonna be thinking about them for the rest of my life.

[afuror]

Dementus I hate you

[fandomhype]

Sorry for the crappy quality but I needed to confirm that they do indeed say "My Jack" and "My Fury"

[meduseld]

Oh no. In addition to Furiosa calling him "my Jack", apparently he weakly replies "my Fury". Which beyond this being THEE dying declaration of love since it looks like there is no exit and they are at that point choosing to only see each other and ignoring their soon to be killers, leaning into each other and breathing each other's air....... my Fury.

Not just a nickname for Furiosa but. What she will be. She does become a Fury in the Erinyes sense who avenges his death and everything taken from her upon Dementus with Greek Myth levels of retribution, and it is Fury that drives her, a righteous grief that powers her to try to give the Wives a better fate.

[lithuvia]

I said it to my friends in the movie theater parking lot, and I'll say it again now:

Insane that there's only two fuckable men in the wasteland, and Furiosa managed to pull both of them.

[papaue00]

this “you can speak to me” scene over here 100% codes jack as the one who goes “SHE SAID NO PICKLES” in their relationship

furiosa is the shy socially awkward girl while jack is the confident but sensitive bf who can always sense her discomfort and helps her do the talking when needed

[cerebrobullet]

Cinematic parallels

[aquitainequeen]

Here I am, hours later, still crying about Furiosa and Praetorian Jack. George Miller, Nico Lathouris, Anya Taylor-Joy and Tom Burke are geniuses. They completely sold me on just how much these characters loved each other.

Furiosa coming out of a nightmare, wielding a knife, to be caught by Jack. He doesn’t say it’s all right or that she’s safe, she doesn’t say it was just a bad dream. They don’t say anything. Jack eases her back down to her cot and they settle down, aware of each other.

Jack stitching up Furiosa’s shoulder in a hidden spot in the Citadel, Furiosa showing Jack the peach seed that she’s kept hidden in her hair for so long, proving that the Green Place is out there, asking him to come with her, pressing her forehead to his while cupping the back of his head, showing him her love in the manner of her people, and him returning the gesture. After fifteen years, she’s finally going home, and he’s coming with her.

And then...

Spoilers beyond here!!!

And then:

The battle of the Bullet Farm, which is where the strength and force of their love really started to batter me. Furiosa manages to avoid the ambush and get out of the Farm before the gate closes, and Jack could easily have slipped through the gate to join her, but he sees the enemy forces mustering and knows they’ll quickly be hunted down if there's nothing to stop their pursuers. He shoots off a green flare that clearly tells Furiosa to abandon him and get the hell out of there, intending to sacrifice himself so that she has a chance to escape and set off for the Green Place. Furiosa does drive off, but gets maybe five metres before she decides ‘fuck this’ and goes back in to try and save him. And she saves him from his pursuers and she saves him from falling to his death, and they get to their escape vehicle and drive off, with nary a word spoken or exchanged until they’re on the flat and heading for freedom. And even then, all that’s mentioned is what direction they should take to reach the Green Place. That's it. They don’t need anything else. They survived, they got out, they're together, they’re going to be all right.

And they almost make it. They almost get away.

When they’re captured by Dementus and forced onto their knees, there’s no special close up on them; mostly they’re on the edge of the shot while Dementus is ranting centre stage or screaming into their faces. They pay no heed to him. That love infuriates Dementus. He shrieks, he tears at them, but he can’t break them. He doesn’t matter. What matters is that they spend their last moments touching each other, leaning into each other, pressing their foreheads together, breathing deep, loving each other.

There are no parting words between Furiosa and Jack, no declarations or promises or screams of despair, but it hit me so hard and cut so deep that the second to last time we see Jack’s face, he’s craning desperately to see what’s happening to Furiosa, trying to get one final precious glimpse of her, before he’s quite literally dragged to his awful death.

We don’t see Furiosa’s reaction to her torture on multiple fronts, as she is strung up by her maimed arm and forced to watch Jack die. We’ve seen her scream and weep for her mother, but this moment is hers alone. It’s not for us.

How fitting it is that Jack saves Furiosa one last time, as his execution distracts Dementus and his crew from noticing that Furiosa has cut off her own arm to escape.

The last time we see Jack’s face is in Furiosa’s last nightmare.

Furiosa doesn’t mention Jack in her final showdown with Dementus, when she screams about her mother and her stolen childhood. But from what’s shown to us, I think that the spot in the Citadel when she imprisons Dementus and grows the peach tree in the midst of his emaciated, maggot-ridden body…is the same place where Jack stitched up her wounded shoulder, where she showed him the peach seed, where she asked him to come with her to the Green Place and he accepted, where she showed him her love in the manner of her people, where they embraced. Where she avenged herself and Jack, upon the man who destroyed their lives.

Where Furiosa now plucks the first fruit of the tree to bring to the Five Wives, whom she will bring with her to the Green Place.   

[gzeidraws]

Praetorian

[manny-jacinto]

Furyjack + touching

[ljpynn]

Praetorian Jack simps come get y'all juice

From "Watch an Ambush at the Bullet Farm in 'Furiosa' | Anatomy of a Scene" by NYT

[madder-than-max]

praetorian jack was so real for falling in love with furiosa at first sight and immediately risking everything so she could find her way home because honestly same

[afuror]

Doodles

[hackitt1828]

[ohmovie]

YOU WILL HOLD ME LIKE I'M HOPE.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller Pacific Rim (2013) dir. Guillermo del Toro