since the late ‘70s there have been approximately 12 billion movies set in a desert post-apocalypse and 99% of them were hypermasculine/quasi-eugenicist/crypto-fascist “only the strong survive” bullshit – which was never really George Miller’s thing, like, those people are in the movies but they’re the bad guys

similarly of all the zombie apocalypse movies that are flat ripoffs of George Romero very few picked up on his general aversion to groups of dudes running around with guns shooting everybody

like idk how you watch either Road Warrior or Day of the Dead and come away thinking “violent dudes are awesome to have around in the apocalypse” – which may explain why Miller went to such lengths in Fury Road to demonstrate that violent dudes are actually the fucking worst