Fury Road

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Fury Road Minute 81 - Where did you find such creatures?

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Though some in the Vuvalini are cautious about Furiosa’s traveling companions, the two groups quickly merge as introductions are made. This pleases Furiosa and she expresses her eagerness to reach The Green Place so The Wives can see it. Her happiness is quickly dashed as the Vuvalini tell Furiosa that The Green Place is no more.

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Fury Road Minute 80 - Something in the eyes

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The Vuvalini gather around Furiosa as The Valkyrie arrives after descending from the tower. The two embrace as they recognize each other after being separated for many years. The other Vuvalini begin to question Furiosa, wanting to learn more about her time away from them. Seeing that there is no danger, The Wives leave the War Rig.

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Fury Road Minute 79 - Clan Swaddle Dog

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Furiosa holds out her hands to show she is unarmed and announces to any unseen eyes that she is one of the Vuvalini, of Clan Swaddle Dog. At this proclamation, the woman on the tower signals the others and women on motorcycles appear from every direction. Max, Nux and the wives sit in the War Rig as the motorcycles surround Furiosa.

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Fury Road Minute 78 - That's bait

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Furiosa scans the horizon, looking for landmarks, when Toast notices a tower in the distance with mirrors hanging from it to catch the light. Furiosa decides they should approach the tower, but as they get closer to it, Max expresses his distrust of the situation. Furiosa tells everyone to stay in the Rig and departs to talk with a woman seemingly trapped on the tower.

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Fury Road Minute 77 - Entomophagy

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Max turns his attention to the wives dozing in the back seat of the Rig and asks about their intentions. Furiosa answers that they are simply looking for hope, while she is looking for redemption. Nux, awake in the back seat, finds a bug crawling on Capable and promptly eats it. Sometime later, the War Rig stops so Furiosa can regain her bearings.

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Fury Road Minute 76 - The best shot they’ll ever have

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With Immortan Joe’s War Parties bogged down and the Bullet Farmer dead, the War Rig travels unmolested through rolling dunes. Max sleeps until he is wrenched awake by his nightmares. Furiosa calms him down and He takes advantage of this quiet moment to once more ask Furiosa about their destination.

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Fury Road Minute 75 - The creepy place with all the crows

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Like a post-apocalyptic Father Christmas, Max opens his bag of loot and gives Nux a new steering wheel for the War Rig as well as a boot to replace the one that was taken after the sandstorm. Max washes his face and the War Rig gets moving again, passing through more swampland, this time inhabited by shadowy figures atop stilts.

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Fury Road Minute 74 - That’s not his blood

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The War Rig puts some distance between it and the Peacemaker before stopping to cool off the engines. Nux and the Wives douse the engine in mother’s milk as Furiosa keeps an eye out for trouble. Through the fog, Furiosa sees explosions in the distance. Soon afterward, Max returns dragging a sack of loot taken from the Bullet Farmer.

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Fury Road Minute 73 - Retaliate first

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The War Rig has escaped the soft ground, but the Bullet Farmer still poses a danger to the wives. Max grabs some supplies and tells Furiosa to move the War Rig further down the road. She asks what they should do if He does not return. Max shrugs and tells Her to keep moving without him, and Max disappears into the night.

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Fury Road Minute 72 - Tree hugging

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With The Bullet Farmer nearly on top of them, Furiosa, Max, and Nux struggle against the mud to free the War Rig. As the Wives retreat to higher ground the tree begins to lean under the strain. With Nux behind the wheel, the War Rig pulls itself out of the mud and finally gains the higher, and drier, ground.Max climbs up to the driver’s window to find Nux overjoyed.

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Fury Road Minute 71 - Conductor of the choir of death!

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Max and Nux work together to secure the winch line around the tree on the hill, putting the chain that one connected them to good use. Meanwhile, the Bullet Farmer is moving once again, despite having been blinded. His reckless spray of gunfire sends Furiosa and the wives running for cover as they abandon retrieving the engine plates.

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Fury Road Minute 70 - Don't breathe

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Furiosa holds Nux at gunpoint, despite Capable’s protests, as Max takes the long rifle and aims at the spotlight in the distance. His aim proves unreliable so Furiosa relieves him of the responsibility and stops the Bullet Farmer in his tracks, blinding him in the process. Nux leaps from the War Rig to attach a winch line to a nearby tree.

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Fury Road Minute 69 - He means the tree

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Max and the wives push engine panels under the tanker’s wheels to help it escape the mud, but despite Furiosa’s efforts, the War Rig only sinks deeper. Furiosa descends from the War Rig with her long rifle to scope out the approaching War Lord, but the sudden movement of the War Rig and the discovery that Max isn’t driving reveals Nux’s presence and desire to help.

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Fury Road Minute 68 - Perfect in every way

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The Bullet Farmer takes off in pursuit of the War Rig leaving Immortan Joe to watch as the Organic Mechanic performs a postmortem cesarean delivery of Angharad’s child, but it’s no use and the child is dead. Elsewhere, the War Rig has once again found itself sunk into the mud leaving Max and the wives scrambling to help it escape.

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Fury Road Minute 67 - The deficit mounts

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The People Eater furiously pounds on his accounting book as he lists the resources consumed by this pursuit, but Immortan Joe is more concerned with his unborn child. He orders the Organic Mechanic to cut into Angharad’s lifeless body and retrieve the child. Anxious, The Bullet Farmer decides to leave his comrades behind and take care of Furiosa himself.

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Fury Road Minute 66 - Stuck in a quagmire

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Furiosa and The Wives work quickly to reduce the weight of the tanker while Max lays a trap for their pursuers. Before long they are on the move once more. Meanwhile, Immortan Joe’s War Parties are having trouble navigating the muddy terrain. Suddenly, Joe’s lead vehicles trip Max’s trap and the resulting explosion halts the War Party completely

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Fury Road Minute 65 - Antiseed

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Toast finishes counting the remaining ammunition and delivers the grim news that the proverbial larder is empty. The evening passes uneventfully into night but suddenly the War Rig begins sliding wildly. The ground has gone soft, and in an attempt to regain control of the tanker Max slows down and quickly sinks into the mud.

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Fury Road Minute 64 - McFeasting with the heroes of all time

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Nux continues to mourn his fall from favor with Immortan Joe, expounding on the mythology to which the War Boys adhere. Capable counters by saying that Nux may be destined for more than dying as battle fodder. Nux considers this, then reflects on his own mortality and introduces Capable to his mates, Larry and Barry.

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Fury Road Minute 63 - I was awaited in Valhalla

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While Furiosa hangs from the underside of the War Rig, tending to all of the damage sustained since leaving the Citadel, Capable discovers that she is not alone on the tanker. Nux has curled up on the floor and is wallowing in his misery at having failed the Immortan and lost his chance at entering Valhalla.

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Fury Road Minute 62 - Where is this… this Green Place?

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The sun dips low in the sky as Max drives the War Rig through the rolling dunes beyond the canyon. Knowing that the Immortan’s War Parties are likely close behind, Max asks Furiosa about their destination. She brushes him off and leaves to make repairs as Capable volunteers to keep a watch on the tanker.

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