I rewatched (part of) Fury Road with some friends online yesterday and something that was really jarring, not having seen the old Mad Max movies, and not just because of the current *gestures*, is Max opening by saying he was a cop before the apocalypse.
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Like I think it mattered more in one of the previous films, from what I've heard, but it seems really weird in the contemporary version of both fictional and real apocalypses. It's not even so much the morality thing, since apocalypse heroes usually have dark pasts.
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It's just that nothing Max does in Fury Road reads like the way even a hypothetical "good cop" thinks or behaved. And his skills (of blood rage and being surprisingly cooperative with battered women) are not cop things either.
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It's supposed to be a statement about how much both he and the world around him have changed, that the thought of him having been a cop and a respectable middle class family man is impossible
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