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Speaker 1: Read the flick with Ben Oshe. Good morning man, Good

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Speaker 1: morning guys. Welcome. Been looking forward to hearing all about Furiosa.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we've been waiting for the backstory. Who should

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Speaker 2: we get that out of the way first?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Please, you can give me a review of this story.

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Speaker 1: So yeah.

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Speaker 2: So a couple of weeks ago, very fortunate to go

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Speaker 2: to Sydney for the Australian premiere of Furiosa, a Mad

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Speaker 2: Max Saga, the prequel to Mad Max Fury Road. I

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Speaker 2: got to speak to George Miller, the director who's been

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Speaker 2: there from the starts forty five year journey, yeah, since

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine when the first Mad Max movie came out.

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Speaker 2: I got to speak to Anya Taylor Joy, who plays Furiosa,

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Speaker 2: the character made famous by Charlie Staron in Fury Road.

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Speaker 2: And got to talk to Chris Hemsworth. So interviewed them

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Speaker 2: all fantastic and then have gone back to my hotel,

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Speaker 2: did a bit of work and thought, oh a bit bored.

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Speaker 2: Go down to the hotel gym off. I go, I'm

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Speaker 2: the only one in there doing a bit of a workout.

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Speaker 2: Next minute a Ben, look up, guess is noworth George Miller.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't you imagine, it wasn't George Miller. It was

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Speaker 2: it was Chris Hemser. So we then we chewed the

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Speaker 2: fat about we both grew up in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: We talked about mad Max, talked about some other stuff,

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Speaker 2: and then worked out side by side. It was the toughest,

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Speaker 2: toughest on the toughest workout I've ever had in my life.

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Speaker 2: Off ye, keeping up, I think more than showing. And

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Speaker 2: then I sort of you know, waves, see you later, mate,

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Speaker 2: And then I was dragging myself around the corner.

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Speaker 1: I had to go back to my hotel room.

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Speaker 2: I had a forty five minute hot bar, just hoping

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Speaker 2: that my muscles would reattach themselves to my body. Man,

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Speaker 2: it was. It was tough, but he is such a

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Speaker 2: lovely guy, and he told me that he had so

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Speaker 2: much more fun playing Dementis the villain in Furiosa, than

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Speaker 2: he does being a superhero. And you look a bit

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Speaker 2: comical you watch this movie. Dementus is hilarious. He's so

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Speaker 2: good and this is the best performance of Chris Hamsler's career.

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Speaker 2: He gives Dementus like some insecurities. This bravado there's a

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Speaker 2: bit of nuance there. He's funny but also evil, like,

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Speaker 2: he's believable as a funny guy and believable as a

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Speaker 2: pretty dastardly guy as well.

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Speaker 1: Really good, really really good, very good. And so to

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Speaker 1: get you up to speed, by the way, this story

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Speaker 1: got five bicep.

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Speaker 2: For five more than I had attached to my arms

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Speaker 2: at the end of it. And so this film is

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Speaker 2: a prequel to Fury Road, which came out in twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 2: and is also probably one of the most challenging things

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Speaker 2: that audiences will find with Furio. So so Fury Road

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Speaker 2: was incredible.

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Speaker 1: Why do they make these things in order? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I think the problem.

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Speaker 2: The problem was it took a while to make this

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Speaker 2: other movie, and George Miller, the director, realized Charlie's thereon

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Speaker 2: is getting a bit older, and so I know, I know,

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Speaker 2: and as time has going from past so physical nine

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Speaker 2: Jeorge Miller and so, and he looked at the aging

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Speaker 2: technology and just just he didn't like it. And he thought, well,

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Speaker 2: maybe maybe we'll rethink this and we'll do a prequel.

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Speaker 2: And because you don't really learn much about Furiosa in

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Speaker 2: Fury Road, you know that she you know fights for good.

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Speaker 2: You don't know much about her backstory. You know she's

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Speaker 2: missing an arm, and the good news is you find

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Speaker 2: out how she loses that arm in this movie and

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Speaker 2: it's pretty thanks the wa and so so that movie

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Speaker 2: was such a hit. It was huge at the box office.

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Speaker 2: And also like for me, it's one of the top

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Speaker 2: five action movies I've ever seen. It is a phenomenally

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Speaker 2: good movie. It was shot in the Namibian desert instead

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Speaker 2: of the mad Max Heartland of Broken Heel in New

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Speaker 2: South Wales because of because of rainfall, Like there was

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Speaker 2: a wildflower bloom when they were trying to make it,

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Speaker 2: and George Miller walked out of his hotel a minute.

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Speaker 2: In a minute, this is supposed to be a world

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Speaker 2: there's no water and there's a dystopian. We can't have

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Speaker 2: these pretty wild flowers. So I went to Namibian desert.

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Speaker 2: Most of it was made with practical effects the film.

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Speaker 2: That film was set over three days, and it's so bonkers.

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Speaker 2: It's just one action sequence after the next, and so

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Speaker 2: compared to that kind of breakneck pace, Furiosa might initially

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Speaker 2: just watched Fury Road. You come to this new film

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm not sure about it, but you've got

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Speaker 2: And the whole point is to get a pile on

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Speaker 2: the trauma of this character, Furiosa, played by first by

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Speaker 2: Alia Brown the young kid, and then by Anya Taylor

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Speaker 2: Joy when she's an adult, and just like one bad

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Speaker 2: thing happens to her after another, and most of them

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Speaker 2: are done by Chris Hemsworth's character Dementis, who's a warlord

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Speaker 2: who's in charge of a horde of bikers and he

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Speaker 2: read at one point he rides a chariot of like choppers,

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Speaker 2: like chopper motorbike. He's standing in a chariot with rains.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how it works, and in none other

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Speaker 2: saying he's in this six wheeler monster truck and the

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Speaker 2: cab ism The vehicles are just insane. And the film

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Speaker 2: sort of follows like Furiosa's journey as she sort of

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Speaker 2: deals with all this trauma and.

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Speaker 1: Then of course she wants vengeance, and.

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Speaker 2: Then that's what it's all about she wants vengeance on dementis,

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter how many years go past. It

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Speaker 2: just that sort of desire for revenge just burns hotter

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Speaker 2: and hotter and hotter, and then you know, we get

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Speaker 2: to see what happens as the film unfoults. It's I

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Speaker 2: think the film is brilliant, but it's not perfect. It's

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Speaker 2: got Tom Burke, the English actor who does a pretty

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Speaker 2: good Aussie accent, because of course mad Max is Australian.

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Speaker 1: Said in Australia.

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Speaker 2: He plays a sort of a mentor of a young furiosa.

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Speaker 2: But that relationship is so ambiguous it doesn't feel very authentic.

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Speaker 2: You can't work out if it's a romance, if it's

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Speaker 2: a mentor situation. And so there are some stuff that

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Speaker 2: of doesn't have as much power as it could because

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Speaker 2: the Bird character is not perfect. Okay, also because it's

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Speaker 2: you know, a bit slower than Fury Road, that is

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Speaker 2: probably something else that audiences might find a little bit challenging.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mumble like, oh my gosh, what a mumbler

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Speaker 2: that guy is. And then right at the end, of

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Speaker 2: the film, they decide to have like a like a

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Speaker 2: literal recap of Fury Road, like actual footage from Fury Road,

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Speaker 2: like for a little like three minute recap, which, to

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Speaker 2: feels like it takes some of the impact away from

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Speaker 2: the conclusion. So that aside, like this is a spectacular

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Speaker 2: movie visually, it's a you know, another George Miller masterpiece.

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Speaker 2: Some of these some of these scenes which were shot

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Speaker 2: just amazing. The cast is all really really good and

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Speaker 2: if you get into Mad Max, you will love this film.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's a film that Australians should be

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Speaker 2: proud of. The most expensive movie ever made down Under

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Speaker 2: and it's it's going to be huge around the world,

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Speaker 2: and it's so ozzy and I think that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And you interviewed Anya. I heard a bit aloof

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Speaker 1: for he. She it's just just a different kind of character.

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Speaker 2: She's a different kind of person. She sort of floats

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Speaker 2: through the world. She's sort of this ephemeral character. But

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Speaker 2: she was lovely to talk to. And she is brilliant

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Speaker 2: in this movie. Gosh, she's never really done this type

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Speaker 1: So good.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, how many I can still play chess

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Speaker 2: with one arms?

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Speaker 1: I like what I'm going to give it for very good.

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Speaker 1: They look like they're having way too much front Maker Samsworth,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he's having so much funny. He's brilliant.

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Speaker 1: You mean my mate, Chris, mate Chris, and you get

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Speaker 1: to talk to George. What a trio? Well done, fantastic

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Speaker 1: you guys