Miller's alleged "breakdown" during the filming of FR

[seriz]

"FURY ROAD is 100% George Miller"



I 100% disagree with that. Miller didn't do the storyboards on his own, he didn't edit the film on his own.
A movie is a collaborative piece of work. And this idea is a the center of the KMM system since Mad Max 2. There is no "visionnary genius" with his team behind him to serve his vision. There's a director/production who hired a great team to build a collective piece of work. The story was imagined and written by several people. The cars were designed and built by many people, the story is the result of the imagination of Miller, the concept artists and the stunties...
During the 80's, Miller or Hayes were very adamant about that: they didn't believe in the "politique des auteurs", the Truffaut's theory. It was a little bit "forgotten" after the 90's, after KMM lost a little bit of its grandeur. I would say after the first Babe and the issues between Miller and Noonan. So, of course Mad Max 3 is a Miller's movie, of course Dead Calm is a Noyce's film or Babe is a Noonan's film, but before that, they're KMM movies. (Maybe only KMM Duigan's movies are a little bit apart).
Fury Road was made this way, as a collaborative piece of work. It's not 100% Miller, it is 100% KMM!
And, at the end of the day, we can search for who directed that scene, or who's idea it is, who came up with the idea of the Gigahorse or who found the idea of the V8 sign... but Fury Road remains a very collaborative work.
Guy Norris is the stunt coordinator, and the second unit director, and to be SC or SUD on Fury Road, that was quite something, with such a huge responsability.... so when you're in charge of that on a movie like FR, maybe we could see Norris as a co-author of the movie. So, saying Fury Road is 100% Miller seems very wrong to me, because it was such a collaborative process, and because this process was, since almost the begining, the core of the company. The idea of a "visionnary genius who decide all alone of the creation" is bullshit. Come on, we, more or less, all know that Miller has huge, huge issues with taking decisions, and needs sometimes people to tell him: "no please, no George, no please don't do that!" ah ah ah. This "visionnary genius", it's just a stupid catchphrase for the trailers and posters. Maybe "From the visionnary studio who brought you 40 years of great aussie classics" would have been a little bit more accurate.

(PS : this collaborative work, you can see it working on the behind the scene videos of the shooting of Mad Max 2. On Lesnie's footage for exemple, I don't say it was "co-directing", but you can see how important was Pat Clayton... Another exemple is Mad Max 3. How many times did we read this 100% bullshit info : Miller hired Ogilvie to co-direct Mad Max 3 because he was grieving Kennedy. Bullshit. It's just bad and lazy journalism. A mistake easily corrected by a quick research and a little knowledge about what was Kennedy Miller at that time. Ogilvie was the guy who brought to Miller and Hayes (and KM) this idea of a collaborative work. The fact they shared the direction of the movie was, in a way, the highlight of this process).

[Uncle Entity]

"FURY ROAD is 100% George Miller"

Sorry Seriz, you got it wrong. I meant: Miller is the only DIRECTOR. He is the director of the movie. That's a fact.
Then, I agree with you: there are dozens and dozens of talents involved in FR. That's fine. That happened in MM1, MM2 and MM3 too.
But nobody in the world can steal the credit of the DIRECTION from George Miller. He's the absolute orchestra leader of FR.

[seriz]

Of course, nobody will steal Miller's credit. No worries about that.

I was just reacted to this sentence : "FURY ROAD is 100% George Miller. He storyboarded the entire movie. He called the shots. He supervised the editing."