Furiosa Director George Miller: Climax Might Not Have Worked Without Chris Hemsworth Playing Villain
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a rip-roaring and action-packed picture that’s dense with spectacle despite running a robust 2 hours and 28 minutes in length. Over that time we experience a series of key moments in the life of Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy), most of which involve violent run-ins with a warlord called Dementus (Chris Hemsworth). Dementus is the reason why, at the beginning of the film, Furiosa has to leave the place of abundance she was born to, and she took that personally.
There are very, very light spoilers for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ahead.
But after two hours of action, the film slows down for its climax–Furiosa’s final encounter with Dementus is not another epic, over-the-top sequence, but instead they have a bit of a heart-to-heart for this final stage of their decades-long war of wills.