Mad Max: Fury Road © 2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Transcript by MFP 2020
Mad Max: Fury Road
Written by George Miller and Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris
Copyright © 2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Max Rockatansky: (VO) My name is Max. My world is fire and blood.
[Various voices, accents]
Man #1: (VO) Why are you hurting these people?
Man #2: (VO) It’s the oil, stupid.
Man #3: (VO) Oil wars.
Man #4: (VO) We are killing for guzzoline.
Woman: (VO, echoing) Guzzoline.
Woman #2: (VO) The world is actually running out of water.
Woman #3: (VO) Now there’s the water wars (water wars).
Max: Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause.
Man #5: (VO) …to the terminal freak-out point—
Man #6: (VO) Mankind has gone rogue, terrorizing itself.
Robotic Voice: (VO) …thermonuclear skirmish.
Woman #4: (VO) The Earth is sour.
Woman #5: (VO) Our bones are poisoned.
Woman #6: (VO) We have become half-life.
Max: (VO) As the world fell, each of us, in our own way, was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy: me or everyone else.
Glory the Child: (VO) Hello? Where are you?
Glory the Child: (VO) Where are you, Max?
Woman: (VO, whispering) Max Rockatansky…
Max: (VO) Here they come again. Worming their way into the black matter of my brain.
Glory the Child: (VO, whispering) Help us, Max.
Woman: (VO, whispering) You promised to help us.
Max: (VO) I tell myself they cannot touch me. They are long dead.
(War Boys whooping)
War Boy: After him!
War Boy: After him!
War Boy: Now!
Max: (VO) I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead. Hunted by scavengers. Haunted by those I could not protect.
Max: (VO) So I exist in this wasteland…a man reduced to a single instinct: Survive.
(War Boys yelling)
War Boy: Come on! Come on!
Glory the Child: Max? Is that you? Where were you?
Glory the Child: Help us. Where were you? Help us, Max. Where were you, Max? Help us!
Glory the Child: Help us, Max! Stop running, Max! Stop running!
The Accusing Dead (aboriginal man): You let us die.
The Accusing Dead (man): You let us die!
The Accusing Dead (woman): You let us die!
Glory the Child: You promised to help us! Why?
Falling War Boy: Witness!
War Boy: I’ve got him!
[Title: MAD MAX Fury Road]
Chanting War Boy: We are War Boys!
War Boys: War Boys!
Chanting War Boy: Kamakrazee War Boys!
War Boys: War Boys!
Chanting War Boy: Fucucima kamakrazee War Boys!
The Ace: Hooked on!
The Ace: Today we’re heading to Gas Town.
War Boys: Gas Town!
The Ace: Today we’re hauling Aqua Cola.
War Boys: Aqua Cola!
The Ace: Today we’re hauling produce.
War Boys: Produce!
The Ace: And today we’re hauling mother’s milk.
War Boys: Mother’s milk!
The Wretched: Joe! Joe! Joe! Immortan Joe!
The Prime Imperator: Rev it up for the Immortan Joe!
Immortan Joe: Once again we send off my War Rig to bring back guzzoline from Gas Town and bullets from the Bullet Farm. Once again I salute my Imperator Furiosa and I salute my half-life War Boys who will ride with me eternal on the highways of Valhalla.
War Boys: V8! V8! V8! V8!
Immortan Joe: I am your redeemer. It is by my hand you will rise from the ashes of this world!
Old man with binoculars: I- It’s comin’. Get ready.
Woman: Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s coming.
Immortan Joe: Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.
The Winchman: Clear off! Get ‘em all off! Clear off!
Rictus Erectus: Signal Gas Town! Convoy’s on its way!
The Organic Mechanic: I got a War Boy runnin’ on empty. Hook up that full-life.
The Organic Mechanic: Hey, careful! That’s a universal donor.
The Ace: Boss, we’re not going to Gas Town? Bullet Farm?
Imperator Furiosa: We’re heading east.
The Ace: I’ll pass it down the line.
The Ace: New orders! Thunder up! Thunder up! This is not a supply run!
The Ace: Go! Go!
War Boy: Ace!
The Ace: Go!
War Boy: What’s going on?
The Ace: We’re heading east.
War Boy: Why?
The Ace: I don’t know. That’s the order.
Rictus Erectus: Moo.
Corpus Colossus: Hey, Pa. You know about this?
Immortan Joe: Hm?
Corpus Colossus: Your produce ain’t going to Gas Town.
Corpus Colossus: She’s gone off-road. Into hostile territory.
Rictus Erectus: Why would she do that, Dad?
Rictus Erectus: Let me see, let me see!
Corpus Colossus: Rictus!
Rictus Erectus: I wanna see!
Corpus Colossus: Rictus, go see what’s agitatin’ Dad!
Immortan Joe: Splendid! Angharad?
Immortan Joe: Where are they?
Miss Giddy: They are not your property!
Immortan Joe: Miss Giddy!
Miss Giddy: You cannot own a human being. Sooner or later, someone pushes back.
Immortan Joe: Where is she taking them?
Miss Giddy: She didn’t take them; they begged her to go!
Immortan Joe: Where is she taking them?
Miss Giddy: A long way from you!
Nux: Hey, what’s happening?
Nux: Slit! What’s going on? Slit!
War Boy: Treason! Betrayal! An Imperator gone rogue!
Nux: An Imperator! Who?
War Boy: Furiosa. She took a lot of stuff from Immortan Joe.
Nux: What stuff?
War Boy: Breeders. His prize breeders. He wants them back. Not a hand laid on ‘em.
Slit: By my deeds I honor him. V8.
War Boys: V8! V8! V8!
Nux: That’s my wheel!
Slit: I’m driving!
Nux: You’re my lancer!
Slit: I just promoted myself.
Nux: No. Not today. Today is my day.
Slit: Look at you! If you can’t stand up, you can’t do war!
The Organic Mechanic: He’s right, son.
Nux: I’m not staying here dying soft.
The Organic Mechanic: Ah, you’re already a corpse.
Nux: I just need a top-up. Some more juice—
Slit: There’s no time!
Nux: We take my blood bag! We take my blood bag and strap him to the lancer’s perch.
Slit: It’s got a muzzle on it. It’s a raging feral!
Nux: That’s right: high-octane crazy blood fillin’ me up.
Nux: If I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die historic on the Fury Road.
Slit: Yeah! Yeah! Organic!
The Organic Mechanic: Yeah?
Slit: Hitch up his blood bag.
The Organic Mechanic: Right-o.
War Boys: (yelling, indistinct)
Max: Ah! How much more can they take from me? They’ve got my blood; now it’s my car!
Nux: Immortan! Immortan Joe!
Nux: Ah! He looked at me! He looked right at me!
Slit: He looked at your blood bag!
Nux: He turned his head, he looked me straight in the eye!
Slit: He was scanning the horizon!
Nux: No. I am awaited. I am awaited in Valhalla!
Max: Confucamus!
Nux: Immortan! Yaaaaaa!
Morsov: Hey! Heads up! Heads up!
The Ace: Boss! We got vehicles from the Citadel. They’re firing flares. They want reinforcements from Gas Town and the Bullet Farm. What is this—backup? Decoy?
Furiosa: It’s a detour.
Buzzard 1: [Russian] What’s this War Rig doing on our patch!?
Buzzard 2: [Russian] Foolish…but welcome.
Furiosa: Eyes right!
The Ace: Buzzards! Buzzards right, eyes on, eyes on!
War Boy: Buzzards right! Eyes on! Ready!
The Ace: Should we turn it ‘round and run ‘em into our backup?
Furiosa: No. We’re good. We fang it!
The Ace: Thunder up! Here we go!
War Boy: Prepare the gunners!
War Boy: They’re coming!
War Boy: Morsov!
War Boy: Come on, attack!
War Boy: War!
The Ace: Ready!
Nux: She’s ours, Slit! She’s ours!
Slit: First we get the Buzzards off her back!
Nux: Form up!
Slit: (grunting)
Max: That’s my head!
War Boy: Ahh!*
Buzzard: Лови! [Catch!]
Nux: Get up! You can do it!
The Ace: Morsov!
War Boys: Morsov! No!
Morsov: Witness me!
War Boys: Witness him! Witness! Morsov!
Slit: Fly!
Nux: Witness!
War Boys: Witness!
Slit: Mediocre, Morsov! Mediocre!
War Boy: Hurrah!
Rolls War Boy: Ready!
War Boy: Get ready!
Slit: Back me in!
War Boys: Come on! They’re coming!
The Splendid Angharad: We can’t breathe down there!
Furiosa: Stay out of sight! Now!
War Boy: Go back!
(War Boys yelling)
The Ace: Hydraulics! Hydraulics!
Slit: Yeah!
Slit: Now we bring home the booty!
Rictus Erectus: She thinks she can lose us, Dad! She thinks we’re stupid. She thinks she can lose us in there!
Slit: Fang it! Fang it!
The Ace: Why can’t you stop?
Nux: Crew, out of the way! Out of the way!
The Ace: What have you done? What have you done?
Max: (sine voce) For fuck’s sake!
Nux: We need counterweight! Get the blood bag down the back!
Gigahorse Imperator: Hunker down! Hunker down!**
Slit: Hey, head: Say bye-bye to the neck! Decapito!
Nux: We’re going in, Slit!
War Boy: Come on, we’ve almost got her!
War Boy: Come on! Hold it steady!
Nux: Oh, what a day! What a lovely day!
Nux: I am the man who grabs the sun…riding to Valhalla! Witness me, Blood Bag! Witness!
Nux: I live! I die! I live again!
Splendid: We’re not going back.
Max: Water.
Max: You.
The Dag: Angharad. Is that just the wind, or is that a furious vexation?
Nux: I got it!
Nux: Glory me, Blood Bag. We snagged her alive. He’s going to shred her. Shred her!
Max: Bolt cutters. Chain. Hey, hey!
Nux: Oh, look at them. So shiny, so chrome. He’s gonna be so grateful. We could ask for a