Dear Hollywood: Isn’t it amazing how Fury Road’s Max is a tough-as-nails, guilt-ridden, distrustful lone wolf with a dark past and the movie manages to convey that without having him treat everyone he meets like crap?
Does this mean you never really needed to write your ‘edgy’ antiheroes as abusive assholes after all?? That maybe you could have given them ‘emotional complexity’ without resorting to lazy, thinly-veiled power fantasies about white dudes who treat everyone else as inferior??? Thoughts????
