5. The Feminist Angle Was Cemented By Script Pass From Eve Ensler
The latest Mad Max already had something of a reputation before it hit cinemas, with early reports suggesting Tom Hardy's eponymous character was pushed into the background in favour of Charlize Theron's Imperator Furiosa and that there was a strong vein of feminism running through the film's plot and main themes. That was enough to get Men's Rights Activists in a tizzy, wondering how an "American classic" (Mad Max is Australian) could be ruined by idiotic Hollywood execs (it's made by the same director as the rest of them). They would have been even more livid if they knew that the writer of The Vagina Monologues worked on the film. Eve Ensler has
some significant issues herself, but getting a prominent second-wave feminist
to look over the script and suggest some changes according to her own, real-life experience with sex slaves certainly imbued the film with a degree of realism when it comes to the fate of Immortan Joe's wives.