Mad Max Fury Road The Real Reason Nux Leaves The War Boys

Mad Max Fury Road: The Real Reason Nux Leaves The War Boys

When Mad Max: Fury Road’s War Boy Nux joined Furiosa in the fight against Immortan Joe, the twist was not a plothole as it may have initially seemed.

You Are Reading :[thien_display_title]

Mad Max Fury Road The Real Reason Nux Leaves The War Boys

When the surprisingly sympathetic War Boy Nux chooses to align himself with Max and Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, the decision is not as much of a plothole as it initially seems. Mad Max: Fury Road’s propulsive action leaves little room for plotholes in its fast-paced story, but one that annoyed some viewers was Nux’s sudden decision to abandon his villainous cult the War Boys and switch to Max and Furiosa’s side. However, the decision is rooted in Nux’s character and more than explained by a close re-watch of Mad Max: Fury Road.

Throughout the Mad Max franchise, the series grows gradually more morally ambiguous in terms of its villains. The original Mad Max’s cartoony villain Toecutter is a completely reprehensible monster, an unambiguous fiend who takes almost cartoonishly gleeful pleasure in murdering Max’s wife and child. In contrast, the primary villains of The Road Warrior (Lord Humungus and Wes) both originally had sympathetic backstories that were excised in the finished film, while Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome featured not one, but two sympathetic anti-villains with understandable motives. While its belated followup Fury Road did feature a monstrous villain in the form of cult leader Immortan Joe, the character’s former acolyte Nux provided Mad Max’s most sympathetic anti-villain so far.

Played by Nicholas Hoult, Nux was a childish member of Immortan Joe’s cult of War Boys whose relative innocence did not stop him from being a dangerous villain at first. The chrome-spraying War Boys were the muscle of Immortan Joe’s evil enterprise, and the crazed followers of the cult leader were willing to kill and be killed per the villain’s instruction. As such, it may seem unlikely on first watch that anyone indoctrinated into a cult from birth would leave after only a day away from his fellow War Boys. However, Nux’s child-like innocence, combined with Immortan Joe’s hasty disavowal of him early in Fury Road, makes it believable that the War Boy would ally with Max and Furiosa.

See also  90 Day Fiancé Tania Reveals Relationship Status With Syngin In Date Post

By not killing him immediately upon encountering him, Max and Furiosa already showed Nux more mercy than Immortan Joe and the War Boys ever did. The group’s fascist ideology favors strength and domination so much that Nux’s failure to kill Max saw him essentially excommunicated by the War Boys, meaning he knows there is no future for him should he return to Immortan Joe. Not only that but, by becoming close with one of Immortan Joe’s many “wives,” Nux is introduced to a level of empathy that is never found among the War Boys, further explaining his turn.

In metaphorical terms, this Mad Max: Fury Road plot point also highlights that victims of even the most extreme indoctrination can be reintegrated into normal society. Thus, Mad Max: Fury Road offers a less hopeless idea of villainy than both Mad Max and The Road Warrior (something more in line with Beyond Thunderdome’s ultimately innocent Blaster). Where earlier movies in the franchise saw the hero solve his problems by blasting villains to pieces, Mad Max: Fury Road proves that some villains can be redeemed through an introduction to a kinder worldview (while the rest are still blasted to pieces).

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/mad-max-fury-road-nux-war-boys-plot-hole/

Movies -