1) Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road)
In a time when audiences dread seeing Spider-Man’s origin story for a third time and Fantastic Four kind of sucked…a lot…franchise reboots have become a thing to be feared. Thank god then for Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller’s triumphant return to the franchise he kick started over thirty years ago.
Miller took audiences by surprise with Fury Road, creating a relentless post-apocalyptic nightmare that had the adrenaline pumping from the get go. What was most shocking about the film though was exactly how important Charlize Theron’s character was to the final product. Furiosa owned Fury Road from the moment she arrived onscreen, immediately stealing the focus away from Tom Hardy’s Max and generally kicking ass throughout.
Furiosa owned it like no other woman on the silver screen this summer. Not only did she play a pivotal role in fighting off the gangs, but she did it all with relative ease, overcoming a physical disability that could have easily turned her into a pitiable character. Furiosa’s capabilities shine in a standout scene halfway through where Max fails to make a long-distance shot and hands the gun over to her instead.
Bizarrely, instances like this provoked a number of presumably lobotomized men to argue that Fury Road was promoting a dangerous feminist agenda and that men everywhere should boycott the film. One website called Return of Kings argued that the trailer was duping male viewers with its propaganda, long before the film was actually released,
If a character like Furiosa can enrage ignorant morons like these, then the team behind Fury Road obviously did something right.
Tell us, what do you think of these ten kick ass women? Did we miss out any other important characters from this years blockbuster season? And when the hell will Black Widow finally receive her own solo movie? Sound off in the comments section below.
