Filming Mad Max in China

The reporters' confusion was plain for Lin Yuan to see.

The Mad Max series had a style so intense it was almost absurd, completely at odds with every film Lin Yuan had made before.

In Lin Yuan's films, he had always appeared as a polished gentleman—gentle as jade, or, in Western terms, a man in a suit.

The public had long grown accustomed to Lin Yuan's clean-cut, handsome, sunny image.

But Mad Max...

This was a wasteland film.

Since it was set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, there was no way he could maintain his old image.

But that was exactly what Lin Yuan wanted.

After so many films with similar lead-character images, even brilliant action scenes that surpassed their predecessors could not fully make up for the audience's growing aesthetic fatigue.

Lin Yuan hoped to shed his former gentlemanly image and fully display his wild side.

What was more, Mad Max 4: Fury Road was a rare action masterpiece.

Its story was roughly this:

In a post-apocalyptic world where resources had been exhausted, the tyrant Immortan Joe controlled the water supply and the army.

Immortan Joe's trusted female commander, Furiosa, defected and fled with his five wives.

The solitary drifter Max was drawn into the escape and joined forces with Furiosa against Immortan Joe's frenzied pursuit, launching a life-or-death vehicular battle across the wasteland.

The story looked simple, but the film was exceptional in both its outward presentation and its inner core.

It built a one-of-a-kind wasteland aesthetic: orange-yellow deserts, bizarre oases, metal-punk modified vehicles. Every frame looked like an apocalyptic oil painting.

In Lin Yuan's view, its visuals were no worse than those of Hero.

As for filming, eighty percent of the stunts were done practically, reducing reliance on CGI. The vehicle chases, explosions, and hand-to-hand combat all carried