That a 70 - year
old director (last
spotted making movies about chatty
pigs and tap - dancing penguins) and his 18 - years - in - the - making developmental hell ride was able to bitchslap Hollywood's collective noggins to a state of fire and blood; that he nonchalantly subverted gender normativity with warrior - bitch Furiosa (Charlize Theron); that he afforded the oft misused Nicholas Hoult the supporting character of a lifetime as cancer - slave Nux and had him deliver 2015's best dialogue to shout at strangers («I live.