Happy Pride from the Doof Warrior. While many of Miller’s memories about making Fury Road were included in the official interview, NYT reporter Kyle Buchanan shared via his Twitter one anecdote which didn’t make it to print: Warner Bros. wanted Miller and his team to cut the Doof Warrior from the movie. On film Twitter (the circle of Twitter occupied by cinephiles and critics) a post praising the post-apocalyptic action epic goes viral every other day. The Doof Warrior is also just cool, an entertaining figure who resembles no one else in film history. He fleshes out the world without ever saying a line of dialogue. Strapped to the front of a truck with a series of whipping bungee cables, the Doof Warrior is a blind wastrel with a guitar held in his long, pale hands. The Doof Warrior’s fate is left open by Miller. So do audiences, who immediately grafted onto the character and turned the Doof Warrior into one of the most famous parts of the movie (with multiple references and parodies of the character quickly forming in various shows and movies). After a massive world war wiped out much of humanity and mutated many of the survivors, Immortan Joe was one of the warlords who were able to take power in the wasteland. KEEP READING: Tom Hardy Says There Will Be More Mad Max Movies. But, on the occasion of the movie’s five-year anniversary, director George Miller has revealed there was one character almost didn’t make it per feedback from folks at Warner Bros. — and it’s unthinkable which character almost got the boot. He wears a mask over his head made of his mother's face. A couple people at the studio said, ‘Oh, we’ve got to drop the Doof Warrior.’ I said, ‘No no, it’s way too early to even think of that,'” and went on to say that, once the Junkie XL score was added into the movie, the decision to keep the character stuck and Miller was vindicated, recalling how the Doof Warrior “became one of the most popular characters in the film.”, “A couple people at the studio said, ‘Oh, we've got to drop the Doof Warrior.” I said, ‘No no, it's way too early to even think of that.’” Once the Junkie XL score was added to the cut, Miller’s instincts proved correct: “He became one of the most popular characters in the film.”, — Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) May 15, 2020. pic.twitter.com/jYob4l3HSj, — Ashley “Apocalypse Then” Lynch (@ashleylynch) June 3, 2019, Day 1- The Doof Warrior from Mad Max:Fury Road pic.twitter.com/zm2s67eeq8, — Armani (@historyofarmani) October 1, 2017. But while Miller draws on imagery that we all share, he never tries to make such imagery specific. He's a character that could only exist in the Mad Max universe, and he's perfectly fitted there. ‘Enola Holmes’ Ending Explained: Mystery Solved, Every Dang 'SNL' Season Is Coming to Peacock. Music All hail the guitar-wielding Doof Warrior. Not in an academic way. RELATED: Mad Max: George Miller Is Already Working on the Franchise's Next Film. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Director: George Miller Cinematographer: John Seale pic.twitter.com/MbnOcBTVNH, — Cinematic Artistry (@Cinemartistry) May 6, 2020. Henry Cavill on ‘Enola Holmes’ and Getting His Muscles Into a Three-Piece Suit, Samuel L. Jackson to Play Nick Fury in a New Marvel Series for Disney+, The Highest-Grossing Movies of the 21st Century So Far, Ranked, The Top 10 Most Popular TV Shows on Netflix Right Now, ‘The Boys’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: The One With the Really Big Dick. Rebecca Shaw, Culture He’s more like set-dressing; a tiny flourish of world-building that director George Miller uses sparingly, to heighten the tension of a film that foregoes dialogue and emotional nuance for sheer, non-stop spectacle. Strapped to the front of a truck with a series of whipping bungee cables, the Doof Warrior is a blind wastrel with a guitar held in his long, pale hands. All the latest gaming news, game reviews and trailers. Within about three seconds of meeting him, we learn that his guitar shoots great plumes of fire. A dirty rag across his eyes, he’s a series of thin lines bundled up against one another, like a hovel built out of twigs. When and if audiences can return to the world of Mad Max and Furiosa, hopefully, there will be an encore performance from the Doof Warrior as well. Get Your Hands on Hasbro's Replica of Spenglers' Neutrona Wand From 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife'. They’re signifiers. Michelle Rennex, Culture That makes it very different to most modern Hollywood blockbusters. The Doof Warrior doesn't really do much in Mad Max: Fury Road besides ride a speaker truck with a fire-spewing guitar in hand and kick out some face …