{"id":373,"date":"2015-05-12T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/05\/12\/beyond-thunderdome-there-was-happy-feet\/"},"modified":"2015-05-12T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:57:00","slug":"beyond-thunderdome-there-was-happy-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/05\/12\/beyond-thunderdome-there-was-happy-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Thunderdome, there was Happy Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 Director George Miller returns to the post-apocalyptic Mad Max<\/i> franchise this Friday, and early reviews indicate his latest movie is a total triumph, an admittedly surprising outcome given Miller’s thirty years away from action films. That got us wondering: what else was Miller doing in the interim?<\/p>\n

If you can believe it, George Miller \u2013 the mind behind The Road Warrior<\/i> \u2013 directed Happy Feet<\/i> and Babe: Pig in the City<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Miller refused to be typecast as a filmmaker over his career. He easily could have coasted on low-rent action movies for the rest of his life after his initial successes, but he went in unusual directions, directing a television miniseries about cricket and writing family-friendly fare like Lorenzo’s Oil<\/i>. The two Happy Feet<\/i> movies were his only output since 1998, so he has been inactive lately, but we were still shocked that his CV includes so much unlike his most famous films.<\/p>\n

In anticipation of Fury Road<\/i>, walk back through some of Miller’s other films for a reminder that this director has more tricks up his sleeve than explosions: he also has talking pigs.<\/p>\n

Twilight Zone: The Movie \u2013 HU DVD 3270 <\/a>
Lorenzo’s Oil \u2013 HU DVD 3324<\/a>
Mad Max \u2013 HU DVD 6577<\/a>
The Road Warrior \u2013 HU DVD 6578<\/a>
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome \u2013 HU DVD 6579<\/a>
Babe \u2013 HU DVD 7221<\/a>
Babe: Pig in the City \u2013 HU DVD 7222<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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