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Mar 25, 2024 · Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga delves into the tragedy of the Green Place, showing its significance before Fury Road . The prequel reveals the downfall of the lush oasis, contrasting Furiosa's childhood memories with its current state. Furiosa's journey showcases her devastating loss, making the Green Place tragedy in Fury Road more poignant. Furiosa ...
- Kate Bove
- Senior Writer
- What Was The “Green Place”?
- Who Lives There Now?
- Why The Green Place’s Destruction Matters
- What This Means For Mad Max
Long before the events of Fury Road (and presumably before the unseen apocalypse as it occurs in the Mad Max universe), the Green Place was a still-fertile section of land located outside what later became the Citadel. The Vuvalini inhabited the area for an indeterminate period before the events of Fury Road, during which they cultivated crops on t...
Since the area is now merely a fetid bog, very little life can be sustained by the so-called Green Place. As a result, few inhabitants of the Green Place are seen during the events of Fury Road, but there are some (presumably pretty mutated) humans who manage to eke out a miserable existence in the setting. Just about glimpsed during a brief sequen...
Although the Green Place is in effect a MacGuffin early on in Fury Road, giving the protagonists a goal to chase without actually being of vital plot importance itself, the area later takes on an important metaphorical meaning within the Mad Max universe. As a promised land inhabited by the matriarchal Vuvalini of Many Mothers, the Green Place is p...
The continuity of theMad Max movies is notoriously hard to pin down, with the end of the world occurring at some point between the end of the original 1979 movie and the first sequel The Road Warrior. It’s similarly unclear whether the free flow of water at the close of Fury Road means that the Green Place may become inhabitable again as the normal...
- Senior Staff Writer
- Sapa Valley, Vietnam. Nestled in Vietnam's northern mountains, Sapa dazzles with emerald rice paddies dotted across undulating green hills. It's the place Vietnam travelers go to get away from it all, be it overnight trekking from village to village or taking the 15-minute funicular up the country's tallest mountain — Fansipan.
- Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica. It's hard to have a list of the greenest places in the world without rain forest-packed Costa Rica — and Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula is about as green as it gets.
- Tegallalang Rice Terrace, Bali. Situated near Ubud, one of Bali's most densely forested towns, the UNESCO World Heritage Tegallalang Rice Terrace oscillates from chartreuse to hunter green, then back again, creating one of Indonesia's most calming and captivating landscapes.
- Val d'Orcia, Italy. Italy's travel experiences span the color wheel, from deep red wines to the rainbow-hued Cinque Terre. But if you're looking for a full spectrum of greens, bookmark Tuscany's Val d'Orcia, a region that stretches south from Siena to northeast of the mountain Monte Amiata.
Apr 18, 2023 · 18 April, 2023. Public Health & Safety. Share. Orange County leaders and community partners created the Green PLACE (Park Land Acquisition for Conservation and Environmental Protection) Program a little over three decades ago as an initiative to preserve, enhance and restore environmentally sensitive lands.
