skeleton-tiddies:

hullabaloon:

I don’t think there are many directors who can claim to be as versatile as George Miller

ok but this doesnt even scratch the surface of George Miller, Dr Director.

before getting into making huge fucking films, george miller spent his time getting a medical doctorate to become an emergency room physician, only to make a one off experimental film in his final year of med school that won a student competition and apparently got him to go “oh i can have TWO careers!”

while working as a doctor full time, he would crew on whatever experimental short films were happening in the area, until he got enough money to found the kennedy miller productions company with his friend and frequent film partner byron kennedy. they stuck to short films for several years, before miller decided eh fuck it and did Mad Max.

he remained a working physician all the way through mad max 2, both for covering filming costs, and because you’re required to have a doctor on set for films, so he was like oh hey ill handle that then.

after that he was on a rollercoaster of bigger films, mostly action, horror, or black comedy.

in the early 90s he had some kids which apparently was an OH NO MY KIDS CANT WATCH ANY OF MY FILMS moment, leading him to want to try his hand at children’s films for a while–turns out his favorite film of all time is friggin PINOCCHIO. he primarily worked on those while raising his kids, before heading back to mad max. and, yes, he is still usually the first doctor on set who treats people during breaks.