What does shiny and chrome mean?

The more violent their death, the more glorious the afterlife will supposedly be, so in their dying moments, they spray paint their faces "shiny and chrome" and ask their brothers to "witness" their deaths.
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Do you ride shiny and chrome?

My name is Max. Immortan Joe: Return my treasures to me, and I myself will carry you through the gates of Valhalla. You shall ride eternal. Shiny, and chrome!
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What is the Chrome stuff in Mad Max?

The "chrome spray" is a drug called Night Fume. Nux mentions Night Fume in passing when the redhead finds him lying down at the back of the trailer. She finds him sweating and shaking, both symptoms of withdrawal.
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Why do they spray chrome in Mad Max?

Most prominently, near death War Boys will huff chrome spray paint in their final moments to enter into a dissociative high that will lead them on the road to Valhalla, and give them cool chrome coloured teeth and mouth.
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Why did they spray silver in Mad Max?

Mad Max IS visual storytelling at its best. The spray could be their ritual before they commit suicide (enter Valhalla) and perhaps they use it to mark their bodies so they can be identified when they enter their next life.
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What is mother's milk Mad Max?

Mother's Milk is milk gathered from female humans via makeshift milkers. The women hooked up to them, possibly Breeders, are seen with dolls in place of infants. The War Rig had some on board, as revealed when they were stuck in the swamp.
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Why does Immortan Joe wear the mask?

He seems to have respiratory problems but due to his rank in society, he breathes clean air through a respirator mask (decorated with horse teeth to resemble a skeletal jaw) connected to a large breathing apparatus (resembling bellows) worn on his shoulders.
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What is a black thumb Mad Max?

Nux is called a "blackthumb", aka a mechanic. The term itself stems from the fact that mechanics often have their hands and fingers covered in mechanical grease all the time.
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What is Valhalla Mad Max?

Valhalla (possibly rendered in writing as "Walhalla") is the supposed paradise that War Boys who serve Immortan Joe enter upon death.
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Is Furiosa Immortan Joe's daughter?

Furiosa was born in a fertile land known as the Green Place. A daughter of Mary Jo Bassa, she is one of the Vuvalini of Many Mothers. She was taught how to read by the many mothers. Her initiating Mother was K.T.
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What are the War Boys spraying on their mouths?

In case you have not seen Mad Max: Fury Road, the War Boys are known to spray their mouths with silver spray paint before shouting “WITNESS ME!” and sacrificing themselves for their leader Immortan Joe, on the promise of an eternal trip to feast in Valhalla. Buyers beware.
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What does Immortan Joe say to Nux?

Immortan Joe: [sprays Nux's mouth with chrome spray paint] You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.
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What does half life mean in Mad Max?

Within the first five minutes of Mad Max we're introduced to Joe's ghostly army, whose ferocity comes with a price. The war boys are born with a “half-life,” presumably meaning a seriously shortened lifespan.
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What is the meaning of Mad Max: Fury Road?

Fury Road examines the way objectification can happen to anyone, not just children, not just women, not just the weak. It also explores a world where the ugliest version of objectification has become the norm, and why it is worth ensuring that never happens.
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Why do they say witness me?

Just before the war boys (half-life humans) sacrifice themselves, they would spray chrome paint (huffing paint to give them rush) on their face and shout "Witness Me", as they believe that it will take them to Valhalla (heaven in their time). Because he was sacrificing himself in the last scene, Nux shouts the same.
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What is the meaning of witness me?

1 a person who has seen or can give first-hand evidence of some event. 2 a person or thing giving or serving as evidence. 3 a person who testifies, esp. in a court of law, to events or facts within his own knowledge.
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What is the green place in Mad Max?

The Green Place was a fertile area of The Wasteland. It appears in Mad Max: Fury Road. "Further on was the oily bog. Once there had been life and colour here.
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What is the religion in Mad Max?

Description. This Wasteland religion was centered around a deity known as The Angel of Combustion. Its also centered on a prophesied hero character which Chumbucket calls the "Warrior Saint". Its later revealed in the game that Max is his saint.
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Are Toecutter and Immortan Joe the same?

For example, the late Hugh Keays-Byrne returned to the Mad Max series to play Fury Road's primary villain Immortan Joe, decades after he played the original Mad Max's antagonist, Toecutter.
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What is Aqua Cola Mad Max?

aqua cola (n.): Water pumped by Immortan Joe from under The Citadel. Since water is so rare, he uses it as a leverage commodity to control everyone and everything.
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Who says oh what a day what a lovely day?

The story behind the quote: This quote comes from Mad Max: Fury Road. This is the fourth installment of the Mad Max series of films which takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where gangs ravage the wasteland and scavenge for whatever food and fuel is left.
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Who is the first history man?

The First Humans

One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man,” who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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Why was Furiosa not a breeder?

In an interview, Charlize Theron revealed that Furiosa was originally to be a wife of the Imperator, but was infertile: "[George Miller and I] talked about backstory, about how she ended up with no arm and that she was discarded. She couldn't breed, and that was all that she was good for.
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Why are the Warboys so pale?

While this would already give them a pale appearance, War Boys made themselves look completely white by covering their bodies in a white powder as a tribute to Immortan Joe, who used white powder as medication.
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What is wrong with Nux in Mad Max?

Turns out the irradiated wasteland is bad for your health, and Nux has a couple of gnarly neck tumours which he draws smiley faces on and nicknames Barry and Larry. He's not drinking the blood... It's a blood transfusion. It's going directly from Max's veins to Nux's.
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