The Green Place

The Green Place, also called the "Place of Abundance," later The Oily Bog was once a fertile area of The Wasteland. It appeared in the prequel film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in which viewers are shown the Green Place when it was still green. There, young Furiosa is snatched from the peaceful land by Toe Jam and his crew . It also appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road after it had “soured.”

Location

The precise location of The Green Place is unknown, but it is revealed to be in or near Australias point of inaccessibility. Much like the Crack in the Earth which was inhabited by The Lost Tribe, The Green Place was a fertile canyon which contained a forest, stream of water, trees and grass amidst the surrounding irradiated desert.

Approximate location of the Green Place in Australia.

In Furiosa, the Green Place is shown to be full of advanced homesteads with wind turbines and solar panels.

Background

The Green Place was once inhabited by the Vuvalini of Many Mothers. It was capable of producing crops and maintaining a population of settlers, and with various plants and trees, as well as animals like Horses. However, at some point the soil became contaminated. Vegetation stopped growing and it was filled with Crows. The Vuvalini moved on once they knew the area was incapable of supporting a harvest.

Resources -

Also known as “a place of abundance”, The Green Place stands out from any other area of The Wasteland due to its sheer quantity of diverse natural resources.

While its outskirts are dying as a result of the spread of radiation and increasing desertification due to sand storms, within The Green Place lies a type of oasis filled with fresh water, fresh soil, trees, grass, and other flora. Animals such as horses, birds, parrots, fish, and insects also inhabited this area.

Culture -

The Vuvalini had their own unique culture that distinguished them from any other group of people encountered in The Wasteland. Even their biological make up was different as the safety and abundance of The Green Place allowed them to produce healthy full-life human beings as opposed to the half-life humans of The Wasteland who were plagued with tumours and deteriorating bodies.

Way of life -

Living in harmony with nature, the Vuvalini harnessed wind and solar energy to produce electricity through the use of large wind turbines, solar panels, small windmills and even what appears to be a parabolic solar cooker used for boiling water. They also made use of the human and animal power that they had access to such as horses. The Vuvalini lived off the land by fishing and foraging for fruit such as peaches.

Military, weapons and defense -

Due to its sheer amount of resources, this “Place of Abundance” was a potential target for the roaming gangs. Everyone in the Green Place was informed about keeping that place secret. That's why Furiosa tried to immobilise the intruder's motorcycles and the Vuvalini General told Jabassa that nobody must know of their location. The Green Place is also equipped with sirens and children wear whistles to alarm the tribe of any incoming danger.

The tribe seems to have established a type of formal military due to presence of the Vuvalini General, implying that there were fighters that served under her command.

Most of the tribe seems to utilize weapons such as machetes as well as guns including flintlock muskets, percussion rifles and more modern rifles like the SKS and Winchester Model 1892.

Clothing -

The Vuvalini distinguish themselves from many other wastelanders by their wearing of loose fitting blue and white clothing.

Mad Max: Fury Road

In the distance the War rig can be seen traveling showing a stilt walking man in the fore ground.

The Green Place, now a fetid and lamented bog filled with mud and dead trees, is currently inhabited by stilt-walking settlers who use long stilts to walk across the bog. They live in treehouses made of wood and feathers high above the poisonous swamp.

“	Further on was the oily bog. Once there had been life and color here. Once it had been home. Now it was a poisoned swamp of death. Only the sky fishermen remained, casting their lines to lure the rare morsel of flying meat.	”
– The Many Mothers

Furiosa and her companions on the War Rig get stuck in this quagmire as they attempt to make their escape from Immortan Joe and the Bullet Farmer. By this time, Furiosa doesn’t even recognize it anymore.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Young Furiosa in the Green Place, clutching a peach.

The narrative opens at the Green Place. There, the audience sees a young Furiosa and Valkyrie in this garden oasis, harvesting peaches when they stumble upon Toe Jam and his crew who are in the process of killing a horse for its meat.

Toe Jam quickly discovers Furiosa and attempts to kidnap her. Furiosa and Valkyrie call for help and sound an alarm with a whistle. This alarm alerts the others, particularly Mary Jabassa, her mother, of the danger.

Mary Jabassa leaps on a horse with a Vuvulini General to intercede, but it’s too late -- Furiosa is snatched and the chase begins. Mary succeeds in tracking Toe Jam and the others back to the encampment of their leader, Dementus. Once there, Mary reclaims Furiosa and escapes, but is soon pursued by Dementus and his Biker Horde. She tells Furiosa to leave her and make their for the Green Place and giving her a peach seed. She tells her to follow the stars. Furiosa, however, cannot bear to leave her and, in turning back, is recaptured. Dementus then forces her to watch as Mary is tied to a crucifix-like object and tortured to death by the Octoboss?

Furiosa is then made a prisoner by Dementus before being traded away to Immortan Joe, but never forgets her dream of one day returning to the Green Place. While imprisoned with a History Man she uses his tattoo pen to tattoo the stars as a map on her left arm so that she won't forget the way home.

Years later, after the prototype War Rig has been assembled, she inadvertently helps Praetorian Jack to defend an attack against the War Rig, she attempts to commandeer it to go there, but is easily fought-off by him. He then offers to teach her all the skills she will need to survive and they develop a rare, but poignant bond.

Then, some time later, after losing the War Rig to Dementus' forces at the besieged Bullet Farm, the two of them attempt to escape to the Green Place together in Furiosa's Valiant, but are once again pursued by Dementus and his crew. In the ensuing battle, Praetorian Jack is killed and Furiosa loses her left arm, thus losing her star map to the Green Place.