A group of War Boys in Mad Max Fury Road
The War Boys use a distinctive identifying hand gesture all throughout Mad Max: Fury Road, but the movie never explains what their hand symbol actually means. Director George Miller isn’t in the business of overexplaining the lore of his movies; in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, Miller is a deeply visual storyteller.
The War Boys' Hand Symbol Is Made To Resemble A V8 Engine It's Called "The Sign Of The V8" The hand symbol used by the War Boys is designed to resemble a V8 engine. V8 engines famously have two banks of four cylinders that share a common crankshaft and are arranged in the configuration of the letter V. The War Boys’ eight fingers are supposed to resemble the eight cylinders of a V8 engine, while their V-shaped poise is supposed to resemble the engine’s V configuration.
The War Boys’ worship of V8 engines has a real-world parallel. In the 1970s, street racers were clamoring to modify their cars with V8 engines, but their desire to drive a car with a V8 was hampered by the V8’s need for high-octane gasoline. Old V8 engines use up a lot of horsepower with their high-compression ratios, so they require 100-octane gasoline, which had stopped being produced at the time. So, these street racers worshipped an engine they could never use, similar to the War Boys.
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