Crazy Stories About the Making of Mad Max and The Road Warrior

I don't know how accurate I would call this, as seems much more on the aesthetic side. But the Rayleigh-Taylor instability occurs on scales all the way from coffee cups up to light year sized nebula, allowing for all sorts of structural parallels between deep space and every day life. The movie The Fountain also made heavy use of this, using a lot of macro photography and very little CGI. Regardless, the results are quite cool and pretty.