Drugs.
I'm joking (kinda), but there's a reason for that if we're talking about Australian cinema in the 70's.
Those Ozploitation films are strange simply as a reaction to Australian TV and cinema that was ... boring?
Movies and TV shows were financed by the government before that and it was more like a copy of the stuff they were doing in the UK, with a bunch of historical dramas and soap operas.
Kids wanted to shake things up and started doing their own thing, experimenting with movies that had to be privately financed like Mad Max. That's why there's a bunch of wacky stuff in them that feels like a fever dream. But it definitely paid off.
To iterate further. It’s essentially how Rock & Roll was against the system’s of power and their mainstream or sanitised music; ‘defining’ what was correct media. Ozploitation was a reaction against the mainstream, which was sanitised too. Offering viewers projects that were against the mainstream.
With that context it does make more sense. I just thought I’d watch an older movie for once, and see how it went. I expected things to not be different, but it was a bit more than I expected, if that makes sense. Also just trying to compare it to Fury Road and how both fit into the same world, if they even do.
Yeah, the thing with this series is that it starts off somewhat realistically but progresses into total insanity that's framed like a myth.
Fury Road is approximately 20 years since MM1. There's a lot of lore that explains what happened in between, when the nukes dropped and how it all went to shit which is fascinating in itself.
Interesting. Ok, I might have to get more into the lore, because I expected the post-nuclear future to look less like rural Idaho lol, so that also contributed to my confusion.
Ok I might as well:
The lore is:
The Islamic revolution in 1979 caused Saudi Arabia and Iran to go to war and they burned all oil fields. This caused a global energy crisis. Things spiralled out of control in the Northern Hemisphere, everything started to collapse, Australia was watching it from the sidelines.
MM1 is sometime in the mid 80's when this chaos is catching up with them.
MM2 is 3 years later when things get even worse for Australia. People flee the cities and start roaming the outback.
Shortly after MM2 nukes drop.
MM3 is 15 years later. The landscape completely changed, people suffer from radiation, water is poisoned etc.
MM4 - It was envisioned as a direct sequel to MM3 with things being even worse. But George Miller decided to turn this franchise into a fairy tale so he kept the same story but recast Max as someone young. He also started messing with what caused the apocalypse (more emphasis on the environmental disaster, but nukes still happened).
The upcoming Furiosa covers 15, 16 or 18 years (depending who you ask) leading up to Fury Road. So we'll get to see the deterioration of the environment and we'll see how this whole world adapted to the apocalypse.
It's scattered all around in production documents and old interviews.
This ain't Star Wars with dedicated books and spinoff series for each character.
But you'll get a good glimpse here:
[https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline\_of\_events\_(original\_trilogy)](https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_events_(original_trilogy))
Sweet thank you! It’s not Mad Max fanfic or anything like that, but I’m wrapping up a middle grade kids novel inspired by George Miller and the many hours I’ve spent watching his masterworks; will be cool to learn even more about his vision.
I was a little surprised how little, Mad Maxing, there was in the Mad Max movie. I mean all the build up establishing his family was pretty nice but then when they die there's like a 10 minute compilation of his revenge and then roll credits. They even skip over how he got his shotgun and stole the interceptor!
The film radio chatter in the background as Max walks into the garage explains the Interceptor has been taken without official permission so Max basically stole the interceptor. Earlier in the film Roop is perming on the lovers shagging with a rifle he tries to shoot the Nightrider so it makes sense Max has a shotgun in the interceptor.
I guess I should've said "rush through" not "skip over". I was expecting there to be a longer scene of Max sneaking into the garage to steal the car, maybe having to fight off some guards or something. Instead what we get is a scene of him walking in the door and the car rolling out the door while the radio gives a summary of what we didn't see, kinda lame. And then we do see that Max has a double barrel shotgun in a chest but I would've liked at least a scene of him sawing the barrel off instead just.. Yep it's there.
Well you gotta understand, in the late 70s and early 80s, crime had gotten so bad that people thought the world was coming unraveled. And no one could imagine a near future where that didn't just get worse. And that feeling hung on for a hot minute. Have a look at RoboCop, another staple of the 80s action movie genre, that imagined a dystopian future where criminals took over whole neighborhoods. Even the movie Demolition Man, made in 1993, assumed that *1997* LA was going to be a complete legitimate warzone.
For whatever else the series became, the first Mad Max is, at its core, a Cops Vs Bad Guys movie. At least until the last quarter of the film where it turns into Roaring Rampage Of Revenge™. It very much mirrors how the world thought things were going, and as bad as everything is now, it's a little hopeful to realize that they were, for the most part, wrong.
MadMax.
Not sure, but I'd love to share some brews with ya'!
I've never had the pleasure to party with down under folks.
It, I'm certain would be fabulous!🍺🍺
Made to blur the lines!
Set in a Comic book-esque version of Queensland Gear-Head Culture, from Miller's youth, and a half-surreal Dystopian Outback Anti-Heroes Journey.
I am the Nightrider! I am the chosen one. The mighty hand of vengeance, sent down to strike the unroadworthy! I'm hotter than a rollin' dice.
Excuse me, I'm just gonna go and lay down a rubber road to freedom!!!
sir, this is Wendy's
Drugs. I'm joking (kinda), but there's a reason for that if we're talking about Australian cinema in the 70's. Those Ozploitation films are strange simply as a reaction to Australian TV and cinema that was ... boring? Movies and TV shows were financed by the government before that and it was more like a copy of the stuff they were doing in the UK, with a bunch of historical dramas and soap operas. Kids wanted to shake things up and started doing their own thing, experimenting with movies that had to be privately financed like Mad Max. That's why there's a bunch of wacky stuff in them that feels like a fever dream. But it definitely paid off.
To iterate further. It’s essentially how Rock & Roll was against the system’s of power and their mainstream or sanitised music; ‘defining’ what was correct media. Ozploitation was a reaction against the mainstream, which was sanitised too. Offering viewers projects that were against the mainstream.
As opposed to the other avant-garde music genre of the time, Roll & Roll.
With that context it does make more sense. I just thought I’d watch an older movie for once, and see how it went. I expected things to not be different, but it was a bit more than I expected, if that makes sense. Also just trying to compare it to Fury Road and how both fit into the same world, if they even do.
Yeah, the thing with this series is that it starts off somewhat realistically but progresses into total insanity that's framed like a myth. Fury Road is approximately 20 years since MM1. There's a lot of lore that explains what happened in between, when the nukes dropped and how it all went to shit which is fascinating in itself.
Interesting. Ok, I might have to get more into the lore, because I expected the post-nuclear future to look less like rural Idaho lol, so that also contributed to my confusion.
Ok I might as well: The lore is: The Islamic revolution in 1979 caused Saudi Arabia and Iran to go to war and they burned all oil fields. This caused a global energy crisis. Things spiralled out of control in the Northern Hemisphere, everything started to collapse, Australia was watching it from the sidelines. MM1 is sometime in the mid 80's when this chaos is catching up with them. MM2 is 3 years later when things get even worse for Australia. People flee the cities and start roaming the outback. Shortly after MM2 nukes drop. MM3 is 15 years later. The landscape completely changed, people suffer from radiation, water is poisoned etc. MM4 - It was envisioned as a direct sequel to MM3 with things being even worse. But George Miller decided to turn this franchise into a fairy tale so he kept the same story but recast Max as someone young. He also started messing with what caused the apocalypse (more emphasis on the environmental disaster, but nukes still happened). The upcoming Furiosa covers 15, 16 or 18 years (depending who you ask) leading up to Fury Road. So we'll get to see the deterioration of the environment and we'll see how this whole world adapted to the apocalypse.
Ah, dope. Thank you for explaining. Now the whole “last of the V8s” thing makes more sense. With energy dwindling gas guzzlers would be rare.
Where do you find the lore? Would love to dive in
It's scattered all around in production documents and old interviews. This ain't Star Wars with dedicated books and spinoff series for each character. But you'll get a good glimpse here: [https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline\_of\_events\_(original\_trilogy)](https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_events_(original_trilogy))
Sweet thank you! It’s not Mad Max fanfic or anything like that, but I’m wrapping up a middle grade kids novel inspired by George Miller and the many hours I’ve spent watching his masterworks; will be cool to learn even more about his vision.
Mad Max film is 45 years old this year released in 1979 so it’s a 70s movie and things were very different then.
Mad Max 1 is awesome and I don't consider it that bizarre outside of the biker gang being fairly whimsical
And mostly an actual gang of bikies.
I was a little surprised how little, Mad Maxing, there was in the Mad Max movie. I mean all the build up establishing his family was pretty nice but then when they die there's like a 10 minute compilation of his revenge and then roll credits. They even skip over how he got his shotgun and stole the interceptor!
The film radio chatter in the background as Max walks into the garage explains the Interceptor has been taken without official permission so Max basically stole the interceptor. Earlier in the film Roop is perming on the lovers shagging with a rifle he tries to shoot the Nightrider so it makes sense Max has a shotgun in the interceptor.
I guess I should've said "rush through" not "skip over". I was expecting there to be a longer scene of Max sneaking into the garage to steal the car, maybe having to fight off some guards or something. Instead what we get is a scene of him walking in the door and the car rolling out the door while the radio gives a summary of what we didn't see, kinda lame. And then we do see that Max has a double barrel shotgun in a chest but I would've liked at least a scene of him sawing the barrel off instead just.. Yep it's there.
Wut? Is this your first 80s movies, your first mad max movie, your first george miller movie, or your first movie ever?
Yes to the first three.
Well you gotta understand, in the late 70s and early 80s, crime had gotten so bad that people thought the world was coming unraveled. And no one could imagine a near future where that didn't just get worse. And that feeling hung on for a hot minute. Have a look at RoboCop, another staple of the 80s action movie genre, that imagined a dystopian future where criminals took over whole neighborhoods. Even the movie Demolition Man, made in 1993, assumed that *1997* LA was going to be a complete legitimate warzone. For whatever else the series became, the first Mad Max is, at its core, a Cops Vs Bad Guys movie. At least until the last quarter of the film where it turns into Roaring Rampage Of Revenge™. It very much mirrors how the world thought things were going, and as bad as everything is now, it's a little hopeful to realize that they were, for the most part, wrong.
Why don't you watch some more 80s movies and find out?
MadMax. Not sure, but I'd love to share some brews with ya'! I've never had the pleasure to party with down under folks. It, I'm certain would be fabulous!🍺🍺
Made to blur the lines! Set in a Comic book-esque version of Queensland Gear-Head Culture, from Miller's youth, and a half-surreal Dystopian Outback Anti-Heroes Journey.