![]() ![]() He passes through at times of great stress, and moves on. In all three subsequent stories Max is a transitional character in the story of other communities. In the first film we’re in Max’s community. That’s what the film does, not through some higher purpose, but through the breaking down of an honourable man and the creation of something new.Īpart from the tone of the film there is another way Mad Max differs from the sequels. Mad Max is a tale about hero creation, a fact made explicit in a conversation between Police Chief Fifi Macaffee and Max, when Fifi says, “People don’t believe in heroes anymore. He has nothing left, but to go in pursuit of revenge. His best friend burnt alive, his child killed and his wife left in a vegetative state. Then we see the creation of the broken hero. After all his colleagues wreck their vehicles Max takes up the chase, his mere presence behind the Night Rider enough to reduce him to tears. This is where we see Max’s character established, first as the cool hero during the pursuit of the Night Rider. (The bikes in the first film owe more to a little known cult Australian film called Stone, which also features Hugh Keays-Byrne who went on to star as The Toecutter and Immortan Joe.) The Toecutter’s gang rage across the Outback virtually unchallenged, yet the grass still grows, there’s petrol and no-one is wearing leather bondage gear while pillaging. Even the signs over the Halls of Justice entrance are falling off the arch. The original Mad Max is pre-collapse, a world on the verge of falling over a precipice rather than already toppled. A lot of the post apocalyptic style and imagery that people associate with the franchise is established in Mad Max II (sometimes known as The Road Warrior). ![]() Mad Max is one of my favourite films, and it is a very odd film. A mythic hero of a post apocalyptic world. One of the most interesting theories argues that Mad Max Rockatansky is a folkloric character. After Mad Max Fury Road came out a lot of people tried to make sense of the chronology of the four films. ![]()
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