The Wasteland of Mad Max Explained
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The complete comprehensive guide to Mad Max’s Wasteland featured in Warner Bros. Discovery’s Mad Max (1979), Mad Max: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).
00:00 - Intro
03:14 - The Fall
12:19 - The Last Road
12:42 - The Green Place
14:38 - The Compound
17:19 - Bartertown
18:38 - The Underworld
21:34 - Thunderdome
23:41 - The Devil's Anvil
23:57 - The Crack in the Earth (The Oasis)
25:16 - Tomorrow-Morrow Land
29:12 - The Citadel
34:44 - The War Boys
39:49 - Gas Town
41:46 - The Buzzards
42:56 - Rock Riders
23:16 - Rock Rider Canyon
43:54 - Bullet Farm
With the help of the History Men and Women, we explore the world of George Miller’s Mad Max; from Aunty Entity's Bartertown to Pappagallo’s Compound to Immortan Joe's empire in the Citadel. Along the way, I explain who in the desert is The Coma-Doof Warrior, the Crow Fishers, War Boys, Imperators, etc. This exploration goes over the budget of the first Mad Max (1979) in comparison to its predecessors. Explaining why Mad Max shifted to a post-apocalyptic setting. Answering the question, why did Max Rockatansky’s world end? What exactly led to The Fall? As well as using interviews to give us a the most accurate timeline of all of the events we've seen so far.
I use text from The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road by Abbie Bernstein and Mad Max: Fury Road: The Prelude to the Blockbuster Film! (2015) by George Miller to explain the events between Thunderdome and Fury Road. Like the Max competing in The People Eater’s Gas Town’s Thunderdome 2.0 or Colonel Joe Moore’s Siege of the Citadel. This information also helps us go more in-depth when it comes to the design of the cars (like the Gigahorse, The War Rig, The Buzzard Excavator, The Lone Wolf), the settlements, inhabitants, and creatures; and how they went on to become the inspiration for Bethesda’s Fallout Video Game Series.
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I saw some video where they discussed the identity of MAX in fury road. He isn't the same Max according to that theory. Max in fury road is the grown feral child from Mad Max 2. 29:10 Great video BTW.
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The best theory I've ever heard for the shakiness of any definitive mad max timeline is that when you're watching a mad max movie, you're watching a folk tale about an archetypal "man in black" or "knight errant" that is told and retold and changed in a verbal history, rather than watching the events depicted first-hand (like the viewer is watching a cinematic adaptation of a story told around campfires in the wasteland) The max's are always different men, who only maybe existed in any sense, and whose actions in the wasteland inspired stories of influential strangers that got blended into a monomyth. It's the head-canon I live with anyway
when Furiosa asks Max what his name is in Fury Road, he says “Does it matter?” which I first thought was him being secretive but it has a whole new context now
THIS. Similiarly, I recently rewatched "Young Guns Two" and realized it never claims to be historical fact, only a story told to convince a lawyer . The level of truth is left to the viewer.
The theory of it being Max's story told by different people holds strong as fury road and road warrior can be seen as the same legend told by different people in different periods of time. And it's kinda confirmed with furiosa's ending
But those two are the same max simple point with his car and in both fury road and road warrior he loses the interceptor, but they're are alot more similarities within the two films
I am happy to say thunder dome is a different max, as furiosa also shows different people dressed like max who could be lumped and confused as being the same person
I LOVE this take on it, plus it's a way to handwave the obvious recast from Gibson to Hardy lol
When the max and the gyro captain meet in mm3, they share a look of " don't I know you " can't be the only one who noticed that
Same look Mel gave to Danny Glover in "Maverick" so we can dismiss that as an audience joke.The gyro capt was off banging the chick with the Whoville haircut (according to the feral kid/storyteller) by then. More of a case of not wasting "good" and the great Bruce Spence was available.
miller has said in interviews that after Mad Max 1, there isn't a fixed timeline that we see the stories told about MAX through oral history and legend.
Also the mad Max game is an excellent source of lore
Did you know that Scrotus is in Furiosa?
He’s redesigned for the better imo, and he’ll be played by Josh Helman (Slit)
@@ultraviolet540 didnt know that, thanks
The game shows max had a teen daughter and that scrotus is just a bad guy while he actually is a son of Immortan Joe. The game stole future scripts and used them in the wrong way. None of it is canon
@@yourkeel9012 they didn't steal anything, they got concept art to work from while the movie was filming,
@@gawkthimm6030 nope. if you see the credits Miller isn't there. he said tht they stole the scripts cause of the rights warnerbros had and that the story was supposed to be really different. The true story of hope and glory is said in the comic book he has writed
Regarding Barter Town, Katherine Janeway summed it up nicely "Someone has something someone else wants and trade is born"
There's a Nissan R32 Skyline in Fury Road. There's also a Tesla emblem on the dashboard of the Gigahorse. There isn't supposed to be a set year timeframe.
if i remember well, Inmortan Joe's chestplate has pieces of a nokia phone
I never saw it
@@senorbolainas2991 I think the explanation in the modern Mad Max films is that in a world gone to hell, the vehicles that survive are going to be the ones that don't run on computers, are made from metal instead of plastic, are easy to fix, e.g. carburetted vehicles. So regardless of when the fall happened, they'll be driving pre-80's vehicles, which is convenient because that's when the first film was made.
My dad watched these movies as a kid. I will always remember when we found the disc set that had road warrior and thunder dome. We watched RW and I loved it so much. I already had experience with Mad Max because I played the 2015 video game but that was my first time watching any of the movies. That’s one of my favorite memories of my dad
Your dad was probably my contemporary. Probably just a few yrs older than me as I also grew up with them but a few yrs after they released. I watched them all the 90's in my early teens.
That means he was a young man. I'm sorry for your loss. I'm glad you preserve his memory, shiny and chrome as it is. The fun times, the times you bonded, the things you bonded over.
You'll do the same when you have some kids.
I lost my old man when I was 22. It didn't affect me that severely then. But it did fester, bc of the changes it caused. The losses it perpetuated. The path my life took as a result.
My point is don't let that happen. Idk how to avoid it but I will say my friends always said I was too focused on the past. I argued but now I know they were probably right.
At same time, I feel like it's a sin to forget what gave one's life meaning. We honor our parents by remembering all they gave us. But I'm far less well adjusted so I wouldn't worry
Also lead additives in fuel weren't officially banned until 1991 so it's possible that excessive use of lead additives in gasoline could also significantly contribute to the fall of society.
Can’t thank you enough for this long in depth video on the wasteland of Mad Max.
Bro forgot the videogame
If I remember that game isn't cannot. But that's good hidden gem
The game sadly isn’t canon, but it’s just considered another legend of the wastes.
@@FischerFilmStudio actually it is
@@Evangelicalg the Mad Max canon is so convoluted that whether something is canon or not is always up to debate, but some things in the Mad Max game have been pretty much completely changed in Furiosa, most noticeably Scrotus.
@@Evangelicalg It isn't. The only canon content are the films and the comic series. The game is an amalgamation of unused ideas from previously canceled games and unreleased scripts. Which naturally causes it to conflict with the canon story pretty heavily. And ultimately, George Miller was not at all involved with that game as he's been with every film
Bryce making a forty five minute video dedicated to Mad Max??
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" hey fella! Hey fella!.... What a turkey... Hey fella, you're a turkey! You know that?"
Its fun to think that the Rock Riders were actually formed by former motorcross and freestyle champions surviving the apocalypse the way they do best
Another interesting thing is, a piece of ancillary media I can't remember stated the Pacific Ocean is drastically more shallow and receded while the Atlantic is flooded and the Ice Caps have melted. This is because the fact all the nuclear weapons in the world being shot in all directions from 7 different nations had tectonic/volcanic consequences that significantly altered ocean currents (which, in turn lose their ability to regulate climate). So, it's said Sidney harbor is dry and we see the salt desert that used to be underwater because the Australian Pacific Coast is now 500km further out. It creates an environmental feedback loop with the additional myriad effects of nuclear war that affect the entire area of the world and keep getting worse. Meanwhile, coastal America and Europe are now underwater and the effects of nuclear war are likely even worse there. Meaning these parts of the world are even more irradiated with infrastructure even more ruined while being submerged and possibly even seeing a mini Ice Age. Not good.
kinda like the Metro 2035 lore
sounds like it was more than just a "nuclear skirmish" between two warring tribes
Nice to hear some insight into World of Mad Max
I feel like Max is a name given to heroes by the storyteller. Anyone could be Max
Quentin Kenihan, who plays Imortan Joe's son, Corpus Collosus, was told by doctors he probably wouldn't live long enough to see puberty, let alone live up to the age of 50.
I'm really glad to see he's still here with us and was ecstatic to see him in the mad max movie.
He’s not with us anymore. He died in 2018. 😢
@@shaun3276Richard Carter is in Furiosa, even though he sadly passed in 2019, I wonder if there is any footage with Quentin Kenihan, since he did say he was reprising his role before he passed.
@@shaun3276 oh no! 😪
i thought Rictus Erectus was Immortan Joe's son
@@raidermaxx2324he has a few sons. Idk who is whom. So idk who to grieve for so I shall look it up now.
I was 18 years old when mad max came out and one of my friends older brother was in the vigalanties mc. 13 years later i moved into a house a few streets away from mays house. Cheers from Australia
The first Mad Max I saw was Thunderdome (also how I learned who Tina Turner was 😂) nice to hear about it again. "2 men enter, 1 man leaves!"
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Excellent encyclopedia. Turns "that looks supid" into "oh that makes alot of sense".
The reason I think Jedediah and the Gyro Captain are the same characters is that Max recognises him later on in the film. Well, come to think of it Jedediah recognises Max in the Thunderdome
It makes perfect sense that he would also direct happy feet…
When you’re good at something it’s crosses all mediums.
I live In Australia and my local $2 shop has Moyu cubes (the cheapest, base-level one. Can't remember the model name) for $3.
It's very no-frills, no magnets, nothing. But it's a decent base-level speedcube; turns well, good corner-cutting. No dual-adjustment obviously, but you can adjust the screw under each centre-cap.
For $3 it's pretty amazing value- Way better than stickered, non-adjustable clones of Rubik's brand cubes, for 4x the price.
I wouldn't have thought that listening to 45 mins of minutes of detail about a series of moves I enjoyed but didn't think too much about would be interesting but you Bryce have changed my mind
It's kinda funny to me just how random Bryce picks his topics to go over.
I'm honestly baffled by the google results for how many a few is. I have always thought a few is exactly 3, a couple is exactly 2, and several is anywhere from 4-9 (although 6 can be a half dozen). 10-11 would be almost a dozen. I always thought it was a set language rule in English, but I guess I was wrong. Learned something totally random on a Mad Max video, lol. I grew up watching Mad Max in the 80s, when we went to our dad's for the weekend we got to watch all the good action and horror movies back then. lol. Loved Fury Road, still have to see the new one.
you are all wrong and really need to watch the movies again. Mad Max 1 is set just as the fabric of society is collapsing, Mad Max 2 is set after the apocalypse, Beyond thunderdome makes it clear a nuclear event happened, Fury road has war boys with cancer from the radiation.
Definitely more Mad Max please.
I think the 45 years since the fall is in referral to the first mad max movie coming out exactly 45 years ago
I DONT KNOW WHO IS MORE MAD, ME OR THIS WORLD!
The making of Mad Max could be a movie all on it's own!
Great video. I could tell you put ALOT of time and energy into this video. It deserves more views!
That was awesome. The one detail that bugs me, is that by Fury Road most steering wheels are "RHT" set up, even though the entire story should take place in a world where "LHT" was predominant, and all salvaged vehicles should reflect that with the steering on the right side of the vehicle.
Great Stuff. love the detail as I was not aware of many of the details you gave. I think I'm going to have to find the mad max comic you were showing!
For the budget of the original movie, they put out a really good product, especially for that time.
.. a timeless classic
Brilliant recap and insight! Thank you!
This was really engaging.
I just want to say thank you for educating me I am a long time fan of Mad Max but I did not see that coming I didn't know anything about the comic book references and how it all tied in thank you very much
good stuff, very informative🙂🙂
My theory is that the mad max stories are actually a fairy tale told amongst tribals. The first movie is the closest to reality, the second contains several actual events, but by the time of 3, the character of max and the events surrounding him are mostly mythological
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Thank you for making a documentary about daily life in Australia. It's very informative.
Please dive deeper into Mad Max in more videos. Thank you.
Good stuff!
I know your Hunger Games videos didn’t get the most views, but I really enjoyed all of them
Very will done. More please!!
Max explained it to the children in the third movie. I don't remember the explanation but explained why world is a desert. I think they mean revolution, not evolution. Like the heroes of the American Revolution were considered villains by the King.
Pardon but the "Fall" happens between Mad Max and the Road Warrior, Nukes are used between Road Warrior and Thunderdome. No radiation in story before Thunderdome or Furry Road.
loving the vid, beard looks great!
As a long time fan of the MM franchise, this was awesome!! Nice work
" i am the man the grabs the sun,...RIDING TO VALHALLA".
" WITNESS"
Witness my bidness
I applaud ! You did a really good job of it in making this collection. 'The Wasteland' is the one consistent character through all the films, and the way you delivered all of this was very well chosen. The Wasteland is in our heads... May Good Luck be upon you ~ B.
Awesome video, more mad max please
As a kid, I always understood that “ a couple” was 2, “a few” is 3, and “some” was 4 or more, but less than 10. Probably wrong, that’s just how I always understood it, lol
Since I was a kid I've always loved the mad Max movies. Something in them just spoke to me that this was going to be the future. Horrible people fighting for what's left of resources. But the way they use Joe in the fury road movie. in the way he uses the ideal of The Valkyrie snatching you from the battlefield to bring you Valhalla.that was just chef's kiss on that world.from the moment the first war boy yelled witnessed me as he falls out the citadel trying to get max back in. I know this movie was going to blow my mind. I can't even imagine if they actually gave Miller the money and kept on the series back in the day with Mel Gibson. How many delightful wonderful tasty treats we would have I don't know but it sounds good
Damn now I'm hella interested in this whole world of Mad Max! I love these explanation vids, easy to understand while also being super in detail of the world and it's inhabitants. I 💚 it!!
I literally just found your videos today and my FAVORITE part is your incoherent rants and side tangents and I feel like you deserve to know that
I love that they're called the Boobalini. Totally love it.
Thx now i understand the movie Hop and Glory much better!
Very very very good job!!!!!
the buzzards vehicles always remind me of one of the cars from the Australian movie The Cars that Ate Paris (1974)
Isn't it confirmed that "Max" in Fury Road is the boy Max rescued? He left the car with the waiters and never came back, then the boy took the car and basically unofficially took up Max's name (as a sign of respect and because 'Max' is a legend told in the wastelands now). If you cut the age down so that max was a child during the original movies, the numbers work out a lot better. Pretty sure there was an article or video I watched about how those details were specifically incorporated -- but maybe it was just another theory somewhere on youtube. Personally, though, it makes sense to me.
Incredible work, Bryce! I have only seen Fury Road, but the franchise stuck with me. I learned so much from this video! Excited to see the new Furiosa. Thanks!
This video is really making me want to replay the game
Max is a different Max. He is the mostly mute kid from the Lost Tribe. He took the name Max in tribute to Mad Max.
That is the headcanon adopted by many, including myself.
1963 - Max's Birthdate
1980 - The Fall
1984 - Mad Max (1)
1987 - Road Warrior
1997 - Furiosa's Birthdate
1999 - Nuclear War
2005 - Thunderdome
2007 - Furiosa (beginning)
2025 - Furiosa (ending)
2032 - Fury Road
This is all based on legitimate on screen evidence such as the sign in Max 1, as and Max’s back tattoo in Fury Road, as well as too many interviews to count.
if you think about fukushima. what would happen if someone nuked a place with stuff like uranium? like directly on it, wouldnt the explosion be way bigger? what if thats why theres radiation in austrailia? a huge huge nuke with a lot of uranium?
I dont think the host is that "young", but Fukushima wasnt famous around the nuclear "ethos" only because the 2011 accident. Fukushima was famous already during the late 70s and early 80s as part of the project that would propel Japan to the forefront of the use of nuclear energy, a fact very much in notoriety given that a country which was the only one ever destroyed by a nuclear bomb would be the forefront of the nuclear energy "ideal". The plant started operation on those times, and through the 80s was considered one of the safest in the World.
It is proposed that if they did not changed its design philosophy during the 90s, and instead kept their focus, the accident in 2011 would never have happened, as people point out changes for efficiency in the 1990s and 2000s were the primary drive to the weakness that the accident relied on to happen.
Fukishima was famous??? not in my country(America) we never heard of it until it melted down lol
Super cool video. That's a bit of a heavy lift thinking that The Great Humongous was Goose but it's a cool theory.
Likely one of the reasons Thunderdome is rated PG 13 is because that rating didn’t exist until around the time it came out… though I doubt the first 2 movies would have made that cut lol.
The very first Mad Max movie stars that the world went to war over fuel
Mad Max is the greatest film ever made, for proof just look how many times people reference it, and take ideas from it and the art Style, and even the story, in movies, TV shows, video games and music, books, comics and mangas.
11:18 fukushima nuclear power plant was active in 1971 the fall happened in 1983-1984 7:29 it definitely would have been a known place in the wasteland and Japan and the outback are close
yea but it didnt melt down until in the 2000's so it doenst make sense to reference it
I love when the war boys say witness me and spray that paint over their face
It's just Australia on a good day
The mad max movies were just filming regular Australians in their daily lives
Love your videos.
"Thank you so much .. for the money" hahaha
Great content.
I get to regularly fang my black V8 2 door Australian built ute on the same roads the first movie was filmed on and have parked ute in the same carpark that was used as the set for the scene when Max gets his 2 door XB Falcon.
ute lol .. reminds me of our El caminos
@@raidermaxx2324 Mate Australia is like the country where the El Camino continued to evolve. i drive a VE SS ute. The same model of ute was used top help research and devolep for the new rear engined Corvette. To much beer to spell.
Thanks!
Thank you so much @ZED101!
Atomic Cafe isn't a reference to the documentary film?
Interesting video, thanks.
The Fuk-Mishima in pre disaster dialogue is just an example of synchronicity where two unrelated events happen simultaneously. If you google it they’ll give you many examples. These “ coincidences happen all the time. I myself experience it daily. Look to the long running animation The Simpsons. They’re consistently “predicting” events that eventually happen.
As much as I love the series' post-apocalyptic aesthetic, I would like to see a return to the stylized Australian cop movie style of the original.
some elaboration on some of the lore, the MFP was a special force above normal police that served as the last line of enforcement on the open roads. was a highly dangerous job with a short life expectancy for its officers. Max points out in the first film discussing his retirement that he has lived far longer than anyone in the department, wishing to get out before he dies or consumed with PTSD from the job. then as the story unfolds he snaps, hence Mad Max, I also never thought Nightrider was ever mad but was in a state of an adrenaline rush, as he just escaped custody, killed his parole officers and stole the MFP Pursuit car ie. the black Holden HQ, which the black XB max takes is the replacement for. I also consider the pilot the same character, and his son the product of the blonde he fancies in MM2. could also be the same bum in the matrix, or the mouth of Sauron, that actor gets around.
44:24 salt pepper lmao
26:19 it actually in fact would be the first time considering Fury Road released 36 years after the original Mad Max🤣
I’m asking here since it’s his most recent video. Does he have a video about the hunger games after the war? I saw his haymitch video where he talks about him raising geese at the end. Do any of you know where al that info is or if he’s made a video.
It would be cool if the book of Eli and mad max was set in the same universe
i felt like im watching an interview !!
The Apocalyptic world created by George Miller reminds me of George Martin’s world in Game of Thrones. The history, religion, characters, locations, language etc.
Of course its not as vast a history or immense as Martin’s world but impressive just the same.
Interesting. The Women had plants. The Man had Plants, Water, Industry, Machines, History Recordings and an Army.
They are not talking about our 2011 Fukushima-tsunami accident.
Fukushima daichi power plant started to produce electricity in 1971 with only one core and later they added more with the last 6th core finished and started in 1979.
Tsunami that caused meltdown happened in our timeline. But in Mad Max timeline one of the cores could have melted down around 1980 and caused thremonuclear explosion taking out other 5 core causing a catastrophe like no other and affect not just that area but the whole world. Could have been also nuked. It would 100% affect Australia.
First time i heard War boys chant Fukushima i said to myself "must have been an event for them to still remember or know of" and they would remember 6 reactors going up in the air.
Good video👍🇦🇺 i’m Australian from Victoria
First time on the channel so not sure if you've ever covered gaming content. But ther is a mad max game that released in 2016 and its quite fun
Ah, the way I'll rewatch this series as I've rewatched the Hunger Games' videos 😌
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Well, if you adjust the film's budget for inflation, it still only comes out to around $1.5 million...
Imagine that kind of success in 2024. We get about a dozen movies per year with a budget near $100M and they are almost always huge flops. That doesn't even consider the fact that marketing budgets are typically around 1.5× the production budget.
Hollywood/film industry seems like a huge money laundering scheme nowadays doesn't it?
It's basically Australia now without the coastal towns
1 RW 2 MM 3 FAMMS 4 FR 5 MMBT
I always thought mad Max was based on the 2000s, but the reason you don't see any new cars is they got emp damaged so they don't work but all the pre 80 non computer vehicles survived. But maybe that was just a theory me and my brothers came across or made up. A mix of fallout and mad Max I guess.
The big metal grate on the simi more then likely was already there on the truck. They didnt put it on for the film. This is peice that many trucka have on them. Thier called a Pilot but almost everyone calls them Cowcatchers.