Thank you! It takes a while to research and put together but the point is to make quality stuff that can be re-watched many times instead of pumping out gibberish without any real substance every day :)
As a fan of the Mad Max lore which is stagnating due to the lack of new movies and sequels of the game, I can't thank you enough for keeping the flame burning!
Road Warrior was the first movie in the series I watched as a kid. Fell in love after that.
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It was a couple of years after becoming a fan of Road Warrior at around age 8 that my dad made me aware there was a "prequel". When I finally saw it, it was the horrendously dubbed Americanized version, and I thought most of it was ass.
I remember watching the Road Warrior with my dad back in the late 90's. It was amazing, I loved it all. I was only maybe 7-8 yrs old. My girl, she loves Fury Road but doesn't like the classics.
In Part 2 I'll be talking about how crazy things got with the creation of Beyond Thunderdome and especially - Fury Road. That video will be up next week and then we'll go into detail on Immortan Joe's empire (a true deep dive) and after that expect a video on cars of Fury Road but from a 'real life' perspective. I hope you're enjoying this content and as always: Stay Shiny and Chrome!
Can't wait for part 2 and 3, I've loved Mad Max series since I was a child and you've made the best Mad Max related videos I've seen on youtube, keep doing the good work!
Sure you will find many connections to other movies, but the biggest is the connection to the silent movies from the 20s. Mad Max movies are very visual movies and that takes these first two ahead of others. Think about the supercharger protruding through the bonnet. The visualisation of power and evil aaand he can switch on and off. In Max 1 switching on and the hunt begins. Remember the open sequence of Max 2 he could escape with supercharger, had to quit and take the fight. Or the monza front like a mask, the colors of the cars (the bright yellow) and even photography. There was a new way of telling an old story and that it is, what Mad Max made Mad Max. And there is something else in Max 1. He kills without touching them, even the car has no scratch. It's much more psycho. And in Max 2 this changes from the beginning.
Never thought I did. Kist enjoy learning. Why I subbed to this channel. Same with MFP, and a couple others. Frankly put, MM2 is what made me a gearhead. It started my interest in cars, and car centered films, more so than the car related TV shows of the time. Enough so that I've spent the last 42.years enjoying the media, attending car.and bike shows, and always having a project vehicle, or 5, ever since. My wife is the same way. Currently doing a 12 valve Cummins swap.on my 91 K 2500, for my wife, restoring, again, my 73 F.250, that I picked up in 94, wien I wasn18, and restoring a 95 Suzuki Savage 650, and a 71 Norton 850 Commando.
The Toecutter Gang is probably one of the most menacing, eccentric, unique on-screen fictional gangs of all-time. Byrnes' Toecutter, he acted that ingeniously. Right up there with the Clockwork Orange gang, which you can see the parallels.
I’m a huge Mad Max fan, and this video has some great insights that I’d never heard before! Thanks for all the research and work putting this together!
Road Warrior is my favorite, but I still don't understand why they probably wasted just about a tanker worth of gas (with all the vehicles combined) chasing down a tanker worth of gasoline.
Three films shaped me, Star Wars, Mad Max and escape from New York. As soon as I could ride a bike I started with the leathers, 35 years later I still try an go for the MFP look.
I can't tell you how much all three of those films inspired me in the same way, I wrote countless terrible comics about all three of those and I also tried writing my own Mad Max script as a kid, I also made a really great Mad Max Halloween costume.
@@bentramer682 my father used to be a huge fan of mad max and I remember him when I was a kid help me build " post apocalyptic " cars out of matchbox cars and leftovers from plastic model kits 😊 And yes I did the same thing to with drawings of monster trucks with blades on the wheels and turrets on the back 😁😄
They took "fake it 'til you make it' to a whole new level. It's worse than Tarantino but i guess that's how classics are made. Love the movie tho. One of the first movies i had seen when the VCR came out. Thanks for this !
Funny that Harlan Ellison comes up in this. After, he did use Jim Cameron over similarities to one of his short stories written for The Outer Limits. Kind of shocked he didnt go after Miller and Kennedy as well. The dog being in the film must not have had enough merit, when he talked to his lawyer.
The line about speed and money is ancient car culture line. Often phrased more humorously as: "Speed costs money, how fast do you want to spend?" There's nothing special about it being in two films and it is probably in countless films with all sorts of variations.
When I hear about artist copying or "stealing" from another artist I think of a quote from Ozzy; He said "steal the best, fake the rest." It's not that Miller made a derivative biker flick. It's that he made the best derivative biker flick.
Miller created something great, didn't know why it was a hit, and he admitted to it, trying to analyse it. Lucas created something great, didn't know why it was a hit, and just went with it, smiling that he got lucky.
@@LeSensuel Even the original Star Wars (A New Hope) he did was mediocre, and mostly saved in the edit (including his wive at the time), he didn't direct any other movie in the Old Trilogy and was only a co-writer for the screenplay. That being said he did have a great idea for the world and overall plot, he started something far beyond him.
@@rubbers3 "was only a co-writer for the screenplay. ". Lucas wrote Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi all alone. Lawrence Kasdan came in to rewrite at later stages.(Leigh Brackett contributions were all but abandoned but Lucas still credited her out of respect).
If u want first hand descriptions on how original Mad Max was done ? U should have been on the Mad Max Tours they had in Victoria. Johnny The Boy Lives & Toecutter Diehard Tours. We had Andrew Sluggo Jones/traffic director & Dale Bensch & Terry Gibson stuntmen from movie.
It is yeah! I realized it when I was watching it for the first time and I thought "That's like the Nightrider and the Lobotomy eyes scene - the whole movie" and then BAM, they pull out a special one off Interceptor, that can't be a coincidence...
@@MadMaxBible If you ever get a Chance, wat the Car Chase From The Seven Ups with Roy Schneider. To Me That Blows Away The Bullit car Chase. Same Stunt Driver Too
Crazy that 20 years later I find someone who mentions Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. I even had it on recorded VHS. I loved! Much more than Vanishing Point, which might sound like a sin for some, but...
You didn't mention the New Zealand film "Battle Truck." It was shot before MM2, but not released until after MM2. therefore many people think Battle truck is the copy. But they are wrong.
The batwing skull stuck with me from the first time I saw the road warrior. It was my introduction to mad max. I was probably 12 and my parents had a tape of 3 movies. The princess bride, labyrinth (David Bowie) and the road warrior. I watched the road warrior over and over, just enamored with the cars, and the styles. But that batwing skull car.....oh I always wanted to recreate a replica.
This was fantastic. As a fellow TH-camr I can empathize with how much time and effort this took to put together...And it shows, well done. Cant wait for Part 2!
Totally AWESOME. To show something that will totally change your perspective on something, without changing your opinion. A lot of people would have tried to twist that information to make you feel a certain way to prove their point. Well done ... cant wait for part 2.
Great stuff. I learned something more about how these great movies were made. Mad Max 2 is always going to my favourite of all Mad Max movies. It is just *that* good. After seeing it the first time in mid 80's, the charm has never worn away.
Brilliant account of the the Mad Max phenomenon. You have definitely found your calling in making these kinds of documentaries. With regards to what elements Kennedy/Miller borrowed from other works - it's almost impossible to make a completely original movie...especially by the 70's when so many amazing examples had been produced by that decade. Whichever works the two were inspired by - they included and remoulded the best elements of those, combined them with their own ideas, and produced a truly iconic series of movies.
The movie Stone is a must see. The stunt where the guy drives of the Sydney sea cliff almost killed the stunt man. The very ending scene has got to be one of the most sever beatings in cinema history. The guy who's beaten can barely be recognised as a person.
Spectacular stuff. I thought I knew a good bit about these movies but you've taken it to another level. Also: Tarantino was another who liked to "borrow" from other movies. Imitation - flattery and all that?
Very good video! It reminds me of a premise taught to us in an introductory film course I took way, way, way back in my college days, which basically asserts: Every film that's made is influenced by the films that were made before it, to some degree or another [some more subtly, some less so]. The Mad Max films have had an undeniably huge influence on the post-apocalyptic/dystopian future film genres, but it doesn't stop there. Manga writer Buronson, of Fist Of The North Star fame, cited Bruce Lee and Mad Max as the two biggest influences on that now famous work. And the first two Mad Max films had an unmistakable influence on 2004's comic book superhero film The Punisher.
Very astute insight on MadMax.. but the crucial element that shattered Max, was his child and wife being murdered on the highway. Also note in Beyond Thunderdome, when Max goes up to Aunt Entity's lair above Bartertown: he hears a saxophone for the first time since his beloved had played for him in their home. His eyes as he walks forward, definitely convey some kind of reminder in him of his wife.
Thanks! About Max hearing a saxophone for the first time in years - that tracks because even though it's not in the film, in the script it says that Bartertown is the first semblance of 'civilization' he's seen in 15 years or so. He's really been out there for that long.
The movie The Sugarland Express [1974] might have been an influence as well. From memory there's also a brief scene where cops go to a garage to pick up high performance pursuit vehicles.
This was a fantastic video. Lots of new stuff. I thought that Mad Max 2 was a retelling of the first Mad Max, but with a bigger budget. I remember reading that George was unhappy with the budget of the first movie. He wanted to do the same chase we saw in the second movie, but could not do it.
Honestly, I think the simple story and visual storytelling alone could easily be appreciated by anyone. You could totally still have an entertaining visual experience even without knowledege of the material the film took inspiration from.
Haven't watched the video yet, but as I recall...The bikers were real bikers with real bikes and no costuming, paid in beer. The ambulance was rented with beer, the Van that gets smashed was the actual van of the director just with the engine taken out. And everyone almost died at some point.
I think one thing that should be pointed out as influences are Westerns for the first movie and Samurai movies for the second. For the overall plot that is. The first one. Take it back 100 years and replace all the vehicles with horses. Lone lawman goes up against travelling bandits. They kill his only friend, then kill his family. He must track them across the desert, find them, and get revenge only to ride off into the sunset. That is 95 percent of westerns. Mad Max 2. A lone warrior finds a village under siege by a warlord who wants to exploit their resources. Against all odds he helps stop the warlord and save the villagers. He remains tortured by his past and cannot remain so he moves on. It's like 95 percent of samurai movies. Plot wise they are simply a western and a samurai movie with a coat of paint slapped on em.
And you can go deeper into it. The over the top crazy leader of the first one...western. The more soft spoken menacing warlord of the second one...samurai film. The attachment of man and his car is like man and his horse in a western. The way he draws the shotgun in the second one is like a katana. It's pretty obvious that there are major influences everywhere.
This is how most ideas, whether movies, music or many other things come into being, is from gathering other ideas and influences. EDIT: EXCELLENT content by the way! And A Boy and His Dog had Don Johnson in it and it’s a strange flick. I believe it can be found on YT!
I can't wait for part 2. I'm really curious to find out what Thunderdome was "ripped off" from. Of course it famously has elements from the novel Riddley Walker. The stuff about Stone and Crazy Larry here is amazing.
Great video, I particularly liked your rather simple but good explanation of the story pattern theory! recommending to read some more on that in books by Claude Lévi-Strauss
You said in this video that clips from The Dismissal was used at the intro of Mad Max 2 which would have been impossible cause Mad Max 2 was released two years before The Dismissal was aired on Australian television.
Yes that was a mistake on my part. Although they were working on both Mad Max 2 in post production (the intro being the last thing they worked on I was told) and The Dismissal which was released later. Thanks for the correction!
What was the music in the beginning of this video when George Miller was reciting Joseph Campbell's quote from his book The Hero Has A Thousand Faces? Very haunting and revealing for Max's mythical character. Great job man. It strikes a nerve in me. What does that say?
You have some of the best quality mad max content on TH-cam
Thank you! It takes a while to research and put together but the point is to make quality stuff that can be re-watched many times instead of pumping out gibberish without any real substance every day :)
@@MadMaxBible Couldn't agree more, Mr. Snooker. Great research and presentation! Thank you, MMB
Some of? It is THE best Mad Max content 👌
Definitely
my car payment is due next week and i don't have the mondy😢
As a fan of the Mad Max lore which is stagnating due to the lack of new movies and sequels of the game, I can't thank you enough for keeping the flame burning!
Road Warrior was the first movie in the series I watched as a kid. Fell in love after that.
It was a couple of years after becoming a fan of Road Warrior at around age 8 that my dad made me aware there was a "prequel". When I finally saw it, it was the horrendously dubbed Americanized version, and I thought most of it was ass.
Americans renamed Mad Max 1 the Road Warrior.
I saw mad max 2 first along side the exterminator
Saw it on HBO in 82. Didnt see the first one until 1997. MM addict ever since.
I remember watching the Road Warrior with my dad back in the late 90's. It was amazing, I loved it all. I was only maybe 7-8 yrs old. My girl, she loves Fury Road but doesn't like the classics.
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You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome on the highways of Valhalla!
Hallelujah! Not mediocre! 😊
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In Part 2 I'll be talking about how crazy things got with the creation of Beyond Thunderdome and especially - Fury Road.
That video will be up next week and then we'll go into detail on Immortan Joe's empire (a true deep dive) and after that expect a video on cars of Fury Road but from a 'real life' perspective.
I hope you're enjoying this content and as always:
Stay Shiny and Chrome!
Awesome. Great video and a great lineup of vids to come! Viva MMB!
Can't wait for part 2 and 3, I've loved Mad Max series since I was a child and you've made the best Mad Max related videos I've seen on youtube, keep doing the good work!
Cant wait for parts2&3
part 2? - oooohhhhh yeeeeesssssss.....
@@emulation2369 See ya in 6 months for part 2 !
Mad max movies are some of my favorite movies of all time. I even liked thunderdome, I'm glad to see this channel isn't dead.
Sure you will find many connections to other movies, but the biggest is the connection to the silent movies from the 20s. Mad Max movies are very visual movies and that takes these first two ahead of others. Think about the supercharger protruding through the bonnet. The visualisation of power and evil aaand he can switch on and off. In Max 1 switching on and the hunt begins. Remember the open sequence of Max 2 he could escape with supercharger, had to quit and take the fight. Or the monza front like a mask, the colors of the cars (the bright yellow) and even photography. There was a new way of telling an old story and that it is, what Mad Max made Mad Max.
And there is something else in Max 1. He kills without touching them, even the car has no scratch. It's much more psycho. And in Max 2 this changes from the beginning.
When you think you know everything and discovered something that you never knew about the Mad Max franchise.
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Never thought I did. Kist enjoy learning. Why I subbed to this channel. Same with MFP, and a couple others.
Frankly put, MM2 is what made me a gearhead. It started my interest in cars, and car centered films, more so than the car related TV shows of the time.
Enough so that I've spent the last 42.years enjoying the media, attending car.and bike shows, and always having a project vehicle, or 5, ever since. My wife is the same way.
Currently doing a 12 valve Cummins swap.on my 91 K 2500, for my wife, restoring, again, my 73 F.250, that I picked up in 94, wien I wasn18, and restoring a 95 Suzuki Savage 650, and a 71 Norton 850 Commando.
Mad Max...
An unforgettable movies series...
The Toecutter Gang is probably one of the most menacing, eccentric, unique on-screen fictional gangs of all-time. Byrnes' Toecutter, he acted that ingeniously. Right up there with the Clockwork Orange gang, which you can see the parallels.
biggest comeback in TH-cam history. glad to see it.
It’s been a rough week here, Mad Max content is exactly what I needed now! ❤️
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This was packed with info I didn’t know and so well put together!
I’m a huge Mad Max fan, and this video has some great insights that I’d never heard before! Thanks for all the research and work putting this together!
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The original Mad Max is one of my favourite films of all time.
Road Warrior is my favorite, but I still don't understand why they probably wasted just about a tanker worth of gas (with all the vehicles combined) chasing down a tanker worth of gasoline.
That part while sleeping and seeing the laughing face of Mad Max... 😆😆😆😆
Hell yeah glad ur back
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Three films shaped me, Star Wars, Mad Max and escape from New York. As soon as I could ride a bike I started with the leathers, 35 years later I still try an go for the MFP look.
I can't tell you how much all three of those films inspired me in the same way, I wrote countless terrible comics about all three of those and I also tried writing my own Mad Max script as a kid, I also made a really great Mad Max Halloween costume.
@@bentramer682 my father used to be a huge fan of mad max and I remember him when I was a kid help me build " post apocalyptic " cars out of matchbox cars and leftovers from plastic model kits 😊
And yes I did the same thing to with drawings of monster trucks with blades on the wheels and turrets on the back 😁😄
They took "fake it 'til you make it' to a whole new level. It's worse than Tarantino but i guess that's how classics are made. Love the movie tho. One of the first movies i had seen when the VCR came out. Thanks for this !
Thanks for taking the time to make these videos mate. Love these deep dives and it’s always a pleasure to see you’ve uploaded.
Funny that Harlan Ellison comes up in this. After, he did use Jim Cameron over similarities to one of his short stories written for The Outer Limits. Kind of shocked he didnt go after Miller and Kennedy as well.
The dog being in the film must not have had enough merit, when he talked to his lawyer.
Good to see you back with another amazing video. Can't wait for part 2.
The line about speed and money is ancient car culture line.
Often phrased more humorously as: "Speed costs money, how fast do you want to spend?"
There's nothing special about it being in two films and it is probably in countless films with all sorts of variations.
When I hear about artist copying or "stealing" from another artist I think of a quote from Ozzy; He said "steal the best, fake the rest." It's not that Miller made a derivative biker flick. It's that he made the best derivative biker flick.
Miller created something great, didn't know why it was a hit, and he admitted to it, trying to analyse it.
Lucas created something great, didn't know why it was a hit, and just went with it, smiling that he got lucky.
George Miller went on to make multiple good/great and a masterpiece. Lucas never directed a good movie since Star Wars.
@@LeSensuel Even the original Star Wars (A New Hope) he did was mediocre, and mostly saved in the edit (including his wive at the time), he didn't direct any other movie in the Old Trilogy and was only a co-writer for the screenplay.
That being said he did have a great idea for the world and overall plot, he started something far beyond him.
Funny how life pans out hey mate. ✌🇦🇺
@@rubbers3 "was only a co-writer for the screenplay. ". Lucas wrote Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi all alone. Lawrence Kasdan came in to rewrite at later stages.(Leigh Brackett contributions were all but abandoned but Lucas still credited her out of respect).
And still is Lucas' Ep4 is higher rated than Miller's MM1.
I just found your channel and timeline videos today. I wanted to watch more and was sad you hadn’t uploaded in a while. Then you drop this. Thank you!
If u want first hand descriptions on how original Mad Max was done ? U should have been on the Mad Max Tours they had in Victoria. Johnny The Boy Lives & Toecutter Diehard Tours. We had Andrew Sluggo Jones/traffic director & Dale Bensch & Terry Gibson stuntmen from movie.
A new video from this channel is a major event. Thanks for the amazing research!
That Dirty Mary Similarity is Spot on
It is yeah! I realized it when I was watching it for the first time and I thought "That's like the Nightrider and the Lobotomy eyes scene - the whole movie" and then BAM, they pull out a special one off Interceptor, that can't be a coincidence...
@@MadMaxBible If you ever get a Chance, wat the Car Chase From The Seven Ups with Roy Schneider. To Me That Blows Away The Bullit car Chase. Same Stunt Driver Too
Crazy that 20 years later I find someone who mentions Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. I even had it on recorded VHS. I loved! Much more than Vanishing Point, which might sound like a sin for some, but...
You didn't mention the New Zealand film "Battle Truck." It was shot before MM2, but not released until after MM2. therefore many people think Battle truck is the copy. But they are wrong.
The batwing skull stuck with me from the first time I saw the road warrior. It was my introduction to mad max. I was probably 12 and my parents had a tape of 3 movies.
The princess bride, labyrinth (David Bowie) and the road warrior.
I watched the road warrior over and over, just enamored with the cars, and the styles. But that batwing skull car.....oh I always wanted to recreate a replica.
This was fantastic. As a fellow TH-camr I can empathize with how much time and effort this took to put together...And it shows, well done.
Cant wait for Part 2!
This is beautifully made. Thanks for doing such a nice job!
Totally AWESOME. To show something that will totally change your perspective on something, without changing your opinion. A lot of people would have tried to twist that information to make you feel a certain way to prove their point. Well done ... cant wait for part 2.
Videos like this are why I keep coming back!
I can’t thank you enough for this in-depth mad max video.
Great stuff. I learned something more about how these great movies were made.
Mad Max 2 is always going to my favourite of all Mad Max movies. It is just *that* good.
After seeing it the first time in mid 80's, the charm has never worn away.
Brilliant account of the the Mad Max phenomenon. You have definitely found your calling in making these kinds of documentaries.
With regards to what elements Kennedy/Miller borrowed from other works - it's almost impossible to make a completely original movie...especially by the 70's when so many amazing examples had been produced by that decade.
Whichever works the two were inspired by - they included and remoulded the best elements of those, combined them with their own ideas, and produced a truly iconic series of movies.
Thank you so much for making these! Your hard work is very much appreciated by Mad Max fans.
can't wait for part 2!
The movie Stone is a must see. The stunt where the guy drives of the Sydney sea cliff almost killed the stunt man. The very ending scene has got to be one of the most sever beatings in cinema history. The guy who's beaten can barely be recognised as a person.
Spectacular stuff. I thought I knew a good bit about these movies but you've taken it to another level. Also: Tarantino was another who liked to "borrow" from other movies. Imitation - flattery and all that?
So glad you're back to making more videos!
Thanks a los ti brings us a special so clear and objetive about our
So favorites movies since our childhood. Greetings from Panamá.
Waited for u so long. Totally worth it.
Very good video! It reminds me of a premise taught to us in an introductory film course I took way, way, way back in my college days, which basically asserts: Every film that's made is influenced by the films that were made before it, to some degree or another [some more subtly, some less so]. The Mad Max films have had an undeniably huge influence on the post-apocalyptic/dystopian future film genres, but it doesn't stop there. Manga writer Buronson, of Fist Of The North Star fame, cited Bruce Lee and Mad Max as the two biggest influences on that now famous work. And the first two Mad Max films had an unmistakable influence on 2004's comic book superhero film The Punisher.
Very astute insight on MadMax.. but the crucial element that shattered Max, was his child and wife being murdered on the highway. Also note in Beyond Thunderdome, when Max goes up to Aunt Entity's lair above Bartertown: he hears a saxophone for the first time since his beloved had played for him in their home. His eyes as he walks forward, definitely convey some kind of reminder in him of his wife.
Thanks! About Max hearing a saxophone for the first time in years - that tracks because even though it's not in the film, in the script it says that Bartertown is the first semblance of 'civilization' he's seen in 15 years or so. He's really been out there for that long.
The movie The Sugarland Express [1974] might have been an influence as well. From memory there's also a brief scene where cops go to a garage to pick up high performance pursuit vehicles.
Amazingly done man 🙌🏼👏🏼🇦🇺Mad Max 1 & 2 that’s one of my greatest influence in my life thank you for this fine documentary I bloody love it mate !
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5:51 Aussie here, and the subtitles definitely helped! 😆
This was a fantastic video. Lots of new stuff. I thought that Mad Max 2 was a retelling of the first Mad Max, but with a bigger budget. I remember reading that George was unhappy with the budget of the first movie. He wanted to do the same chase we saw in the second movie, but could not do it.
Fascinating. We all have influences. Thank you for making this very well made documentary.
Why do you think George miller never admitted his influences publicly?
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Honestly, I think the simple story and visual storytelling alone could easily be appreciated by anyone. You could totally still have an entertaining visual experience even without knowledege of the material the film took inspiration from.
I really enjoyed this! Never imagined those being the sources of inspiration for Mad Max!
As many have said, I’m so happy your back
Really well done doco. 👍
Brilliant work, the best I've seen about the series. Great work!
To me Mad Max mainly seems to be a story about the constant struggle against Anarchy.
Do you think that Miller's original idea for Mad Max before all the post-apocalyptic stuff was added was the inspiration for the film Nightcrawler?
It might have been, only the creators of that movie know for sure.
@@MadMaxBible Cool, wasn't sure if you'd ever explored that topic.
Great video, look forward to part 2
Glad to be inching down this Rabbit hole.....love all the borrowed themes.
Does anyone know the song that is playing at 0:55? Thank you!
I think it’s from the mad max 2 soundtrack
@@fr0nkky20 Thank you very much, my friend! I will have a look into that! :)
I am looking forward to the next installment of this series. Your work is fascinating and enjoyable.
All hail the true wordburger master. Along with Oliver Harper, the best movie related YT channel. May the holy V8 be always in your favor.
That was very chrome what you said, witness!
Awesome video with lots of info I’d not heard before. Fantastic thank you 🙏🏼
Finally a new video from you!
Ahh, I see your back
How do you see his back?
@@DadaPoopooI always see his back
@@Roadkill-Films Who's back?
He’s alive... Finally
Really, really good, a great surprise to see this come up. Well done! :)
Haven't watched the video yet, but as I recall...The bikers were real bikers with real bikes and no costuming, paid in beer. The ambulance was rented with beer, the Van that gets smashed was the actual van of the director just with the engine taken out. And everyone almost died at some point.
Really incredible research. Thank you so much.
Welcome back!
Omg finally a new video!!!
Magistral. Mil gracias
I think one thing that should be pointed out as influences are Westerns for the first movie and Samurai movies for the second. For the overall plot that is. The first one. Take it back 100 years and replace all the vehicles with horses. Lone lawman goes up against travelling bandits. They kill his only friend, then kill his family. He must track them across the desert, find them, and get revenge only to ride off into the sunset. That is 95 percent of westerns. Mad Max 2. A lone warrior finds a village under siege by a warlord who wants to exploit their resources. Against all odds he helps stop the warlord and save the villagers. He remains tortured by his past and cannot remain so he moves on. It's like 95 percent of samurai movies. Plot wise they are simply a western and a samurai movie with a coat of paint slapped on em.
And you can go deeper into it. The over the top crazy leader of the first one...western. The more soft spoken menacing warlord of the second one...samurai film. The attachment of man and his car is like man and his horse in a western. The way he draws the shotgun in the second one is like a katana. It's pretty obvious that there are major influences everywhere.
This is how most ideas, whether movies, music or many other things come into being, is from gathering other ideas and influences. EDIT: EXCELLENT content by the way! And A Boy and His Dog had Don Johnson in it and it’s a strange flick. I believe it can be found on YT!
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Great doco. Thanks for making it.
I can't wait for part 2. I'm really curious to find out what Thunderdome was "ripped off" from. Of course it famously has elements from the novel Riddley Walker. The stuff about Stone and Crazy Larry here is amazing.
Great vid... love Road Warrior... i just watched The ultimate warrior and you are right. Very dissapointing to learn about this.
I feel there's an influence also from Robert silverbergs novel Damnation Alley.
welcome back legend , i love your videos
That was great! When is part 2 coming out?
Next week!
Cool!
What about the chain reaction garage scene w all the actor/Easter eggs from MM??
Man this was great footage my dude! Mad Max 1 and 2 for life!
3 and 4 were cute.
Great video, I particularly liked your rather simple but good explanation of the story pattern theory! recommending to read some more on that in books by Claude Lévi-Strauss
At least they ripped off old movies and made new good ones instead of just remaking great movies into crap
Holy shit i forgot I was subbed to you dude. But I'm glad you uploaded again.
Nice to see you back!
w0w thank's man! Great vid!
What's your story Max? ....PapaGallo
You do the Best max research ...thank you
You said in this video that clips from The Dismissal was used at the intro of Mad Max 2 which would have been impossible cause Mad Max 2 was released two years before The Dismissal was aired on Australian television.
Yes that was a mistake on my part. Although they were working on both Mad Max 2 in post production (the intro being the last thing they worked on I was told) and The Dismissal which was released later. Thanks for the correction!
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What was the music in the beginning of this video when George Miller was reciting Joseph Campbell's quote from his book The Hero Has A Thousand Faces? Very haunting and revealing for Max's mythical character. Great job man. It strikes a nerve in me. What does that say?
And love all your videos Keep up the fantastic work
Great video, thank you Sir!
Superb video.awesome research.thank u