Exploring Mad Max
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- A look into the hugely influential ozploitation film Mad Max.
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The fact this was partially paid for with beer might be the most Australian thing ever.
I wonder if they had a Barbecue going on set with some Bunnings Snags
instaBlaster.
'The best desolate places in Australia'
Otherwise known as 'Australia'.
shut up american patriot you've never been to australia
polykov yup I was just gunna say that. America is in no way better than Australia
@@polykov798 there are these new magical things called "jokes". you've probably never heard of them.
4 years later, still havent covered the sequels
Just found out from his best and worst of 2015 video that he didn't like Fury Road. Earned him an instant unsubscribe from me after years of subbing. Petty? Maybe, but I don't care.
@@friedpickle8332 he also like jurrasick park 3 texas chainsaw 3d adn fan4tastic but do not like chainsaw massacre remake?
Wait for real? :(
That’s kinda shocking tbh, yea it’s not like the original 3 but it is pretty damn close and great on its own. Shame really
@@kingimmortanjellyrobert9163 yeah for real and it is a shame really
As an Australian, my reaction to hearing that most of the crew was paid in beer was just 'yep, that sounds about right.'
I am so glad he mention the Saw thing, I was watching Mad Max a few years ago with a friend, and when it ends the main character does this "game" when he gives a choice without really giving it and only further tortures more his victim. We both look at each other and said "wtf the very first jigsaw is Mad Max" and now after years I actually find out it was true!
I now love this movie even more after learning that they paid a lot of people in beer.
So I guess if I'm ever going to Australia, bring beer as currency, got it.
Ulfbert Also we hate Fosters. So don't drink that stuff.
Rickbane01 I already did, my god it's horrible. Only reason why I picked it up was the novelty large can it came in.
It works well. Got a carton to help my brother wire his new place. Six pack went to the garbo for coming on xmas. Another to the neighbour for helping put the cabinet together. The rest sat in the fridge for everyone else.
Ulfbert I have some Aussie fans that let me know this is fairly accurate
And porn !! so I aaam toooad !! [trying to type in an aussie accent !! ] This was a groundbreaker for action films ! and yes as he noted spearheaded the whole post -apocalyptic leather and diesel thing!!
The film that beer built
Kinda funny that Gibson, as an American, could probably have done his own dubbing for the US version.
literally thought he was aussie all my life til your post (think i got him convused with Rick Springfield somehow....)
I'm pretty sure mel gibson is Australian
@@matthiasthulman4058 He was born in the US. Moved to Australia when he was 12.
@@airmackeeee6792 wow. Well, I had no idea
Im a newly graduated stunt man from queensland and holy shit I hope I get called up to work on a new Mad Max film for some cartons of beer
I had the Special Edition DVD in my collection for years before i finally got around to watching it, but when i did i instantly fell in love with it. The full leather police uniforms, the batshit crazy stunts, and the Australian accents just did it for me. This made me appreciate Mad Max so much more now and i can't wait for your next Exploring vid, i love the series!! Also its crazy how far a couple of cases of beer can take you.
Mason Daniels thanks!
Still one of the best film franchises to date , even the new one hit it out of the park.
fun fact some of these places are where i grew up its interesting to see my suburb as it was 20-30 years ago when it was all just farmland
Excellent, excellent. Fury Road kicked major ads by the way. 70 year old George Miller puts these young "hot-shot" directors to shame. Fury Road may be his best feature and the most unique action film in a long time. Nice to see Hugh Keyes-Byrne again too! Beer anyone?
Mattadoire thanks!
+GoodBadFlicks love the intro
I've been watching your channel for over a year now, and me being a young 17 year old Australian citizen, I've gotta say that you did this exploring video phenomenally well. Finally Australia gets recognised for the development of something in media. anyway did you also hear about that shout out by that movie reviewer Chris Stuckmann for your exploring on the second Blair witch film? I gotta say if your getting shout outs your doing fucking great. keep up the great work.
+CplHicksjr -- dubbing the whole film over into "American" might have helped jump-start Mel Gibson's career and started that wave of Aussie action stars. Since Mel did his own dubbing, directors didn't wrongly assume that Aussie actors couldn't fake an American accent.
Kinda like that story about Bryan Singer only wanting an "American actor" like Hugh Laurie.
@@deathisSkele-ton nah bro that film was ace, and probably the last time we'll ever see a well-written, believable female action hero for the next ten years.
So much creativity, innovative ideas, unknown cast, low budget. Director really shines.
things i love about this: paid in Beer. When i moved here in 06 i found beer as actually currency! it was hilarious to me.
Also mad max road scenes are basically 17-25 year old people in the out back with cars.
I am thoroughly;y convinced that in Australia Beer is common currency, but kept separate from the more valuable drinking beer
hey you know what, your fuckin right.
nah only taking the piss out off you, it's an Autralian tradition to take the piss out of foreigners
I had to collect my car from a property in Cairns recently (northern tip of Australia) and the battery was flat, having sat in a storage lot for 2 months. Fortunately there was a guy working on his Nissan Patrol in a property next door and he happily stopped the work he was doing, came over and jump started my car. Didn't want anything for it of course, but I promptly went off and got him a carton of beer.
we don't call em cases here mate there slabs
This is why we export Fosters and keep the good shit for ourselves..... Fosters is our joke on the rest of the world... The "Fool's Gold" of Beer....
We use beer for currency in America too. We were musicians in this time period and often were paid in beer....lots and lots of beer and drugs too of course.
I love this movie. one of my all time favorites. The ending is one of the most badass moments in cinema!
Great video. Two things though. Gibson wasn't just "hired on the spot" based on his looks. According to an interview with Gibson on the recently released Mad Max bluray, he had to memorize a monologue real quick and perform it for them that day. He said he barely got any of it right and just bullshitted through it, but they liked it.
And second, I'm curious where you got your info that Mad Max was a smash hit in the US and made that much money because I've read Mad Max was a hit everywhere but the US. This lead to Mad Max 2, the original title of the sequel, to be renamed The Road Warrior because American distributors didn't want audiences to think it was a sequel to something barely anyone in the US saw, the first Mad Max. On the bluray, the title sequence even says "Mad Max 2", with "The Road Warrior" no where to be found. Road Warrior was the one to be a smash hit in the US. This is what I've read, but let me know what you found if you can spare the time.
***** I read that they made the title 'The Road Warrior' in the US because they didn't know how many people actually saw the first one, which actually ended up making it bring in less money. So, they could have made more money advertising it as a sequel but made the mistake with the title (If my information is correct that is..).
Also, as an Australian, hearing the dubs for the US version is hilarious!
Based on the extras on the recent original Mad Max bluray, the first one didn't do that great in the US, but did everywhere else. Road Warrior was a big success in the US.
The original dubs have been restored over here in the US.
Honestly, I'm surprised the movie did as well as it did in the first place with budget restrictions. Its great that it did not go unnoticed considering how much of an influence the franchise has had on so many people.
Overall I am not surprised that Road Warrior was a much bigger success in the US, but I always thought it didn't quite reach the success of the original.
***** The first movie didn't do well in the US or Canada. That's because the company that had the North American distribution rights was basically two brothers running the company out of their garage. They didn't have the money for promoting the film and the only places it got any screen time were the big city art house theaters. When the second movie was made they called it The Road Warrior in NA and got one of the big studios to handle promotion and distribution. And it was a huge hit.
spiff2268 Exactly, so I dont know where he got his info for this video when he said the first MM was a hit in the US.
This was also the film series that inspired the popular manga/anime, Fist of the North Star.
The original is still my favorite!
Bloody oath. Shut the gate on this 1 Maxy, its the Ducks Guts.
Thanks for showcasing this, it is a classic back here in Aus. The other two don't harness the Australian spirit as much as the first one. Also the location for a lot of the scenes was Broken Hill, and it really is in the middle of no where. A few XB Falcons get around these days and it gets everyone excited like it was the 80s again.
grxzy nah mate. Broken Hill was the location for Mad Max 2. The original was shot around Spotswood, Altona, Little River, Avalon, Clunes and Thomastown
@@fenderfetish Years back, when I worked for a rail freight company in Newport, I'd drive past 'The Halls Of Justice' each day (in front of the Scienceworks building) ... the old pumping station, in the shadow of the Westgate Bridge.
This is probably my favorite guilty pleasure: ultraviolent post-apocalyptic action movies with awesome cars- and this is the one that started it all..........
Wait, what?
Toecutter is Immortan Joe????
*EYES BUG OUT*
*HEAD EXPLODES*
My dad and this club he's in put a lot of work into customizing this Mad Max-inspired VW bug for a show in Chattanooga. They repainted every inch this battered-looking grey color, put a hand grenade on top of the gear shift, handcuffed and fake severed hand to the rear bumper, and attached a machine gun to the roof rack, with a little hatch in the top to reach it from. Overall, it was super badass.
Great coverage of a true homegrown cinematic classic. New Aussie sub here who has been following your videos.
Keep up the good work man.
I just love how this movie was filmed and the details behind it. It's so unprofessional it's awesome, just some newbies trying to make a film and learning along with it. I love how the dude was nice enough to return the signs.
Awesome look at an awesome film. I love how much detail you put into your videos, thanks for doing what you do!
Psychostick for the win! Also...
>The video mentions the filmmakers paying people in beer.
>Psychostick has a song all about beer.
>Coincidence, or Illuminati? Probably the former
JustAwesomeT beer is good!
Hanging out with Vince Gill. AKA "The Knight Rider" 3 year ago was a thrill. Although we didn't get our film made with him. I was fortunate enough to here stories of that time. And got to see Fury Road with a gentle man, who was thrilled to see a film made on a shoe string budget come so far.
1:50
Mel was my age when he starred in Mad Max?
Damn...
Grew up on a farm in Australia and one summer fixed a strangers tire for him late one evening. Sent him on his way, didn't think any more of it. Next evening, a mysterious carton of beer on my veranda. Aussie currency.
Let me be clear, one of the best things to come out of Mad Max is the wonderful character actress, Sheila Florence. While her role in Mad Max was small (May Swaisey) was small, her talent was obvious even then. A year later she would be signed to what became her signature role 'Lizzie Birdsworth' on the long running Australian soap opera 'Prisoner' (this show would--like Mad Max before it--become so popular it would become a world-wide hit even in the USA where it was known as Prisoner: Cellblock H). For a good look at Miss Florence's talent watch a few episodes (all episodes are available for free here on u-tube).
Dude.. just started watching your videos... and i'm amazed! love all of it! keep up the good work!!
Thanks!
Awesome break down of this movie can't wait till you discuss the other ones! Keep up the great work always looking forward to your shows.
mwheeler22 Thanks!
actually the reason why they dubbed over the Australian dialog was because of the poor mixing, and sometimes the score would overwhelm the dialog, so they figured dubbing new lines in it would help
Great review as usual. Love the camp villains in this film, particularly the toe-cutter, with his rolling eyes and make up!!
Barry C well Thanks!
Oh man... "Stone"... that brings me back. It was the first film I ever saw on video way back in the late 70s. Even though I haven't seen it since there are scenes from it that I will never forget hehe.
Fun fact: Max's family name (Rockatansky) is derived from the name of a dissection technique (Rokitansky).
It's beer that makes the world go round.
Many of us wouldn't be alive today without it
World makes my beer go round.
7:57 "George Miller made the sequels The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which I'll cover in future episodes"
8 years later and we're still waiting, Cecil
These things take time
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend "Not Quite Hollywood", a documentary on Ozsploitation films. Also, I love "Babe: Pig In The City". Never realized it was the same director.
Keith Fulkerson Great doc
I'm not this movie's biggest fan, but that's more to do with it not really being my genre. Having said that, the final scene is absolute gold.
So much better than any of the sequels. "A few years from now" is much more terrifying than "after the nuclear war."
When you buy the DVD, the back of the box has both "English" and "Australian" as optional languages. It's phenomenal
I have seen them all... and love them all almost equally.
@Bro Vado yea I can't disagree that Fury Road was one of the best films of the last two decades, but I grew up on Road Warrior. I own an original first edition of "Vic and Blood" and I still prefer Road Warrior.
When it's time for a haircut, I tell my girl "give me a 'Wez.'"
@@jmlkhan5153 I no longer have a girl :(
@@ericrhodes5174 Liberation party, friend
The Mad Max trilogy was the first set of Rated R films my dad let me watch (when I snuck out of bed late at night and he was up watching them).
I'd love to see a Goodbad Flicks on Doomsday: that overlooked often criticized Mad Max homage gem that's well over the ten year old mark
I love the exploring series but understand they take a long time to make. Keep up the great work!
Sci-Fi-Night thanks! I'm trying to do more of them
The hard work shows^^ You're one of my influences, I really dig how you put your videos together, looking forward to more exploring-videos! :D
Sci-Fi-Night :)
Is it ridiculous that I watched this with my dad back in the 80s. I bloody well loved it.
I especially liked the sound effect used for the motorcycles!!
awesome vid, and this gets me hype to go see the new one later this week
edgar velasco thanks!
Fun fact, Goose was supposed to turn out to be the Great Humongous in the Road Warrior causing Max to totally lose his mind in the script. It was cut out though.
Massively under-rated, groundbreaking film that is overshadowed by it's sequel. But this is where it all started.... Love it.
Yeah Son! Great timing for a great Aussie Film. Our filming scene here at the time was rubbish, how things have changed...sort of ;p Now we must all travel to....(whipsers) the Thunder Doom.
Fine ass review on a classic flick I grew up watching it along with ''The Road Warrior'',''Cyborg'',''Steel Dawn''&''Escape from NY'' ''Mad Max'' is what started this type genre with a bang I herd so/so things about ''Fury Road'' not so sure about it to be honest Cecil have you seen it yet?
Had to stay up until 1 am to see this on TV when I was a kid. I've been a car nut ever since. "The Toe Cutter... HE knows who I am!"
Looking forward to one on mad max 2
I used to live where this was shot. Unfortunately, they forgot to take the extras away at the end of the shoot.
The original is a classic, hands down. When I saw an AMC AMX Javelin. for sale (at age 20) I had to have it. Closest to the Falcon I was gonna get. The beast was too fast for me, but not one accident, not one dent.
Hugh Keys-Byrne is one of my favorite actors and I wad so glad he re-emerged in Fury Road.
Maybe the greatest revenge pic of ALL TIME.
I will always remember the MPD dept tempting Gibson character with the Falcon supercharged car, so he could join the police dept.
In Australia we have a terminology called 'nouse' which means being able to amazing things with what little you have. Mad Max has a shitload if nouse.
I never made the connection between Saw and Mad Max. (Feels dumb, I need a beer)
I can see when they went over the stunt scenes
while getting stuntmen drunk: *i bet you cant ride on a bike from the bridge*
*what you say I cant do? watch me!*
Hold my beer??
Nice! Can't wait for your take on "The Road Warrior"! That movie really made me fall in love with the end of the world!
Great work! We watched it yesterday. Now I know why the voices felt strange.
Rekettyelovag thanks!
4:40 - The term "Under Crank". Just so people know what this means. If all films are shot at 24 frames per second. They would shoot a scene at 18 frames per second, then speed it up to 24 frames to make it faster. This is under cranking. They do it in a lot of fighting action scenes as well.
Thank you for the review.
One of my favorite movies.
Vlado Buster thanks for watching!
I just watched a video where Miller said that Gibson's face wasn't beat up during his audition
Great as always! can't wait for road warior and beyond thunderdome episodes
David Alin thanks!
Australia is like one giant Frat... help someone move get a case of beer, loan some one your car get a case of beer, risk terrible spinal cord injuries get 2 cases of beer! XD
boooRatt1 it makes it all better!
Moral of the story: If you want beer just star in a Mad Max movie.
I like it more than any other. Road Warrior had B-Movie vibe and was pretty cool. Beyond Thunderdome was... Waterworldly-planetoftheapeish. Fury Road felt AAA. But first Mad Max is like nothing else. It's amazing. It's mmmm. Closest to whatever the apocalypse could be.
Still waiting for those episodes on Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome - hope to see them eventually!
I'm going to do a spot of obnoxious name-dropping: at the Warner Bros. press hospitality suite during Comic-Con, I met George Miller, shook his hand and told him "my favourite movies are Happy Max and Mad Feet." He laughed. Best thing ever.
Jedd Jong LOL he's a class act. I probably would have done the same thing. I was a muttering idiot when I met Marc Singer.
GoodBadFlicks Haha I sincerely hope he knew the Spoonerism was an intentional joke on my part! Man, I really wish we got to see what his Justice League movie would've been like.
+Jedd Jong As much as I agree with the sentiment, I have to say I was glad when that movie was mooted.
I mean... shit, not happy that people were out out of work and all that. But from the perspective of a comics fan and a superhero fan (and particularly DC and Superman) I had to question the logic in blowing your wad by introducing all these awesome characters in a single movie? I have the same problem with Supes v. Bats (along with many, many others... Probably Miller's JLA would have been the lesser of two evils in retrospect...)
The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Manhunter from Mars, The Atom, each of these characters could have entire franchises built around them, and then be brought together á la The Avengers once they've all been established. And we can always use more Batman and Superman.
I mean, since copying Marvel's formula is what we are here to do anyway, which I don't think is a bad thing, especially provided you do it right. Get yourself a Kevin Fiegie to oversee the thing and keep the big picture in mind, and who cares about each character and their potential to reach an audience (I recommend Paul Dini or Jeph Loeb).
Otherwise, hell _yes_ I'd love Miller to be involved. He has always been one of the premiere action/adventure directors and he could do beautiful things with DC's toybox.
Mychael Darklighter Very well said. I'm rooting for Batman v Superman, and Suicide Squad looks spot-on in tone. Unfortunately, both Paul Dini and Jeph Loeb are with Marvel. Jeph Loeb is a Marvel TV producer and Paul Dini has been writing and producing the Marvel animated series Hulk and the Agents of SMASH. I really wish that DC had hung to Joss Whedon when he was making the Wonder Woman movie, then he'd be overseeing the Justice League instead of the Avengers.
I love the fact that, the same year Mel Gibson made this, he also was in the movie Tim. What acting range! Must have been the beer.
The American dubbed Mad Max is a Good/Bad Film. The original, un-dubbed Mad Max is a Good/Great Film.
My parents took a trip to Australia in the mid-Eighties and asked if there was anything they could bring back. I asked for a videotape copy of Mad Max so I could hear the original audio. The one store they went to where they found it (my parents never traveled to go shopping, but to see the actual sites) the store refused to sell it to them because they were Americans and our videotape standards were different.
When I finally saw Mad Max with the original audio, it became so much better, Hugh Keays Bryne who plays Toecutter changes his vocal performance in every scene.
I'm not a big fan of post-apocalyptic desert setting that this series made so damn popular, but I did like the movie. Fun fact, it was banned from public viewing in my country of Sweden, and even though it was shown on TV and released on VHS later, the public viewing thing lasted until 2005!
What does "public viewing" mean? Like at a movie theater, or a drive in? Or do you mean any viewing by the general public?
I can never understand why I didn't like this movie as a kid. It just never interested me. Then I watched it again after this video. Gotta say, hell of a film!
Not only a great cinematic achievement, but its influence is such that "Mad Max" has become synonymous with "anarchy" in everyday speech.
Do a video on Babe: Pig In The City, the single greatest film ever made
Jack Rae lol not thanks
That's a weird old film that one. Wasn't too bad I suppose.
CplHicksjr Read Eaters of the Dead.
Jack Rae I want the masterpiece mmf4
Jack Rae ive been hearing that alot lately🤔
GoodBadFlicks, just curious as to your opinion on Fury Road if you've seen it.
XenoKaiju finally saw it the other night. I liked it but sadly, it was oversold for me. So while I did enjoy it, after a solid month of hearing how it was the greatest thing ever (while also having just about every cool thing ruined, like the guy with the flamethrower guitar) it just wasn't as magical for me as it was for others
GoodBadFlicks Gaming is suffering through the same thing. Over hype is ruining many things, but after three years of gaming over hype. I am learning to accept that no game or movie is perfect. I'm also learning I'm an old fart at the age 30. I think if I was 12, Jurassic World would be magical and wonderful. To me now, it's just a good summer movie.
I do think it's the same for you GBF, The new movie won't be magical cause we already had that time that the Mad Max story shocked us and blew our minds, but I do feel if we were kids, Road Fury would blow our minds like the old MadMax did for us older guys
kasinalpha no he said it was ruined for him because people spoiled to him the best parts of the movie. this is why i dont talk to people about movies i am going to watch.
+GoodBadFlicks Rob Ager just put out some videos comparing Fury Road unfavorably to Road Warrior. Gotta say he convinced me.
TheSchmuck2 but that guy was too nostalgic. it kind of felt like watching a fanboy reviewing it. he hasnt convinced me yet. the only guy that has ever convinced me with a movie is cecil.
Escape From New York played probably an equal influence in Italian post apocalyptic films
Both great classics !
discovered this channel a few weeks ago ... and I gotta say ... I FUCKING LOVE IT ...
Thank you!
What did you think of Men At Work from 1990?
The Nightrider's car was certainly not an old taxi. How many coupe taxis have you seen? It was a 1972 General Motors Holden HQ Monaro, a classic Australian muscle car as was Max's 73 Falcon XB GT.
They weren't considered classics back then. The movie came out in 79 making the falcon only 6 years old ..
Great episode man, really enjoyed this one. Keep it up!
Kanapka thanks!
looking forward to your Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome videos. love these movies.
+TheSchmuck2 Thanks!
Terrific movie and a great example of what can be done on a small budget. Hollywood needs to get back to doing that.
tio borracho Indeed.
love your channel.
Kreeder766 Thanks! :)
I love the exploring series
Terry Gibson stuntman rode the Goose bike and the Toecutter bike in all the high speed scenes carrying David Eggby once on the back all at High Speed. All the high speed scenes were REAL (not sped up)which is why Mad Max is fantastic ! The scene where the bikers chase down the car and smash it up is sped up alittle thou.
Another great video. And I agree with you, the horror and violence is more about what you imagine, than what you see.
I know I've already suggested Highlander 2, but I'd also like to suggest, Dust Devil, The Island of Dr Moreau, 90's version and Transformers the Movie (original animated)
James Cooke I love Dust Devil! Actually, I love all of Richard Stanley's work
GoodBadFlicks Dust Devil is a great film. I've got the Directors Cut on DVD :). Have you ever read his script for Hardware 2? Its called Ground Zero and its brilliant
James Cooke I think there is a copy on the Hardware Bluray. I really hope Stanley gets back to making movies. He is a treasure.
I love his work
I'm half Aussie and I believe the Toe Cutters are, or were, a real Australian gang.
I believe the camper that was trashed belonged to the director, too.
Maybe it was because I was so young when I first saw this film but after watching it the first time, I couldn't sleep for days. The violence was so visceral and "real" feeling that certain scenes got stuck in my head. If a kid to day saw this for the first time they might not think much of it but back in the late '70s or early '80s, this level of gritty, unromanticized violence was not as mainstream as it is now. Now with Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, it's easy to see what an absolute master of filmic narrative George Miller is.
Wish I still had my VHS overdubbed version. It would be worth...a VHS tape
one of best videos u ever make mate...
templarchaos thank you!
Really nice stuff about Mad Max that I didn't know. Now I wonder if I saw it dubbed or not. Probably not. I was wondering what you would say at the end. Cracked me up! :)
Siderite Zackwehdex :)