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- Bog Rear, the down under cousin of film analyst Rob Ager, presents a collection of interesting and cryptic details regarding the classic action movie (and still easily the best of the series) MAD MAX 2 the ROAD WARRIOR.
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I always found it interesting that quite a few of the bad guys were ex cops, and actually looked a lot like Max and his friends in the first movie.
They are more likely wearing the clothes from the cops that they murdered
And cops are well known for shooting pets just because, in the U.S. at least.
I always thought mad Max was just a contemporary documentary about daily life in Australia
It's not too far off, if you go out bush ... far away from the cities and City Folk ...
xD
Definitely is like mad Max here in Australia if the drop bears don't get you the people from the wasteland will !!!
Who runs BarterTown?
virgosintellect Tony Abbott.
The Road Warrior is one of the greatest films ever made.
Its called 'Mad Max 2' you seppo.
I agree , Even though it don't have the budget like Fury road, the story is about Max and not Furiousa .
Andrew Thompson - The full title is Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior. In the US it was originally released as "The Road Warrior" because Mad Max had a very limited release & hardly anyone saw it. Funny, but I was speaking to Virginia Hey who plays the Warrior Woman via her facebook page a few weeks ago. I called it The Road Warrior when speaking to her about it & she didn't have a fucking problem with that. That's good enough for me.
Dan Reese - I didn't think much of Fury Road. The Road Warrior is definitely one of those "less is more" kinda flicks.
runlarryrun77 Miller said he has many chapters in he would liked to pursue but the guys 70 . I guess the only way to make Fury Road a hit was to write in Max and put his name on the title to grab the fans . This isn't much of a story the start from one place and circle back at the end . Max seemed wrote in awkwardly and just for the ride . Nice action and continuity the way action scenes edited are tight and not flashy . Stunt men worked for their money is all the good things I can say about the film . LOL
One of the best post apocalyptic films ever made
wait, what is the best one?
@@midgetman4206 the first one , maybe . Fist of the North Star and book of Eli are up there for me . Road warrior set some benchmarks
To be honest 'The Road' is possibly the most accurate in its depiction. Bleak and honest and no fancy pants action
And snowpiercer.
Check it out.
I've been a max head for decades.
@@midgetman4206 Fury Road is the best one
Hearing a bird in a movie in such situations will always be used intentionally to show how lonely the area is. If you can hear a bird up in the air it is quiet and with that lonely and broad land. There is a call of a hawk that is used so many times in these situation, that it became the most used sound effect in Hollywood movies "bird hawk screech". This works on an unconsciously basis, every filmmaker should know.
It is also used in the television series "Friday,the 13th"...A Cuckoo clock would always ring in the background when a customer/guest would enter the "Curious Goods" store. It would "cook" a few,or many times,mattering how crazy or cookie the guest was.
Similarly, I've noticed snake rattle sounds as well. In any environment type. Usually the first time it indicates "aloneness" and the second time is usually "approaching danger". Then it kind of just gets abandoned after that.
The same bird sounds were used in some scenes in Mad Max.
@@culcune Fury Road has dozens of instances of this. 🦅
I have a hawks nest near my house--in a major city, but when I hear it I was always think "damn....just like in the movies"
Here’s a little detail I noticed after way too many viewings: when Max first leaves the colony, Pappogallo, when asked who’ll drive the tanker, replies that he will, he’s twirling a little hourglass in his hands. An hourglass full of what? Sand, of course. May mean nothing, may be a bit of foreshadowing.
ME too !!
Nice observation. Yeah, that hourglass could refer to the ploy of filling the tanker with sand, and also to Pappagallo's own impending death in the tanker chase. His time is almost up.
How about referring to time as in Buying Time which is what the ploy was all about. Great observation.
Or maybe he was waiting for Max to volunteer... 🤔
hanshotfirst1138 wow, yeah!
Max's leg is in a brace because he got shot in the leg in the first film IIRC
Bubba messed Max up for life!
I thought it was because his leg got run over by a motorcyle. The guy was toying with Max and by the time he turned around to finish Max off Max had crawled to his gun and he killed the guy.
OroborusFMA Bubba shot out Max's leg. Instead of finishing Max quickly, he began "toying" with him. Bubba ran over Max's arm as he reached for his sawed off shotty. When Bubba returned to finally kill him, Max blasted him with the shotty. Bubba's overconfidence was basically his downfall.
"Quit toying Bubba!"
+OroborusFMA
Nah, they ran over his arm after kneecapping him. That's actually why his sleeve is cut off in the later movies, he had to do that to treat his arm wound.
The sleeve was cut off so he could draw his side-arm faster. Part of his adapting his wardrobe so he could do what he had to do.
Something I noticed about the Gyro Captain. When he smiles at Max at the end when Max finds out the fuel was just sand as a decoy, it could be that the gyro captain told the settlement people to empty the fuel out the tank and somewhat trick Max just the same way as Max tricked the gyro captain by having no ammo in the shotgun throughout the movie. Max smiles at the gyro captain knowing he tricked him in the same way he did to him earlier.
I think it was probably Papagallo's idea to use the truck as a decoy. The Gyro Captain was most likely in on the deception & gives Max the smile & raised eyebrows as a kind of "We fooled you but I'm sure you understand why" & Max's smile & near laugh in return is him acknowledging "Yes I understand & it worked a treat."
Or it could have been a, "We did it," smile.
Good points from you both ,ghettoblaster36 and runlarryrun77. Good to hear other view points.
About end of mad max 2.Which has triggered the line in film... ringing in my head...
'Round and Round, Attack Attack, like angry Ants Mad for Smell of Gasoline". But he had added the Line "Moths to The Flame". Which is exactly how film ends.They just used that against them...
Their burning desire to get the fuel at all costs.Gyro and pappagello tricked them.
Thanks. Film has been explained crystal clear now. "empty all this time... low, dishonest!" ha.
Max himself is just a pawn in the game,used, left with nothing in end.But his smile.The Warrior of the road.
Films about The prescious Juice and the deception :)
Good idea!!!
I never thought of it that way. Awesome
My interpretation of Max tossing away the die always was that he doesn't believe in luck. Considering his past, he's never had much.
Ain't that the truth
I saw this movie when it was out in the theaters under the American Title: "The Road Warrior" ... it was the 1st and only time I ever returned to the theater the very next day to see it a second time.
Same here, but a week later…
I was never able to make out the pinup on the gyrocopter before. It's Karen Elaine Price, Playboy Playmate of the Month in January 1981.
I assume everyone with a Australian accent is a expert with the Mad Max movies. Probably a mandatory class in high school or something.
First saw Max Max II in year 10 at high school, in Australia, aged 15 ;-) Took a bit longer to get to see part one, because both are R rated. MM II made a huge impact, especially when i read it was shot in my state's back yard, a few hours up the road. I can still remember watching it for the first time, 32 years ago....
funny you should say that dream the endless... as a matter of fact in year 9 media studies, my teacher actually showed mad max beyond thunderdome as a study in cinematography. My teacher had not actually seen either of the previous max movies and I introduced her to them, I actually lent her my tv recorded copies of mm1&2 to watch and presented solid arguments to how they were far superior movies. 1 month later she came back to me nearly speechless, handed me the two tapes, and simply said with an almost white face and dropped jaw- "you were so right, these movies are EPIC and beyond thunderdome is crap! Thankyou" then she gave me a brief hug. I felt so happy that someone who was supposed to be a mentor on a subject, I reached on such a deep level and exposed her to the magnificence of what is the real mad max.
He's a plastic Scouser not an Aussie. He's tweaked his own voice the fucking ratard
he's clearly a pom.
I have a cousin who swears that he lived up the road from the remains of the pursuit special for years
...and the road warrior....That was the last we ever saw of him, he lives now, only in my memories....
He showed up again for the much lamer 3rd movie.
The revolver shown at 0:59 is a Smith and Wesson model 29 with an 8 3/8 inch barrel and a cheap Tasco fixed 4 power scope attached. This is an odd set up because that type of scope is intended to be used on a sporting rifle, not a handgun. The Model 29 wasn't produced until 1957 and was never adopted for military use so it's connection to the WW 1 is dubious. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_29. The man in the vintage photograph is wearing a British Commonwealth Army Officer's 1908 Pattern uniform dating from early WW 1 so the Prussian Hussars emblem could be a trophy he acquired during his service. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Pattern_Webbing
Something tells me that Eurotrash4367 is the type of person not to be fucked with.
Those rounds are too small to be .44. Looks like a .357mag to me. I have both.
As a person who likes writing and the idea of a movie. Sometimes you have to go with style. I own guns myself if I ever make movies they're going to be art pieces more than a practical choice
@Cat Lover - I love history, guns and my cat.
Long eye relief is what you want in a handgun scope though
There is more going on with the "Bird" symbolism than just a scavenger. Its a crow and it played a similar role in the first film. Once Goose is burnt alive and the film cuts back to Bubba watching indifferent, the crow is heard. The second Jessie and Sprog (Max's wife and son) are run over, the crow is heard again. When Max gets out of his car in his ambush scene the crow is heard and again when Max handcuffs Johnny the boy. The crow represents death and is around Max almost like a warning or as though Max is like death himself and is followed by the crows.
yes he has nailed that observation
Interesting that you mention that it almost seems Max is death himself. I read a very interesting theory about Fury Road, which suggests that Max represents Death (as in the Horseman of the Apocalypse), Immortan Joe represents Pestilence, the Bullet Farmer represents War, and the People Eater represents Famine. It's possibly slightly over-analysing something which is, at the end of the day, an action movie, but it's still quite interesting.
While the scavenger bird is the easy call, there are a few quick-cuts to a bird of prey [Falcon, Hawk?] which in some Cinematic languages is the bird of 'Justice'.
Crows are the bad guys/corpse eaters, Hawks are the noble warriors, masters of the skies, the 'sky cops'.
gutz1981 hmm. this even plays out in fury road. the swamp was filled with crows.
Greg Gallacci I might be grasping at straws here but George Miller very nearly directed Justice League a few years back. Synchronicity
I watched MM2 literally a hundred times on vhs. The quality was so bad I couldn't read the "vermin" text on the truck. Missed the pinup on the gyrocopter too. It's like watching a whole new movie now. Also, I'm 30 years older.
I remember seeing the pin up in the theater. I was way too young for such a film but man did it caught my attention. :)
I like how you included the humanity of the villains. I also noticed that they were not mere random thugs, but shown multiple times throughout the film. I was impressed that the "punk rock guys" in the cobra truck survived the chase, even though they were involved in much of the carnage, including the death of the "warrior woman". By the way, that Ford truck still exists in someone's backyard. The buggy that survives was also shown earlier.
Something's wrong with the audio. It's coming out all Australian.
No it isn't LOL
BWAH AHA HAHHAaa!
Whenever my American friends say Aussies sound like Poms or Kiwis I tell them they sound like Canadians.
BWAAAAAHHHAHAH!aa! THAT is even more hilarious!
That's because it's 180` out of phase with your ears. You need to turn your computer upside down to compensate.
I love when guys like you get so much into detail & show me stuff I didn't know but movies.
If you watch the road warrior US version on closed caption you will hear Humongous refer to two gangs. he says "gayboy berzerkers to the left and warboys to the right"
Gayboy berserkers & Smegma crazies!!!
bubba zanetti from mad max 1 is probly founder of gayboy berserkerz. lol.
Like your avatar art by William Kurelek .. cover also of one of favorite albums by VH. Yeah what Humongous is saying.. its that kind of subtext that movies are good for.
Didnt know that...judging how the humongous was dressed and his second in command he was a Gay boy😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@kenrivers9757 id say a Gay Lord
Interesting stuff. I always felt like The Road Warrior was a story based mostly on man's addiction to keep the machines they built to keep moving and how medieval traits come into play when social collapse has happened. The story of a man who's been through hell and back becomes the unlikely hero while redeeming his humanity and innocence by putting others in front of him. Perseverance, humility and strength. When Max and the Gyro Captain both share the laugh is the first time you see Max smile and take back his humanity. There is still emotion under the shell of a man. Thanks for the video!
2 days ago I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker, you want to get out of here you talk to me
Two die-s ago, oi soar a rig that’d hall that tanka! You wanna get outa heah?? You talk to moi. Damn it’s hard to spell an Aussie accent😁
Well i did actually see a tanker rig two days ago down at the gas station LOL
Very interesting video but I believe the real reason that you don't see Mel Gibson's face on the (American) cinema poster is because he was practically still unknown to North American audiences.
The bird is a crow, stand absolutely anywhere in Australia for 30sec & you'll hear one
video3ish that was my thought. You’d struggle to film a scene without one.
@@seymourskinner2533 100%
I always believed that many of the marauders were former MFP guys.
Their vehicles don't suggest it, but who knows?
bad guys with glasses and leather jackets look like they are because they wear leather jackets, use police cars and some of them even have somekind of ID badges on them
They are indeed former MFP
And I always thought that they were nomad trash who murdered MFP officers and looted MFP stations.
Toivo Kesseli They don't look like MFP vehicles, but different districts could have different vehicles, or they are from another law enforcement agency.
Humungous's deaths head is a pre WW1 Prussian insignia , not an SS deaths head.
II. Prussian Life Hussars Regiment
I always assumed the pistol and case was something Humongus looted. It had no personal connection to him.
I’d prefer it to be part of history showing how the waste land corrupted him
@@robertodell9193 I had same impression watching it recently but earlier I used to think like there was some special significance to it... I think it depends on the audio for cues and the way it's been messed with influences how much attention you give to the act of opening the box vs. what's inside the box.
My great grandfather was a Hussar in WW1, yes... he was Prussian.
He lost a leg to a Russian machine gun on Oct. 7, 1915 in Galicia and later went on to become secretary for the Potsdam Polieze.
He passed away in 1937 due to the lasting effects of his wartime wound.
The skull was worn on their hats.
I've seen this movie enough times I could probably recite all the dialogue from memory, but I didn't notice most of this stuff. There's so much quirky, unexplained stuff in the film that even for a pretty simple and straightforward storyline and little in the way of character depth and background, there's still new ways to look at it over 30 years later.
When I saw it as a kid circa the late 1980's I didn't understand half of what was going on, especially the Golden Youth character. It really wasn't until I saw Pulp Fiction a few years later in 1994 and they brought out The Gimp that the character started making more sense. In this age of recycling and rebooting classic franchises, The Road Warrior is prime for back story spinoffs of so many characters like he and Wez, the Gyro Captain, and most importantly, The Humungus. I'd give up my last gallon of precious juice to see a movie about his story, to see his life before the apocalypse, what happened to his face and the story of the mask, how he became the Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah, and, most importantly, see if he really was in fact once a reasonable man.
I always thought he might be Max's Chief of Police he worked for in the first movie. A LOT of similarities but also, Max kinda foreshadows it when tells him "if I spend much more time on the Road, I'm gonna become one of THEM" 🤔
0:48 no one ever speaks about the neck brace Humongous wears. Yes, it seems obvious his face is horribly burned (maybe a cop turned bad or jaded from one failure too many, or a holdover from the "Goose" twist mentioned many times below), but I think it infers that he may have a bodybuilder body due to him going to rehab/physical therapy due to injuries that extended beyond his head wounds/burns.
The gun case could have been stolen, but I do not think so. I believe his father was in the "good" war (WWII) and it is a memorial to what is left of civilization to Humongous, ie he came from a good, well off family with respectable parents.. and yet the apocalypse has turned him into a beast. Even the significance of the amount of bullets could signify what little "civility" remains in Humongous, as once he uses those bullets, his special and unique gun is worthless (as opposed to Max's commoner shotgun, where he can find shells for it almost anywhere).
I know humongous was originally supposed to be goose from the first film. they seem to have carried over the burned part.
World War II Overlord experiment
Remember fe fe from part 1 the caption of the bronzes bald guy could he fit in
@@penguinpie5056 Lot of people seem to have run with this theory...where did it come from? Its complete balderdash btw.
formally sir hugh mungus
"The spitting image of Max himself". I would never have thought of that, but it's actually quite interesting. Especially when you think about one of the posters of the first Max Max movie, where Max appears with his face concealed.
yea, it just reminded me of luke skywalker facing himself in the cave lol
Posters from MM1 are bizarre...looks more like Goose in some of them and in others they stick a helmet on Max when it was Goose who wore it.
Mostly because that art was done before the movie as even cast.
Would have been good had the crossbow wielding excop gang member been revealed as the guy with the electronic voice box from MM1.
Such a masterpiece!!! I tried for years to convince my friends and family but no one believed me. I’m glad I’ve found people who appreciate this movie. And to this day, I still haven’t watched Fury Road.
Femenism road
Don't bother
You’re definitely better at film analysis than mimicking accents Rob!
I knew there was a reason... or many, why this is my favorite movie of all time.
It's good that someone finally did a proper film analysis, unlike that hack fraud Rob Ager.
Yeah, Rob Ager sucks
... sucks Nitro!
Are you fucking kidding me? Did you not actually watch the movie either? Fuck you and 4 years ago you!
The ripped cover on the rig @6:01 says The Vermin Have Inherited The EARTH !
42 years ago when this came out, a small circle of friends and I wondered what it would B like to live such dystopian nightmare,....none of us thought we'd live long enough to see it
This is DEFINITELY the best Mad Max movie.....ever. no discussion, no argument.
When I was a kid I thought the 7 Sisters logo was the 7-Up logo, like they would haul soda-pop in a tanker truck!
When I lived in L.A., one of the main convenience store chains was 7-11, which has their trademark cup called the Big Gulp as their self-serve fountain soda cup. However, most 7-11s did not have gasoline. When I moved to Arizona, the big convenience store chain is Circle K, most every one I have seen has a gas station. The tanker trucks that deliver the gasoline have their trademark soda fountain drink cup, Polar Pop, advertised all over the trucks, so your thought is actually not that far off as far as what you thought was 7-up delivered in a tanker truck could have been 7-up paying product placement advertising on a gasoline tanker truck.
Initially, Lord Humungus was suppose to be Goose from Mad Max. He was burned but never shown to die.
When the Policeman/Marauder kills Max's dog, it may represent the current version of Max being killed by the personification of the police officer Max, or what he could have become.
Max begins the film as somewhere between the Marauders and Settlers. The dog's death can also represent the final link to his previous family/life, and now must choose between the two paths.
My cousin and I snuck into this movie as 12 year olds and were absolutely godsmacked, as we had never seen anything like this. (Gay punk bikers with red Mohawks and ass-less chaps!)
When I first witnessed Max shoot the Marauder off the roof of the semi, I reacted exactly like the Feral Kid.
I always assumed Humongus was Max's former Chief of Police 🤔
The Feral Kid is an interesting element, both in the story but also cinematically. Lots of films include a half-sized mini-hero, or attache to the hero comic relief. Rarely does it play well with audiences who show up for a serious thrill ride. Usually it is the adults who are just fed up, but the kid is there as a hook for younger audiences. In the case of Road Warrior, it's the opposite. Kids don't identify with the feral kid -- you can't even tell easily if it's a "he" or a "she". But to adults there is an importance to the relationship the kid has to the people of the refinery and also Max that makes the film something more than just a "death race" film. They tried to duplicate that in Fury Road with the "handicapped woman kicks butt to save the sex slaves" social commentary angle, but that backfired for everyone but the running dog of media critics and their parrots. But the feral kid seems like he could be at home with Humungus's gang... he's literally portrayed like an animal. But it's the refinery people who take him in. And when Max throws him out of the car it's because he is trying to give the kid a future with a society, not the future of feral animals (again, the connection between Max and the dog applies here). Then you get the voice-over at the end where the Feral Kid says he became the leader of his tribe. So really the film turns out to be about the destiny of the Feral Kid. One tanker of oil may have put them ahead of the game for a while, but it was having a child among them that gave their society the ability to survive. That's an idea that gets mulled around in Thunderdome as well, as the kids from the Oasis are unable to have a society with adults. You have Auntie trying to build a society on pig snot, but there is no future there without children. The children, on the other hand, are living in a utopia but also don't have a future without Max. Then there is the fact that Bruce Spence (Gyro captain) returns in Thunderdome as Jedediah the pilot, who has a very young, but very precocious son. If Jedediah is in fact the Gyro captain... which seems plausible, it begs the question what was he doing in all that intervening time. Also remember the catalyst for Thunderdome is that Jedediah gets the drop on Max's caravan wagon.
Ever since I saw the first two Mad Max films, I have always wanted The Humungus to in fact be Fifi, Max's boss from the original film. Of course, because The Humungus has strands of hair (as you pointed out), it most likely is not him. Just thought it would be a nice (unmentioned) character twist.
I always thought the same BUT, because Max foreshadows it when he tells Fifi, "if I spend much more time on that Road I'm gonna become one of THEM" 🤔
Thanks for the video. Max could also be a Moses character, who can lead the others to the promised land but isn't allowed there, becasue of his "sins".
Close, but it would be more a case of him choosing not to enter himself rather than not being allowed to :)
Road Warrior is one of the coolest films I've seen!
Fury Road wasn't bad, but it didn't come close to it's prequels.
This is flat out genius level stuff. A few years ago I tried to explain why Fury Road sucked so hard contrasted with The Road Warrior. All I could come up with was I cared when Virginia Hey's character died, and I wanted to adopt the Feral Kid.
He always reminded me of a little Eddie Van Halen, and remember he was fascinated by a little musical box.
@@johnscoone9310 Hell yeah, and destined for greatness just like EVH. Remember, the Feral Kid was the Narrator and eventual leader of the tribe.
Nice to know there's someone else besides me who thinks Fury Road sucks.
@@markkumanninen6524 dude i dont know what retards think fury road compares to MM 1 & 2. I can see fury road being better than MM3, which was shit, but 2? cmon...
though the new movie is not bad
i always like to think humongous was max's old boss from the first film
Naw couldn't be because we wasnt german or prussian lol...
I agree! Glad someone else catches that subtle hint.
@gopher wiretap thsts a good thought
The big bear! 🐻
Oh come on not this again!!! It is The Lord Humungus . Spell his name right or feal the rath of the Dogs of War.
The road warrior is one of my favorite movies, and def had alot of hidden meaning behind its characters and scenes. One theory on the fury road movie was that max represents death itself, while the other characters represent other incarnations of immortality, such as war, pestilence, etc. On that note, perhaps the 74 Ford falcon should've been white to represent a pale horse.
Could you imagine if max got in a fist fight with one of the ex MPF cops, pulled his mask off and imagined Goose's face? Talk about post traumatic stress disorder.
I think early in development, Humungous was supposed to turn out to be Goose, the mask hiding his burns. But that was scrapped 'cause it was kinda ridiculous.
Goose died tho....lol
@@kenrivers9757 Technically, he was on life support, as well as later on, so was his wife. My guess is they COULD have used one or the other, or both, in subsequent films since they never really died even though the insinuation would lead us to believe they did. His son did die which was mentioned by the doctors.
Thats not a tattoo of a woman thats a naval tattoo of a bird
Yes! & a Linda with Wings is Paul McCartney's late wife!
Yeah I don't see how he called it a woman's face.
That guy who you said was a cop might also just be someone who scavenged the uniform off of a dead cop
Several of them wear the same uniform
I don't think so, I will need to watch again, but it seems to me the ex-cop's uniforms looked a little cleaner than the costumes everyone else wore, so that kind of makes me lean to ex-cops they are keeping their uniforms clean as they can because the uniform itself is the last vestige of pride they have left. Remember form Mad Max " We're gonna take away their pride Johnny " I still lean toward ex-cops though.
you may misunderstand me, not saying the ex cops are trying to be good and do good, just saying their pride of "self" is all they have left, there is no good or bad in the Apocalypse, just survival, and the old adage "join us or die" and the ex cops joined the groups that would mean the best chance of survival to them but Goose being Humongus would have sent this movie way over the top, I am always torn between The Road Warrior and Blade Runner as my #1 movie
apple polishers around the world can't believe a cop has a dark side. Who the fuck wants to be a cop anyways, except psychos attracted to power?
Does everyone forget that Max was a cop too? He seems to not give a shit about human life anymore either.
it appears they revived the three-legged dog idea in the game, with the bomb-sniffing 'Dinki-Dee'
Always grates on my Aussie nerves hearing 'Dinky Dee', instead of Dinky DI (sounds like 'die') in that game! lol!
Fuck, now I have to replay that game -_-
Booyaka9000 it bothered me as an American. I mean, it wasn't Princess Dee, was it now?
Glad I stumbled on to this. Thank you.
Regarding Max and his dog, George Miller has said publicly that he was greatly influenced by a 1975 film written by Harlan Ellison and directed by L.Q. Jones. It starred Don Johnson. Very similar to the dynamic in Mad Max. It's an interesting film.
"A Boy and His Dog" was the movie title with Don Johnson. Also post-apocalyptic.
Originally A Boy and His Dog was a book, which Miller also took inspiration from.
@@Antiganos A Boy and His Dog is based on a short story titled, "Eggsucker".
@@1pcfred Interesting. Interesting how things inspire other things and so on
@@Antiganos the synthesis of novel ideas from disparate components is a hallmark of intellect. Folks coming up with ideas so to speak. Ideas themselves often have a genesis someplace. Upon examination strokes out of the blue tend to have origins. Often unlikely ones too.
I love the switch between Scouse and Oz?!It's hilarious!
Been a fan of your videos for years. Always very interesting and detailed. Keep it up mate!! Absolutely loving this one!!!
Do you think that the Humongous's scars might have been caused by radiation burns from a nuke?
It was originally planned for Humongous to be Max's old partner, Goose. After his death, there was to be an unmasking, and Max is horrified at seeing his old best friend (who we never actually see die in the first film). However, as Road Warrior was marketed and distributed on a much larger scale, primarily in the U.S., the idea was dropped. This was because most of its intended audience had never seen or even heard of the original film, and would be asking, "Who the hell is Goose?" A pity, because that would have been a cool plot twist to add.
James Mace yeah but then in thunder dome it turned out that blaster was that really obscure insignificant character in mad max 1, that old lady's son who has "the mind of a child" and that must have been pretty confusing to a wider audience so I think they should have gone with the goose idea. Aw man I loved goose
Possibly, but one thing about The Road Warrior - it never mentions a nuclear war. The Feral Kid's opening narration basically says that two powerful nations went to war over oil (with footage from a conventional war) and when the oil finally ran out it led to economic collapse and widespread disorder and chaos. This was very much already in progress in the original Mad Max, which is why the montage at the beginning of this film re-uses some of the same scenes when describing the fall of civilization. In fact the MFP (basically a paramilitary police force) would have been a symptom of this, being formed to deal with a rising tide of chaos on the highways that the regular police force couldn't cope with. What we see in The Road Warrior is just the end result of that slow decline. There's no evidence that any nukes have gone off, and no one even mentions nukes until the third film, where it almost feels like a continuity error. In fact, the Feral Kid describes Max as "a man who wandered _out into_ the wasteland", and Papagallo's tribe are planning to _leave_ the wasteland and head out to the coast, where they believe things will be more fertile and peaceful. This suggests that "the wasteland" they're in isn't a global post-nuclear landscape but just a lawless badland in the Australian Outback, and the declining civilization that Max walked away from might still exist beyond it.
Rob Pegler
Pretty much how i have always felt about the films.
James Mace... it would have been REALLY cool to find that this was Max's old boss FiFi and that the other "cops" were Roop, Charlie, etc...
That guy who plays wez plays the character bennet in arnies movie commando and has his aussie accent to.
He also plays Mr. Igoe in Innerspace, his name is Vernon Wells, he also is the crazy Punk biker in Weird science
Vernon Wells(Wez) also plays a baddie in a MacGyver episode.
Yep
@Jack D What's even better is the vest wasn't made for him. There was going to be a differnet villan ( who was smaller is size ) who wore it. They figured they already paid for it to be made. So they said fuck it and had him wear it. Honestly I think it was the right choice. We're still talking about it 30+ years later. :)
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They're great films, and I've always taken them for just that. You can't expect the viewer to have the film makers enthusiasm for the minutia of detail put in to the production. I'm feeling that maybe too much has been read into it. The most important thing about them is that they are Australian, and they have the antipodean spirit running through them continuously, and it's a refreshing change from the gung-ho shit winning issue type of film you would have got if the Americans had made it. They are no hope distopian and all the better for it. God bless Australia
What happened between Mad Max 2 and 3 would make for a movie or AMC series on it's own.
Actually, looting the dead would be routine for everybody. Especially ammo. Cause they ain't makin' no more, so shells would be worth more than gas or water.
Besides, dead people don't need possessions. The living do. Hell, even the guy criticizing Max scavenged the parts to fortify the refinery.
And I agree it would have been awesome if he'd pulled the mask down and been shown to be like Max. Or better yet, be one of the surviving cops from the first movie....
@Ben Finny originally the Humungus was supposed to be Goose, but they thought the first movie wasn't popular enough to make it a plot tie in
That Crazy acrobatic convoy jumper from this movie is what makes the rest the Mad Max feels like there is something missing. I keep expecting to see one like that every movie. Haha!
this movie is in my heart, my soul, and my mind.
Julius Morgan I share that sentiment exactly!
WoW! I started to watch Road Warrior since I was 8/9 and I discover with your video some details. Thanks dude!
I watch this movie at least two times a year it's just magnificent. They don't even try to make films like this anymore
I feel ya only it's more like 12 times a year for me 😀
Man I love these films! As a kid, I would draw different versions of the vehicles. Especially the one Max drove...everything had side pipes. Thank you for this. Brought back some fond memories.
Same here!!!
Wow, can pls make about Mad Max 1, there's a lot interesting characters like Bubba Zanetti, Toecutter and Johnny the Boy
"This, is Cundalini. And Cundalini wants his hand back."
@@LurkMoar101 Night Rider called you wont need it .
I cannot believe i watched Fury Road last night on Foxtel and what pops up on my first click on You tube today , those bums are watching our every move .
Interesting. Being an 80s child myself, I obviously consumed a ton of action movies as a kid. None of them, have stayed with me like the Road Warrior. Watching it for the first time, I felt that there is something totally different about it. Maybe the fact that it wasn't a stock Hollywood movie, had something to do with it. But I guess I was mainly shocked and intrigued, by the pure nihilism portrayed by the film and all the underlying themes that left a lot of questions for a young boy. This movie stands the test of time, because it's not just an action movie. It's a study in human nature.
@6:32 - Scut Farkus had yellow eyes.
“His lips curled over his green teeth.”
Probably jaundice -- needed to get that checked out, but he probably never saw a doctor (or dentist)....
_"C'MONNNN CRYBABY........CRYYYYYY!!!"_
Now I have to go back and watch it ten more times. Great job
Also, the tanker that fuel and blood is pouring from has 'Mother Earth' painted on the side.
If you're talking about the scene from the beginning of the movie with Max collecting fuel, the fuel wasn't coming from the truck. It was coming from the vehicle max had caused to crash there. The truck wasn't hooked up to a tanker at the time, either. It was hooked up to a cargo trailer with a tarp hung on it, with a message painted across the trailer and truck together, reading "The vermin have inherited the earth." "Earth" was the only word on the truck itself.
+thinredpaste
You are correct...I wonder where I got Mother Earth from?!
If I recall correctly, the truck had graffiti painted on the side which read "The vermin have inherited the Earth", with "Earth" written on the driver's door. That may have been what you were thinking of.
The Road Warrior (as it was billed in the US) was more than just another action movie. Certain genres of film had been stuck in the B and under category with rare exception until the late 70's when the kids who grew up on cheesy monster and scifi B movies became adults who then raised the bar. Star Wars took scifi up to A status, a feat not even Kubrick's masterpiece was able to achieve. Alien from Ridley Scott trades cheesy sets and monster costumes for a vision of realism that immerses the viewer into the bowels of a doomed space craft where the hunters become the hunted. And The Road Warrior. The idea of post-apocalyptic world with scavenger survivors had a bold entry with Planet of the Apes but the social commentary was race related rather ecological, and the culture was decidedly non-mechanical. Machines, even a talking doll, were shunned. In The Road Warrior, a world destroyed over a global battle for the waning supply of fossil fuels is relatable to the daily lives of viewers in any industrialized nation. The scavenging of bits and pieces of tech and the fuel to run them mirrors everyday life for 1st worlders and our efforts to maintain a vehicle that allows all other aspects of existence in our societies to then happen. Like the second chapter of Romero's zombie films (that too standardized that genre) The Road Warriors subtleties of daily life anyone could relate to mixed with the kill or be killed survival mode is very close to work place dynamics, competitive educational tiers, even childrens youth sports. This genre defining film was so piercing in Western culture that to this day references to its scenes and characters are still made and understood within media as well as regular conversation. An 11 year old kid living in rural middle Georgia. USA, watches this movie in a theater seat again and again, more so than any other, by far, during those years. Why? It was relatable even to him and his friends. Huffys were the scavenged together modes of movement, dirt trails in fields the apocalyptic desert. Football pads and a torn shirt completed the fantasy of our gang of road warriors - chasing the tankers we imagined from the cows we thankfully never caught up with. Wow, this vid and commenting about has raised up memories in this now 48 year old man that were long dormant - but not forgotten. THAT is to me what makes a good film great. It stays with u for decades.
@Jeff T
I too live in rural GA and really admired this film and one of the few that I could watch over and over and discover new things. It had huge appeal to so many!
Such a great movie. Could only have been created in Oz
I knew the guy who made the cars for this movie,his name was Robyn. Can't find any credits for his work,but I've seen the cars and have photos, I met him in the mid 90s , used to catch up with him at the usual hippy bush doofs. Anyone know how he's doing?
F'n great break down. Even though I've watched this movie probably 20 times since '84 now I've got a new perspective. You Aussies are almost as cool as us Florida Boys! ;-)Good work Brother!
Pretty cool details. I have purchased this film on Demand and i watch just the intro at least once a week. It's so cryptic , apocalyptic. One of the best intro's and movie's of all time. There's nothing like it. Me and my buddies used to watch it on cable all the time in the early 80's when we were kids.
I know this vid from 3 years ago, but you were kind of wrong about the 'humans never have yellow eyes' bit.
There is a condition called Jaundice that changes the pigment of your skin and eye whites to be yellow.
Yeah it's possible, i even remember Hans Rudel (WW2 BOMBER ACE) talk about his own yellow eyes in his book, that is about his story on the eastern front
I'm sure the word "Ayatollah" was only used because it rhymes with "rocknrolla", which make it sound like a cool way to introduce someone.
Some of your analysis is ok, some of it is 'eh'. When you tried to tie symbolism within the movie to a promo poster you lost me. I had to stop. A writer has a vision, a director has a vision, and production (anyone who puts money into it and then takes on responsibility of advertising) has their own vision. Often marketing, in the form of posters and ads and even trailers, has little to do with what is actually going on in the movie itself. I felt it was a tremendous reach on your part to try to tie those things together.
"Wouldn't have been great if this guy pulled his mask down and it turned out to be the spitting image of Max himself?" -- I was thinking it would've been great if it had been Goose or Bubba from his old squad.
You need a gun guy to comment on the Humungas' Smith and Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum. ;-)
That's what it looks like anyway and I'll bet that's what it is. It is certainly a 'Smith and the presentation case is a very nice touch. Either Humungas lucked up finding it with the case or he was a man of some financial means before the apocalypse.
+PotatoGunsRule It is a Smith and Wesson Model 29 in .44 Magnum with an 8 and 3/8 inch barrel. You are totally correct.
PotatoGunsRule I always saw that as Lord Humongous saving that pistol for special occasions. It's super rare.
I believe the only other person with a working firearm was Max.
Any theory as to why LH had it is viewer opinion. Maybe he didn't know what it meant but liked it?
Ronald Brow Nah it's just that Lord Humongous was obviously a "Dirty Harry" fan.
And it looks like a short eye relief scope - designed for a rifle, not a handgun.
This was genuinely informative, I actually didn’t notice the blood and oil mixing and that him and the dog are wearing red bandanas
As an Australian, I approve this accent. 8/10
@Teddy in Japan
Most Aussies are saying that the accent is fake.
Great video! Been a Mad Max fan for over 35 years, and I still learned several new things.
There is another video that talks about the timeline for the mad max movies, The originals were set in the mid to late 1980"s
Great Observations. I love this film. The last time I'd seen The Road Warrior I noticed most of Humungus's (his name isn't spelled 'Humongous' in the credits, which made me think of Genghis Kahn,) anyhow, his gang wears black and all the people in the oil refinery wear white. I don't feel it is as simple as symbols of 'good and evil.' I thought it represented the colors of chessboard pieces. As you've pointed out, the movie is a lot deeper than its surface appearance. Also, "the ayatollah of Rock and Rolla" was a catch phrase in the late seventies but I cannot remember its direct reference. I was just a little kid back then. What more--- since this story is about oil, in the late seventies Iran was causing a huge (humongous) oil crisis, and the Ayatollah is in Iran. I realize this film is early eighties, but it takes a while for a screenplay to be written, and then for it to be produced into a film.
"...from some German 18th century philosopher"
Yeah, just some German guy named Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He's only one of the most significant historical figures in German and European history, but, you know, 'whatever'...
This urban myth has been debunked. The actor playing LH has said he wasn't quoting Goethe, but was in fact just ranting and raving, yelling out random Swedish swear words at his captives ...
plus he was the guy they named the 'goatee' after
The boomerang scene where Humongous loudmouthed sidekick loses his fingers is one of the funniest ones.
Sure is , i am sure Quentin Tarantino god lots violent ideas from this film and Mad Max
I felt like that guy was heavily inspired by the Mouth of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings
"lover boy" is actually a kid Wez saved and raised as a surrogate son. Actor said so himself. The scenes showing that were cut for pacing.
+ThatGuy7431
"The scenes showing that were cut for pacing."
and to make Wez more menacing? after all he`s supposed to be a bloodthirsty dog..
Did Wez need to have a collar and chain on him?
Nah...that's just Vernon filling in a back story. Nothing was ever filmed or cut to imply this father son link.
George Mead maybe to protect him
More!
Never happened. That was Vernon Wells protecting his masculine image. There was no Wez rescue scene ever, not filmed, or not in the script. Wez and The Golden Youth are gay lovers, either forced or not.
I’ve already seen this video but it’s worth watching again.
Cylinders on Smith & Wesson revolvers like that one turn counterclockwise. So the way the dude loaded and closed the cylinder would have taken four trigger pulls before it fired.
Ah, but this is the southern hemisphere. It rotates the other way there, just like the water in the sink.
@@peterlewerin4213 I'm sorry. I'll just go fuck myself
@@wouldbang6928 remember to be gentle!
Mad Max is one of my favorite Docs. Thanks.
He's in touch with his feminine side? WTF.
I always thought he was dressed like that because all had gotten caught by surprise when the apocalypse hit and people just wore whatever they could find. He just happened to find a bath robe and slippers. Just like the cops still wearing their jackets and helmets.
Only thing left to say is, amazing video. Great work, and much appreciated.
6:25 "Yellow eyes! He had yellow eyes! So help me, yellow eyes!"
You don’t have enough views, enough likes or enough subs. This was ducking brilliant. One of my favorite movies just got deeper
Brilliant review Rob - I remember watching a few years ago a video you did on Mad Max 2 where you went into more depth about the symbolism used in the movie - I guess it got removed or taken down.?
I'm writing a script on a similar subject and found that video to be really inspirational, would it be on your website?
Hope all is well,
Thanks
Farhan
I would like to spend a night discussing Mad Max with you... probably other movies. Good job, good joob indeed. You gave me more than new insight.
Jeez. Pick an accent will ya. Are you American, Australian, or Liverpool.
The biker who got dragged under the tanker's wheels was stuntman Guy Norris. He fractured his left femur during production in a botched stunt but was still in scenes filmed after his injury, hiding a cast that went from ankle to hip.
1) He threw the dice away because it was just another piece of junk that he had no use for. 2) Komeini (sp?) and his followers had just overthrown the Shah's govt in Iran at the time this movie was made, so "ayatollah" was a well-known name for a bad-guy at this time. Plus what else rhymes with "rock and rolla?" 3) I don't think any of the bad guys were ex-cops. They wore the gear because it worked. Or maybe they had raided a police station and scavaged it. Or they were mocking the idea of policemen in the world they were in. "We're the law here." Maybe they still got victims to pull over when they flashed their lights, thinking that they really were cops. Or, yeah-OK, maybe they really were ex-cops gone psycho. 4) Crows, or more accurately, ravens have long been a symbol of death in literature. Even long before Edgar Allen Poe. Not saying I'm disagreeing with any of things you have presented here, just my take on things.
What else rhymes with "rock and rolla?" How about... "A baby in a strolla!"
he he he
Wilbur Ross Listen to the Judas priest song Rocka rolla, then you'll know.
I agree with most of what you said except I think the guys wearing cop gear probably were ex cops.
That was slang used by D.J.'s like Wolfman Jack back then. I laughed when Toadie said it and still do.
what the H? 'Ayatollah of rock and rolla' is just older-than-the-hills DJ patter...it sounds cool. that's probably all there is to it
I always thought it would be interesting to see maxs old boss behind one of those masks especially the itolla of rock n rolla
Could some screenplay writer please write the movie/origin story of The Humongus?
Mr and Mrs Mungus had a son called Hugh ?
I heard he was originally intended to be one of Max's Police Buddies from the first film. I think there was one that was presumed dead in a fire. Anyway they decided to drop that idea, but the masked burned guy idea just sorta stayed.
@@grumpyoldman3458 Yer eeeeeeeevil mate ! ;)
Humungus owned a militaria shop in Darwin before the apocalyptic breakdown of civilisation. In his leisure time he enjoyed working out at the gym, reading Shakespeare, practicing maniacal rants in front of the mirror and was also a huge wrestling fan - his fave tag team was Demolition.
Time to watch this masterpiece again!! Thank you for sharing! 7:41 looks like a young Rob Halford!