DIRECTED BY: George Miller, George Ogilvie

WRITTEN BY: Terry Hayes, George Miller

MEL GIBSON AS: ‘Mad’ Max Rockatansky

GENRE: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

TAGLINES:

- Two men enter. One man leaves.

- Hold out for Mad Max. This is his greatest adventure.

- A lone warrior searching for his destiny … a tribe of lost children waiting for a hero…in a world battling to survive, they face a woman determined to rule.

PLOT SUMMARY:

Robbed of his possessions whilst travelling through the Australian outback, Max manages to stumble upon Bartertown, a trading post for all manner of criminals and governed by Aunt Entity and Master Blaster. He is forced to fight on behalf of Aunt Entity in order that she gain complete control of the town, but he is thrown back out into the desert when the fight is over. He then stumbles upon a group of orphans, the only survivors of a plane crash during the nuclear war and with their help he returns to Bartertown. –IMDB

RELEASE DATES:

1985 July 10 (United States)
1985 August 8 (Australia)
1985 September 21 (Philippines)
1985 September 25 (France)
1985 September 26 (West Germany)
1985 October 3 (Argentina)
1985 October 11 (Finland)
1985 October 11 (Sweden)
1985 October 18 (United Kingdom)
1985 November 21 (Hong Kong)
1985 November 21 (Norway)

TRIVIA:

- The script called for Aunt Entity (Tina Turner) to drive a vehicle. All of the vehicles were stick-shifts, which Turner couldn’t drive, so a special automatic had to be constructed.

- One of the restaurants in the post-apocalyptic city is The Atomic Cafe, a reference to The Atomic Cafe (1982), a documentary about the Cold War, nuclear fear and propaganda films from the government.

- When introducing Max to the Thunderdome crowd, Dr. Dealgood calls him “The Man with No Name”. This is a reference to Clint Eastwood’s character in Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti westerns”, particularly Per un pugno di dollari (1964), where his character also enters a town as a drifter and plays the two ruling factions against each other for profit.

- The character of “Captain Walker”, the absent father-figure/savior/pilot, is clearly a reference to “Captain Walker” from the film Tommy (1975). Also, the presence of Tina Turner (who portrayed the “Acid Queen” in “Tommy”) strengthens the connections between the two movies.

- Director/Co-Writer George Miller was given the rights to this and Mad Max 2 (1981) to get him to step aside as the director of Contact (1997).

- Two directors were hired so that George Miller could concentrate on the stunts and action scenes, while George Ogilvie handled the performances of the large cast of actors.

- Originally, the film was supposed to be about a group of children living without parents in the wild. They were trying to decide what adult character would find them, when someone thought of Max. After that suggestion, it became a “Mad Max” film.

- The film references a novel by Russell Hoban called “Riddley Walker” about a hero traveling in post-apocalyptic England.

- The possible outcomes on the Wheel are: – Death – Hard Labour – Acquittal – Gulag – Aunty’s Choice – Spin Again – Forfeit Goods – Underworld – Amputation – Life Imprisonment

- Max’s eyes are different; the pupil in his left eye is permanently dilated. This is a nod to “Mad Max 2″: When his car is forced off the road by Wez and Max crashes, he suffers a severe injury to, among other body parts, his left eye. The disparity is easier to see in close-ups, and very easy to see in HD versions of the film. In the regular version, it’s most prominent when Max first looks down on the Thunderdome.

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