![mad max 1979 mad max 1979](http://adamrabalais.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Mad_Max_Seps_FINAL_web.jpg)
“You and me Max, we’re gonna give them back their heroes.” “They say people don’t believe in heroes any more,” he says. Colleague Fifi (Roger Ward, infamous for portraying a hulking villain in 1982 Ozploitation classic Turkey Shoot) implores Max not to quit the force. Max’s involvement in fighting the Acolytes, the gang to which Nightrider belongs, has elements of American cop and superhero movies. Nightrider successfully evades the force until Max takes on the job of pursuing him and the joyride ends in a fiery crash. A screaming psycho named Nightrider (Vincent Gil) has escaped police custody and is throttling down the highway, providing his very own colourful commentary: his vehicle is a “fuel-injected suicide machine” and it’s “cruising at the speed of fright”. Members of the Main Force Patrol attempt to uphold whatever crumbs of law and order remain. The story takes place in a future world where an energy crisis has led to the disintegration of society and proliferation of freaky-looking motorcycle gangs that terrorise and pillage outback communities. Hardboiled is certainly how it begins, with one of many chaotic chase scenes that fly across the screen with bat-out-of-hell momentum. Surprisingly tender, perhaps, given the extent to which the franchise has become synonymous with hardboiled action.
![mad max 1979 mad max 1979](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iiAG_LNfLQc/V26q62_7-SI/AAAAAAAAGAA/WdbjckMBBlYiCpv_CbbHojzvE3Di5j7NwCLcB/s1600/mad%2Bmax%2B1979%2Bposter%2B-%2BGoogle%2BSearch%2B2016-06-25%2B09-01-29.jpg)
Mad max 1979 movie#
Just as the sombre ending of the sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, established 007’s emotionally recalcitrant attitude towards women, the first Mad Max movie makes a similar case for why its iconic boot-clad bad-arse got so cranky in the first place.Īway from the explosions and torn up bitumen is a tender romance between Max (Gibson) and his wife Jessie (Joanne Samuel). The second instalment, 1981’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, was in technical and aesthetic terms a superior beast to its predecessor – but it also cost 10 times the original’s budget and benefited from storytelling groundwork laid down by it.
![mad max 1979 mad max 1979](https://bostonhassle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/10-mad-facts-you-didn-t-know-about-mad-max-mel-gibson-in-mad-max-2-the-road-warrior-398988.jpg)
It took faux-DIY scary movie The Blair Witch Project to take away its mantle as the most profitable feature film in history (and that was intentionally crafted to look cheap while Miller and his crew worked slavishly hard for their sensational look and feel). For several decades it was also an unprecedented success: squeezed from a budget of around $350,000, some of the crew literally paid in slabs of beer, Mad Max gobbled up around $100m at the international box office. The original movie wasn’t just a gasoline-dowsed action pic that rocketed the careers of Miller and star Mel Gibson.