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He rigs a lighter near the leak and throws Johnny a hacksaw – giving him the “option” to saw through his own ankle or the cuffs, which he’ll certainly never accomplish before he goes ka-boom. Max handcuffs Johnny’s ankle to the overturned car, which is rapidly leaking gasoline. After taking care of the Toecutter, Max finally catches up with Johnny the Boy, who is looting a crashed car.

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The end of Mad Max sees our anti-hero in full vengeance mode. And did you know that Max has a last name? It’s Rockatansky, after Baron Carl von Rokitansky, the Bohemian pathologist who developed a procedure for removing internal organs at autopsy.Ħ) Without Mad Max, There Would Be No Saw In the film, an ambulance is referred to as a “meat truck”, a term Miller picked up in the ER. As a doctor in the ER, he would see a constant influx of mangled car accident victims - these would later leak into Mad Max’s universe and aesthetic. Miller was a medical student and completed his residency at a Sydney hospital in 1972. Writer and director George Miller used some gruesome inspiration for Mad Max. Sounds like a fair deal to me.ħ) It Was Inspired by Car Accident Victims Slabs were used to pay ambulance drivers, a tractor driver, and it’s safe to imagine some of the bikers as well. In Australia, a “slab” is a case of 24 cans. Director George Miller bribed a lot of people to work on the film with “slabs” of beer. Don’t worry, Dowding offers a sincere apology in the commentary.Īnd I don’t mean Mel Gibson got drunk and berated the Jews. He stole everything early in the morning, they shot the scene, and he put everything back where he found it during the night. On the DVD commentary, Dowding confesses that he stole most of the props and signage seen outside the milk bar (convenience store) where Jessie goes to get ice cream. They asked him to read for Max and you know the rest (the above pic is from The Road Warrior, but it works for this entry).Īrt director Jon Dowding and his prop department had to make the most of their low budget - even if that meant stealing just a wee bit. Seeing something behind the bruises, one of the casting agents spotted the battered Gibson and told him to come back in three weeks because they needed “freaks.” Three weeks later, a healed-up Gibson returned and charmed the pants of the filmmakers with his pretty-boy ruggedness. Gibson was in a bar fight the night before and his face was a swollen mess of black-and-blue. How did Miller and his crew get it all done? Let’s take a look with 10 things you didn’t know about Mad Max.ġ0) Mel Gibson Busted Face Got Him the RoleĢ1-year-old Mel Gibson only went to the audition to support one of his friends, Steve Bisley who would score the role of Goose.

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Sure the stunts and car chases in Mad Max‘s arguably superior sequel The Road Warrior may be more impressive at times, but that movie had a lot more support behind it with over 10 times the original’s budget.

These were real men doing real stunts in real cars going over 100 mph. The birth of Mad Max was filled with broken bones, military rocket boosters, and suicide missions to get the most insane shot that was as close to the action as possible.

Director George Miller, making his first feature, pulled together every resource imaginable making his mean-spirited opus. Shot over 12 weeks in and around Melbourne with a humble budget of $350,000 (Australian), the making of Mad Max was sometimes just as chaotic and dangerous as the world depicted in the film. One of these officers, Max Rockatansky, looses faith in the justice after his best friend, wife, and infant son fall victim to the nastiest gang of them all, led by the Genghis Khan of the wasteland, the Toecutter. The remnants of a once strong police force, the Main Force Patrol do their best to maintain law while wild gangs of outlaw bikers loot, rape, and siphon their way through society. Influenced by the 1973 oil crisis that turned many motorists all over the globe to violence, Mad Max depicted a desolate world with long stretches of highways interrupted only by derelict signs of civilization. The grandaddy of all dystopian action extravaganzas, Mad Max burst into cinemas in 1979 in all of its super-charged, leather-clad glory, changing genre cinema forever.

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