Mad Max

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He wears a space age uniform.
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carries a sawed off shotgun and drives a car that's a racer's dream.
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Policing the roads of tomorrow, he's the interceptor, the judge and the jury of all those who violate the codes of justice in a world that's crashing apart.
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And it's enough to drive anyone mad.
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Mad Max, the maximum force of the future.
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Mad Max, dead ahead, from American International, rated R under 17 not admitted without parent.
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We're not talking about actors. We mean a real monster.
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I brought her back. She'll live and I'll get her another body.
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I know they're gonna catch me, but don't let anyone see me like that. Please, Doctor! Help me!
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Biologically speaking, it's of primary importance that man should want to mate.
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Hey, that's right!
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You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
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We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
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[Music]
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And we want to get loaded.
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You think you're gonna make a slave of the world?
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I'll see you in hell first!
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The American International Podcast.
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Are you ready?
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Thanks for choosing the American International Podcast. My name is Jeff Markin.
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My name is Cheryl Lightfoot.
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And on this episode, we're going to travel to the not too distant future with Mad Max from 1980.
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Mad Max was directed by George Miller. The screenplay was written by James McCausland and George Miller.
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And the story is by George Miller and Byron Kennedy. The whole movie was produced by Byron Kennedy for Kennedy Miller Productions.
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Mad Max stars Mel Gibson as Max Rakutanski, Joanne Samuel as Jesse Rakutanski,
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High Keays-Byrne as the Toe Cutter, Steve Bisley as Jim “Goose" Rains, Tim Burns as Johnny The Boy, Roger Ward as Fred, Phoebe McAfee, David Brax as Mugguts, David Cameron as the Underground Mechanic.
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It also stars Robina Cheffey as the singer, Stephen Clark as Sarse, Reg Evans as Station Master, Max Fairchild as Benno, Sheila Florence as May Swaisie, Vincent Gill as Crawford “The Nightrider" Montezano, Jonathan Hardy as Labatouche, Brendan Heath as “Sprog" Rakutanski,
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and Paul Johnstone as Cundalini, along with a cast of many many others. If we forgot your name, I apologize.
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The film begins with the names of various cast members in white on a black background and there seemed to be just kind of randomly tossed under the screen.
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And then once we see the main cast, a futuristic Mad Max logo comes up. It's actually kind of cool.
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Very chrome. And Brian May does the score for this, so we're getting a pulse pounding soundtrack from him.
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The quads continue and eventually conclude, and the film starts with an establishing shot of the halls of justice.
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It looks pretty beat up and a font comes on screen to let us know that this is taking place a few years from now.
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All right. Now if you think about it, we hear voices crackling over police radio. And so do two main force cops who are killing time when they get notice via the radio that a cop killer has been spotted.
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These cops are Roop and Charlie. Charlie is lying down in the car when the call comes through and Roup is watching people have sex in a field, but the scope on his gun.
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I was going to say they don't exactly spring into action here. They just sort of slowly stop goofing off. But when that call comes through, Charlie yells to Roup that they are to join pursuit of this cop killer because this is something that the main force patrol cannot tolerate according to the radio.
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They can't let this one pass. They don't get going right away because first Roop and Charlie have to argue over who gets to drive.
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Charlie is already in the driving seat and he's the one who got the call. So he wins this battle. So Roop reluctantly goes to the passenger side.
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We briefly cut away to see a more calm member of the main force patrol. We don't see his face, but we see him preparing to take action.
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And now we spot the cop killer. His name is Nightrider, not that one. And he's tearing away in one of the main force patrol V8s as Roop and Charlie head towards where the car was spotted.
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We see that another pair of cops are also in pursuit. So the way this pursuit is going. Roop and Charlie are on a access road.
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They're about to converge onto the road where Nightrider and his feral girlfriend are speeding down and Knight writer is being followed by the March hair unit from the big
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Bopper. Roop has his shotgun sights on Nightrider's car. He says he wants to blow him away. But Charlie, who's driving says he just wants to ram him when the road is finally
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do converge the Nightrider sees the Big Bopper's car and slams on his brakes with his bare feet. Roop takes a shot and misses completely.
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And the Big Bopper's car goes off the road. The March hair car is still in pursuit. Nightrider starts yelling from his car.
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"Do you see me, Toe Cutter?" He's saying this over the radio. So all the Main Force Patrol is getting his message.
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Is Toe Cutter though? Probably not. Probably not. The March hair unit radio is back to Roop and Charlie to see if they're okay.
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They are, but they have to shake off their days in this before they can proceed with the chase. They tell March hair to keep on the pursuit.
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Then Roop gets out of the car and starts kicking it. He tears the hood off. I don't see how that's going to help anything.
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And now the Nightrider is approaching where the mystery cop is waiting.
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The dispatcher calls on to goose to join the pursuit. Goose is at Fat Nancy's I guess kind of a hangout.
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And he's telling tales to another customer causing this customer to lose his appetite, but goose is willing to help with that lead a
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food for him when they're signaling goose they call him the Gosling and the reason should be obvious to anyone.
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The chase passes by fat Nancy's cafe. So goose and nearly everyone else runs out of the building.
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Goose hops on his bike and a couple other guys jump in toe trucks to follow. Goose never got the call because he's inside the restaurant.
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Well, you left his bike outside with the radio. So it wasn't until the chase went by that he knew that he was missing something good police work.
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And he will not take anything from this lesson. So goose get saws bike and joins the chase.
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Somebody in the radio announces that they're headed for population.
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And this population turns down to be a pickup truck with a cap or a taches trying to turn around a big ring couple and a woman who leaves her toddler in a
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stroller unsupervised and since he's unsupervised, there's no one to stop him from wandering into the street falling down picking himself back up again and continuing to cross.
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And now chaos begins with the chase still going on. Roop and Charlie have rejoined the chase. Roop is driving now and a blue van cuts off their car and they crash into it.
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But not enough damage is done and the car is able to start up again. So Roop and Charlie once again rejoin the pursuit.
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And now we see nightrider almost run over that kid as everyone watches horrified. The March hair unit right behind nightrider had been trying to warn everyone to get off the road but seeing the toddler they get distracted and a car plows into one of those red phone boxes and flips over.
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Somebody has scooped the toddler on the street and he's safe.
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As for the Big Bopper car it crashes through that trailer and Goose skids out on his bike and comes to a stop right beside the pickup truck carrying that trailer.
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The driver of the truck asks who's what happened. Goose says, I don't know man. I just got here myself. Rupin calls into main force patrol HQ. They are out of the race.
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Their cars are wrecked and Charlie's throw was cut really bad when the windshield's shattered. Rupin also calls for an ambulance.
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Phil, he calls it a meat truck and goose radio says partner and this whole time nightrider is still ranting over the radio as well.
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Goose radio is ahead to his partner the mystery cop and lets him know they're no longer able to pursue and the nightrider is headed in his direction.
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Nightrider of course hears this because he has access to the cop radio in his car and he's mocking this new officer and calling himself a fuel injected suicide machine on a rocker and a roller and an out of controller.
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His workshopping is theme song with lyrics to glorify himself. His female companion is enjoying this and laughs.
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She's just as wild as he is but she's not driving.
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All the main force patrol cars we've seen so far are pursuit vehicles. The one that the mystery cop is driving is an interceptor just before he finally pulls into the road.
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We see the face of our mystery cop. Obviously this is max the mad max of the title. He pulls on to the road and then just waits as the nightrider approaches his vehicle.
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Nightrider continues his ranting. The tow cutter he knows who I am. I am the nightrider and max moves into intercept. Nightrider sees the car in front of him. He's swear it doesn't go by.
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His interceptor turns around and gives chase. Now nightrider is no longer ranting. He starts to cry and the woman next to him asks what's wrong.
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Yeah, she's trying to console him. So the chase is on Max's bumping nightrider's car with his own. And then something happens.
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We see a man at the side of the road waving flags to try to wave off oncoming traffic too soon. Nightrider sees why there's a field truck stalled on the road when the nightrider swerves to avoid it.
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He pulls into some other cars that are lying on their roofs in the road.
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His eyes bulge on of his head as the car and the truck erupt into a ball of flame.
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This chasing really kind of baffled me just the way it was cut together. It did seem like hitting those disabled cars wouldn't have caused that fireball.
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So the truck must have been involved somehow, but we didn't see him hit the truck. I think we probably shouldn't think about it too much. This is man max.
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Max jumps out of his interceptor takes off the sunglasses stare and disbelief. And this is the first time we really see his face.
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It kind of looks like Mel Gibson, but much younger. He has a real baby face for someone who's the hero of this post apocalyptic nightmare movie.
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He looks like he's about 18. He was about 22 when they shot this. Yeah, he looks very young and very innocent given what we know now.
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All right. Now it's time for a little sax but no violence. Max is at home enjoying a meal as his wife Jesse plays the saxophone and a small child sits on the table in front of him.
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The toddler is known as Sprog, which is Australian for child.
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And his wife Jesse seems adequate, but not too terribly skilled with his saxophone. Well, she's not even playing it. It's dubbed in like everything in this movie.
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Then we cut to Jesse dry Max's hair with a towel and they're discussing how they've been training their infant son to fight.
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You say they may have a monster on their hands. Then the story of the night writer comes on the television.
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Jesse asks Max if he knows who the night writer was. Max doesn't know. He says he's just another glory rotor probably.
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This seems to be kind of a lawless society. It's the impression I'm getting. And now everything is peachy at their beach side home.
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They're having breakfast while Max don's a Tor Johnson mask to try to cheer up Jesse.
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Little Sprog is on the floor playing with a gun.
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Jesse doesn't want Max to go to work, but he's got to report in as Max is leaving.
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She uses sign language to tell him that she's crazy about him. Although it's not any real sign language. It's just something the actress made up.
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It's a sign language that only she understands even Max doesn't understand it. He goes what's that?
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So next Max goes to the halls of justice. And this is the headquarters of the MFP the main force patrol.
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Max is waiting for goose outside. And then the two of them go to the underground garage where some grease monkey is showing off the last of the V8s.
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They Frankenstein to new interceptor from pieces of other cars.
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And then Max wants to know when they can take it for a spin.
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And now we meet Fifi. He's kind of like the chief of police here and Labatouche who's kind of like a superintendent.
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And they know that Max has been thinking of quitting. So this new car that has been built might just be enough to convince him to stay.
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I think we got him says Fifi. Labatouche isn't impressed with this method though.
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He thinks that they have better ways that they could be spending their money.
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And now it's nighttime. There's another police action happening. If he arrives on a chaotic scene,
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Rup is there and tells him that Max apprehended some crazies. We see someone coated in blood in a car and another victim in an ambulance.
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Fifi catches up with Max and warns him that nightriders friends are looking for him.
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Max is unperturbed by this news.
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Now we're in Ouija, Russelam, a beach adjacent town. There are not a lot of people on the streets.
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And it's probably because tow cutter and his gang are rolling down the main drag.
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Yokels become alert at the sound of the bikes.
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Locals are Yokels. Yokels.
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They do park in front of a station.
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They line up their bikes at the side of the street. Then a tow cutter signal. They rev up their bikes. Then shut them off in unison.
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Then they dis-mount. And two guys start to tango in the street.
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It's really weird what they do when they...
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And there's only about like three or four people who came out to see what's going on. Maybe they didn't have enough extras.
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Yeah, couple starts bottom dancing in the street.
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Couple of guys.
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Yeah, the bikers.
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And as they're walking, Johnny the boy is slicking back tow cutter's hair.
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I thought he was grooming him maybe. He's faunting all over him.
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So there's something not right about Johnny the boy.
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Actually, you could say that about everybody in this gang.
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Anyway, they're in front of the train station. And they've come to meet a friend.
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They tell this to the station master who happens to have come out front.
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The station master is being interrogated by Bubba Zanetti, one of the gang.
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And Bubba says that their friend arrived in the train last night and they're here to pick him up.
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The station master says that there were no passengers.
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Just some crates in a coffin.
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Bingo says Bubba, that's their guy.
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So the station master leads them to where the deliveries are kept.
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That must be your friend over there. He says or what's left of him.
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But the gang doesn't have a sense of humor about this.
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Toe Cutter grabs the station master by the face and tells him that his name was Nightrider.
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Remember it.
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The station master promises that he will offer the respect to a thug of his stature.
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Which is to Toe Cutter satisfaction.
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Yet still he allows his men to lead the station master away to do.
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I don't know what then tow cutter goes over to inspect the coffin and the scene wipes to the next.
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Where we see the gang hanging out in town and they're all just messing around.
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Their antics seem to have captivated whoever's left in the town.
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Well, there's at least one chick from the town who's hanging out with them.
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And there's another couple watching. They have a fancy car decked out in flames.
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And they decided it's in their best interest to maybe get away from all this.
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As they drive off, they catch the attention of the gang members, several of whom jump on their bikes to give chase.
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Oh, I don't like where this is going.
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The gang catches up to the car and tow cutter hacks at the car with a hatchet.
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The windshield is broken and the car spins out.
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With the car disabled, the gang is able to jump on top of it, beat the crap out of it, and pull the couple out of the car.
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Thankfully, we don't see what happens next.
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No, instead a crow is used as a transition.
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I didn't understand that at all.
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There's a lot of bird imagery in this movie and it must mean something totally lost on me,
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except that crows are known to be a bad omen, even though they're very smart and quite lovable.
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The crow transitions us to a scene where Max and Goose are stopped on the side of the road, talking to a couple in a bike and sidecar.
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I love this bike and sidecar.
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It is so cute.
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The sidecar is very small and it's got a dome that covers it and it's just decked out in all these cool designs.
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I would love to have that.
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A call comes through about a disturbance in weed Jerusalem with no man bikers, so Max and Goose jump into their car.
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As they're driving, they notice a guy running across the street in front of them, panceless.
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It's the guy from the previous scene whose car was hijacked.
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Oh, I can't imagine what happened to him and I don't want to.
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The Goose tries to call out to him even using the radio, but the man just keeps running across the field away from everything.
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So Goose calls him a turkey. Goose knows his birds.
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A lot of bird imagery in this movie.
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Yeah, there's at least four or so far.
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Max sees that there's something up ahead and says that they can come back to that guy later.
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So they drive on to the scene of that wrecked car and it's been torn to shreds.
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Johnny the boy is laying there and the girl is sitting in what's left of the car.
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Goose goes to check on her and notices that she's actually tamed to the car and Max looks over Johnny the boy.
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Bronze yells Johnny.
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It's an insult in this lawless land.
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Well, it means cops.
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It's like calling a cop a pig.
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You think of it that way, which doesn't seem that insulting.
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They're just talking about the color of their badges.
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The poor girl in the car is deathly afraid even though Goose identifies himself and tells her that she's going to be okay.
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She's been through a lot, which again, thankfully we didn't have to watch.
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He is able to call her down.
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Gets the chain off her, picks her up and puts her in the back of the interceptor.
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Max is throwing Johnny the boy against the car and he starts shouting "Nightrider!"
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And Max looks at Goose.
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Remember that code three? He asks.
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Now I cut back to Toe Cutter and his gang.
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Toe Cutter is riding in the back of a truck, trailing the coffin, holding Nightwriter.
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Truck pulls over so that Baba, who's running a bike, can catch up and report that Johnny the boy has done it again.
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Johnny the boy is still at the wreck.
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He's stoned again.
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Bubba thinks they should just forget about him, but Tokutter says they're going to go back for him.
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Bubba doesn't want to go back there, not for him.
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But Toe Cutter says it's not for Johnny.
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It's for Toe Cutter.
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And he promises Bubba that they're going to teach him a lesson.
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Meanwhile, at the Halls of Justice.
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Johnny the Boy isn't custody.
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Goose and Charlie are watching over him and Charlie now has a cool robot voice.
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He losses larynx, so he has to put a device against his throat to make a sound.
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Outside, Fifi, Max, Roop, and a few others pull up.
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Charlie announces to Goose that Johnny's escorts are here.
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Here's a delegation of lawyers, accompanied by Baba, Fifi, and Max.
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Fifi tells Max that he's going to have to sit on the Goose because he's not going to like this.
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So they go in and tell Charlie and Goose that they need to let Johnny the boy go.
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They explain that at the hearing, nobody showed up to testify against him.
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Not the guy, not the girl, none of the townspeople.
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But Goose is not going to accept this.
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Goose is honking mad.
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He threatens everyone not to take his prisoner.
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The lawyers say otherwise and they escort Johnny out.
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Fifi tries to talk some sense into Goose, but he's starting to get violent.
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As he's walking out, Johnny turns around and says, "See you later, Goose."
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And Goose goes ballistic and tackles Johnny right out the door.
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They fight more in the parking lot.
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Goose throws Johnny the boy on a trash bag and starts pummeling it.
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But Max intervenes and the lawyers take Johnny away.
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As he's being let off, Johnny yells that they need to remember the night writer and warns that they know who they are.
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Once they're gone, Fifi tells Max and Goose that as long as their paperwork is clean, they can do whatever they like out there.
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Another is a scene on the beach at a dock and the nomads are harassing people and molestomanican.
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This scene was so weird. This gang is so bizarre.
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So, Toe Cutter demands that the guys Kundalini and Mudguts put her, meaning the mannequin, against a post.
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They're saying that she committed treason against them.
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Baba wants to shoot her, but Johnny gets a shot in first.
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And this earns Toe Cutter's wrath for some reason. I don't know how better to explain what's going on here.
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Yeah, this scene didn't make any sense at all to me.
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Could have been cut easily.
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They're in the water at this point and Toe Cutter puts his rifle into Johnny's mouth and warns him to stay quiet.
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And then the two of them just walk out into the sea and it wipes away.
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And the scene wiped away to the Shukr town cafe, which is kind of a nightclub.
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There's a woman on stage doing an awkward dance and singing about Licorice Road.
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Goose and Max are in this club and since they're not out in their car, they're missing another call.
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Goose is very into the singer.
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They also miss that somebody is messing with Goose's bike.
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We don't know who, but you can imagine what crypt they represent.
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So now it's the next morning and Goose is getting ready for his day.
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He dresses and leaves and goes on to his bike.
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The dispatcher is already having a busy day.
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There are announcements coming left and right through that radio.
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Goose starts off his bike and rides off.
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As he does so, we see Johnny the boy is stalking him from a nearby car.
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Johnny the boy lights a lighter and puts it on his arm.
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It causes pain.
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So what do you want?
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Goose is chairing down the road when the bike seizes up and he's thrown into a field.
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He's okay though, and he calls it into main force patrol.
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He calls for roadside assistance and a guy in an old pickup truck comes to help him.
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This is Mitch and he loans him his truck.
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So he hit that Goose can transport his bike home.
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Mitch apparently has his own bike.
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So he'll be okay.
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He's not there because Goose apparently isn't going to let him ride with him.
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I don't understand this.
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He's got a bicycle.
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It's not a motorcycle.
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Anyway.
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So Goose is driving this truck down the road and we see the nomads watching from an overpass.
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Johnny throws a rock down at the truck causing it to flip.
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The rock goes right through the windshield.
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But would that make a truck flip?
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It has before.
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It made that car spin out.
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Windshills are definitely the weak point in automotive travel.
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That is your Achilles heel.
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So now this truck is upside down on the side of the road.
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Goose is injured and fuel is leaking.
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Of course.
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The gang comes up and Tokutter asks Johnny for a light.
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Johnny obliges then Tokutter asks for another.
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Johnny realizes what's about to happen and this isn't something that he wants.
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But Tokutter is able to convince him differently.
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Well they struggle and the lit match flips out of his hand and into the grass which then leads
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towards the car.
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The car is emulated and Goose is cooked.
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I guess somebody called an ambulance.
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Yeah because Max goes to the hospital to visit his friend.
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He sounds outside the door and tries to stop him from going in but Max pushes past him.
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Goose is covered entirely by a sheet but then we see one gnarly burnt arm slipped from underneath
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it.
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Max is appalled at what he sees.
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Max slips the sheet and his eyes widen.
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I think George Miller really enjoys the bug I'd look.
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This is not the first or last time we'll see it.
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Max leaves muttering that thing in there.
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That's not the goose.
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No way.
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That night Max doesn't sleep well.
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He sits up in bed and the next morning Jesse wakes to find him gone.
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She goes outside and finds him eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich staring at the
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water.
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Max says he can't wrap his head around what happened to Goose and Jesse can only hold on
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to him his consolation.
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So apparently Max has done some deep thinking because the next scene he goes to Phoebe to put
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it in his resignation.
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Phoebe wearing a tie and no shirt.
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Isn't going to accept his resignation though.
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He's also holding a watering can.
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He's very domestic.
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Phoebe tries to give Max a pep talk.
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Sure the Goose bought it but people need heroes and you're a hero.
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So appreciate the sentiment.
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Please still going to quit.
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Phoebe asked what he has to do.
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Is he going to make him beg?
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At least give him a reason.
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I'm scared Max admits.
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He's afraid that he's going to turn into one of them terminally crazy.
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He's starting to enjoy taking down the marauders out there and it's starting to make him
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just like them.
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Phoebe suggests a compromise.
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Max can take a couple of weeks off.
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Get away with his family.
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If he comes back and he still wants to quit then Phoebe will accept that.
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So now it's family vacation time.
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Max ingesting in Sproghard on a family road trip.
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They hit it out to the country on the way.
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They stop and buy a dog.
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Then they go romp in a field, swim in a swimming hole and nap under the tree.
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Swing on vines.
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Yeah.
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You got to swing out of vine when you're in a swimming hole.
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There's no other way to get in the water.
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While lounging in a field Max tells Jesse that he hasn't always been able to talk to her.
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So in this scene he's going to make up for it.
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Well, he waxes nostalgic about his father and how he could never express his pride in
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his old man.
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But Max wants to tell Jesse now how he feels about her.
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She apparently doesn't want to hear it though because she kisses him.
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Meanwhile Sprog is somewhere being watched by the dog, I guess.
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The next scene Max pulls up to a garage.
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The attendant there is very happy to have customers.
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Max explains they blew on a tire a while back and they need to get that taken care of.
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And the enthusiastic attendant is happy to have their business.
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He's happy to have someone to talk to apparently.
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From the car Jesse says that she and Sprog are going to get some ice cream.
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The attendant points to the way to where they can get some.
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So they drive off leaving Max to deal with this manic mechanic.
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Unfortunately, Jesse goes to a ice cream shop in the same town where Tokutter and his gang
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are.
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It's about her and decide that she looks like she could be their dessert.
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When she comes out with Sprog and a couple of ice cream cones, they start taunting them
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with animal sounds, meowing like a cat, buying like a sheep, etc.
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Tokutter comes alongside her.
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She goes to the boot of the car and he opens it up.
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Jesse puts Sprog inside and then she and Tokutter go round to the driver's side door.
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Jesse's trying to play nice here.
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She lets him lick her cone.
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But then she knees him in the crotch and shoves the cone in his face.
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He falls to the ground in pain.
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The gang advances towards the car and she jumps in and speeds away.
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One of the gang members, Kundalini, sings the chain onto her luggage rack to try and catch
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her ride.
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But he loses his grip and falls to the ground.
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Jesse stops at the garage to pick up Max and the dog.
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There's no time to worry about that tire right now.
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They gots to go.
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Yep, she wants him to get in the car now.
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So they take off and momentarily Tokutter and his gang ride up.
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Tokutter grabs the mechanics nose and gets some two divulge what he knows about the
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couple that just left.
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It's not much just a couple of their kid and their dog and their head at north, maybe.
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Safely away, Jesse pulls the car over.
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Max lets the dog out as he teases her for being a mean old lady to those men.
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Then they hear the dog fussing with something behind the car.
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Jesse goes on to investigate and what she finds is one of the gang members' hands hanging
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onto that chain at the back of their car.
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She screams for Max and we fade to black.
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Max and Jesse drive on.
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Apparently they've made a call because they meet with Ziggy.
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I'm sort of law enforcement out here, maybe, like a sheriff.
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Well in the mandub version they call him the dark one.
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We don't know what his role is out here.
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Anyway, he takes possession of the hand, declares it lost property and sends them to stay
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at a farmhouse nearby.
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Yeah, it's May's house and she's waiting for them.
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He does say that if anyone claims it they can have it back.
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So at the May's Swazie Farm, Sprague is sitting on a blanket in the grass while Max works
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on fixing their truck.
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Jesse goes to Max and tells him that May told her about a nearby beach and does he want to
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come with?
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But Max has to keep working on the truck if they're ever going to get out of there.
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So Jesse heads off alone with the dog.
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As she goes, May tells Jesse that if she should see Beno down there, not to let him bother
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her.
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He's only a baby.
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He's not.
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Jesse has to go through the woods to get to the beach.
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And then we see that there's someone else in the woods watching her progress.
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But once she gets to the beach, she's able to have a nice romp in the surf with no
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undesturbinger.
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However, we do see that toe cutter and his gang have pulled up on the cliff overlooking
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the beach.
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Sometimes later, Jesse is lying in the sun when the dog suddenly runs off.
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Jesse notices and gathers her things and starts to head back.
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While walking in the woods, she hears the dog calling a pain and she starts to run.
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She's already clocked that she might not be alone out there.
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And she's not.
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The nomads are in the woods and then she's attacked by doves.
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More birds.
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She runs until she finds a suspended carcass of her dog.
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Or pup.
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And she turns around and runs into a giggling Beno.
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He's not a baby.
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He's a big guy.
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Creepy but harmless.
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She starts running again and Beno runs after her.
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She comes out of the woods by the farmhouse.
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Max runs up to her and may skulls Beno, telling him he's been very naughty.
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But that's not the problem.
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Jesse gasps out what happened to her in the woods.
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Max tells Mei to call Ziggy and tell him to get out there right away as fast as he can.
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Mei takes Jesse to the house so that she can call Ziggy.
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Max grabs a shotgun and heads off into the woods.
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Where Sprague is, is anybody's guess.
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Mei takes Jesse inside and lays her down on the couch and goes to make that phone call.
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And Jesse remembers that she's a mother and runs outside to find Sprague.
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He's not on his blanket.
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She calls out.
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Sprague doesn't answer.
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But Toka does gang does.
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They're there and they have Sprague.
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They're at some kind of outbuilding.
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It's not a barn.
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There's a garage.
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There's maybe a storage building.
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It's two stories.
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But all of the main gang members and some other ones who never get named are there.
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One of them is sitting in front with Sprague in his lap.
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There's another suspended on top of the doorway.
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Like he's been crucified up there.
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That's mud guts, I think.
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And the Lenny and Bubba are in the garage on their bikes.
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Kandalini is nursing is wound where his hand used to be and a couple of others.
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Toka is not pleased with Jesse.
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He blames it for the loss of Kandalini's hand.
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But Jesse only has eyes for Sprague.
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Toka her offers her a trade.
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She can have the kid if Kandalini can have his hand back.
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Just then Mei shows up with a shotgun.
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In a very dramatic, insincere way, he claims that he's afraid, but he's only mocking
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her because she's an old woman.
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But Mei knows how to use this gun kind of.
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She fires.
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She hits a barrel from the woods.
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Max hears the shot.
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Mei rounds up the gang and puts them into that building and locks the door.
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She yells at Jesse to bring the car around.
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Jesse scoops up Sprague, Mei follows her to the van and the three of them escape as the
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gang is breaking down the door.
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As they're driving off, the gates are closed, but Mei tells Jesse not to slow down and
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it just drives through it.
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Good advice.
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The gang gets on their bikes to follow.
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Unfortunately, the van is not yet fixed and the van stops.
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Jesse and Sprague start to run and Mei stands with the shotgun to face the gang.
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Just the one gun.
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As the gang drives up, she fires another shot and misses completely.
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They ride on towards Jesse and Sprague and mow them both down before continuing down the
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road.
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Fortunately, all we see is a baby shoe hit the pavement and then Sprague's ball bounce
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off into the distance.
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It was bad enough without having to see anymore.
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Just then Max runs up.
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He runs past Mei and over to where his wife and son are laying on the ground.
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It's a very long run.
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They shoot it from a distance though.
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So we see him.
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There was hands in the air, dropped to his knees.
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We had to come all the way from the woods.
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So he had quite a hike.
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He got there pretty fast.
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Yes, he's tearing out his hair and wailing and crying.
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The next shot is of an ambulance and that's followed by Jesse on life support in the hospital.
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And now we do get to see her.
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It does not look good.
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Max is standing outside the door, looking grief-stricken.
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As he helplessly listens to the doctors, discuss the many things wrong with her.
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Two doctors are discussing Jesse's injuries.
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They're extensive, but the first doctor thinks that he can save her.
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The second doctor asks about relatives, but finds out there's just a husband.
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The first doctor at once, the other one to tell the husband not to worry that she'll
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be fine.
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And a nurse appears to say that the kid was DOA and that the dad's been standing there
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like a zombie all day.
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Now Max is back at home, trying to deal with his grief.
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He crumbles up his toward Johnson mask.
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He goes to a trunk and puts on his cop-lovers.
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Then he goes to the halls of justice where he takes that interceptor that had been built
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especially for him.
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The last of the V-8s.
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And now it's time for the revenge tour to begin.
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The first stop that garage where the mechanic rided him out.
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Max demands information about the tow cutter in his gang.
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The mechanic doesn't want to say anything because it will get him killed, but Max is very persuasive.
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The guy is under the car.
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He drops the jack and the car falls on him.
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And then pulls him back out again, so he doesn't totally get crushed, but he knows that
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that could happen.
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The Max finds out everything that mechanic knows about the tow cutter, Bubba, Johnny the Boy,
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etc.
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He says that they come through when looking for fuel.
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And speaking of fuel, the next thing we see is the no-band gang jumping onto a fuel truck
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and siphoning gas from it.
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They don't stop it or kill anybody though, so I guess that's good.
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Now that Max is mad, he seems to have this uncanny ability to hone in on his enemies.
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So he catches up to the gang in virtually no time.
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He drives past them and Johnny the boy wipes out.
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The others continue without him.
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Max turns his car around to intercept them.
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They meet on a bridge and he causes them to fall off.
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He forces a few into the water, knocks another one down.
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And then the next thing we see Johnny attacking some call box thing for reasons that aren't
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known and never will be.
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Now we're back at that garage and Bubba and tow cutter are there.
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Apparently they just set the others on that mission for fuel.
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They go to their bikes and a couple of photos seem to fall out of tow cutter's helmet.
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When is the Jesse and Sprog and the other is of Goose?
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They both seem to be taken during the course of the movie.
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How they got there is never explained.
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But I think tow cutter now knows that Max is tracking him.
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So Bubba and tow cutter hit the road as they're riding on, Max is on a bridge watching
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as they go through the underpass.
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Later tow cutter and Bubba come around a large semi truck.
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Max comes up behind them and tries to get around it but it takes them a little longer.
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And then we see that he's entering a prohibited zone.
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And we hear on the radio that there's a beyond the lookout for Max's car is being used
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unauthorized by a rogue officer.
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Max sees what appears to be a bike wreck and stops the car and steps on to investigate.
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As he approaches a shot rings out and Bubba shoots Max in the leg.
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It's a trap.
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Yep, Johnny the boy was used as a decoy.
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Somehow Bubba and tow cutter had concealed themselves and they waited until Max stepped
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out of the car and made a target of himself.
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Then Bubba and tow cutter start up their bikes.
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They ride past Max.
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Bubba does roll over Max's arm.
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Then they turn their bikes around.
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tow cutter tells Bubba to stop playing around and Bubba says he knows what he's doing and
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rides towards Max once more.
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But this time Max is ready and he sits up and fires a shotgun, setting Bubba flying from
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his bike.
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Max stands and starts slipping towards tow cutter.
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Tow cutter hisses at him.
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There was a helmet over his head and rides off.
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Johnny rides off in a different direction through a field.
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And Max limps all the way to his car and gets in.
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Then a hawk settles on Bubba's body.
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This might be our last bird of the movie.
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It makes for another nice bird transition.
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Why not a vulture though?
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I guess there wasn't one handy during shooting.
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00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,040
Well they said on the commentary that it just showed up.
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Oh really?
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This was just a serendipitous arrival by a bird.
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So the chase continues.
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Max's interceptor is following tow cutter.
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When a semi is on the road coming toward them.
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Tow cutter's eyes bulge on of his head as he slams into the semi.
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Then under it.
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Max didn't have to do anything for tow cutter.
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And I guess there's one person left to go.
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Max drives on through the night and into the next day.
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- Through the rain.
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- Through the rain, sleet and snow, and not just through the rain.
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He comes across Johnny's bike.
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Johnny is pulled off the road where he's stealing the boots off a dead man.
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One, he probably killed.
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The man is near an overturned truck,
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which probably goes without saying his leaking fuel.
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- Johnny starts removing the man's boots when Max comes up behind him and cocks his rifle.
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Johnny tries to explain that the guy was dead when he found him.
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Max notices the truck is leaking gasoline.
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He pulls on a pair of handcuffs and says, "Ankle."
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Then he drags Johnny by the ankle and cuffs the other end to the truck.
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He picks up a headlight and fills it with the leaking gasoline.
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He places a layer next to it, picks up a hacksaw and says, "Hell out of the plane."
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- Holy chick saw.
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He gives Johnny the hacksaw and tells him that he can hack through the cuffs in 10 minutes.
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Or is Ankle boned in five?
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It's his choice.
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Johnny pleats for his life, but dead eyed Max just walks away, gets in his car and drives.
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Seconds later, there's an explosion.
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Max blinks once, and we fade out.
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And that's the end.
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00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:44,240
We're listening to the American International Podcast, and we're discussing Mad Max from 1980.
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Mad Max had a budget of $350,000, which meant everything had to be done on the cheap.
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According to director George Miller, in an interview with Australian screen that we
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will be using for most of the information that we got about the making of this movie,
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Miller said that we had to sweep up the roads after there was a car crash.
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It was that kind of guerrilla filmmaking.
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The bikers in the movie had to drive themselves from Sydney to Melbourne for the shoot, as Miller
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couldn't afford to fly them down.
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He said they kind of rehearsed being a gang on the way down.
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Miller said that he and producer Byron Kennedy edited the film and cut the sound, respectively,
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in a flat they borrowed from a friend.
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- Also in that interview, Miller said the genesis of the idea for Mad Max came from living
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in rural Queensland as a child.
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Miller said the landscape was completely flat roads, low-meas oil, heat haze, burnt land.
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Miller also said that terrain spawned a very intense car culture.
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I mean, the mainstreamed out of town and Saturday night were just the kids in the cars.
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By the time we were down of our teens, several of our peers had already been killed or badly
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injured in car accidents.
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And there was just those long flat roads where there was no speed limit and people would
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just go.
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- Miller said the second big inspiration for the society depicted in Mad Max came from
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his application as a physician in a hospital emergency room.
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"And it wasn't until I really ended up being a doctor in emergency and seeing the kind
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of carnage as a result of car accidents or bike accidents that had kind of got into me.
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It kind of disturbed me quite a bit.
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And I think all of those things were part of the mix of the Mad Max films, particularly
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the first one."
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- Miller set the movie in a bleak dystopian landscape, thinking that would make the violence
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in the story more believable.
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It was just totally exaggerated, so we thought if we set it in the future, it might take
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on a sort of a more fable-type quality, but we didn't have enough money to really set
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it into the far future and degrade it down too much, so we set it in the near future.
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He advertised for members of Tocutters gang by placing a flyer in a bike shop window.
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A victorious state street game called the vigilantes took the roles, which helped out the
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production as they already knew how to ride and ride well.
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Quote, their riding was individually and collectively superb at actor Tim Burns, who played Johnny
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the Boy.
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Actor Hugh Key's "Burn" got into character by riding to Melbourne with the gang dressed
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in full costume.
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- Miller said that he wanted to cast an American name actor to get the film seen by as many
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people as possible.
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To give the people who helped with the movie's funding, mostly family and friends, a return
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on their investment, but after a trip to Los Angeles, he realized that a name actor would
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cost him all the money he had for filming.
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When he returned to Australia, casting director Mitch Matthews bought in some actors from
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the National Institute of the Dramatic Arts, and one of them was Mel Gibson.
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I remember watching through the video camera lens as he's running the scene and suddenly
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started to believe it, and I thought, "Oh my God, there's something going on here."
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- Filming was done in and around Melbourne, with Cartier scenes film near the town of Little
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River, town scenes filmed in cloons, and other scenes were shot in Point Wilson.
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Miller said that they closed the roads for filming without permission.
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"No one had made these kind of movies at the time, so there was no one to go to to really
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get a permit."
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Miller added that the local police did take an interest in the filming to a point where
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they were unofficially helping by assisting with the road blockades.
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- Filming was scheduled to take 10 weeks, but four days into shooting, Rosie Bailey, the
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actress playing Max's wife Jesse, was injured in a bike accident, halting production while
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the producer hunted for her placement for Bailey.
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- Matt Max was officially released in Australia on April 12, 1979, through road show film distributors,
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and was sold to four distributors for a total of $1.8 million.
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American International bought the US distribution rights, and Matt Max was one of the last films
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released by AIP before the company was folded into film ways.
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It debuted on February 15, 1980.
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During its initial UK run, Mad Max was rated X for audiences 18 and older only.
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- AIP used American actors to overdub the Australian actors' voices and replaced Aussie's Lane
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in terminology with words more familiar to a US audience.
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- And they did not do it well.
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Commentary?
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In January of 1979, there was an ad in the Melbourne newspaper The Age for the 14th annual
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Victorian Hot Rod and Custom Show.
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The featured attraction at that show was the vehicles from Mad Max, which hadn't even
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come out yet, but I guess the interest was there.
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- The lines for Mad Max include "E Rules the Broads"
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- A 400 HP movie that runs on adrenaline, high octane, and raw nerves.
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- A gothic horror story set in Australia.
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- The maximum death force of the future.
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- The last law on a world gone out of control.
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Pray that he's out there somewhere.
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00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,280
- When the gangs take over the highway, remember he's on your side.
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00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,000
- Margaret Getty's in-read film critic Rex Speed for her column, published by The Age
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00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,760
in March of 1979, and he told her that he saw a film yesterday called Mad Max.
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00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:16,080
It's a mixture of a clockwork orange and death wish that's going to tear their noses off
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when they see it in America.
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00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,160
An ad published in the paper a few days later read Alexander Walker of the London Evening
671
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,840
Standard and Rex Read of New York evening news, saw Mad Max and then left Australia to spread
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00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,840
the news about this remarkable movie.
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00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:33,200
- Colin Bennett's review for The Age called Mad Max, quote, "as brutally brilliant as any
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car smash action film I have ever seen.
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00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,080
Roger Korman and other specialists in the genre can take a back seat.
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This stuntman grant page and his team have ensured that this is the drive-in picture deluxe.
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He concluded by saying, "This time, Miller has simply settled for the American redneck
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market, whereas film may well make a lot of money.
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00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,440
But he has so much talent, one would like to see it put to use, unless blatantly exploitative
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material, now that Mad Max is out of his system."
681
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:01,040
- Roadshow distributors placed an ad in The Age on April 21st with a number of review
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blurbs and notes on audience response, and included the following.
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In Melbourne, record crowds of over 10,000 people sat and stunned this belief that a film
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could be so powerful.
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00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,040
They were the first to see Mad Max at the East End Cinema 1.
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00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:17,200
In a sneak preview to test reaction at a Melbourne drive-in, Mad Max was given the first ever
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00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,360
standing ovation drive-in style.
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00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,560
Cars stayed at the end, tooting their horns in approval.
689
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,160
Sales of hamburgers were at an all-time record low.
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00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:29,280
- The Australian news called the film "completely different, exciting, exhilarating, and unexpected."
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It is a clever, effective, futuristic horror fantasy, a sort of gronky knoll of the consumer
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00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:34,840
society.
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Violent, terrifying, and unrelenting with an undercurrent of real humor that emphasizes
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the gothic thrills.
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The Sunday press is quoted as saying, "Mad Max is a 400-horsepower piece of cinema powered
696
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for the most part on raw nerves and in the adrenaline of the audience.
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The film's impact is extraordinary.
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00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,560
It grips from the earliest scenes and doesn't relax the hold."
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00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,160
In Hollywood, California, Mad Max is the buzz all over town.
700
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,520
At three exclusive screenings Max was shown to the top brass of the American industry.
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00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,880
Americans believe it will take its place with Psycho, the exorcist, and Minnet Express as
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00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,040
one of the powerhouse films of all time.
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00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,480
The president of one company called it "Trifect and Magical and Beautiful."
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The chairman of another called us in Australia and said, "Now I've seen someone who can really
705
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:16,200
make a movie."
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00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,760
You think one of those was Sam Arkov?
707
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,160
The act concluded by projecting that 500 million citizens of the world will see Mad Max.
708
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,400
It started in Melbourne.
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00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,080
Lent Kapling in the whale-stayley post-written his review of Mad Max, "Director George
710
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:31,400
Miller," this is his debut film, has obviously been watching too many Hitchcock movies.
711
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,640
Mad Max hasn't always followed the right signposts.
712
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:38,680
The music, a manic stab at Bernard Herman, begins to grate on the nerves after about 20 seconds.
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00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:43,040
But amid all the hockum, the death-defying stunt work by Grant Page deserves applause.
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00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,280
One head-on collision between a Kawasaki and a giant truck at 70 mph will live in my
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00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,800
memory for a long time.
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00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,000
In America, critics didn't praise Mad Max quite so effusively.
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00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,160
Charles Chaplin of the LA Times wrote, "Mad Max is a road-action picture of such awful,
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00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,320
shallow predictability, populated by such uninviting and uninteresting people that it
719
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,240
is almost worth seeing as a textbook example of how not to make a film.
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00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:06,800
It's a downer from down under.
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00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,080
It generates new respect for the efficient storytelling skill and shrewd emotional dynamics
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of American program pictures.
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00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,440
Students of what not to do may well want to have a look."
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00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,220
Eleanor Ringel of the Atlanta Constitution wrote, "After months of whining that Atlanta
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00:39:19,220 --> 00:39:23,560
never gets any foreign films, I had to sit through Mad Max, an Australian import brought
726
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,000
to the US courtesy of film-wise, formerly American International.
727
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,280
Mad Max is guaranteed to make you car-sick.
728
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,520
At best, it has some of the primitive energy of early Roger Karmann, but even car crash
729
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,200
addicts are going to weary of endless shots of asphalt.
730
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,520
Mad Max keeps moving, at least until something runs into something else.
731
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,440
But all in all, it adds up to one big crashing boar.
732
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:43,440
Hit the road, Max."
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00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,120
Bill Wein of the Camden New Jersey career post-wrote, "The problem with films like
734
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,000
Mad Max is that they bring out the worst in their audiences, who seem to root for any
735
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,960
kind of bone-crushing mischief that gets enacted up on that giant screen, regardless
736
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,560
of who is doing what to whom and for what reason."
737
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,200
Mad Max is technically superior to the average B movie, but it takes a certain amount of
738
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,280
cynicism to root for a vehicle that snuggles up to thugs.
739
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:09,080
A brief review blurb in the Arizona Republic said, "Mad Max was Australian-made pseudo-futuristic
740
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:12,760
motorcycle drag of interest only to minds numb by carbon monoxide."
741
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:17,520
Tom Buckley of the New York Times wrote, "Mad Max is ugly and incoherent and aimed, probably
742
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,440
accurately, at the most uncritical of moviegoers.
743
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,040
It's worth noting that much of the rudimentary dialogue in this Australian film has been
744
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,640
dubbed from strine, the thick dialect of the subcontinent, into country and western English.
745
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,320
You can tell it because the lip movement and sound are often slightly out of synchronization."
746
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,880
Twenty years after they originally reviewed the film, an article in the New York Times
747
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:40,200
by Elvis Mitchell looking back at Mad Max was kinder, praising master movie maker Miller's
748
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:44,680
exhilarating routiness and visual intensity, with Miller creating by his wits and rubbing
749
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,320
sticks together to create a riveting classic.
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00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:51,200
Mitchell said that Mad Max has so much comic book volatility that it triumphed over the
751
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,200
wretched dubbing it received when it was released in the United States in 1979.
752
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,920
It sounded as if it had been re-voiced by airline pilots.
753
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,640
Their soothing, untroubled enunciation almost functions in the same way the ridiculous
754
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,480
English dubbing did for Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lilly?"
755
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,120
The movie was dubbed because it was felt that the cast Australian accents would scare off
756
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,960
exploitation house audiences.
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00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:14,000
With its relatively low budget, Mad Max was the most profitable film ever made at the time
758
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,480
of its release and held the Guinness World Record for the highest box office to budget
759
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,920
ratio of any motion picture until the release of the Blair Witch Project in 1999.
760
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:27,000
Mad Max was awarded three Australian Film Institute Awards in 1979 for editing, musical score
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00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,000
and sound.
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00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,840
It was given a special award for stunt work.
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00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,040
It was also nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best
764
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Supporting Actor for Hugh Kees Burn.
765
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:40,160
Mad Max won a special jury prize at the 8th International Festival to Film Fantastic
766
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,400
in France in January of 1980.
767
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:43,080
No Oscars though.
768
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:54,520
"So Cheryl, this was not the first time that I'd watched Mad Max, but it was the first
769
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,040
time that I'd really seen it."
770
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:57,800
It was the first time that I'd watched it.
771
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,920
My only experience with the Mad Max universe was watching Mad Max Fury Road, which came
772
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,120
out 10 years ago, started Charlie's Theron and Tom Hardy is Max.
773
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,840
So this Mad Max wasn't really what I was expecting.
774
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,760
It's not that bleak of a dystopian future yet.
775
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,040
You can still get ice cream from the ice cream shop.
776
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,680
You can still go swim at the beach.
777
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:20,480
It's not a dystopian hellscape yet where you're just racing down roads trying to find gas
778
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,680
and having people try to kill you all the time.
779
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:27,600
Well, Rowling's seeing that part, but there obviously is some sort of civilization of people
780
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:28,600
who do go for ice cream.
781
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,040
But we don't see much of that.
782
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:31,440
We don't see the populace.
783
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,560
We see that small town of Wee Jerusalem and the people there are sleeping until the
784
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:36,560
hikers show up.
785
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,720
Yeah, so there's not much industry happening.
786
00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:41,720
Not that we see.
787
00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:42,480
This is more than the outback part of Australia, I think.
788
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,880
So we don't know what's going on in the cities and the towns.
789
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,960
We do know that it is kind of a hellscape out here, but they're still green grass.
790
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,440
I mean, this wasn't shot in Tunisia.
791
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,480
This was shot in Australia and now Australian outback of 1978.
792
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:55,480
So it's not that bad.
793
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,320
I was expecting worse and I was expecting a bit more carnage than we got here.
794
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,160
So I was kind of pleasantly surprised to be honest with this movie.
795
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:07,560
Yeah, the desert landscape that is associated with the Mad Max franchise would come with
796
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:08,840
the later films.
797
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,640
And I saw the road warrior way back when like 30 years ago and I probably wasn't paying
798
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:14,640
attention.
799
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,320
A friend branded it and I was probably had my nose in a comic book the whole time.
800
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,480
But as I understand it, that's kind of like a soft reboot of the whole Mad Max story.
801
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,840
And I never saw the third one, but I do remember Tina Turner's music video, which was in constant
802
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:27,840
rotation on MTV.
803
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,320
I liked that song.
804
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,720
I would like to watch the next Mel Gibson films in the franchise.
805
00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:35,040
Now I'm interested because I thought this movie was pretty good.
806
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,200
But the dubbing that A.I.P. did is a crime against filmmaking.
807
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,720
It is so bad.
808
00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:44,960
I do appreciate that they did change the slang because I wouldn't have understood what
809
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:45,960
they were talking about.
810
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:47,800
I don't know that a donk is a motor.
811
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:52,320
No, maybe instead of dubbing it, they could put some subtitles up that just explained what
812
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:53,560
they're actually going on about.
813
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,400
But we do have the version without dubbing and we watched a bit of it just to hear what
814
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:57,400
their voice is sound like.
815
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:58,960
It is so much better.
816
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,280
It would be the preferable way to watch this.
817
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:05,680
This thing chewed our mission statement.
818
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,080
We always do, unless we can't.
819
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,040
So yeah, that was a big disappointment to me.
820
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:14,720
Well, as I understand it, the A.I.P. dub was all that was available in America until around
821
00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:15,720
1999 or something.
822
00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:16,720
Oh, wow.
823
00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:19,720
That's a long time to go without hearing Mel Gibson's actual voice.
824
00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:20,720
And it's not that bad.
825
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:24,000
They're slang maybe incomprehensible at times, but their voices aren't.
826
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,000
Their addiction isn't.
827
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,240
No, they accents I didn't have a problem with.
828
00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:30,960
It was just some of the words coming out that I just am not familiar with.
829
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,480
Charlie has his accident and Rupes calling it in.
830
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,000
He says that Charlie copped a saucer.
831
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,440
I don't know what that means.
832
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,640
It's kind of obvious that this throat's cut because he's bleeding from the throat.
833
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:41,440
So whatever he says doesn't really matter.
834
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:42,760
You can tell what's going on.
835
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:43,760
I don't know.
836
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:44,760
Are people that dumb?
837
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,840
Are you going to get hung up on copped a saucer when what happened is fairly obvious?
838
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:53,080
Yeah, maybe audiences 1979, 1980 would have been less forgiving of the accents than
839
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:57,960
the art today because now we're given films in foreign languages with subtitles.
840
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,800
And there are people who absolutely will not watch when we were subtitles, but I think
841
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,680
it's more accepted than it would have been in the late 70s.
842
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:09,040
Yeah, Paris won the Academy War for Best Picture, not Best Foreign Picture, Best Picture.
843
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,040
And it was subtitled.
844
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,680
Yeah, I think that's a different world now.
845
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,280
The cinema is more global than it was before.
846
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,680
But if they're going to dub it, why can't they get people who can act?
847
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:19,440
These are just people reading lines.
848
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,040
Toe Cutter's voice is kind of funny.
849
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,240
He's got kind of a high pitched voice for the look of this character.
850
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:25,240
Yeah.
851
00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:26,240
And Feife's just growling.
852
00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:29,320
And his voice is a little higher than expected to be too.
853
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,160
And they're all their voices are higher.
854
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,080
Yes, Mel Gibson has sort of a feminine voice.
855
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,080
What's that?
856
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:36,080
Yeah.
857
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:39,000
The woman who was doing just his voice had more depth in her vocal range.
858
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,480
He didn't say much though.
859
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,680
No, that was one thing I didn't like about this movie.
860
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,760
And that was from the first time I watched it.
861
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,480
Your family has to get killed so you can start your hero's journey.
862
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:49,480
It's so played out.
863
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:50,480
It's happened so many times.
864
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,960
Well, it's interesting how long it took because it's the last 15 minutes of the film
865
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,200
that it becomes a revenge picture.
866
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:57,640
He becomes mad Max.
867
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:02,120
Before that, he's just working Guy Max doing his job trying to round up these stupid Nomad
868
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:03,120
gang members.
869
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,240
They were running around wreaking havoc.
870
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:09,000
Especially when we watched the parts of the original dub that we watched that Hugh Key's
871
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,120
Burn as Toe Cutter was really good.
872
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,040
You don't like him, but he's very good in this role.
873
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:14,040
I would agree with that.
874
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,640
The dubbing did not help his performance at all.
875
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:17,640
No.
876
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,400
I feel like we should just ignore that and kind of concentrate on the acting.
877
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,120
Next time I watch this, I will watch the original soundtrack.
878
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:24,120
Yeah, me too.
879
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:25,760
And I love the actor who played Feife.
880
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:26,760
His character was so fun.
881
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,440
And again, his real voice is much better than the dubbing.
882
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:30,440
Oh, yeah.
883
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:31,840
But Mel Gibson's kind of an enigment in this movie.
884
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,520
He doesn't really express a lot.
885
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,760
Well, there isn't much dialogue at all in this movie.
886
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:36,760
No, and that's good.
887
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,000
We always appreciate that when we're taking notes on a film.
888
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,760
Those car chase scenes were so intricate.
889
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,720
And it's really impressive because this is a very low-budget movie.
890
00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:47,320
And car crashes are fun to watch anyway on the screen.
891
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:51,080
So if you have a low-budget movie that pulls it off as well as they did, I mean, this movie
892
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,200
is very comic bookie.
893
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:57,080
And it's even got the wipe transitions, which you don't see very often, but that evokes a
894
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,520
comic book feeling like turning pages.
895
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,880
They did it in the Star Wars movies, obviously.
896
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,720
And you don't see it that often anymore.
897
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:05,920
You used to see it in John Ford movies.
898
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,320
I call them 40 in wipes.
899
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:09,320
But they really aren't done.
900
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,960
But I think if you're doing a comic book movie, it works really well.
901
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,440
I was kind of expecting a big dumb action movie.
902
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,560
And it is sort of a big dumb action movie.
903
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,800
But there's some very clever things going on.
904
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,080
And I didn't notice it till the second time I watched it.
905
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:25,480
The way Max, even though he didn't actually arrange for Tokutter's death, but the way that
906
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:30,280
Tokutter and Johnny died is exactly the same way that the people they killed died.
907
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:35,600
So Johnny is the one who lit the match, basically, is the cause of goose dying in that car fire.
908
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,240
And Tokutter is the one that ran over Jesse and Sprog.
909
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:41,680
So Tokutter gets run over by a truck and Johnny gets burned to death.
910
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,000
And I thought that was pretty clever.
911
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,240
It's a little more subtle than it might otherwise have been.
912
00:47:45,240 --> 00:47:51,040
I think the only thing that's not satisfying this movie is Tokutter's death is so anti-climactic.
913
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:52,760
Because he seems to be the big bad in this.
914
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:53,760
He's the leader.
915
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:58,440
He's the charismatic leader that leads this cult that even the night rider is like, you
916
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,640
see me Tokutter because everything he's doing, he's doing for the attention of this guy.
917
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:03,640
Right.
918
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,800
And he has such a firm grip on everyone in this gang that they'll do whatever for him.
919
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,640
Johnny was grooming him, pulling at him just to fix his hair.
920
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:15,480
So for Max to just chase him under a truck and have him kill that way by happenstance,
921
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:16,480
more than by design.
922
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:17,880
It's a little unsatisfying.
923
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:22,080
And Johnny's death is much more satisfying, which is probably why the movie ends with that.
924
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,720
But Johnny, we didn't really see him as the big bad.
925
00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:26,720
I mean, he's probably in the movie more than Tokutter.
926
00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:30,440
And he's a bigger character than Tokutter because he's so insane.
927
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,920
He takes up the whole screen when he's there and Tokutter is much more controlled.
928
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:35,920
Not much more.
929
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:41,200
Well, he's more evil, but he has more control over his emotions, let's say.
930
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,840
And more control over the people who follow him.
931
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:44,840
Yeah.
932
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,200
The rogue member of this gang, because he's high all the time.
933
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:48,600
He's going off on his own.
934
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:49,800
He's mentally ill.
935
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,800
And Tokutter seems to be the only one in the gang who actually tolerates him.
936
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,960
Ideally, Tokutter's death would have been last and it would have been something that
937
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,320
Max himself designed, engineered.
938
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:03,080
But like I said, if they're doing that callback to how the people in Max's life were killed,
939
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:04,560
it kind of had to happen that way.
940
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,520
And therefore, it had to be an accident of chance.
941
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,720
Max can't make that semi truck run over Tokutter.
942
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:11,720
Maybe he did.
943
00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:12,720
He created the opportunity.
944
00:49:12,720 --> 00:49:14,400
That was a great crash scene though.
945
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,720
The crash scenes are so involved in this.
946
00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:21,000
And just that it was done with such a low budget, it's really impressive.
947
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,160
The eyeball thing that kept coming up.
948
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:27,080
Oh, I love that every character before their death turns into a text-avery character
949
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:32,680
goes, "I guess they did that with a mask for Tokutter's death because his eyes are way
950
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,360
out of his skull, but it's fantastic.
951
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:35,360
It's just so cool."
952
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:36,360
You didn't cause on it.
953
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,160
So I didn't get to look and see exactly what it was or count frames or anything, but it's
954
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:41,160
short.
955
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,200
It's just enough for it to register in your mind.
956
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,480
But it happens when Nightrider dies.
957
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,920
You see his eyes bulge out quite so far, but it happens.
958
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,400
When Max sees Goose in the hospital, his eyes bug out.
959
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,120
It's just a thing that George Miller likes, apparently.
960
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:59,280
I think that the world building is impressive because you just dropped into this post-apocalyptic
961
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,440
carpocalypse world.
962
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:02,800
They don't tell you anything.
963
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,840
And most of the exposition that we get is given over the radio.
964
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:10,280
So you really have to pay attention to what's coming with a dispatcher saying because she's
965
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,400
the one who's telling everybody what's going on or you don't know.
966
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:14,600
There's no narration.
967
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:19,360
There's no catching you up on what's happened since today and the near future.
968
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:20,360
You're just in it.
969
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:21,600
And there's still a lot we don't know.
970
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:23,280
This gang they have these space tattoos.
971
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:24,280
We don't know why.
972
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:25,880
It comes with a kill, I guess.
973
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:26,880
That's what it seems to be.
974
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:27,880
They don't outright say it.
975
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,040
I heard that's what American gangs do, too.
976
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,960
I would like to see more of their dual acquisition.
977
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,000
We see them siphoning gas on a overturned fuel truck.
978
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,400
I'd like to know what caused that.
979
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,680
I'd like to see them kind of explain how they do this on the regular.
980
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,840
They did it when the truck was in motion, too.
981
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:43,840
So they had one of the riders.
982
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,440
I think it was kind of a leaning in front of the truck, slowing it down.
983
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:50,560
And then the others jump off a cliff onto the top of the truck or catch up behind it.
984
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,760
They put the hose in the truck and they have gas cans and they siphon it as the truck
985
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:54,760
is moving.
986
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,280
So they don't have to cause mayhem everywhere they go.
987
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,280
They just let the truck go its merry way and take what they need.
988
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,120
One instance where they don't cause mayhem.
989
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,960
I guess that the equivalent of stopping at a gas lamp and siphoning gas.
990
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:10,880
You also go back and listen to our those fantastic flying fools episode to get that one.
991
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:11,880
I like this movie.
992
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,080
I didn't expect you and I did.
993
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:18,800
So I sure how is that equate to our letter grade on our AIP scale where A is awesome.
994
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,800
I is an intermediate and P is pathetic.
995
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:25,400
Well, obviously it's an A. I don't think I've ever liked a movie and given it a mid grade
996
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:26,600
or a low grade.
997
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,280
Sometimes I do like a movie that's not good.
998
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,760
It's not good in a fun way and I would give it an A.
999
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,920
And I would tell you if it's not a good movie and I like it anyways.
1000
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:36,560
This is a good movie and I like it.
1001
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:37,880
So definitely an A.
1002
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:42,520
I know Mel Gibson is a controversial figure and I don't think this is a place to address
1003
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:43,520
that.
1004
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,960
But despite that, he's the hero of this movie and he does a good job.
1005
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,040
I'll have to watch his other Mad Max movies to know for sure.
1006
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,600
But I think he's going to have more to do in the future.
1007
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,440
Here he's very stoic and quiet.
1008
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,720
But you can see that underneath that there is some emotion.
1009
00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:57,880
He loves his wife.
1010
00:51:57,880 --> 00:51:59,880
He talks about his dad so fondly.
1011
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:00,880
He loves his kid.
1012
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,520
He's genuinely destroyed when these bad things happen to them.
1013
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:09,040
And so that does explain why he becomes the psychotic killing machine that he does.
1014
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:10,040
He has a reason.
1015
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:11,760
He's not just taking it out on random people.
1016
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:12,760
He needs revenge.
1017
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,200
And so it's understandable how he transitions from Max to Mad Max.
1018
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,160
And I think the movie handles that pretty well.
1019
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,000
So yeah, definitely an A for me.
1020
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,000
What do you think?
1021
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,960
Well, I was talking about the use of wipes earlier and what's really interesting to me is
1022
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,360
that it's a very visible transition.
1023
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,880
You can notice it when a wipe goes across the screen.
1024
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:30,880
Mm-hmm.
1025
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:31,880
And there's a bird.
1026
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:32,880
Or if there's a bird.
1027
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,720
You might have a fade to black and that's somewhat noticeable.
1028
00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:38,120
Or you have a quick cut or a dissolve.
1029
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:39,800
And those are pretty much invisible.
1030
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:41,280
You kind of just go with the flow.
1031
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,360
But a wipe takes time so you feel that transition.
1032
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,720
So it takes a certain kind of movie to be able to pull that off, I think.
1033
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:51,680
And one with a comic book feel like Mad Max certainly fits the bill.
1034
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,800
And I just can't help but be impressed with what was done with such a meager budget.
1035
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,160
It was done for a few hundred thousand dollars Australian money back in the day, which would
1036
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:04,640
be to like 1.3 million, which isn't a miniscule budget, but it's still not a big budget.
1037
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,560
And to pull off what they did is just so impressive.
1038
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:12,280
There's lots of car crashes, which adding one car crash in a movie is not cheap.
1039
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:16,120
You can make a party a budget by casting unknowns, which is what they did here.
1040
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,600
And when you happen to cast the future star, that certainly helps because then you can
1041
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:21,320
buy all that money back on the back end.
1042
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:22,320
Right.
1043
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:26,360
I think the foreign money must have made up for that budget ten times over, not eventually,
1044
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:27,360
but initially.
1045
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:30,680
It would have been so much fun to watch at a late night screening in a crowd back in the
1046
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:31,680
day.
1047
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:32,680
Right.
1048
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:33,680
A drive in.
1049
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,480
And a drive in in a theater with a crowd of people, people cheering and getting rowdy.
1050
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,880
Well, that one drive in crowd was tooting their horns and not eating hamburgers.
1051
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:41,440
Give it a drive in ovation.
1052
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:44,680
That's not the same because you're only with the people in your own vehicle.
1053
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,320
You want to be in a crowd that's just just getting excited.
1054
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:53,040
If you're lucky enough to see a movie like that in a crowd like that, it's a really special
1055
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,040
experience.
1056
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:57,440
Yeah, just the energy just makes the movie so much more.
1057
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:58,800
So I'm going to get this one in a two.
1058
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:03,040
I just think that this was an incredible start to a franchise that I'm probably going to
1059
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,960
have to check out for myself because I admit that I haven't.
1060
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,120
I've watched the word word, but I really haven't seen it.
1061
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,880
I had watched Mad Max, but hadn't seen it.
1062
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:11,880
They were playing the background.
1063
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:15,080
I was doing something else because I didn't care because action movies aren't really my
1064
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:16,080
thing.
1065
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:19,840
But I did enjoy this and it's a revenge story eventually eventually gets there, which
1066
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:21,160
I always love.
1067
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,160
First time I was probably indifferent to the whole thing.
1068
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:24,480
He had lots of cool car crashes.
1069
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:28,760
It's okay until the revenge story kicked in and I'm like, okay, this is awesome.
1070
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:30,280
So this is an A from me.
1071
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,920
I saw what George Miller did with a big budget because by the time he was doing Fury Road
1072
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:38,440
and the 2000s versions of his Mad Max movies, his budget was huge.
1073
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,960
He spent it really well, I think.
1074
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,160
He transported the whole movie to Africa to shoot.
1075
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:45,720
There's a lot more crashing.
1076
00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:47,040
There's a lot more vehicles.
1077
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:48,360
There's bigger stars.
1078
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:49,680
There's just a lot more going on.
1079
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:53,880
And yet the movie is the story of the people and that remained as good there as it was
1080
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:54,880
here.
1081
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,520
I think George Miller is obviously earned all his accolades.
1082
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:58,880
He knows what he's doing.
1083
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,840
This is the time in the show where we plug our website, aippod.com.
1084
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:06,600
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1085
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:10,640
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1086
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:11,640
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1087
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,960
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1088
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,720
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1089
00:55:17,720 --> 00:55:18,720
We have a store.
1090
00:55:18,720 --> 00:55:23,240
Our merch, a purchase, helps us keep the website coming with all the lobby cards and trailers
1091
00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:25,960
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1092
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:30,040
We've got a lot more movies to cover and we'd love to keep doing it until we're done.
1093
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,240
Speaking of that, we're missing a few movies from the AIP catalog.
1094
00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:36,440
If you can help us track any of them down, we'd appreciate it.
1095
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:37,520
There's a list of what we need.
1096
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:38,520
So check that out.
1097
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,760
Again, that's aippod.com.
1098
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:44,520
So I think we've crashed out on this episode of Mad Max on the American International
1099
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Podcast.
1100
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:46,520
I'm Jeff Markin.
1101
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I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
1102
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We'll meet you at the drive-in.
1103
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1104
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1105
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1106
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:09,800
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1107
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:11,120
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1108
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,400
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1109
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