Though battered, and with one eye closed, Max insists he'll drive the repaired prime mover, hooked up to the tribe's fuel tanker. The Gyro Captain rescues Max and ferries him back to the compound in his autogyro. A cross bow takes care of Max's dog, but as the villains try to siphon off the fuel, they trigger a booby trap that turns the wreck into a fireball. Things go wrong for Max when he attempts to go his own way - he's chased by Wez in a nitrous oxide-powered car, and is run off the road, his supercharged V-8 pursuit special wrecked, and himself helpless as the crazed marauders go in search of his petrol. Spears) and his assistant (Kristoffer Greaves), the Quiet Man (David Slingsby), the Warrior Woman (Virginia Hey) and Pappagallo's offsiders, Zetta (William Zappa), and the Curmudgeon (Syd Heylen), who uses a tourist brochure, with snapshots of the Sunshine Coast, to show Max the promised land. Max brings the semi's prime mover back to the compound, where final preparations for the break out are made by by the likes of the Mechanic (Steve J. Max introduces the Feral Kid to music via a tiny hurdy gurdy, and offers the tribe another deal - he'll retrieve the abandoned Mack truck, and bring it back for the settlers' to use in their escape bid, provided they give him his freedom, his vehicle and as much petrol as he can carry. The tribe are tormented by the sight of a couple of their members (Max Fairchild as the broken victim, and Tyler Coppin as the defiant victim) draped in Christ-like poses at the front of Humungus's vehicle. Humungus and his team skirmish with the tribe, but the Feral Kid (Emil Minty), deploying a stainless steel boomerang, manages to take off a couple of the fingers of The Toadie (Max Phipps). But the man dies, and when Max drops the body back in the compound, the leader of the tribe, Pappagallo (Mike Preston) says the deal died with him. Max intervenes and does a deal with the mortally wounded sole survivor to help him back to the compound, in exchange for a tank of petrol. When a group of settlers try to make a break from the besieged compound, they're captured, tortured, raped and killed. Max shackles up the Gyro Captain and heads off to the refinery, watching from on high as the refinery is besieged by a band of marauders led by a man in a hockey mask, Humungus, (Kjel Nilsson) who could pass for a Mr Sweden. The gyro man tries to get out of trouble with Max by telling him of a nearby oil refinery in the wasteland, run by a tribe of hippie do-gooders. When Max checks a seemingly abandoned autogyro for fuel, out of the ground pops the Gyro Captain (Bruce Spence) who uses poisonous snakes to booby trap his vehicle (relax, it's an Australian python). Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) is powering down an outback road, trying to escape the crazed leather clad bikie Wez (Vernon Wells), accompanied by fey companion Golden Youth (Jimmy Brown), and a gang of offsiders.Ī few of the gang crash, Wez cops an arrow, and Max rescues some precious petrol from amongst a gaggle of wrecked cars (while noting a Mack semi-trailer still seems to be in working order, though the driver's not doing so well). Well as Stanislavski would say, that's the given circumstances, or the back story, now it's time for the action.Īnd much of the rest of the time, as the ads would say, the Mad Max is given over to high powered, high octane action with barely time for a breath, or a pause, or a foot off the accelerator … And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again… A man who wandered out into the wasteland. and became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice.Īnd in this maelstrom of decay ordinary men were battered and smashed.

Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. On the roads it was a white-line nightmare. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Their world crumbled, the cities exploded.

Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. But most of all, I remember the Road Warrior, the man we called Max.To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time when the world was powered by the black fuel, and the deserts sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land.

Voice over, over black, then images of Mad Max in a desolate future landscape, then images of times past in the oil age, stock footage of war, rioting and anarchy, then footage from the first Mad Max, as a narrator (Harold Baigent) remembers:

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