Mad Max is about motion. Specifically, the motion involved when tons of twisted metal barrel down a desert highway in a nitrous-fueled pursuit of total destruction. Big cars. Little cars. Cool cars. Cow cars. Vans. Dune buggies. Motorcycles. Trucks. Trains, planes, and gyrocopters– if there’s an engine in it, director George Miller can and will blow it up in spectacular fashion.
The mastermind behind the madness has been shredding the unroadworthy for nearly 50 years now, honing his craft through each outrageous crash. But how did the chases and action scenes throughout the Mad Max saga evolve along with the technology, budgets, and skills in Miller’s arsenal?
We’ve got a huge haul ahead of us, so buckle up, thunder up and let loose the dogs of war on a journey into the completely insane, extremely dangerous, and utterly real automotive annihilation that defines Mad Max.
This video was written by Charlie Lopresto, edited by Shiraz Dhume and Justin Donaldson.
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My Best Shots with George Miller – https://youtu.be/lGYvOhzQ90g?si=E9BuOV1OMdArHxH3
5 Brilliant Moments of Action – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3_d5Y0Gr3c&t=42s
Mad Max Fury Road as an 8-Bit Video Game! – https://youtu.be/NsXWTcVvCwQ?si=GrdVsNO_vGxRCayI
Things You Didn’t Know About Mad Max – https://youtu.be/DB0btPU-G_4?si=CqPWCK1oiUfKM8Rr
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I love this behind the scenes look you guys have done here, makes me miss bonus features on disc back in the day. More please!
Love this type of documentary video you guys do. Thanks!
I watched it but I didn't like the movie at all
Mate…. I'm not sure you understand how much of a cinematic icon Mad Max is for us Australians.
It's not really a surprise that Fury Road came in second to Pitch Perfect at the box office when you realize the whole Mad Max franchise owes a lot of its aesthetic and sensibilities to heavy metal music and in 2015 the general music listening public had long moved away from rock and metal in favor of highly polished rap and pop.
Hence, much of the terrifying grittiness and pointless nihilism as epic and bombastic spectacle was (unfairly) seen as nothing more than weird and off-putting edginess.
Charlize Theron never gave birth. 29:56
Beyond Thunderdome was good. It has it's own charm and it's different. Like Temple of Doom.
George Miller getting to see his vision and story through from film to film over the decades is surely one of the greatest success stories in moviemaking history. A minimal budget, guerrilla-style B-movie became one of the greatest action series in cinema history, all whilst the original mastermind behind it continued to serve as writer/director.
I’m glad you mentioned all of the great things in Beyond Thunderdome. It’s certainly a messy film, and its second half falls apart at times, but the good stuff is so good! Excellent video!
I saw Mad Max at the drive-in when i was 11 in 1979. The American accent dub was painfully obvious and really distracting. I'd seen plenty of foreign dubbed movies and I didn't understand why, if the lip-sync matched, it was dubbed. It wasn't until I saw Road Warrior at the same drive-in a few years later that I put it together.
So many so-called commentators claim Max was never the lead character in the original trilogy, but that is so untrue.
great video
The more I know about this movie the more incredible it is
The Mad Max saga alternates between a "chase" film and a "world building" film
"australia's most expensive movie ever, at the time" ….. somebody doesn't know what "ever" means. just say "most expensive movie to that point"
Poor Vid.
Mate…I dont think you get just how different Mad Max was to other movies a the time. You cant discount it without taking history and its place in it into account. The sparse-ness is what the movie IS about, and also reminiscent of other Australian and genre movies at the time.
If you cant understand a movie in its historical context and be able to recommend why its important/good, you shouldn't be making these types of vids.
That's a really…. unique way to pronounce "oeuvre."
Great video, quite informative. Thank you for the upload!!
I gotta say…Mad Max is full of action in both the movies and behind the scenes
Fury road is over done and overrated. It’s nowhere near as good as the first movie and that guy playing the fire guitar is just flat out dumb. The first two are the best, thunderdome is ok , these new ones just don’t cut it
Ain't no way you wouldn't recommend Mad Max 1. It's a totally good movie, even if it's not as grand as the other movies. It's darker than the other movies and good on its own
mad max saga is for people that love fast cars
As a nerd, I must say the "fuel inyected machines" does not mach any vehicle in the first movie. Those were carburators all along.
Just nerd's humor, you know. Don´t take me seriously by any means.
I enjoyed this piece a lot, nice work, honestly. Those movies I have rewached several times and will again hopefully many more. The first one, specially, is always a joy , maybe cause at times is just a raw sound and visual experience. So many goose bumping moments that I treasure there. As a petrolhead, those frequetn brief iconic shots just make the whole utterly briliant. I can almost smell the gasoline fumes and melting rubber while the child I was when I first saw it, watches it again.
36:12 Furiosa flopped because we, the audience, are fed up with the undeserving "d.e.i" female heroes overdressed in impenetrable plot armor.
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Why are the vehicles referred to as "rabbit animals"? There is a whole dubbed version in "American" that the narrator would probably appreciate.
Bad video
"Max isn't much of a gunslinger"
Did you actually watch these movies, dude?
Mad Max: Max uses his sawn off to shoot a motorcylcist clean off his bike as he charges at him
Road Warrior: Max drives a big rig with one hand while he shoots out the driver of a muscle car behind him, again, with a sawn-off shotgun
Fury Road: Max, again, drives a big rig with one hand and uses his off hand to shoot and kill multiple moving motorcyclists and dirt bikers with a glock 17.
I understand it's a movie, but that shit isn't easy. Especially with moving targets, while multitasking.
Also, everyone's entitled to their own perspective but I really feel like a lot of these takes are invalidated by the bad faith you went into the first film with. The first film is a cult classic in every way and aside from a few production goofs, is frankly very watchable and entertaining throughout. I find it's amateurishness charming and quotable; what's a line legitimately said in the second film that isn't MEANT to be a zinger? To this day I think about "Then we'll see you on the road, Scag!" From the first film all the time.
Great video, but I would’ve liked to see a bit more research go into a few more of the people behind the work. It would be nice to hear the actual names of the people who worked on some of this stuff and give them proper credit, rather than referring to them as “the special effects dude” at times 😅
please make more D.I.Y