Before Pappagallo can discard Max, Humungus and his gang return, promising the survivors safe passage if they give up the oil refinery. He shows him a ragtag group of survivors led by the swaggering Pappagallo (Mike Preston) defending an oil refinery from a horde of marauders commanded by the muscular Lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), "the Warrior of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah" and his blood thirsty henchman, the red mohawked Wez (Vernon Wells).Īfter an ill-fated attempt from some of the survivors to hunt for a rig that can haul their prized oil tanker to a new paradise, Max brings a wounded man back to the compound with the hope of receiving some gas for his good deed. After coming across the crazy Gyro Captain (Bruce Spence) and his Rube Goldberg gyrocopter, the Gyro Captain takes Max (and his loyal Australian cattle dog) to a rocky outcrop. Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), former policeman, is now a burnt out shell of himself, driving the endless white line highways in search of food and gas while trying to evade the scavengers that prey on the weak. In THE ROAD WARRIOR (written by George Miller, Terry Hayes, and Brian Hannant), nuclear war between nations has destroyed cities and sent survivors out into the Australian wastelands to fend for themselves. In MAD MAX, society was on the verge of anarchy. The third and least satisfying film although very different is MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985), set farther in the future for our wandering hero. Then, came THE ROAD WARRIOR which is set about 25 years after MAD MAX. For those unfamiliar with the series, the MAD MAX trilogy is made up of the original, low budget MAD MAX, Miller's first feature film that introduced us to Police Officer Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) who loses his family to a motorcycle gang and chases them down for revenge in his V-9 Interceptor (actually a Ford Falcon). With director George Miller rebooting his leather clad hero Max Rockatanksy (and actor Tom Hardy taking over for original Max Mel Gibson) in the new MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), I thought this would be a good time to compare the best of the three MAD MAX films THE ROAD WARRIOR with the new film as FURY ROAD will be compared to THE ROAD WARRIOR, even if the timeline, according to Miller, is a couple of decades apart. but was released first in Australia the winter of 1981), I was captivated by its sheer visual brilliance in action, editing, cinematography, wardrobe, and storytelling. in the summer of 1982 along with BLADE RUNNER and E.T. From the first time I sat in a movie theater and watched THE ROAD WARRIOR (it actually came out in the U.S. But Number One on my list (and perhaps a surprise to many) is George Miller's post-apocalyptic action film THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981), the sequel to his film debut MAD MAX (1979). One of my future blogs I will reveal the whole List. The List has to be films that I want to see over and over again. I've never written it down and I stopped it at about 1999. It's really a Top 5 favorite film List (plus an additional three or four more for good measure). Several years ago, CrazyFilmGuy decided to come up with a List. Whether you're a movie critic or just a film aficionado, a List emerges from all those films you've watched. Everybody has a Top 10 List of their favorite films.
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