Set and shot on the dirt high ways of Australia, Mad Max is the story of Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), a policeman in a world where an apocalypse is right around the corner, following the collapse of the oil based world, when the wells ran dry.
Plot: The leader of a motorcycle gang escapes police custody, but being the main man, Max, chases him and it results in the leaders death. Bit later, the blokes gang come across Max's family on their summer holiday and kill 'em. Max goes nuts and then there's a couple of sequels.
Leather clad and driving the atypical muscle car, this is the character that shaped post-apocalyptic cinema.
Budget: $650,000
Gross: $100,000,000 (over the years I assume)
Released in the early summer of 1979, Mad Max was directed by George Miller, who would subsequently go on to film the second, third and is still, even now, some thirty years on, endeavoring to create the forth; Mad Max-Fury Road...possibly animated.
Fun Fact: Mel turned up to his Mad Max audition black and blue, following a drunken brawl the previous night. "We need freaks", stated the casting agent.
Plot: The leader of a motorcycle gang escapes police custody, but being the main man, Max, chases him and it results in the leaders death. Bit later, the blokes gang come across Max's family on their summer holiday and kill 'em. Max goes nuts and then there's a couple of sequels.
Leather clad and driving the atypical muscle car, this is the character that shaped post-apocalyptic cinema.
Budget: $650,000
Gross: $100,000,000 (over the years I assume)
Released in the early summer of 1979, Mad Max was directed by George Miller, who would subsequently go on to film the second, third and is still, even now, some thirty years on, endeavoring to create the forth; Mad Max-Fury Road...possibly animated.
Fun Fact: Mel turned up to his Mad Max audition black and blue, following a drunken brawl the previous night. "We need freaks", stated the casting agent.
The highway to hell...
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