![]() ![]() Style is inseparable from him, as he’s made up with great hair, eyeliner, and fashion choices. Toecutter himself is sadistic, taking his time to monologue to his lackeys about stylizing murder and how they should take pride in their behaviour. Toecutter and the Acolytes, apart from sounding like an underground metal band, make for an easy-to-hate bunch of criminals. She makes for a strong companion to a stronger protagonist. The relationship between him and Jessie grounds the world in realistic problems that have yet to fade into memories, like parental priorities and the cost of living. Always trying to do right has taken its toll on the man, with his focus being on his job at the MFP instead of on Jessie and their young son, but after Jim’s injuries reintroduce the risks of his job, he switches gears.ĭetailing is done by Gibson instead of the script, with his apparent love for cars, ability to juggle, and no-nonsense demeanour aiding in creating a realistic character. Max is a less-than-traditional cop trying to live a traditional life in spite of the circumstances. The Characters: As they do with Mad Max’s story, Miller and McCausland acquaint the audience with the survivors of the world’s dwindling lifeforce, creating bizarre villains and relatable heroes for a roster that shouldn’t gel as it does. Using elements from westerns, actioners, and silent films, they did just that. To create a long-lasting franchise, Miller and co-creator Byron Kennedy needed to put their own stamp on the revenge story. Max needs time away from the MFP, and goes his own way, but the Acolytes are intent on finishing the job, creating a collision course of experienced combatants to spike the final act with creative confrontations and a blistering end. Sporting a straightforward narrative, yet windingly presented in a variety of locations, Mad Max does have a still-novel trick up its sleeve in flipping the script into a revenge upon revenge upon revenge thriller. Naturally, the Acolytes don’t take kindly to the deliverance of justice and hatch a revenge plot that gets Jim gravely injured. ![]() Max and Jim run into the aftermath of Toecutter (Keays-Byrne), Bubba (Parry), and Johnny (Burns) terrorizing a town whereupon they arrest Johnny. The movie takes its time to give the audience a glimpse of the adaptive lifestyle everyone lives before introducing the antagonists, which gives the movie a singularity its imitators could never achieve. On a test ride of their new car, Max and his partner Jim (Bisley) hear from Captain Fifi (Ward) that the Acolytes, the biker gang that Nightrider was a member of, are none too pleased about Max’s keeping of order. The grass has some green left in it, the law is still trying to keep the world straight, and the cars are still driving (Scarily accurate in their prediction). Loads of world-building goes on in just the first 10 minutes, with the world still barely hanging on. They catch word of Nightrider (Gil), a cop killer driving crazily on the road who’s able to avoid them, so they call on Max (Gibson), who puts the chase to a stop. “A few years from now” the law-abiding few rely on the Main Force Patrol, who are essentially the highwaymen of the rotting world. It’s got the basics, but it scrounges for more, taking elements from films the world over to make something quirky, sophisticated, and barbaric. The Plot: With the world teetering on the brink of complete collapse, Miller and McCausland created a story from the perspective of the movie’s own world. It’s about a cop trying to maintain a system of law and order in a dying world being pushed to the edge by a biker gang. Mad Max was directed by George Miller (Happy Feet, Lorenzo’s Oil), written by Miller and James McCausland, and stars Mel Gibson ( Dangerous, Boss Level), Joanne Samuel (Alison’s Birthday, My Pet Dinosaur), Hugh Keays-Byrne (Stone, The Blood of Heroes), Tim Burns (Now and Forever, Patrol Boat), Geoff Parry (Gallipoli, Sword of Honour), Roger Ward ( Boar, Turkey Shoot), Steve Bisley (Water Rats, The Great Gatsby), and Vincent Gil ( Body Melt, Prisoner). ![]()
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