How Mad Max Movies Were Made: PART 1 (MAD MAX 1 & 2) 

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Road Warrior was the first movie in the series I watched as a kid. Fell in love after that.

In Part 2 I'll be talking about how crazy things got with the creation of Beyond Thunderdome and especially - Fury Road. That video will be up next week and then we'll go into detail on Immortan Joe's empire (a true deep dive) and after that expect a video on cars of Fury Road but from a 'real life' perspective. I hope you're enjoying this content and as always: Stay Shiny and Chrome!

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Sure you will find many connections to other movies, but the biggest is the connection to the silent movies from the 20s. Mad Max movies are very visual movies and that takes these first two ahead of others. Think about the supercharger protruding through the bonnet. The visualisation of power and evil aaand he can switch on and off. In Max 1 switching on and the hunt begins. Remember the open sequence of Max 2 he could escape with supercharger, had to quit and take the fight. Or the monza front like a mask, the colors of the cars (the bright yellow) and even photography. There was a new way of telling an old story and that it is, what Mad Max made Mad Max. And there is something else in Max 1. He kills without touching them, even the car has no scratch. It's much more psycho. And in Max 2 this changes from the beginning.

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This was packed with info I didn’t know and so well put together!

That part while sleeping and seeing the laughing face of Mad Max... 😆😆😆😆

I’m a huge Mad Max fan, and this video has some great insights that I’d never heard before! Thanks for all the research and work putting this together!

Three films shaped me, Star Wars, Mad Max and escape from New York. As soon as I could ride a bike I started with the leathers, 35 years later I still try an go for the MFP look.

When I hear about artist copying or "stealing" from another artist I think of a quote from Ozzy; He said "steal the best, fake the rest." It's not that Miller made a derivative biker flick. It's that he made the best derivative biker flick.

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Thanks for taking the time to make these videos mate. Love these deep dives and it’s always a pleasure to see you’ve uploaded.

I just found your channel and timeline videos today. I wanted to watch more and was sad you hadn’t uploaded in a while. Then you drop this. Thank you!

The Toecutter Gang is probably one of the most menacing, eccentric, unique on-screen fictional gangs of all-time. Byrnes' Toecutter, he acted that ingeniously. Right up there with the Clockwork Orange gang, which you can see the parallels.

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This was fantastic. As a fellow RU-vidr I can empathize with how much time and effort this took to put together...And it shows, well done. Cant wait for Part 2!

This is beautifully made. Thanks for doing such a nice job!

Totally AWESOME. To show something that will totally change your perspective on something, without changing your opinion. A lot of people would have tried to twist that information to make you feel a certain way to prove their point. Well done ... cant wait for part 2.

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Miller created something great, didn't know why it was a hit, and he admitted to it, trying to analyse it. Lucas created something great, didn't know why it was a hit, and just went with it, smiling that he got lucky.

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I really enjoyed this! Never imagined those being the sources of inspiration for Mad Max!

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Brilliant work, the best I've seen about the series. Great work!

I am looking forward to the next installment of this series. Your work is fascinating and enjoyable.

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Amazingly done man 🙌🏼👏🏼🇦🇺Mad Max 1 & 2 that’s one of my greatest influence in my life thank you for this fine documentary I bloody love it mate !

Great video, look forward to part 2

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That Dirty Mary Similarity is Spot on

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Great stuff. I learned something more about how these great movies were made. Mad Max 2 is always going to my favourite of all Mad Max movies. It is just *that* good. After seeing it the first time in mid 80's, the charm has never worn away.

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Brilliant account of the the Mad Max phenomenon. You have definitely found your calling in making these kinds of documentaries. With regards to what elements Kennedy/Miller borrowed from other works - it's almost impossible to make a completely original movie...especially by the 70's when so many amazing examples had been produced by that decade. Whichever works the two were inspired by - they included and remoulded the best elements of those, combined them with their own ideas, and produced a truly iconic series of movies.

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Man this was great footage my dude! Mad Max 1 and 2 for life! 3 and 4 were cute.

Great doco. Thanks for making it.

Fascinating. We all have influences. Thank you for making this very well made documentary.

Crazy that 20 years later I find someone who mentions Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. I even had it on recorded VHS. I loved! Much more than Vanishing Point, which might sound like a sin for some, but...

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Fantastic work. , Very insightful.

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The movie Stone is a must see. The stunt where the guy drives of the Sydney sea cliff almost killed the stunt man. The very ending scene has got to be one of the most sever beatings in cinema history. The guy who's beaten can barely be recognised as a person.

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Very good video! It reminds me of a premise taught to us in an introductory film course I took way, way, way back in my college days, which basically asserts: Every film that's made is influenced by the films that were made before it, to some degree or another [some more subtly, some less so]. The Mad Max films have had an undeniably huge influence on the post-apocalyptic/dystopian future film genres, but it doesn't stop there. Manga writer Buronson, of Fist Of The North Star fame, cited Bruce Lee and Mad Max as the two biggest influences on that now famous work. And the first two Mad Max films had an unmistakable influence on 2004's comic book superhero film The Punisher.

Spectacular stuff. I thought I knew a good bit about these movies but you've taken it to another level. Also: Tarantino was another who liked to "borrow" from other movies. Imitation - flattery and all that?

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Really incredible research. Thank you so much.

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5:51 Aussie here, and the subtitles definitely helped! 😆

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This was a fantastic video. Lots of new stuff. I thought that Mad Max 2 was a retelling of the first Mad Max, but with a bigger budget. I remember reading that George was unhappy with the budget of the first movie. He wanted to do the same chase we saw in the second movie, but could not do it.

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Honestly, I think the simple story and visual storytelling alone could easily be appreciated by anyone. You could totally still have an entertaining visual experience even without knowledege of the material the film took inspiration from.

The line about speed and money is ancient car culture line. Often phrased more humorously as: "Speed costs money, how fast do you want to spend?" There's nothing special about it being in two films and it is probably in countless films with all sorts of variations.

Great video, I particularly liked your rather simple but good explanation of the story pattern theory! recommending to read some more on that in books by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Again a great and informative video. Hopefully I´ll be able to visit the film location in Australia someday.

Funny that Harlan Ellison comes up in this. After, he did use Jim Cameron over similarities to one of his short stories written for The Outer Limits. Kind of shocked he didnt go after Miller and Kennedy as well. The dog being in the film must not have had enough merit, when he talked to his lawyer.

exzellent work. very interesting.

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This is Brilliant!

Great vid... love Road Warrior... i just watched The ultimate warrior and you are right. Very dissapointing to learn about this.

To me Mad Max mainly seems to be a story about the constant struggle against Anarchy.

The batwing skull stuck with me from the first time I saw the road warrior. It was my introduction to mad max. I was probably 12 and my parents had a tape of 3 movies. The princess bride, labyrinth (David Bowie) and the road warrior. I watched the road warrior over and over, just enamored with the cars, and the styles. But that batwing skull car.....oh I always wanted to recreate a replica.

Thank you! Great to know these facts.

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Glad to be inching down this Rabbit hole.....love all the borrowed themes.

The movie The Sugarland Express [1974] might have been an influence as well. From memory there's also a brief scene where cops go to a garage to pick up high performance pursuit vehicles.

They took "fake it 'til you make it' to a whole new level. It's worse than Tarantino but i guess that's how classics are made. Love the movie tho. One of the first movies i had seen when the VCR came out. Thanks for this !

Thanks for the cool videos. Mad Max 1 and 2 are my favourite of the series. I remember Australian actor Eric Bana saying that MM 1 and 2 are his favourite movies of all time. There's the obvious Australian connection but he said those two films had made such a huge impact on him as a kid. He joked that he was definitely too young to be watching them but they left a long lasting impression on him. It's all good that Mad Max borrowed ideas from other movies. That's not unusual in art. George Lucas was inspired by movies that influenced him as a young filmmaker and he put some of that into Star Wars. It's normal to steal ideas but you just gotta give it a point of difference for what you're making.

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You didn't mention the New Zealand film "Battle Truck." It was shot before MM2, but not released until after MM2. therefore many people think Battle truck is the copy. But they are wrong.

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I can't wait for part 2. I'm really curious to find out what Thunderdome was "ripped off" from. Of course it famously has elements from the novel Riddley Walker. The stuff about Stone and Crazy Larry here is amazing.