Connor: May I refer the honourable gentleman to Alice Cooper: The Kane Roberts years. Kane Roberts was a Ramo-lookalike guitarist who played for Alice Cooper in the mid 1980's and played a guitar fashioned like an AK47 with an underslung grenade-luncher, which was, in fact, a flamethrower.
His role in the warband actually makes total sense. Not only is it motivational, like bagpipes, but it also aids in coordinating troop movement, like drums and bugles.
I rewatched the film yesterday and this guy still makes me giggle. 1. Imagine being on the wasteland with everyone fighting to the death and how extra are they that they have to have metal music while doing it? 2. Everyone's straight up on the chase and he's just *jammin*. 3. Max bashed his face and he just wanted his guitar back.
@@sheepthoughti6178 why the negativity? This movie was never intended to portray realism, and quite frankly I've seen your comments on a number of threads here. Your concept of military practice is minimal at best, at worst just plain insultingly wrong to any historian, and you've done nothing of value here except call the genuine enjoyment of a creative movie "stupid" as if it's the full extent of your vocabulary. If a movie is fun to an intentionally absurd degree, how can it possibly "stupid"? And for the record, I've known plenty musicians that operate the same way. Doesn't matter if you throw beer at them, punch em in the face, or wreck their whole performance. Just don't hurt the guitar lol
@@CatBetaBellanri1218 yeah and besides these are not professional military people, these are religious nut cases worshiping V8 engines. This seems like something they would totally come up with
I'm glad the Guitar guy has a safety tether. some directors would try and hide that, but details like that make the universe feel more lived in and plausible.
He's like the future equivalent of a fife and drummer for line infantry from the Revolutionary/Civil War days. Imagine the moral and adrenaline boost you would get with this guy psyching you up during battle.
Lancelot Du Lac There were fife and drummers for line infantry centuries before those wars, you know? And for fuck's sake, have you never seen Apocalypse Now?
@@stuartjenkins3039 Apocalypse Now, the penultimate realistic authentic showcase of warfare in Vietnam. It is of course complete fact that the US army blasted classical music from massive speakers, giving away all element of surprise, which could be heard over anti-aircraft and machine gun fire.
Fun Fact: Immortan Joe uses the guitar guy to command his convoy on what to do. For example, at 0:20, you can see how the music is moving very fast, probably telling them to keep going, while at 0:33, the music slows down telling everyone behind to stop and slow down as well.
@@whereskentuckybruce8245 a war boy from the giga horse shouts orders to the roof warrior who plays those orders out as melodies to the army, different melodies mean different orders and tempo means marching/driving speed
Ya’ll have to understand, this is his job, to play guitar everytime theres a war party. Now imagine having that job, its not everyday that you roll out the war party. This man has probably been waiting weeks, months even just to do his specific job. And when he does get the chance, he fucking loves it! Fly high flame thrower guitar man.
This movie in 3D at theatre was just bad! The end clip where the speaker stack war rig wrecks was super cool because the guitar flew way out the screen at you! Hella good time.
The dude is blind and probably deaf too from all the music and all he has to do is to play a flaming guitar. I'd love for that to be my only reason of existence in that universe.
"Leading us into battle was Coma The Doof Warrior. Blind since birth. Coma wore a mask made from the dried skin of his murdered mother's screaming face. His fire breathing weapon played the music of mayhem, It whipped us into a bloody battle rage"
Fun fact: during a test screening, the music for the guitar guy was not yet finished so they used some stock sound, the test audience didn't know this and said that the guitar guy should be removed, but George Miller (director) decided to ignore the test audience and go ahead anyway
"Hey everyone, we're doing a role playing game in a post apocalyptic wasteland, what will be your classes?" "Road warrior!" "Driver!" "Melee combat!" That guy: "I'll be a fucking bard."
Here's a wild thought, maybe he's actually important and "just badass". Look at old armies from the 19th century and before, they used drums, trumpets and other instruments with varying tunes and songs to convey orders and rhythms. What if this guy is doing the same and needs all those speakers so his songs can be heard over the engines and the war boys know what to do based on said songs.
Yeah, I don't think Immortan Joe's army will have a better War Drum than a guitarist with a flamethrower guitar. It's very fitting and extremely good storytelling.
How he got momentarily dazed from the punch to the face and then immediately happy when he had his guitar back should be an illustration in all motivational speeches on not sweating the small stuff.
I love how he plays based on the intensity of the situation, when the convoy grinds to a stop, he slows down. When it’s time to get moving, he revs up. It’s basically a information system for the foot soldiers, telling them what’s the appropriate behavior for the current situation.
@@lucasbarcellos8356 Yea and most of them died walking toward the fight playing trumpet or drums, no weapon, never had a chance. doesnt that sound stupid too.
Dude these scenes were sick, absolutely killed it with those parts. Later I found out dude is from a local Australian metal band so I like it even more!!
This funky little guitar guy legitimately encapsulates everything about this movie for me - SO unabashedly over the top and “awesomebro” that it was kinda hilarious my first time watching, and it does not apologize for it at all. Legitimately made me laugh the first time at how excessively excessive it was. Love it.
From a tactical standpoint he was also useful since his guitar riffs were essentially signaling orders since the War Boys didn’t have communication equipment other than their own mouths.
This movie was probably the most fun these actors ever had. I also really liked how the guy would slow down and end his music ominously when they got to the (once) green place
Picture this: You’re watching the movie for the first time, in awe of everything you see up until this point Then you see the guitar guy for the first time and you think out loud: “this is the coolest movie anyone’s ever made”
What a life. Born without eyes and probably deaf with all those speakers right in his ears. But like Beethoven, he shreds even if he can't hear the music.
Man when I watched this in the cinema the guitar bloke man gave me goosebumps 🤣 literally has to be watched with a surround sound at least they nailed the music in this film personally I don't think this film got the credit it deserves absolutely brilliant
