In Mad Max (1979), Toecutter’s gang was actually played by a real biker gang: “The Vigilanties”. They also performed many of the stunts in the movie. In fact, they proved so proficient, one even doubled for Goose to do his donut in a later scene.
I've always like the theory that every Mad Max movie is the same story.
It just changes over years/generations of retellings to be more relatable to the survivors of the apocalypses.
Mad Max is from when people still knew what cops were and life before the apocalypses. Road Warrior is about the final small communities of "good" falling. Thunderdome is about the rise of "bad" small communities, and Fury Road is after no one can remember pre-apocalypse and have rebuilt their own "bad" civilization.
It's why some parts of the story stays the same, while others get added/dropped in the retellings.
So funny to me that the first entry in this series is so significantly different from the rest of the series. Outside Mel Gibson it has none of the series staples of its post-apocalypse style, which came weirdly 0-100 in Road Warrior
abe_froman_skc on June 17th, 2021 at 11:17 UTC »
I've always like the theory that every Mad Max movie is the same story.
It just changes over years/generations of retellings to be more relatable to the survivors of the apocalypses.
Mad Max is from when people still knew what cops were and life before the apocalypses. Road Warrior is about the final small communities of "good" falling. Thunderdome is about the rise of "bad" small communities, and Fury Road is after no one can remember pre-apocalypse and have rebuilt their own "bad" civilization.
It's why some parts of the story stays the same, while others get added/dropped in the retellings.
BobbleRobble on June 17th, 2021 at 12:29 UTC »
In Australia, they're called "Bikies". Thanks Hug The Sun!
Realcbear on June 17th, 2021 at 12:45 UTC »
So funny to me that the first entry in this series is so significantly different from the rest of the series. Outside Mel Gibson it has none of the series staples of its post-apocalypse style, which came weirdly 0-100 in Road Warrior