Mad max biography game. Mad Max - Character Review
Character or Max Rockatansky was invented by Australian director George Miller. The hero, including a series of films, gained cult status, very successfully popularizing the dieselpunk genre of cinematic fiction and generating a lot of fans of the presented fictional post-apocalyptic world, whose recognition is clearly expressed, for example, in the Wasteland Weekend festival.
The character first appeared on screen in 1979 in the film “Mad Max,” which became the feature-length debut of the permanent director of the future franchise. The beginnings of the idea began when the author was working on a short documentary with a sonorous, non-accidental title “Violence in the Cinema, Part 1”, which can be translated into Russian as “Violence in the Cinema, Part 1”. Also for inspiration, Miller spent a lot of time in the hospital, as an ambulance doctor, observing the terrible consequences of road accidents. The resulting impressions needed to be expressed in an ultra-violent high-speed action movie, but for greater authenticity of events, it was decided to move the action to the near dystopian future, describing a grotesque world of decline on the edge of an economic crisis. The film immersed the viewer in the Australian wasteland, patrolled by officers of the Main Force Patrol, which is a kind of police force, gradually becoming a thing of the past due to the growing anarchy with the abolition civil law. One of them was Max Rockatansky, whose family was brutally murdered by a motorcycle gang, who did many other terrible things. Guided by revenge, our hero began to deal with the villains...
After its release, the film brought in phenomenal profits due to the difference in modest funds spent and enormous box office success. If you try to analyze this fact, you can come to the conclusion that ideologically the film in some way inherited the exploitative motives of the gradually dying out grindhouse direction of productions about bikers, personifying a kind of hell's angels traveling along the roads, reveling in complete freedom, raping and killing ordinary civilians. However, the seed of simple and frankly primitive exploitation in the hands of a talented director grew into a strong auto-action movie, again since then hot topic a tough avenger against presumptuous offenders. Exciting chases, by the way, commendably executed without any computer special effects naturally, they amazed with their drive, and the level of cruelty of the futuristic world filled the frame with a special persistent brutal atmosphere.
The writing of the central character for future sequels was also interesting, harmoniously merging into the general concept of the universe: in the first part, society still lives within the framework of laws bursting at the seams and Max had a family with a house, but having lost this root, becoming a persecuting madman, who, after fulfilling his revenge, All that was left was a spiritual emptiness and the same road to nowhere, which is where the rest of the world metaphorically began to slide. This is how he appeared in the sequel “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” (“Mad Max 2”). The director completely abolished all moral standards, continuing to aggravate his dystopia, inciting terror and chaos in it, talking about wild lands where a drop of fuel is more expensive human life, the road is replete with gangs in grotesque vehicles designed to hunt for new victims. The viewer witnessed a siege by brutal savages small group a civilized community guarding an oil rig. Max turned into an unsociable loner, driving a former patrol car, who volunteered to lead people to safe place for the promised fuel, thereby making enemies for himself...
Going entirely into a post-apocalyptic framework allowed the author to strengthen the makings of the original on all fronts. Having plunged humanity into ethical freedom after the thunderous war of two unnamed, but easily read between the lines of “great tribes” under the nuclear flashes of the supposed apogee Cold War, he released the complete moral decay society, which gave rise to the specific atmosphere of the film. That very high-speed Australian road was filled with incredibly colorful gangs of auto-punks of the future and equally deadly cars, whose general appearance is firmly established in popular culture with imitation in other paintings, video games or the presence of explicit quotation anywhere. An impeccable stunt show of stuntmen at high speed was filled with bright flashes of explosions, tons of twisted metal and blood, reinforcing the idea of the film about a ruthless utopia of total chaos, reveling in terrible madness under the roar of the engine.
The third part of Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome has acquired a second director, George Ogilvie, the stunt coordinator for the sequel. History continued the modification of the fictional crazy world into the stage of degeneration of society into new civilization with rough, but already rules and laws based on natural exchange. Before us opened the densely populated city of Bartertown in the desert with an established infrastructure, where Max ended up, becoming a sort of silent, concentrated civilian samurai of the future, looking for a master, or mistress, in the colorful performance of Tina Turner, who later performed two songs as the soundtrack to the film . Finding himself at the center of the intrigues of the community managers, our hero, after being exiled, found a tribe of children, becoming their protector on the way to a new safe home...
Having a familiar flavor, the film still moved far away from the previous pair of colorful, noisy punk disgrace. There is no longer any emphasis on road horrors or stunt car chases. The level of cruelty has also noticeably slowed down. The trend towards an almost children's fantasy tale with a futuristic touch in the spirit of Spielbergian proportions, involving a large budget and, of course, the vigilant supervision of prudent producers, became noticeable, and Max quickly tried on the image of a savior-nanny of feral children who grew up far from the roughness of a sand-covered road or spoiled city, in order to metaphorically close the trilogy on a hopeful good (oh, how alien this is to the rough brutal action movie that it was before!) ending, setting up the ideological germ of a new civilized beginning. Actually, as is clear, those same producers tried to get more profit from the film, the high adult rating suddenly changed to a children's rating (!), the stingy black humor turned into fabulous liberties, the author began to comprehend the invented universe to the detriment of the spectacle, and the trilogy ended commercially successfully, but having been reborn from a cool auto-thriller doublet into adventure science fiction or fantasy, constantly changing the invented world and its main character, permanently played by Mel Gibson, who managed to reach the heights of Hollywood, starting with this role.
A new sequel called “Mad Max: Fury Road” is expected to be released very soon. To the delight of the audience, although there was a change in the central actor, the director still did not entrust his post to anyone else, and most importantly, an adult rating was announced, because according to the plot, we are waiting for an intermediate story between the original and the sequel, which means we are expecting auto-madness populated by wild gangs on unprecedented cars driven by the silent, cold-blooded warrior of the futuristic road - Mad Max.
Filmography of the character:
- Mad Max (1979) Mad Max
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) Mad Max 2
- Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
- Mad Max Renegade (2011) Mad Max Renegade (short amateur film)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Mad Max: Fury Road
In May 2015, director George Miller finally presented the audience with the fourth film in the famous franchise about Max Rockatansky. The continuation of his adventures was released 30 years after the third part was shown.
The film was well received by critics and received many awards. Among them there are six Oscar awards. The main character and the laws of the post-apocalyptic world remained the same, but the actors playing the leading characters in the film Mad Max changed, for obvious reasons.
Tom Hardy
The role in the fourth film went to British actor Tom Hardy. Our audience knows him well from his role as Eames in the film Inception. The actor could also be remembered in the image of Bane, Batman’s implacable enemy in the film “ The Dark Knight: Revival of a legend."
In the film "The Revenant" he plays one of the leading and controversial roles - hunter John Fitzgerald. According to Tom Hardy, the role of Max was not easy for him. After all, the actors of the film “Mad Max” who previously played the main roles have long been associated with this story by the viewer.
Mel Gibson
Let us remember that in the three previous films of the famous franchise, the role of the main character Max Rockatansky was played by the inimitable Mel Gibson. According to the director, the participation of his favorite actor in the filming did not give the franchise further development. There would be a story about an aging Max. Therefore, Tom Hardy's fears were in vain. His work was highly praised by critics.
And the other image of the hero turned out to be very organic, since the story received new round. The fact is that director George Miller planned to finish the story of the glorious road warrior with the film Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome. The idea for Rockatansky's new adventures has been brewing for 30 years. The conditions of the game have changed in a crazy world, it has evolved main character. Now he will have to fight for humanity as a whole, and not just for food and fuel resources.
Charlize Theron
The famous Charlize Theron played the role of the military commander of the “Citadel of the Settlement” groundwater" - Furiosa. Doesn't her heroine need protection? unlike the characters featured in previous films in the Mad Max franchise. The film, the actors and characters they play continue sad story about a world degraded after endless wars for fuel resources. But there is hope.
Furiosa's mission is to bring young women from the harem of stronghold dictator Immortan Joe to the free "Green Lands" to found a new community. Max, due to circumstances, becomes a participant in this task. Hiding from their pursuers and participating in battles, the heroes manage to carry out their plans, but not as planned. The talented and Oscar-winning Charlize Theron is familiar to our audience from many films, including: “Monster”, “The Astronaut’s Wife”, “The Devil’s Advocate”, “Mighty Joe Young”, “Eon Flux”, “Sweet November”.
Nicholas Hoult
The role of Nux, a follower of Immortan Joe sent to kill the rebellious Furiosa and then becoming her loyal ally, was played by English actor Nicholas Hoult. Like other actors in the Mad Max movie, he has a rather interesting appearance and decoration. It must be said that for the work of the costume and make-up artists, the film received one of the six honestly deserved Oscar awards.
The role in this film is not the actor’s first work, which was highly praised by critics and the public. The viewer will remember this young but already popular artist well for his leading male role in the films “Jack the Giant Slayer”, “The Warmth of Our Bodies”, “Equals”. The audience is also familiar with his work in new version superhero trilogy "X-Men", where he played the mutant Hank McCoy, nicknamed the Beast.
The film "Mad Max": actors, roles
The role of the main villain, Colonel Joe Moore, known as Immortan Joe, was played by Australian actor and director Hugh Keays-Byrne. This is not his first work in the famous film saga. In 1979, he was already involved in the film Mad Max. Hugh then played the Ripper, the leader of a biker gang.
The famous supermodel Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley stars as Pretty Ankhart, one of the wives of the dictator Immortan Joe. Fans of the popular Transformers franchise know it thanks to the main female role in the third part of the picture " Dark side Moon."
In conclusion, I would like to wish everyone a pleasant viewing and enjoy the stunts, special effects, plot and characters, which were brilliantly performed by the actors of the film “Mad Max: Fury Road”.
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Max and his world are crazy. For real. Your allies are a nervous, burned junkie who tortures himself with arrowheads, a legless old mechanic woman in a homemade wheelchair who wants to build a desert ship with sails, and a seasoned road warrior who believes that one day the desert will become the sea.
Well, the Tin Man. This guy most closely resembles Gollum, the dwarf from "300 Spartans" and Ratsaria from Shadow of Mordor. He talks like a religious fanatic (“In the name of spark plugs, nitro and eight-cylinder engines!”) and sees Max as a divine messenger.
Hidden throughout the Wasteland are “relics of the past,” reminders of long ago. forgotten world. Sometimes entire stories are told in just a few sentences.
Once upon a time, the crew of Gluttongue managed to escape from a sandstorm in a ship, and since then he believes that one day the ocean will come to these lands.
What began as an ambitious action film directed by George Miller about a lone cop (played by Mel Gibson) eventually grew into a four-film post-apocalyptic cult saga (Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior (1981), "Beyond Thunderdome" (1985) and "Fury Road" (2015) Today we will talk about interesting facts that few people know about this franchise.
1. Director George Miller worked as a doctor
Since the film had a very small budget ($350,000), Miller raised additional money by working as an emergency room doctor so that the film could be completed. “We were given a very low budget and simply ran out of money for editing and post-production, so I spent a year editing the film in my kitchen at home.
Byron Kennedy did sound design also at home,” Miller later said. “And then I worked as an emergency room doctor on the weekends to earn money for further filming.” Miller’s medical practice was reflected in the film: Max Rokatansky is named after the pathologist Rokitansky.
2. Mel Gibson came to the casting for the company
Gibson was covered in bruises from a recent bar fight with "half the rugby team" when a friend asked for a lift to a Mad Max casting. Since the agency was also casting “freaks” for extras, they even photographed Gibson, who was simply waiting for his friend. He was asked to return when the bruises went away. Gibson came again and Miller immediately gave him main role in his film.
3. George Miller paid minor actors with beer
Since there was barely enough money to finish the film, Miller offered to pay the ambulance drivers, the tractor driver, and some of the bikers with beer (24-packs).
4. The biker gang was played by real bikers.
To save money on training stuntmen, Miller hired real professional bikers for filming. Announcements about the upcoming filming were posted in all the local bars and bike shops.
5. The plot of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is inspired by the oil crisis of the 1970s
During interview The The Daily Beast Miller told how he came up with the idea to make The Road Warrior. According to him, it was like this: “I lived in a very beautiful and prosperous city, Melbourne. At that time, a total oil crisis broke out and the only people who could safely fill the tank with gasoline were rescuers, firefighters, hospital employees and police officers. In total 10 days later, the first shots rang out in the peaceful city and I thought: “what would have happened if 10 years had passed in such conditions.”
6. Mel Gibson only had 16 lines in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
After the premiere of Fury Road in 2015, social media was full of witticisms regarding the fact that Tom Hardy barely spoke, but only grunted and made a couple of wisecracks. At the same time, everyone forgot that Mel Gibson only had 16 lines of dialogue in The Road Warrior.
7. Gibson said The Road Warrior was his favorite film in the series.
In an interview with Playboy, Mel Gibson said that of the three Mad Max films, he liked the second part, The Road Warrior, the most. “It’s elementary,” explained famous actor. - The film literally bursts with energy. Because of gasoline, no one is spared in it: neither women nor children. This is the same as the first "Mad Max", only even better. I don't think the third film will be popular."
8. Fury Road was inspired by Lord of the Flies
In a 1985 interview, Miller recounted how he and Terry Hayes talked about mythology. According to Miller, "Terry argued that in a society where people have little knowledge, they tend to be more religious. In other words, they take pieces of knowledge or facts and construct from them very complex mythological beliefs that explain the entire universe.
Terry said that if there was a post-apocalyptic tribe of children who only possessed a few fragments of knowledge, the plot would develop like Lord of the Flies.
9. Tina Turner was cast in Thunderdome because...
Tina Turner was chosen over Jane Fonda and Lindsay Wagner for the role of Aunt Entity solely because she is perceived as a fairly positive character. Miller said he wanted to cast " a real woman.... with enormous charisma ... about which they say only good things."
10. Mad Max Characters' Names Hint at Their Backstories
One of the most peculiar quirks of the Miller franchise was strange names characters. As the director himself explained, one of his requirements was that everyone in a given story should have some kind of individual backstory. Moreover, it was not only each character, but each vehicle, every weapon, every suit, etc.
11. George Miller - an avid feminist
This is clearly evident in the latest part of the franchise, Fury Road, during the filming of which the author of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Enzler, was invited for consultation. And she was supposed to advise actresses about cruelty and violence against women. George Miller himself said in an interview that the main treasure in this series was not oil, as in others, but women.
It only remains to note that Mel Gibson, with whom “Mad Max” basically began, is included in the list.
