I thought he was dead...
Posted on 10/27/2013 2:00:23 PM PDT by matt1234
Did you know a Mad Max sequel was in the works? Dubbed as 'Mad Max: Fury Road' The fourth installment of the post apocalyptic franchise wrapped filming in mid December, and the slow trickle of production shots and concept art has started to trickle out to the public. This latest video features some on set footage from the shooting location of Namibia, showcasing a handful of deadly vehicles strutting their stuff.
Starring Tom Hardy (Bane) in the role of Mad Max, the new installment will take place 29 years after the latest installment, 1985's 'Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.' A few encouraging things to keep in mind for the 2014 flick:
The important question is how long is the script. Byron Kennedy was of the belief that when people are talking nothing is happening and they were making action movies. Byron died between Road Warrior and Thunderdome, his absence is what allowed Thunderdome to have such a long,and mostly boring, script. If they follow Byron’s rule 4 will be good.
Gibson was well known in Australia before Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior but Internationally not so much. That changed after that movie hit the screens. It launched him to Superstardom around the world. One of the all time great action movies. Mad Max wasn’t bad and Thunderdome was a disappointment in comparison but Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior is the keeper of the bunch.
Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero [Official Music Video]
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Why not??
We shall be living the REAL THING in a little over one year.
The movie = Cliff Notes
Odd thing about the first movie: the version shown in the USA is dubbed by actors with American accents. I’m guessing they thought that the American audience would have a hard time understanding thick Aussie accents. If anyone knows the story behind this, please chime in.
The dubbed voices is ridiculous
Someone at the studio heard it was a foreign film and ordered it dubbed?
lolz
A telling scene in the first movie is at the beginning, when a barefoot member of the gang kills a cop, then escapes in the cop’s car with his girlfriend. As two police cars are in pursuit, he crashes through a direction sign, with “anarchy” on one pointer and “bedlam” on the other. Then, when Max pursues him, he starts to cry, long before the two die in a fiery crash.
It shows a great combination of stress and frustration that everyone is sharing at the collapse of society. Max stands out as keeping his equanimity a lot longer than everyone else.
The background to this would be serious drama. Of a rapid decline in things that nobody wants and are powerless to stop. Every day, something expected or useful fails.
Initially it’s implied that the cause of this is energy shortage, but it only comes out in later movies that nuclear war was involved, and that cities were destroyed with some wiped out with air bursts that left little radiation and left buildings partially standing, and others with ground bursts that extensively distributed fallout.
When shown in the U.S. during 1980, the original Australian dialogue was revoiced by an American crew.[17] American International Pictures distributed this dub after it underwent a management re-organisation.[18] Much of the Australian slang and terminology was also replaced with American usages (examples: "Oi!" became "Hey!", "See looks!" became "See what I see?", "windscreen" became "windshield", "very toey" became "super hot", and "proby" -probationary officer- became "rookie"). AIP also altered the operator's duty call on Jim Goose's bike in the beginning of the movie (it ended with "Come on, Goose, where are you?"). The only dubbing exceptions were the voice of the singer in the Sugartown Cabaret (played by Robina Chaffey), the voice of Charlie (played by John Ley) through the mechanical voice box, and Officer Jim Goose (Steve Bisley), singing as he drives a truck before being ambushed. Since Mel Gibson was not well known to American audiences at the time, trailers and TV spots in the USA emphasised the film's action content.The original Australian dialogue track was finally released in North America in 2000 in a limited theatrical reissue by MGM, the film's current rights holders. It has since been released in the U.S. on DVD with both the US and Australian soundtracks on separate tracks.[19][20]
***there’s a definite emphasis on not opting for a CG heavy approach for the new flick. ***
May then be worth going to see. I remember when Siskel and Ebert critiqued THE ROAD WARRIOR on their PBS critic show. They were in awe of the original stunts and could not figure how it was done without killing someone.
I got to interview Vernon Wells two years ago. He was a TV spot producer when Miller approached him to play his part. Wells didn’t want to do it at first, especially shaving his head. Miller brought over his costume and talked him into putting it on. Wells took one look and said “yeah, I’m doing this!”. He said they froze their butts off, shooting it, and the cast knew how cold it was by looking at Wells’ butt cheeks. He had a ton of great stories.
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If the new movie uses real stunts instead of CGI it could be worth seeing.
I'm glad you exerpted that quote. What is "CG"?
BTW, the road sequences in Mad Max: Fury Road were filmed in Namibia, where I presume workplace safety rules are not as stringent as in the developed world.
CG = Computer Graphics
I thought he was dead...
Dysgenics, rather. The breeding seems neither good nor true.
But I get your point.
I also like hardy
Look for the British crime mini-series. The Take. And movie”.......stay tuned
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