[Ticonderoga34]

What few remember from the first movie was that it included some strong social criticism. The system had not completely broken down yet, and the worst parts were still functioning.

This could go a lot further with a prequel to Mad Max, showing societal breakdown, with people clinging to the past as the ship sinks, as it were.

Excellent point.

Especially considering that George Miller is directing Mad Max 4. Miller is the one who thought up the original trilogy so he understands the Mad Max story isn't just about guys in weird costumes and fast cars in the desert.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.

[morphing libertarian]

I also like hardy

Look for the British crime mini-series. The Take. And movie”.......stay tuned