Well, specifically he’s supposed to kill Blaster (the large muscular man) and leave Master (the mouthy dwarf) alive. Max’s assassination target is the only part of this movie that anyone remembers with any sort of clarity, Master Blaster. Auntie offers Max everything he wants in return for a simple task: he has to kill someone. It is then that we meet the film’s villainess: Tina Turner… er, Auntie Entity. Soon, Max arrives at Bartertown, a trading outpost with electricity provided by methane gas harvested from pig waste, where he offers his skills in return for a chance to regain his lost goods. Fortunately, Max now has a pet monkey that begins throwing items out the back, leaving a trail and giving him back his boots. The man drops down into the seat and rides off into the desert taking his car, his camels, and his junk with it. Gas is apparently even scarcer than it was before and Max appears to be some sort of junk trader, he looks old and broken down.Ī plane, piloted by a man (Bruce Spence, more on him later) and his young son swoops down and knocks Max off his car. An undisclosed amount of time (about 15 years according to the Mad Max wiki) has passed since the end of the previous movie (itself set only two years after the first) and Max rides through the desert atop some sort of modified vehicle pulled by camels. Things start out well enough, the movie feels like a natural progression from The Road Warrior. For fans of the first movie, I think this is the moment that a chill first creeps down their spine and they sense that something isn’t right. Now, the Tina Turner song that opens the movie isn’t a bad one per se (the one that closes the movie totally is, though) but it’s a big shift from Brian May’s (not that Brian May) somber score from the previous two movies to the poppy yell-singing of mid-80s Tina Turner. Picture if you will, that you’ve just finished watching The Road Warriorso you pop the disc out of your player, this song still fresh in your mind.Īs the WB logo fades out, this song plays over the opening credits: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is jarring for an entirely different reason. I mentioned in the previous column that the jump from the end of Mad Max to the beginning of The Road Warrior is fairly jarring because we go from a dystopian world that looks not unlike the one we currently live in to a proper post-apocalyptic wasteland. They said bidey-bye to them to them what they’d birthed and from out of the nothing they looked back and Captain Walker hollered ‘Wait, one of us will come.'” – The Tell of The Waiting Ones, as told by Savannah Nix. Walker! Then Captain Walker picked them of an age and good for a long haul. ‘Member this? Tomorrow-Morrow Land! ‘Member this? The River of Light! ‘Member this? Skyraft! ‘Member this? Captain Walker! ‘Member this? Mrs. And they does the pictures so they’d ‘member all the knowing that they lost. They get so lonely for the high-scrapers and the video. We can live here.” Time counts and keeps counting. They word it “Planet Earth.” And they says, “We don’t need the knowing. Dead but some had got the luck, and it leads them here. And after the wreck some had been jumped by Mr. Others reckon it were a gang called Turbulence. He gathers up a gang, takes to the air and flies the sky! So, they left their homes, said bidey-bye to the high-scrapers and what were left of the knowing, they left behind. But one he couldn’t catch, that were Captain Walker. It’s Pox-Eclipse, full of pain! And out of it were birthed crackling dust and fearsome time. I’m looking behind us now… across the count of time… down the long haul, into history back. Because what you hears today you got to tell the birthed tomorrow. “This ain’t one body’s story, it’s the story of us all. Mel Gibson (Max Rockatansky), Helen Buday (Savannah Nix), Tina Turner (Auntie Entity), Bruce Spence (Jedediah), Angelo Rossitto (Master), Robert Grubb (Pig Killer), Angry Anderson (Ironbar)įuel Shortage/Societal Breakdown/World War III/Nuclear War
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