12/21/2023 0 Comments Mad max 2 the road warrior![]() However, Wez and his boss Humungus (Swedish body builder Kjell Nilsson) decide THEY want the fuel too. ![]() Getting away from the Mohawk’d freak, Max meets up with “The Captain” (Bruce Spence) and decides to rob a fuel refinery where a band of common folk are banding together in order to make their way to a better life up north. The introductory chase of the film re-introduces us to loner Max (Gibson) and his dog (simply named dog) as they are hounded by the Mohawk wearing Wez (Vernon Wells, most notable for playing opposite of Arnie in Commando) who will become his nemesis throughout the film. Now it’s years later and the rest of humanity is holding on by the skin of their teeth and doing what they can to survive. Sort of rebooting the franchise in a way, the narration describes the forces of the world fighting themselves to a standstill as their fuel sources gave out among them. Everyone is split off into factions trying to survive, with the good banding together into wagon train like convoys and villages, while roving bands of pirates try to steal and pillage to get what they want. The film starts out with a narration and a montage of black and white photography, telling us the story of Mad Max and how the world got to this point. Oil has always been a staple in the world, but in a world where new production has gone to pot, gasoline is the currency of a crumbled world. To put it simply, it’s a story of gasoline in a world of chaos and how the powerful need it to survive. Instead of simply doing more of Max and his police days, he shows what the world has come to since Mad Max dropped his bars and went off his merry way. ![]() Miller had created a grimy and twisted tale of “Osploitation” in 1979, but 2 years later he came back to the silver screen with a bigger and more robust story. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior was The Empire Strikes Back of Mad Max franchise.
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