Mad Max 1979 'The last scene, revenge

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[@trueyankee4767]

They never left out Max emotions, or severe injury in the scene. Exhausted, sweating, shot. He hunted Johhny Boy, found him and got justice. The blank stare at the end is the moment Max became "Mad Max"

[@ThePhantomPhanto]

I remember randomly watching this scene as a kid. I always thought it was The Punisher, because that fashion he kills the crook with reminds of The Punisher method.

[@FutBoy281]

same

[@liamroberts1458]

@@FutBoy281 Imagine a Mad Max-Punisher crossover. That would be fucking dope.

[@ericaward702]

Yeah, but it’s the other way around

[@leejun8955]

It's basically mixed of Punisher and Robbie Reyes ghost rider...

[@JustPeasant]

"I just came down to check it out on him. This guy has already being snuffed." Aha. Just checking out on him. "When he turned out that he was actually alive, I snuffed him. Nothing can be do for him." He did the same his to this guy as he did to Goose. Except for burning him alive. Something he's got "no style" for it, as Bubba pointed out😠

[@Joe_334]

Then in the next two movies he gets left in the wasteland... Really wish there were novelizations explaining the 15 year gap between The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome

[@robwalsh9843]

Yeah, I could see Max as the wandering gunfighter/warrior type guy who goes from place to place, helping other people out.

[@egorkorolev4190]

Well technically fury road is a cannon story that places somewhere there.

[@britknee3019]

@@egorkorolev4190 It takes place in 2060, they just retconned his age

[@psychebucc7544]

There are comics that are really good. Two MFP officers from this film are in it.

[@lxdead5585]

@@robwalsh9843 it was more of a drifter being pulled into other dramas or problems. Except for first Mad Max, where entire story focus is around him and his family, he is but a stranger that happens to become a part of someone else story

[@speakfreeley4473]

My personal view after this final scene would have been something like this. We know Max took the V8 Interceptor without authorisation. In the immediate months after this any searching for Max soon ended when the MFP & other law enforcement agencies simply fell apart, overwhelmed by the growing number of various gangs of various descriptions. Once one gang had been eliminated (the Toecutters in this case), many more would form. Many gangs would go on raids, notably the MFP HQs, steal the uniforms & cars, including Max's former "Dark One" patrol car, go on the rampage & start to cause anarchy & eventually all out war, soon destroying what limited normality of life that was left. Any MFP officers that were left would likely meet grizzly ends. Oil, still not in desperately short supply at this point would not too long become hard currency, where the gangs would get as much of it as they could by foul means. Max himself, realising how precious oil had become would have adapted the interceptor by fitting more fuel tanks to it lessening a constant hunt for the valuable juice. It would however lead to the drifter Max to fall foul to the gangs, by now marauders, after him as well for his precious cargo, which would be seen to view. That's how I would see it between this & the next instalment.

[@karlkrump6634]

I also like the theory that many cops also went rogue and formed their own gangs, because at some point nobody cared what the politicians and judges had to say anymore, even before they made the incredibly bad decision to nuke all the cities (you know, just to piss all over an already crumbling ruin of a society). Namely, those dudes with MFP themed uniforms in Road Warrior were actually most likely just highway patrolmen at one point in their life, before they teamed up with their friends (i.e. Humungous whom is hinted at being either a cop himself in his former life or even a war veteran). There are subtle hints between this movie and the next one that seem to indicate this might have been a thing, like how the cops were enraged when a lawyer basically managed to get an actual murderer and rapist set free in just a matter of days (if not hours) in the first movie. It must have been frustrating as hell to watch that while your boys are getting tagged one after another, so I think many of those dudes took a hint off Max and went rogue in their own way. Sidebar note: there is a comic that seems to indicate the MFP cops did in fact start their own gangs, though it is debatable if that is considered canon by fans or not. We also have to remember that most of these movies take place in lower population areas where the only thing maintaining order is the WILLPOWER of good men willing to enforce the actual law, and if that goes away...well...you get what you see at the end of Mad Max and all throughout Road Warrior. Thunderdome is a worthy mention, but at the point we are talking about society trying to rebuild itself from the ashes. Only big difference between them and Max is that Max actually does not enjoy killing (or ever make it obvious, like the others that revel in "that scag and his floozy are going to die" type mentality). Max does what he has to do in the following movies and nothing more, though there are moments where you see even he is tested to the limits of his tolerance.

[@GreyGloves]

Humungus and Wez are nam vets​@@karlkrump6634

[@Cybermat47]

@@karlkrump6634yep, according to one of the comics, the MFP officers Roop and Charlie went on to become wasteland bandits. They attacked and killed all but one of another group of survivors before being killed by the gang of Colonel Joe Moore and Major Kalashnikov. Joe Moore would become Immortan Joe, Major Kalashnikov would become the Bullet Farmer, and the last survivor became the People Eater.

[@robertobassetto885]

Alan Moore took inspiration from Johnny's death. In the comic Watchmen there's a scene where Rorschach kills a child's abductor in exactly the same way.

[@PredatorPeyami]

And i think first saw movie( i dont like the film)

[@bigtasty2767]

My friend and i watched this last night, he said that the last fime he watched it, he thought it was boring, but then we got to this scene. At this point, we had already been vocal about it not being boring. Its insane that they made this movie with all the stunts and practical car crashes with only $350k.

[@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect]

"Ankle." My favourite movie quote :)

[@Deetroiter]

The camera just above the road surface as he drives along seemingly forever to find who he’s looking for really drives home the emotion of that. Max would go to the ends of the earth to get his revenge. Fantastic cinematography!

[@kagemaru259]

This scene actually inspired the first Saw movie.

[@TCHorwood-xq7mw]

... and Footloose?

[@Wafaloo]

⁠@@TCHorwood-xq7mwI see what you did there

[@kiryuknightly9411]

That actually makes sense looking back at this movie

[@keiman74]

Johnny: You're not gonna hurt me are you? Max: No. But the fire and explosion probably will.

[@samuraidf]

auhahuauhauhuhau

[@karlkrump6634]

Johnny: what? Max: what?

[@unbridledenthusiasm]

A perfect ending to a fantastic movie. Maybe the best revenge movie ever -- these last few scenes are so satisfying.

[@RagedContinuum]

Hard to say satisfying when it's so bleak, and everything got far worse after this

[@MrCarpen7er]

Best revenge movie ever ? No. There are probably hundreds of revenge movies and a lot of them are way much better than Mad Max. One of them is Gladiator.

[@lucanhenrique7457]

The last minutes of this movie is about Max turning into Mad Max

[@adamquiles2468]

Oh thought he turned Mad right after his wife and son were run over

[@tirokopita]

No shit Sherlock

[@_m.e.p_7098]

3:53 "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and it was over"

[@jonathanlimjun6238]

explode

[@PeliHamsteri]

What happens after this scene. -the WWIII gets worse -gangs assault the MFP HQ - Few of the MFP Officers survive (Roop, Charlie and Sarse) - Max finds the dog from victims of another gang attack (in Mad Max: Renegade) - The cities become a mess with the riots - Everyone flees away from the cities - Main Force Patrol gets disbanded after that comes the events of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior then like week after The Road Warrior ends, the leaders of the countries start to use Tactical Nukes, this is when Cpt. Walker tries to escape crashes down, then Max repairs his interceptor from Pappagallos Lone Wolf (Events of the comic books) and then comes the events of Beyond Thunderdome (Max is delivering the car parts to his camp with the truck at the beginning of the movie) and then Glory and her mother dies, beginning of Fury Road.

[@spartinferretmaster6459]

And only a shell of a man was left

[@alandelisser4832]

1:49 anybody else notice the missing 2 seconds of dialogue that's edited out. "Careful my ank...my foot, man." Only those familiar with this masterpiece from pre-dvd era would notice it.

[@wickedishiccy7621]

That portion of his dialogue always did sound strange, almost cut to me. Well now I know it was. Interesting to know

[@tomorr6083]

YEP! I have the original on Beta lol..and it says that...Havent come across another person who knows this until u

[@feardotcm4651]

Johnny Boy: You can't just kill me Max: Hold my beer

[@changvasejarik62]

Rorschach: Of course.

[@oddities-whatnot]

Hold my beer meme / double comment thing whatever that is. Please don’t use that in 2024, it really is an outdated comment format. Have a good day. Cheers

[@jayrobitaille2402]

Digitized Voice: "Want to play a game?"

[@bimbobaggypants4820]

They got the idea for the first saw film from this scene.

[@audioinheritance8557]

I thought I remembered Johnny Boy say "my ankle...my foot man!" when Max drags him. But, I watched 2 KZbin clips, and the DVD. He doesn't say it. Does anyone else remember this?

[@Cybermat47]

Another comment on this video mentions it.

[@601marcusable]

Johnny No one will save you in this game but you can save yourself

[@takeshikujo2909]

I like how he tried falling back on him being mentally ill as a way to get out of trouble like what happened in court. It just feels satisfying that Max just doesn’t give a damn and ends him like that. After all, lots of people are mentally ill, but that doesn’t mean that they’ll all resort to rash, harmful actions like Johnny did. He may have been sick, but it’s clear he didn’t have any morals.

[@williamhicks7736]

This scene still gives me goosebumps….

[@CroPETROforeverNBA]

I watched this movies (first and second movie) 10 000 times, I am age 39, I was raised on this movies... ofcourse I love what Max is doing to this... sc.m of the earth, but man... we dont want to be in his shoes... this is a man who lost everything... everything... AND YES, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HERE, would do the same... but how would we feel? Like him... at the end of this masterpiece movie... a good man, totally broken..., that is... the greatest tragedy... so be grateful you have your family and people you love... because if anyone would do anything to them... there is no one (at least in my mind) who would stop me from taking justice into my own hands, but it would just end us, totally, after all that... even I would want to die.

[@alex-hi2gv]

Masterpiece.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

Mad Max was born.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

Australian BBQ.

[@Cookers03]

Crazy to think this scene was filmed literally 5 mins from where I live

[@skaladarrellgodeater1070]

This is a classic And they people joking about: Jigsaw when was young

[@jackjamesgodsell9586]

1:48 Not much says "Careful, my Ankle! My foot, man!"

[@pip915]

🎉ile bet you think I look silly don't you 🎉

[@rolandmendozain]

Johnny BBQ

[@rhettcorbett3346]

Behind the scenes facts. The body that Max is dragging is Traffic Controller Andrew Jones. He also painted the skidmarks on the road. And the car was rolled a hundred meters or so up from the actual corner.

[@chriswarren3090]

Am I wrong, or is that the same actor that was in Lethal Weapon, the suicide jumper guy that jumps off the building with Riggs....???

[@cruzadoespanol]

Si

[@garagemetalshop7975]

Jessie isn't dead at the hospital according to the doctors, though sadly Sprog is. Do they ever explain her fate?

[@makennamiller5607]

She had no brain activity. They kept her body in a coma to salvage her organs

[@jjrj8568]

He buries her in the intro of Mad Max 2

[@alastairbeaumont9578]

Wikipedia states that she “…succumbs to her wounds”.

[@drivingintothedesertuntilt3202]

she became the humungous in the second movie

[@samuraidf]

The cicle of violence, the cops kill Nightrider, this createring more violence and more people hurted, and the violence come back to the cops who created.

[@donhatter159]

Here Johnny!

[@billbates5475]

Johnny the Boy.

[@anakinchosen]

Your a bad man Johnny boy 👦🏻,your destiny is getting killed by max.

[@vitormarcondes2063]

Same guy from letal weapon 3? That jump scene?

[@chrisslater4053]

No one ever explains where he got the hacksaw. He didn't bring it with him, so it was in the wreckage?

[@heymeng4667]

It was right there with the rest of the wreckage. I think that victims's pickup truck had tools and stuff.

[@mulletover3832]

I would go just as mad if someone did that to my family.

[@thunderknightentertainment]

Don't get Max Mad!

[@GSS1Sirius]

Imagine if the driver was only unconscious and still alive.

[@OtherWordlyEntity2012]

I wanna know what your doin🥺

[@ryancallsin]

“Noooooooor”

[@waynebunnell6029]

Listen To What "An overspilt Max" says. The chain in those handcuffs is hi-tensile steel. I t would take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now if you're Lucky. You can hack through your ankle in five minutes ..go..as in SAW (2004)...Mel/Danny!

[@proudamerican6820]

I LOVE THE ANTI-HERO.

[@binarysunsetmedia1451]

Fun fact this inspired SAW

[@ginke1996]

Based.

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

Roots of Saw. Lose a leg or else burn to death.

[@papytromblon]

It's impossible to know if he says thé truth about this accident. Did hé killed thèm? Or not ?

[@alandelisser4832]

I've always been on the fence about that too. I'd say he did do it, considering how he made Max's friend "Goose" crash by lobbing a skillet through his windscreen making him roll the car off the side of the hill. Seemed a common theme among the gang while they were terrorizing the highways.

[@LetotheBlue]

I believe he did. The guy proved he is trash since the beginning of the movie, being a psychoraper/killer and mocking the cops and justice. Even if he didn't kill them, I suppose he plainly deserved Max vengeance.

[@andrewbrown2888]

Its amazing the powers of persuasion a gun to your face can have,,amazing.....

[@HellhammerSS]

That punisher movie ripped the hell off of this movie.

[@AlanIanIngram]

Punisher (2004) was basically a remake of this movie.

[@KaosNova2]

Yeah but it was the SAW movies where you get a chance to try and cut a limb off to free yourself from a death trap

[@Harborpublic]

Dream

[@Harborpublic]

Get much sleep max?

[@extrasolar213]

lol

[@tirokopita]

The soundtrack of this whole film was awful.

[@jmflame]

why he killed an innocent man? movies like this are a bad influence for kids.

[@Turbo.RF4]

Next time before coming in classics like this watch the full movie first, he killed this dude because it's the dude that killed his wife and son at the same time by running them over, and why are you here boomer? Next time don't come to movies like this if you can't understand a single fucking thing going on in this movie boomer.

[@MisterAutist]

It's always about the kids with you people.

[@Unknown-bq9id]

Um, Johnny was FAR from innocent if you've seen the whole movie--being an accessory to the death of Max's wife and infant son, first of all, and, second, burning Max's best friend Goose alive (albeit accidentally--but I consider participating in the death of Max's wife and son worse)...

[@Turbo.RF4]

@@Unknown-bq9id See? Boomer's really come to cult classic's like this and destroy them. No wonder they were hated.

[@efan2012]

He was far from innocent.. he was a lacky to the main baddie and he helped kill Max's best friend. He also murdered whoever drove that truck. FAR from innocent.

[@ИванКуприянов-ж1ч]

❤😂😂❤, Но он подражает Карателю в конце он обезумел от одиночества... Позвонил Гас... Гитлер на романах свою философию создал Нарциссизм мальчик этот... Каратель Макс Образы Константин...

[@doolindalton]

great