How Mad Max Movies Were Made: PART 1 (MAD MAX 1 & 2)

[@drsnooker1776]

You have some of the best quality mad max content on KZbin

[@MadMaxBible]

Thank you! It takes a while to research and put together but the point is to make quality stuff that can be re-watched many times instead of pumping out gibberish without any real substance every day :)

[@mlunaID]

@@MadMaxBible Couldn't agree more, Mr. Snooker. Great research and presentation! Thank you, MMB

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[@TnT-yh7pd]

Definitely

[@WholeSomeHomie]

my car payment is due next week and i don't have the mondy😢

[@LiebensteinMovies]

Sure you will find many connections to other movies, but the biggest is the connection to the silent movies from the 20s. Mad Max movies are very visual movies and that takes these first two ahead of others. Think about the supercharger protruding through the bonnet. The visualisation of power and evil aaand he can switch on and off. In Max 1 switching on and the hunt begins. Remember the open sequence of Max 2 he could escape with supercharger, had to quit and take the fight. Or the monza front like a mask, the colors of the cars (the bright yellow) and even photography. There was a new way of telling an old story and that it is, what Mad Max made Mad Max. And there is something else in Max 1. He kills without touching them, even the car has no scratch. It's much more psycho. And in Max 2 this changes from the beginning.

[@SkyFly19853]

Mad Max... An unforgettable movies series...

[@Qbert1000]

I’m a huge Mad Max fan, and this video has some great insights that I’d never heard before! Thanks for all the research and work putting this together!

[@red5_standingby973]

Good to see you back with another amazing video. Can't wait for part 2.

[@darkwolf8636]

Thanks for taking the time to make these videos mate. Love these deep dives and it’s always a pleasure to see you’ve uploaded.

[@BessieBopOrBach]

A new video from this channel is a major event. Thanks for the amazing research!

[@stevezisk3415]

That Dirty Mary Similarity is Spot on

[@MadMaxBible]

It is yeah! I realized it when I was watching it for the first time and I thought "That's like the Nightrider and the Lobotomy eyes scene - the whole movie" and then BAM, they pull out a special one off Interceptor, that can't be a coincidence...

[@stevezisk3415]

@@MadMaxBible If you ever get a Chance, wat the Car Chase From The Seven Ups with Roy Schneider. To Me That Blows Away The Bullit car Chase. Same Stunt Driver Too

[@RetroCarsForever]

This was fantastic. As a fellow KZbinr I can empathize with how much time and effort this took to put together...And it shows, well done. Cant wait for Part 2!

[@jjjamieson4740]

This is beautifully made. Thanks for doing such a nice job!

[@RickDwrecked]

Videos like this are why I keep coming back!

[@Skol999]

Spectacular stuff. I thought I knew a good bit about these movies but you've taken it to another level. Also: Tarantino was another who liked to "borrow" from other movies. Imitation - flattery and all that?

[@anfo_4241]

5:51 Aussie here, and the subtitles definitely helped! 😆

[@chocodiledundee1]

Amazingly done man 🙌🏼👏🏼🇦🇺Mad Max 1 & 2 that’s one of my greatest influence in my life thank you for this fine documentary I bloody love it mate !

[@c.j.96]

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[@azjd1387]

Waited for u so long. Totally worth it.

[@LorcanWard]

Thank you so much for making these! Your hard work is very much appreciated by Mad Max fans.

[@damianstarks3338]

I can’t thank you enough for this in-depth mad max video.

[@TStyx]

Really, really good, a great surprise to see this come up. Well done! :)

[@lordclassic3026]

Oh I love this!!

[@peterrobbins2862]

Stone was without doubt one of the best bikie movies ever

[@Jocken75]

awesome video

[@moonhead6165]

it is still a skill to take all the good bits from alot of good movies and make a great movie. many have failed trying. but what the F are they thinking of doing a "mad max" furiosa movie this will not end well.

[@firedog93551]

Just an FYI, it's not pronounced RAWNIN. It's pronounced ROH-NEEN. Like Spanish, the Japanese pronouce O's hard and I's like E.

[@PlasticAssasin8]

with a camera, done.

[@peeekar]

As a fan of the Mad Max lore which is stagnating due to the lack of new movies and sequels of the game, I can't thank you enough for keeping the flame burning!

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[@MadMaxBible]

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[@munstrumridcully]

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[@c.j.96]

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[@MadMaxBible]

In Part 2 I'll be talking about how crazy things got with the creation of Beyond Thunderdome and especially - Fury Road. That video will be up next week and then we'll go into detail on Immortan Joe's empire (a true deep dive) and after that expect a video on cars of Fury Road but from a 'real life' perspective. I hope you're enjoying this content and as always: Stay Shiny and Chrome!

[@Taojas]

Awesome. Great video and a great lineup of vids to come! Viva MMB!

[@tappajavittu]

Can't wait for part 2 and 3, I've loved Mad Max series since I was a child and you've made the best Mad Max related videos I've seen on youtube, keep doing the good work!

[@siddharthbrahma5132]

Cant wait for parts2&3

[@emulation2369]

part 2? - oooohhhhh yeeeeesssssss.....

[@skapunker1986]

@@emulation2369 See ya in 6 months for part 2 !

[@zachrumney841]

Road Warrior was the first movie in the series I watched as a kid. Fell in love after that.

It was a couple of years after becoming a fan of Road Warrior at around age 8 that my dad made me aware there was a "prequel". When I finally saw it, it was the horrendously dubbed Americanized version, and I thought most of it was ass.

[@rhettcorbett3346]

Americans renamed Mad Max 1 the Road Warrior.

[@loneprepper6700]

I saw mad max 2 first along side the exterminator

[@kevinfox500]

Saw it on HBO in 82. Didnt see the first one until 1997. MM addict ever since.

[@ryanmorley8211]

I remember watching the Road Warrior with my dad back in the late 90's. It was amazing, I loved it all. I was only maybe 7-8 yrs old. My girl, she loves Fury Road but doesn't like the classics.

[@TheSpeedfreak665]

When you think you know everything and discovered something that you never knew about the Mad Max franchise.

[@c.j.96]

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[@kevinfox500]

Never thought I did. Kist enjoy learning. Why I subbed to this channel. Same with MFP, and a couple others. Frankly put, MM2 is what made me a gearhead. It started my interest in cars, and car centered films, more so than the car related TV shows of the time. Enough so that I've spent the last 42.years enjoying the media, attending car.and bike shows, and always having a project vehicle, or 5, ever since. My wife is the same way. Currently doing a 12 valve Cummins swap.on my 91 K 2500, for my wife, restoring, again, my 73 F.250, that I picked up in 94, wien I wasn18, and restoring a 95 Suzuki Savage 650, and a 71 Norton 850 Commando.

[@SchmoleStudios]

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[@c.j.96]

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[@anthonyliloia8301]

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[@andrewrenfro8566]

This was packed with info I didn’t know and so well put together!

[@Thephinxst]

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[@c.j.96]

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[@ForgottenHorrorchannel]

The original Mad Max is one of my favourite films of all time.

[@marcushennings9513]

Road Warrior is my favorite, but I still don't understand why they probably wasted just about a tanker worth of gas (with all the vehicles combined) chasing down a tanker worth of gasoline.

[@broston_]

The Return of the King

[@2782Jack]

Mad max movies are some of my favorite movies of all time. I even liked thunderdome, I'm glad to see this channel isn't dead.

[@wtfrocks8663]

When I hear about artist copying or "stealing" from another artist I think of a quote from Ozzy; He said "steal the best, fake the rest." It's not that Miller made a derivative biker flick. It's that he made the best derivative biker flick.

[@SkyFly19853]

That part while sleeping and seeing the laughing face of Mad Max... 😆😆😆😆

[@rubbers3]

Miller created something great, didn't know why it was a hit, and he admitted to it, trying to analyse it. Lucas created something great, didn't know why it was a hit, and just went with it, smiling that he got lucky.

[@LeSensuel]

George Miller went on to make multiple good/great and a masterpiece. Lucas never directed a good movie since Star Wars.

[@rubbers3]

@@LeSensuel Even the original Star Wars (A New Hope) he did was mediocre, and mostly saved in the edit (including his wive at the time), he didn't direct any other movie in the Old Trilogy and was only a co-writer for the screenplay. That being said he did have a great idea for the world and overall plot, he started something far beyond him.

[@c.j.96]

Funny how life pans out hey mate. ✌🇦🇺

[@deadstar44]

@@rubbers3 "was only a co-writer for the screenplay. ". Lucas wrote Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi all alone. Lawrence Kasdan came in to rewrite at later stages.(Leigh Brackett contributions were all but abandoned but Lucas still credited her out of respect).

[@DanielLopez-zt4ig]

And still is Lucas' Ep4 is higher rated than Miller's MM1.

[@Roadkill-Films]

Ahh, I see your back

[@DadaPoopoo]

How do you see his back?

[@Roadkill-Films]

​@@DadaPoopooI always see his back

[@DadaPoopoo]

@@Roadkill-Films Who's back?

[@charliebrown4624]

You didn't mention the New Zealand film "Battle Truck." It was shot before MM2, but not released until after MM2. therefore many people think Battle truck is the copy. But they are wrong.

[@tagert1975]

The line about speed and money is ancient car culture line. Often phrased more humorously as: "Speed costs money, how fast do you want to spend?" There's nothing special about it being in two films and it is probably in countless films with all sorts of variations.

[@katsumiskytower8714]

can't wait for part 2!

[@Papa-eb1lt]

Three films shaped me, Star Wars, Mad Max and escape from New York. As soon as I could ride a bike I started with the leathers, 35 years later I still try an go for the MFP look.

[@bentramer682]

I can't tell you how much all three of those films inspired me in the same way, I wrote countless terrible comics about all three of those and I also tried writing my own Mad Max script as a kid, I also made a really great Mad Max Halloween costume.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

@@bentramer682 my father used to be a huge fan of mad max and I remember him when I was a kid help me build " post apocalyptic " cars out of matchbox cars and leftovers from plastic model kits 😊 And yes I did the same thing to with drawings of monster trucks with blades on the wheels and turrets on the back 😁😄

[@joeanthony7759]

The Toecutter Gang is probably one of the most menacing, eccentric, unique on-screen fictional gangs of all-time. Byrnes' Toecutter, he acted that ingeniously. Right up there with the Clockwork Orange gang, which you can see the parallels.

[@rhettcorbett3346]

If u want first hand descriptions on how original Mad Max was done ? U should have been on the Mad Max Tours they had in Victoria. Johnny The Boy Lives & Toecutter Diehard Tours. We had Andrew Sluggo Jones/traffic director & Dale Bensch & Terry Gibson stuntmen from movie.

[@owennuhse]

What's your story Max? ....PapaGallo

[@owennuhse]

You do the Best max research ...thank you

[@kevinfox500]

Funny that Harlan Ellison comes up in this. After, he did use Jim Cameron over similarities to one of his short stories written for The Outer Limits. Kind of shocked he didnt go after Miller and Kennedy as well. The dog being in the film must not have had enough merit, when he talked to his lawyer.

[@magnuskallas]

Crazy that 20 years later I find someone who mentions Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. I even had it on recorded VHS. I loved! Much more than Vanishing Point, which might sound like a sin for some, but...

[@alainvosselman9960]

They took "fake it 'til you make it' to a whole new level. It's worse than Tarantino but i guess that's how classics are made. Love the movie tho. One of the first movies i had seen when the VCR came out. Thanks for this !

[@truthspeaks6557]

At least they ripped off old movies and made new good ones instead of just remaking great movies into crap

[@purplemonkydishwasher]

I just found your channel and timeline videos today. I wanted to watch more and was sad you hadn’t uploaded in a while. Then you drop this. Thank you!

[@Bearstrangler88]

bethesda got post apocalyptic worlds wrong women in charge of everything my ass

[@thescandinavian2487]

A Mad Max 4 would be cool, old crusty Mad Mel Gibson 👍🏻 No Gibson no Mad Max !

[@DrFeelgoodDMZ]

I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.

[@harrymann6185]

To me Mad Max mainly seems to be a story about the constant struggle against Anarchy.

[@BrianRRenfro]

I think one thing that should be pointed out as influences are Westerns for the first movie and Samurai movies for the second. For the overall plot that is. The first one. Take it back 100 years and replace all the vehicles with horses. Lone lawman goes up against travelling bandits. They kill his only friend, then kill his family. He must track them across the desert, find them, and get revenge only to ride off into the sunset. That is 95 percent of westerns. Mad Max 2. A lone warrior finds a village under siege by a warlord who wants to exploit their resources. Against all odds he helps stop the warlord and save the villagers. He remains tortured by his past and cannot remain so he moves on. It's like 95 percent of samurai movies. Plot wise they are simply a western and a samurai movie with a coat of paint slapped on em.

[@BrianRRenfro]

And you can go deeper into it. The over the top crazy leader of the first one...western. The more soft spoken menacing warlord of the second one...samurai film. The attachment of man and his car is like man and his horse in a western. The way he draws the shotgun in the second one is like a katana. It's pretty obvious that there are major influences everywhere.

[@024shabutie420]

I absolutely love your material! I must ask, what was Night Riders girlfriend name? You said Lobotmite something and I can't find the name anywhere.

[@MadMaxBible]

Thanks! Her name was Lobotomy Eyes

[@knoxbarbee1787]

Been a while

[@RicardoMarlowFlamenco]

What about the chain reaction garage scene w all the actor/Easter eggs from MM??

[@AverageMichaelJordans]

George Miller is what you call a good thief

[@AJWRAJWR]

Really well done doco. 👍

[@McRaeAZ]

Great analysis, another Peter Fonda film I swear George borrowed heavily from is 'Race with the Devil" at the end of the film Peter Fonda and his friends are being chased in their RV (recreational vehicle) by marauding Satanists in cars and motorcycles, there are definitely some shot for shot "tributes" for the oil tanker chase scene.

[@Soundwave2142]

Christmas came early

[@Mythologos]

Joseph Campbell was not a "very famous professor", he was a private school teacher, he held no degrees and represented no great university. He did not "work in comparative mythology and religion", it was his hobby and his self proclaimed aim was to create "self help" books.

[@ioncewasmikey]

Do you think that Miller's original idea for Mad Max before all the post-apocalyptic stuff was added was the inspiration for the film Nightcrawler?

[@MadMaxBible]

It might have been, only the creators of that movie know for sure.

[@ioncewasmikey]

@@MadMaxBible Cool, wasn't sure if you'd ever explored that topic.

[@rHrynek]

All hail the true wordburger master. Along with Oliver Harper, the best movie related YT channel. May the holy V8 be always in your favor.

[@MadMaxBible]

That was very chrome what you said, witness!

[@Flippo___]

Omg finally a new video!!!

[@softdorothy]

"Death Race 2000", "A Boy and His Dog".... Nothing new under the sun.....

[@ryurc3033]

The batwing skull stuck with me from the first time I saw the road warrior. It was my introduction to mad max. I was probably 12 and my parents had a tape of 3 movies. The princess bride, labyrinth (David Bowie) and the road warrior. I watched the road warrior over and over, just enamored with the cars, and the styles. But that batwing skull car.....oh I always wanted to recreate a replica.

[@broston_]

That was great! When is part 2 coming out?

[@MadMaxBible]

Next week!

[@broston_]

Cool!

[@Strawberry92fs]

Haven't watched the video yet, but as I recall...The bikers were real bikers with real bikes and no costuming, paid in beer. The ambulance was rented with beer, the Van that gets smashed was the actual van of the director just with the engine taken out. And everyone almost died at some point.

[@vsanchez6577]

Thanks a los ti brings us a special so clear and objetive about our So favorites movies since our childhood. Greetings from Panamá.

[@versetripn6631]

Ironic or... Shiny and Chrome? Max had 1 wife, murdered while carrying their young child in her arms. Imortan Joe had 5 wives until 1 died while carrying his late-term child in her belly. Max Wife/Toddler: Run over by group of motorcycles, without leader H.K-Byrne (Toe). Child, DOA. Wife, barely alive in hospital. Max overhears blunt conversation of her status. Leaves. Imortan Wife/Unborn: Fell from rig in direct path of massive-tire vehicle driven by H.K-Byrne (Joe). Wife, DOA. Child, barely alive internally before a 'WTF-Section' is performed by Dr. Deadside Man. Both wives..."Went under the wheels."

[@johnhallsted6565]

What was the music in the beginning of this video when George Miller was reciting Joseph Campbell's quote from his book The Hero Has A Thousand Faces? Very haunting and revealing for Max's mythical character. Great job man. It strikes a nerve in me. What does that say?

[@MrAnswerification]

The movie The Sugarland Express [1974] might have been an influence as well. From memory there's also a brief scene where cops go to a garage to pick up high performance pursuit vehicles.

[@flashdamingo]

I feel there's an influence also from Robert silverbergs novel Damnation Alley.

[@DVincentW]

Very astute insight on MadMax.. but the crucial element that shattered Max, was his child and wife being murdered on the highway. Also note in Beyond Thunderdome, when Max goes up to Aunt Entity's lair above Bartertown: he hears a saxophone for the first time since his beloved had played for him in their home. His eyes as he walks forward, definitely convey some kind of reminder in him of his wife.

[@MadMaxBible]

Thanks! About Max hearing a saxophone for the first time in years - that tracks because even though it's not in the film, in the script it says that Bartertown is the first semblance of 'civilization' he's seen in 15 years or so. He's really been out there for that long.

[@guyh9992]

Harley Davidsons were virtually unknown in Australia in the 1970s. Anyone with any credibility at all rode a Japanese motorcycle, including the police. It just happened that Kawasakis were the most powerful available. The Dismissal was about the sacking of Labor PM Gough Whitlam in 1975. It too opened up with an almost mythical tone about a long ago event even though it was the previous decade.

[@ayylmaotv]

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[@DamienDrake]

The movie working worldwide doesn't necessarily mean that Miller tapped into the unconscious hero archetype. Thinking of the fact that we are all very much the same, it could also work in the reverse: you can create a story that, by its virtue alone, happens to resonate with people worldwide because many people happen to share the same sensibilities. Splitting hairs, I know, but I'm an anal retentive ass. Great video for a great film series.

[@ericdavidwallace]

Fascinating. We all have influences. Thank you for making this very well made documentary.

[@festo512]

Why do you think George miller never admitted his influences publicly?

[@vondo84]

YOUR BACK

[@batangbatugan]

Honestly, I think the simple story and visual storytelling alone could easily be appreciated by anyone. You could totally still have an entertaining visual experience even without knowledege of the material the film took inspiration from.

[@kthx1138]

Miller accidentally, inadvertently tapped into Joe Campbell!

[@szalonakozaone11oneone65]

w0w thank's man! Great vid!

[@RAM_DOS]

mad max wasnt successful because of Jospeh Campbell's myth patterns. It was successful because it was cool as f*S%k!

[@tiiito1988]

Where can I download the script for MM1?

[@BadApe351]

Brilliant account of the the Mad Max phenomenon. You have definitely found your calling in making these kinds of documentaries. With regards to what elements Kennedy/Miller borrowed from other works - it's almost impossible to make a completely original movie...especially by the 70's when so many amazing examples had been produced by that decade. Whichever works the two were inspired by - they included and remoulded the best elements of those, combined them with their own ideas, and produced a truly iconic series of movies.

[@Canuck1000]

This was a fantastic video. Lots of new stuff. I thought that Mad Max 2 was a retelling of the first Mad Max, but with a bigger budget. I remember reading that George was unhappy with the budget of the first movie. He wanted to do the same chase we saw in the second movie, but could not do it.

[@cjod33]

The movie Stone is a must see. The stunt where the guy drives of the Sydney sea cliff almost killed the stunt man. The very ending scene has got to be one of the most sever beatings in cinema history. The guy who's beaten can barely be recognised as a person.

[@QuixoteX]

Everything is derivative. The challenge is to put ot together in a new way.

[@youth_kid84]

Does anyone know the song that is playing at 0:55? Thank you!

[@fr0nkky20]

I think it’s from the mad max 2 soundtrack

[@youth_kid84]

@@fr0nkky20 Thank you very much, my friend! I will have a look into that! :)

[@garymarquett2866]

Miller should of just face the fact that Mad Max is a great movie and don't go near the crazy Yanks with their crazy theories.

[@waynemcauliffe2362]

The original is still the best followed closely by the 2nd. Better than the others and more Australian with Aussie humour in it the others lack

[@bikepacker9850]

Yes, and the Stones copied Chuck Berry. That's what happens in art.

[@Madmifune]

Magistral. Mil gracias

[@jerseyforhawks]

Glad to be inching down this Rabbit hole.....love all the borrowed themes.

[@c.j.96]

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