alt Hacker NewsOK, now that we're here, isn't Mad Max a pretty weird revengeish movie? I watched it a few years ago, trying to get into the vibe, and it was nothing like what I remember, and nothing like Fury Road.
I know the other movies were what made Mad Max Mad Max, but the first movie was just a weird "child gets killed" revenge film, if I remember correctly?
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arkensaw • today at 8:14 PM
Fun fact, Mad Max actually started out as a script about a journalist covering car crashes, who becomes desensitized to the gore and horror. It was not dystopian or post-apocalyptic at all.
It was only later revisions that added the dystopian future angle and made him a cop.
Then when Mad Max 2 came along it retconned the first movie as post-apocalyptic
It's got a bit of a hint of "society is falling apart because of the oil crisis" in the background, which is an interesting period thing. But mostly a revenge film, yeah.
Although I think most American viewers don't really know about it at all and only think of the second mad max film, which was marketed here without the 2? And almost all cultural references about "mad max" are about the road warrior vibe specifically, or thunder dome / fury road now.