1981 Australian post-apocalyptic action film
Mad Max 2
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Directed by
| George Miller
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Written by
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Based on
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Produced by
| Byron Kennedy
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Starring
| Mel Gibson
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Cinematography
| Dean Semler
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Edited by
| - David Stiven
- Tim Wellburn
- Michael Balson
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Music by
| Brian May
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Production
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Distributed by
| Roadshow Film Distributors
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Release date
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- 24 December 1981
(
1981-12-24
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Running time
| 96 minutes
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Country
| Australia
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Language
| English
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Budget
| A$
4.5 million
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Box office
| US$
36 million (
rentals
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Mad Max 2
(released as
The Road Warrior
in the United States) is a 1981 Australian
post-apocalyptic
dystopian
action film
directed by
George Miller
, who co-wrote it with
Terry Hayes
and
Brian Hannant
. It is the second installment in the
Mad Max
franchise. The film stars
Mel Gibson
reprising his role as
"Mad Max" Rockatansky
and follows a hardened man who helps a community of settlers to defend themselves against a roving band of
marauders
.
[4]
Filming took place in locations around
Broken Hill
, in the
Outback
of
New South Wales
.
[5]
Mad Max 2
was released in Australia on 24 December 1981 to widespread critical acclaim, with particular praise given to Gibson's performance, the musical score, cinematography, action sequences, costume design and sparing use of dialogue. It was also a box office success, and the film's post-apocalyptic and punk aesthetics helped popularise the genre in film and
fiction
writing. At the
10th Saturn Awards
, the film won
Best International Film
and was nominated for five more awards:
Best Director
,
Best Actor
for Gibson,
Best Supporting Actor
for
Bruce Spence
,
Best Writing
, and
Best Costumes
for
Norma Moriceau
.
Mad Max 2
is widely hailed as both
one of the greatest action movies of all time
and one of the greatest sequels ever made,
[6]
and fan clubs for the film and "road warrior"-themed activities continue into the 21st century.
Preceded by
Mad Max
in 1979, the film was followed by
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
in 1985,
Mad Max: Fury Road
in 2015 and
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
in 2024.
Plot
[
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]
After a
global war
resulted in widespread oil shortages and
ecocide
, civilization collapsed, and the world descended into barbarism.
[7]
Now, former policeman Max Rockatansky, haunted by the death of his family,
[a]
drives his
supercharged
black V-8
Pursuit Special
around the desert wilderness of
Australia
, scavenging for food and petrol with his
Australian Cattle Dog
. He outmaneuvers a small group of marauders led by the unhinged biker Wez using his driving skills and a
sawed-off shotgun
. He steals some gasoline from the wrecked vehicles of one of his pursuers and inspects a wrecked semi-trailer and
prime mover
.
Later, Max tries collecting an apparently abandoned
gyrocopter
's fuel, but is ambushed by the pilot. Max overpowers the man with his dog's help, sparing his life in return for being led to a working oil refinery the pilot has discovered. They arrive during the daily attack on the facility by a motley motorised gang, of which Wez is a member.
The next day, Max witnesses several cars leave the besieged compound and get chased down by marauders. He rescues Nathan, the sole survivor of one car, and strikes a deal to return him to the complex in exchange for fuel, but the man dies shortly after Max gets him back, and the leader of the settlers, Pappagallo, says the deal died with Nathan. The settlers are about to confiscate Max's car and cast him out of their compound when the marauders return to negotiate. A feral child who lives in the refinery compound kills Wez's partner with a metal boomerang and Wez wants revenge, but the gang's leader, a muscular masked man called "Lord Humungus", offers to spare the settlers' lives in exchange for their fuel supply and leaves for the day. However, the settlers are divided over whether or not they can trust Humungus.
Max offers his own deal: he will bring them the semi-truck he saw earlier so they can try to haul away their
tanker
full of oil, if they return his car and give him as much fuel as he can carry. The settlers agree, and that night Max sneaks past the marauders on foot carrying fuel for the truck. He encounters the Gyro Captain and forces him to fly him to the truck, which he is able to get started. It is somewhat damaged as Max passes through the marauders' encampment on the way back to the refinery, but he makes it, followed by the gyrocopter.
Max refuses Pappagallo's entreaty to accompany the settlers to a fabled northern paradise,
[b]
opting instead to collect his fuel and leave. Wez catches him using Humungus's
nitrous oxide
-equipped vehicle and causes him to crash. A Marauder kills Max's dog and is about to kill the seriously-injured Max when a Marauder named Toadie attempts to siphon the fuel from the Pursuit Special's tanks, triggering the car to self-destruct. Left for dead, Max is rescued by the Gyro Captain and returned to the compound.
Despite his injuries, Max insists on driving the repaired truck during the escape. His support consists of the Gyro Captain, Pappagallo in a separate vehicle, three of the settlers on the outside of the armoured tanker, and the Feral Kid, who jumps on the truck as it is leaving. The marauders pursue the tanker, allowing the remaining settlers to flee their compound in a caravan of smaller vehicles after rigging the refinery to explode.
Pappagallo and the three settlers are killed and the Gyro Captain is shot down. Max turns the truck around and, as he is fighting with Wez, Humungus collides with the truck head on, killing Wez and himself. The truck rolls off the road and the surviving marauders survey the scene, only to abandon their chase when they see the tanker leaking sand and not gas. As Max carries the Feral Kid from the wrecked tanker, he inspects the sand pouring out. The Gyro Captain drives up and the two share a grin as Max realizes the tanker had been a diversion the whole time. They rendezvous with the settlers, who transported the fuel in oil drums inside their vehicles.
The Gyro Captain succeeds Pappagallo as leader of the settlers and takes them north. The Feral Kid, revealing himself as the film's narrator, relates that he became "Chief of the Great Northern Tribe" when he grew up. He concludes by saying that he never saw the Road Warrior again.
Cast
[
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]
- Mel Gibson
as
"Mad Max" Rockatansky
, a former member of the Australian highway patrol (the Main Force Patrol, MFP) who, after a biker gang killed his family, left the force and hunted down and killed all of the gang members. The trauma of the events of
Mad Max
transformed him into an embittered "shell of a man", but he still elects to assist the settlers with their plan in this film. Once his part is complete, however, "the Road Warrior" (as the narrator refers to him) becomes a drifter once again, choosing not to follow the settlers north.
- Bruce Spence
as The Gyro Captain, a wanderer who searches for fuel and supplies using a ramshackle old
gyrocopter
. He, too, decides to throw in his lot with the settlers and help defend their compound. Writing for
Time
,
Richard Corliss
called the Captain "a deranged parody of the World War I
aerial ace
: scarecrow skinny, gaily clad, sporting a
James Coburn
smile with advanced
caries
".
[8]
Despite his quirks, the Captain proves to be wily and courageous, and he is chosen as the new leader of the settlers after the death of Pappagallo.
- Mike Preston
as Pappagallo, the idealistic leader of a group of settlers barricaded in an oil refinery. Even though the settlers' compound is besieged by a violent gang, Pappagallo "carries the weight of his predicament with swaggering dignity."
[8]
The novelization of the film expanded on Pappagallo's history, describing him as a top executive for one of the "7 Sisters" major petroleum firms who lost his family in the war and escaped to the wastelands, where he would join up with other refugees and become a leader of their efforts to establish a new civilization.
- Max Phipps
as The Toadie, the
crier
of Humungus's gang. An unkempt, bespectacled man who wears a decorated
mink
stole
as a hat and has many automobile badges and hood ornaments on his clothes, his behaviour toward Humungus and Wez make him a classic
sycophant
. Toadie takes pleasure in physically abusing helpless prisoners, but the gang has little respect for him.
- Vernon Wells
as Wez, a mohawked, leather-clad biker who serves as Humungus's lieutenant.
Vincent Canby
, writing for
The New York Times
, called Wez the "most evil of The Humungus's followers...[a] huge brute who rides around on his bike, snarling psychotically."
[9]
In a 1985 interview with
Danny Peary
, Miller said the characters of Wez and Max are near mirror images of each other, with each being chained by the leaders of their respective camps and both men spurred on by the death of a loved one?in Wez's case, the relatively recent death of the Golden Youth at the hand of the Feral Kid.
[10]
In 2011,
Empire
magazine listed Wez as the greatest movie henchman of all time.
[11]
- Kjell Nilsson
as Lord Humungus, the violent, yet charismatic and articulate, leader of a "vicious gang of post-holocaust, motorcycle-riding vandals"
[9]
who loot, rape, and kill the few remaining wasteland dwellers. Announced by the Toadie as "The Lord Humungus. The Warrior of the Wasteland. The
Ayatollah
of Rock-and-Rollah", his "malevolence courses through his huge pectorals, pulses visibly under his bald, sutured scalp",
[8]
and his face is never seen, as he wears a hockey goalie's mask. In the interview with
Danny Peary
, Miller posited that he thought the character "was a former military officer who suffered severe facial burns", and that he "might have served in the same outfit as his counterpart, Pappagallo."
[10]
- Emil Minty
as The
Feral Kid
, an eight-year-old boy
[8]
who lives in the wasteland near the oil refinery. He speaks only in growls and grunts, wears shorts and boots made from hide, and defends himself with a metal boomerang that he can catch using an improvised mail glove. In the film's closing sequence, the narration that opens and closes the film (which is spoken by
Harold Baigent
) is revealed to be the now-civilized and intelligent Feral Kid relating his youthful encounter with Max when he is an old man.
- Virginia Hey
as Warrior Woman, a settler who initially distrusts Max.
- William Zappa as Zetta, a settler.
- Arkie Whiteley
as The Captain's Girl, a beautiful young settler who chooses to stay with her compatriots rather than escape with the Gyro Captain, prompting him to stay as well.
- Steven J. Spears
as The Mechanic, a settler who is
paraplegic
.
- Syd Heylen
as Curmudgeon, an elderly settler who wears a military helmet and decorations.
- Moira Claux as "Big" Rebecca, a settler who wields a bow and arrow and initially wants to take Humungus's offer of safe passage if they abandon their compound.
- David Downer as Nathan, one of the settlers who leaves the compound to look for a truck to tow the oil tanker. He is wounded by some of Humungus's bikers and dies shortly after Max brings him back to the refinery.
- David Slingsby as Quiet Man, a settler.
- Kristoffer Greaves as Mechanic's Assistant, a settler.
- Max Fairchild as Broken Victim, a settler who is caught and tied to the front of Humungus's car. Gibson and Fairchild are the only two actors who appear in both
Mad Max
and
Mad Max 2
, though Fairchild portrays a different character in each film.
- Tyler Coppin
as Defiant Victim, a settler who is caught and tied to the front of Humungus's car.
- Jerry O'Sullivan (credited as Jimmy Brown) as The Golden Youth, Wez's companion, who is killed by the Feral Kid's boomerang.
Production
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Development
[
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]
Following the release of
Mad Max
, director
George Miller
received a number of offers from Hollywood, including one to direct
First Blood
,
[
citation needed
]
but he instead decided to develop a
rock and roll
movie, the working title of which was
Roxanne
. After working together on the
novelization
of
Mad Max
, Miller and
Terry Hayes
teamed up in
Los Angeles
to write
Roxanne
, but the script was ultimately shelved.
[12]
Miller then became intrigued with the idea of returning to the world of
Mad Max
, as a larger budget would allow him to be more ambitious. He said: "Making
Mad Max
was a very unhappy experience for me. I had absolutely no control over the final product", but "There was strong pressure to make a sequel, and I felt we could do a better job with a second movie."
[13]
Inspired by
Joseph Campbell
's
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
and the work of
Carl Jung
,
[14]
as well as the films of
Akira Kurosawa
,
[2]
Miller recruited Hayes to join the production as a scriptwriter.
[15]
Brian Hannant
also came on board as co-writer, first assistant director, and second unit director.
Filming
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]
Principal photography
took place over the course of twelve weeks in the winter of 1981 near
Broken Hill
,
New South Wales
.
[16]
The scene where the Pursuit Special rolls over and explodes was shot at Wilangee Road near the Mundi Mundi Plains lookout, just outside of
Silverton
.
[17]
[18]
Filming also took place at the Pinnacles, which is where the set of the oil refinery compound was constructed.
[19]
In one scene, stunt coordinator Guy Norris broke his femur when he flew off his motorcycle and his leg hit the car. His injury is visible in the released film.
[20]
Music
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]
The
musical score
for
Mad Max 2
was composed and conducted by Australian composer
Brian May
, who had also composed the music for
Mad Max
. A soundtrack album was released by
Varese Sarabande
in 1982.
[21]
Censorship
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]
The original cut of the film was more bloody and violent, but it was cut down heavily to receive an "M" rating from
Australian censors
. Entire scenes and sequences were deleted completely, and others were edited. When the film was submitted to the
MPAA
in the United States, two additional scenes were shortened (the scene in which Wez pulls an arrow out of his arm and the one in which he pulls the boomerang out of the Golden Youth's head). Although the version of the film that includes those scenes before they were trimmed down for the MPAA survives, no version without the previous deletions exists.
[2]
[22]
Reception
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Box office
[
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]
Mad Max 2
was a commercial success, grossing A$10.8 million in Australia alone, which was double what
Mad Max
had earned in the country to become the
highest-grossing Australian film at the Australian box office
.
[23]
Despite making more than its predecessor, however,
Mad Max 2
never held that record, because
Gallipoli
was released earlier in 1981 and grossed A$11.7 million in Australia.
[23]
In the United States, with a gross of US$23.6 million
[24]
[2]
and
theatrical rentals
of $11 million,
[3]
the film also outperformed
Mad Max
. When that film was released in the U.S. in 1980, it did not receive a proper release from its distributor,
American International Pictures
, as AIP was in the final stages of a change of ownership after being bought by
Filmways, Inc.
a year earlier, and its box office was affected.
[25]
Warner Bros.
decided to release
Mad Max 2
in the United States, but, recognising the first film was not well-known in North America (although it was becoming more popular through cable channel showings), they decided to change the name of the sequel to
The Road Warrior
. The advertising for the film, including print ads, trailers, and TV commercials, did not refer to the Max character at all and shied away from the fact that the film was a sequel. For the majority of American viewers, their first inkling of
The Road Warrior
being a sequel to
Mad Max
was when they saw the black and white, archival footage from the first film during the prologue of the second. When
Vestron Video
later released
Mad Max
on home video, they capitalized by labeling it "the thrilling predecessor to
The Road Warrior
".
Outside of the U.S., the film earned rentals of $25 million (including Australia), for a worldwide total of $36 million,
[3]
making it the
highest-grossing Australian film
worldwide.
[26]
Critical response
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]
The film received positive reviews and is regarded by many critics as one of the best films of 1981.
[27]
[28]
On
review aggregator
website
Rotten Tomatoes
, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on reviews from 58 critics, with an average rating of 8.40/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "
The Road Warrior
is everything a bigger-budgeted
Mad Max
sequel should be: bigger, faster, louder, but definitely not dumber."
[29]
On
Metacritic
, the film has a rating of 77 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".
[30]
Film critic
Roger Ebert
of the
Chicago Sun-Times
gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, praised its "skillful filmmaking", and called it "a film of pure action, of kinetic energy", which is "one of the most relentlessly aggressive movies ever made". While Ebert pointed out the film does not develop its "vision of a violent future world ... with characters and dialogue", and uses only the "barest possible bones of a plot", he praised its action sequences. Ebert called the climactic chase sequence "unbelievably well-sustained" and stated that the "special effects and stunts ... are spectacular", creating a "frightening, sometimes disgusting, and (if the truth be told) exhilarating" effect.
[31]
In his review for
The New York Times
,
Vincent Canby
wrote: "Never has a film's vision of the
post-nuclear-holocaust
world seemed quite as desolate and as brutal, or as action-packed and sometimes as funny as in George Miller's apocalyptic
The Road Warrior
, an extravagant film fantasy that looks like a sadomasochistic comic book come to life".
[9]
Writing for
Newsweek
, Charles Michener praised Mel Gibson's "easy, unswaggering masculinity", saying that "[his] hint of Down Under humor may be quintessentially Australian but is also the stuff of an international male star".
[32]
Gary Arnold, in his review for
The Washington Post
, wrote: "While he seems to let triumph slip out of his grasp, Miller is still a prodigious talent, capable of a scenic and emotional amplitude that recalls the most stirring attributes in great action directors like
Kurosawa
,
Peckinpah
and
Leone
".
[33]
Pauline Kael
called
Mad Max 2
a "mutant" film that was "sprung from virtually all action genres", creating "one continuous spurt of energy" by using "jangly, fast editing", but criticised Miller's "attempt to tap into the universal concept of the hero", stating that this attempt "makes the film joyless", "sappy", and "sentimental".
[34]
Richard Scheib called
Mad Max 2
"one of the few occasions where a sequel makes a dramatic improvement in quality over its predecessor." He called it a "kinetic comic-book of a film" and an "exhilarating non-stop rollercoaster ride of a film that contains some of the most exciting stunts and car crashes ever put on screen." Scheib stated that the film transforms the "post-holocaust landscape into the equivalent of a Western frontier", such that "Mel Gibson's Max could just as easily be
Clint Eastwood
's tight-lipped
Man With No Name
" helping protect "decent frightened folk" from the "marauding Redskins".
[4]
Christopher John reviewed
The Road Warrior
in
Ares Magazine
#13 and commented that "Its taut scripting, exceptional performances, and pulse-pounding pacing, which leaves an audience breathless, combined to make it one of the best SF films of the year. It also has the courage to show what the face of death
really
looks like. Mel Gibson's portrayal of Max is hard, bitter and realistic; he is neither hero nor coward, but a man caught up in a mad future which he confronts unafraid."
[35]
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
says
Mad Max 2
, "with all its comic-strip energy and vividness ... is
exploitation cinema
at its most inventive."
[36]
Accolades
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]
At the
24th Australian Film Institute Awards
, the film won
Best Direction
,
Best Editing
,
Best Production Design
,
Best Sound
, and
Best Costume Design
, and it was nominated for
Best Cinematography
and
Best Original Music Score
; it received the most nominations and wins of any film at the ceremony, but it was not nominated for
Best Film
. At the
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
'
10th Saturn Awards
, the film won the award for
Best International Film
and generated nominations for
Best Director
,
Best Actor
(
Mel Gibson
),
Best Supporting Actor
(
Bruce Spence
),
Best Writing
, and
Best Costumes
. Additionally, the film won the
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Award for
Best Foreign Film
and was nominated for the
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
, and
George Miller
won the Grand Prize at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival for his work on the film.
[37]
Legacy
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]
The film's depiction of a post-apocalyptic future has so widely influenced other filmmakers and science fiction writers that its gritty "junkyard society of the future look ... is almost taken for granted in the modern science-fiction action film."
[4]
The
dystopian
,
apocalyptic
, and
post-apocalyptic
themes and imagery in the
Mad Max
series of films have inspired some artists to recreate the look and feel of some aspects of the series in their work, and fan clubs and "road warrior"-themed activities continue into the 21st century.
In 2008,
Mad Max 2
was selected by
Empire
magazine as one of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time".
[38]
Similarly,
The New York Times
placed the film on its "Best 1000 Movies Ever" list.
[39]
Entertainment Weekly
ranked
Mad Max 2
93rd on its list of the "100 Greatest Movies of All Time" in 1999 and 41st on its updated list of the "All-Time 100 Greatest Films" in 2013, and the publication ranked the character of Mad Max 11th on its list of "The All Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture".
[40]
In 2016, James Charisma of
Playboy
ranked the film 11th on a list of "15 Sequels That Are Way Better Than the Originals".
[41]
A museum dedicated to
Mad Max 2
was established in 2010 in the small town of
Silverton
(which is 25 kilometres from
Broken Hill
in
New South Wales
) by Adrian and Linda Bennett, who had built a collection of
Mad Max
props and memorabilia after moving to Silverton.
[42]
See also
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Notes
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