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Maybe it's just a case of OMYAC syndrome, but I've been noticing more and more ludicrously noisy motor vehicles and reckless driving these days. Anyone get the eerie feeling we're now living in the first Mad Max movie? We're not at the Road Warrior stage yet, but it's starting to feel more and more plausible.
(For the uninitiated, OMYAC = Old Man Yells At Clouds)
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Sadly, most people (young Strypey included) didn't really get it. Instead, we kind of romaticized the desert punk aesthetic of the sequel and turned the bitter, self-interested murdering cop into some kind of steampunk superhero.
This missing of the point led directly to the third film, Beyond Thunderdome, complete Tina Turner's 'We Don't Need Another Hero' on the soundtrack. The franchise completely jumped the shark with the godawful Fury Road. A triumph of style over substance.
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For those who didn't see the original Mad Max, or haven't revisited it for years, the scenario is much more yahoos in back-country Australia than the post-armageddon setting of Mad Max 2. Which was released in the US with the subtitle 'The Road Warrior'.
The writers of the sequel wanted to explore the societal breakdown that might result if the yahoo behaviour and mercenary policing of the first film were normalised. In combination with the consequences of Peak Oil and climate change.
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