Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - Caravan of Garbage

welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravan garbage where're on Mad Max 2 or Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior or just the road warrior a lot of people just thought this was Mad Max one the road I watch the road oh yeah what watching that movie about the two the father and son and they're just pushing a shopping cart through yeah and they got all Bo like cannibals and whatever and then yeah it's really sad and grim and the dad dies at the end that one yeah that's the one that's what I watched yeah yeah this is going to be one of those ones where like in in high school they asked you to do an essay on like Hamlet you didn't you didn't read Hamlet you read McBeth so you're like well actually uh Hamlet's dilemma is very similar to MCB Beth and if I could speak to that for 900 words no I'm just kidding I watch madmax too are people kidding about leaving alike is that something you think no no it's real it's real that's not a joke that's you have to do that's real stuff yeah yeah yeah I tell you what man this movie it's rad as hell this is the blueprint really for Fury Road yes you know the the first one was the Prototype it's interesting you know it's got some good stuff in it yeah and it's got some real down to earth Australian stuff boy do as I think we mentioned the first one is a combination between like a real movie but also the uh soap opera A Country Practice but this one the stakes have been upped and this is it it's got It's got the big chases it's got the big action it's got the it's got big men it's got big men it's got big kful characters who are big men yeah you recognize a lot of like the jalopy cars that again kind of carry over into other movies specifically Fury Ro it's funny because after the first one George Miller was like that was bad I had a bad time it took me forever to get that thing working oh you tell me this now I said nice things about it last week no no no well if he thinks it's bad I think it's bad too he wasn't saying the movie was bad he was saying the experience and like and he was like I what is he saying he's saying it was hard to get that movie made and he said it was it was hard to watch George no it wasn't no it was F and he said it was just problem after problem and maybe he's not cut out for film making an Australian filmmaker Peter we was like yeah man that's film making you did it right that's it's just problem solving and he was like oh okay cool all right I can make another movie then all right then and he said a lot of the stuff that went into this was a result of editing the original Mad Max and going through just being like hate that hate that oh that's fine hate that Mel Gibson that's fine yeah he'll do it he'll go again cuz he cut the first movie in the kitchen while Byron Kennedy did the sound in the Next Room and so he just looked at that movie for N9 months straight and was just like oh my God but that was kind of like a film school by the time he got to this well he was offered Rambo first Blood ah which I think is just called First Blood what's it called I can't I can't remember they keep changing them on the box sets all of which I own it's called Rambo the road warrior that's right yeah yeah um so he turned that down and went no I want to go into this I think he should adopt our method which is just leaving the editing to somebody more talented than him don't even worry about it and every now and then the editors they'll pop in just to let you know that they working hard well hardly working am I right and you know what something that George biller accidentally tapped into which they lean into on this is the myth of this lone Warrior a road warrior if you will you kind of build towards this character in the first one and he realized that he tapped into this hero's journey kind of archetype and this is the central Focus now of these movies you I'm glad that he went with kind of like a mythological kind of folk hero which is kind of an Australian and it's purely Australian nobody else has that that's exactly right and I'm glad he went with that as opposed to like another Australian kind of idea like the laran like maybe what if Mad Max was just going through multiple movies just being like funny in a mean way to everybody and then go n you're all right no I'm just kidding no just kidding I [ __ ] hate you n you're all right just kidding buy me a beer though I'm a laran I'll beat you up n just kidding I'm a drunk not kidding I am I'm a big drug yeah no you're right it's good that they leaned into this aspect of it so Mel Gibson in the first one at time of filming he was was 21 years old he was a real young fell this one's pretty much set in real time afterwards like 3 to 5 years and apparently when George Miller caught up with him again he's like oh look at how this guy's mature look at him he's all he's all weathered and looking rough and all of that I think that's just punching darts cuz Mel Gibson was like a very heavy smoker I don't know what he's up to now we don't need to look into any of that clean living and keeping below the radar you know exactly yeah but it was also Mel Gibson's idea to make Max look like as rough and ragged as possible you know he's got some gray in his temples apparently he cut his own hair before this you know boy can you everybody in this movie has very 2024 Australian male hair have you noticed yes they do absolutely mustaches and mullets and just crew cuts on one side cutting their own hair but missing the back yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah if you want if you want the Mad Max 2 Road Warrior experience just go to an Australia Music Festival you so yeah you know cutting the sleeve off the outfit all of that that was Mel Gibson is like I want to be looking rough and real and boy does he I saw an interview with Mel Gibson about this movie it's something I didn't notice but it works so well is that in all the action sequences for this he looks terrified and I think it really helps sell it as opposed to like a fast and furious where it's just like whatever whereas here it's like this guy looks like he thinks he's going to die and he might and he might yeah again like the first one astounding nobody died in this oh well there's been some severe injuries and we can get to those I maintain my position it's amazing nobody died yeah no you are correct uh including the dog who was named dog in real life it was found in a local pound and it was going to be euthanized like the next day he ended up being euthanized after the film no that's not true one of the camera operators took him he lives in the Hollywood Hills now that's right yeah he's done some very shady stuff don't look into it don't look into it don't Google dog don't do it I love that dog in this though it's got a little necka Chief at one point it's holding Bruce Spence hostage absolutely which is great wouldn't we all want to do that oh my God how long was Bruce Bren lying in the dirt waiting for that's a great question so he's uh you know uh new New Zealand born Australian actor Bruce Spence has been in 100 he's in Revenge of the Sith he's in Revenge of the he one of those guys with the teeth mat got face in the teeth he's in The Matrix he in second or third be like 100 movies easily but he's in third Mad Max but he's playing a different he is played a different guy helicopter flying man yeah yeah yeah um yeah local Legend um but yeah he play the gyro captain and his his plan is to lie in weight under the sand with his gyrocopter as as a as a prize for any roving Bandits with a with a obviously venomous snake wrapped around it mhm how long's he wait months I guess so that snake's just staying yeah snakes love Gyros I would poke the snake with a stick you could just get the stick I was going to say poke it with a stick maybe you're not find any sticks you know in the Outback in the maybe in the future oh yeah by the way in between one and two things went downhill just before the first Mad Max started but there was a nuclear war in between these movies and that explains why it's a little bit more Barren everybody's a little bit more cutting the bum out of your pants absolutely things have got a little bit out of hands that got caught in the blast the bum of the man's pants that's where Mel Gibson's sleeve went he got caught in the blast he was running from the blast and God damn at least it wasn't my bum that's that would be embarrassing let's talk about that gang though right they're a fun gang I know they're bad dudes yeah and I like those two best friends on a bike just good friends hanging out I love how they're good friends probably roommates probably well actually there is backstory to these guys first of all costume design Norma Moroso designed all of this I think it works perfectly again you can see most of this at an Australian Music Festival it all holds up also that dog boy killed that blonde dude just a boomerang to the head that's right just I I don't think that was I know there were like a roving gang of marauders but that seemed completely unnecessary like that guy of all the guys you know yeah you know good as any I guess when you've got a a big steel Boomerang everything looks like something you can hit with a big steel boang you know that old Australian adage oh yeah that's true where'd he get the boomerang also he made it people are like Australia boomerangs nobody's got one of those he's got one he's still got it in real life as well that actor he's now a jeweler oh yeah that's right there's also a rumor you probably heard this there's a fan theory that the Tom Hardy incarnation of Mad Max is actually the dog boy he's called like feral kid or whatever but if you look at any of the Fury Road prequel Comics that is not the case this is technically the same Mad Max or they were all set in different dimensions they don't line up that speaks let's not let's not add a Multiverse to this no it's just the mythology that's the idea behind it these are stories people are telling about this guy about this lunatic running about and in the real Universe where they're telling these stories everything's fine the Mel Gibson Universe the real world everything's fine fine don't worry about it so apparently the actor who played the blonde guy who gets the boomerang to the Head here's his name I didn't write it down they were looking for some very disrespectful I'm sorry to blond guy I know whose name I don't have here that I didn't write down apparently George Miller was looking for somebody with this exact specifications right and he was a courier who went past their office in belmain in Sydney and George Miller was like grab that guy that's the guy grab that guy rip the bum out of his pants let's go and then tell him about his role on the way let's go let's go a broken Hill and apparently according to Vernon Wells who plays the Mohawk guy you would have seen in other things he's Bennett in Commando he is exactly let off some steam Bennett Etc because they all made up their back stories he said that they're not actually lovers as implied sure right so he said apparently there was a deleted scene where it's explained that wz rescued Golden Boy is his name uh not in real life this is his real name and became a surrogate father to him apparently though there's no evidence of this aside from this statement so uh I don't know it doesn't seem like that's the relationship there's a there's a a father Sun Dynamic there's a deleted scene where they're both in separate houses like kissing their girlfriend's goodbye as they go to work on the biker gang on their single bike that's right oh also this is fun Mel Gibson called Vernon Wells barometer bum because of the outfit he was wearing because his butt cheeks would turn purple when it got really cold so that meant that everybody had to be warmed up at that point that works for me works for you yeah yeah it was really cold during the filming of this you can't really tell cuz it looks like Barren and hot and deserty but no it was and they only used the they only used the shot where he had a flushed pink bum to indicate warmth so you know based on that barometer you would assume it was nice and warm chicken there make uping his bum yes you'd have to wouldn't you I think so you want it to match you want some continuity bum continuity absolutely yeah anyways humongous you know the story about this right no we go I don't know what the story going he didn't even he didn't even give me one clue you know what the story of this guy who is he really what's the theory what was the original idea oh don't know it was the goose it was mad goose what that was the idea initially M but he got blown up or something yeah he got blown up or something he got burnt Etc so it was supposed to be Goose but that was nicked pretty early on also he looks completely different but there are a few hints that kind of carry over cuz he's got horrible burns the Raiders also use a bunch of police vehicles which implies that they work cops or got them from Cops they probably cops they were probably cops Mason uh and his sidearm is very similar to well that's true yeah the mfps sidearm but again these are things that could be stolen or they were cops or most of them were cops Mason they just had access to that uh that Armory and the that's right the motor pool Etc but what we do know of his backstory is because George Miller often leaves a lot of this stuff blank humongus was some kind of military man who had been in a severe accident you do see some hints towards him you see his parents at one one point in a photo that's right it's in his gun case yeah he might have some like German ancestry I thought that maybe was his wife we don't know the stunts in this though it's bigger than ever there's buggy flips at one point there's one gets dragged by the truck that's all good stuff I'm loving all of that oh what's the story this time around do people like that are people like look I watch I hav watched the movie well let me think um Mad Max is having a nice time in the Australian Outback yep and uh and don't you he's got lots of bullets as well don't worry about it he's got he's got more than he needs he's giv away it tips local cafes and stuff oh thanks for the flat white here's a bullet uh but then he uh he needs some fuel yep don't we all yeah I mean with the bloody prices we got these guys and then he runs a foul of some Marauders he does run a foul of some Marauders and but then he learns that there's an oasis encampment and they've got all the fuel he could possibly need so he's going to go there and he's going to he's going to bargain for fuel that's right yeah and they're like why don't you work for us and he's like ah all right you got me I'm a bit of a workaholic you got me and a drunk I'm drunk yeah that's right so at the end Mad Max has to take sorry Matthew Max has to take the tanker and like protect the fuel while they all coming after him so everybody else can escape twist though turns out that they SWA the fuel out that's right apparently there is some contention about whether or not he knew that there was no fuel in that but I think it's pretty obvious that yeah he didn't know right yeah and they screwed him he said I thought this was Fuel and I thought that was Goose all my assumptions were Incorrect and I think that's important that you question your assumptions absolutely this was made around the era where like uh every every movie and every cartoon had a moral at the end and a nice lesson for kids it's like Hey listen we've all had fun we've all flipped a tanker in the desert that's right but what have we learned yeah don't do that baby don't do that anyway the tanker roll Chase at the end it was deemed so dangerous the driver Dennis Miller he wasn't Dennis Miller famous political comedian oh sorry his name is Dennis Williams I I want to talk about this guy he was just a truck driver and they're like can you flip this let's get this guy come here we'll put you in a truck we'll flip it we're going to cut the bum out of your pants but uh he was told not to eat any food for 12 hours before in case he needed to go to surgery you know cuz of the truck flip sure apparently it rolled traveling 104 km per hour or 65 M hour and I found a story on Reddit concerning a Facebook post from his daughter KY Miller and apparently again he wasn't a stunt driver and he also wasn't paid for this oh he was given the Mac Bulldog from the Bonnet which he still has okay and then he went to them for payment and they were like oh we don't actually have any money for that thing that you got the Mac Bulldog thing on the front of the truck so you can have that yeah and also aren't you doing this for the exposure well that's pretty much in 40 years some people will talk about it on YouTube you probably get some work from that probably get some work from that well yeah he worked on three so he he was he was you know happy to do it but maybe someone even now at Water Brothers could pay this man maybe do you think he flipped this truck this thing that people remember or they could delete Mad Max 2 in its entirety off the internet I'll be happy with though they could do they could do it yeah but there was a severe injury in this you would have definitely seen the moment cuz they put it in film the moment where the guy Clips the bike and pin wheels that was Guy Norris clearly something you had gone wrong when he hit that he wasn't supposed to hit it at that speed and and any of that and so then when they took him into the hospital to see what was wrong he didn't actually break any bones but he had a pin in his leg from a previous operation from a hip operation and that was bent severely so that's what went wrong for him so he didn't technically break any bones which is good cuz he already had a giant metal rod at his leg which is lucky which is why we don't have to pay you that's that's how the meeting went afterwards I tell you what though do you think it's weird the ending of this is just humongous just kills himself I feel like didn't have to do that right yeah maybe is he just like whatever I had a good run I guess I mean doesn't that doesn't that speak to the um the nihilistic nature yes exactly plus you also get the rare double bad guy kill that's true which we talked about recently in in Zoro good for that boy it's always satisfying when you see that maybe he was like this will be great for anybody watching honestly or anybody telling a story about this any kind of dog boy who happens to be watching maybe somebody's watching this on some sort of old timey steampunk telescope from over on that Ridge they'll they'll going to see this looking at they are going to bloody dine out on this at the PB later my God in real time you watch this unfold first of all you'd be like what is this what's happening here and then you see that my goodness again we're assuming this all takes place in a in a everything's normal everything's normal but there's just a batch of desert yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you take a wrong turn from like chadon shopping center and you drive out in the Into the Wilderness and the sudden there's a there's a there's just a destruction Derby of lunatics yeah yeah yeah you're like wow well we're going to go back to muffin break anyways you know what's time for what's it time for it's the road trivia I love that this is the trivia section of the show here we go M Gibson only had 16 lines of dialog for this entire film and two of them is that only came for the gasoline like he could have mixed it up oh yeah could have said I'm I'm here to eat a Chito and have some gasoline and I finished my Chito you already finished it that's a local C reference I don't know if they still make those they shouldn't they're not very good are they what's in them what are they doing is it a biscuit Jam don't what if they're still around we you get a Chito sponsorship I guess we could they're great as far as I know yeah they're great now obviously this has influenced a lot of movies this kind of aesthetic you might have even seen it in the movie the road which you watched instead of this this includes the Japanese mango and anime series Fist of the North Star that makes a lot of sense a lot going on and I've seen and read all of that so without getting into any of the specific that is true cuz once you get started you'll never stop can you even imagine can you imagine if we did an episode on that how detailed it would be Inc I don't think we even can yeah got too much knowledge and then I'd be talking about anime and manga that parallels that sure it' be a 4our long video part one absolutely seven yeah we can't do it I'm sorry don't don't even get started uh George Miller recalls meeting Joe Dante years later and having the Gremlins director tell him that he could tell the road warrior was a lowbudget film because of how frequently it moves between sunrise sunset and everything in between all during the same scene and George Miller said yeah you certainly can't wait for your light you just have to keep shooting so I didn't notice that at all no neither did I yeah I got caught up in all the other details that I noticed about this movie all the film making stuff and and Miller would be like I'm sorry I couldn't hear you Joe Dante over making Mad Max Fury Road and it's massive success I couldn't hear you over that no and also Happy Feet or whatever else I do yeah whatever else babe he directed babe too but he was heavily involved in b one yeah that's good to the road warrior that's right uh Miller said also it only took one year from the point where he began writing the screenplay to its theatrical release which is pretty incredible you know when you got a good thing going just goes and it's fine yeah you don't even have to really put that much work to it just kind of you know it's like a Snowball Effect sure sure sure hand it off to the editors it's fine that's right and the ending where Max ends up all dusty George Miller thought that's exactly how we should have started the film and that's what they did in Fury Road cuz he's very dusty in Fury R he so dusty yeah if you were an Australian country musician he'd be slim Dusty he would be and if he was a politician he'd be Paul cating a notoriously non- Dusty man that's right that doesn't mean anything by way no not at all we're just trying to shoehorn in references here what else do we have if he were a chocolate bar he'd be a CH established yeah yeah yeah if it was a Saturday morning kids TV show he would be agro's cartoon connection there we go perfect all right he's quite aggro is he he really is he could be called aggro Max actually he's not that bad at this one either is he no yeah is he insane I think by or the fact that he's so calm indicate that he is inside maybe that's it I think four he definitely is they lean into that we'll get to it anyways the Box offers for this this was the most expensive Australian film ever produced at the time with a budget of 4.5 million and the return internationally was 36 million significantly less than the first one but again this is the one that I think played on TV this is the one that did really well on on home rentals and Etc so this is the one that when you think original Mad Max movies it's it's this one again most people wouldn't have seen the first one they've just seen this yeah and probably Thunderdome so everybody was in it for the exposure and that's great I think that's right and listen we're in it for the exposure but we're also in it for money because if you head over to Big sandwich. which is like our private patreon on service you sign up those early videos these videos go up there early don't they that's right there's also bonus podcasts we do movie commentaries we do video game Let's Plays oh my God there's so many of those and they're all great also our podcast called the weekly planet where we talking movies and comics and TV shows that comes out there Sunday as opposed to Monday if you do want to check it out we're just having a good time that's right or just you know we have a podcast and stay here or whatever if he were a potato chip mhm he'd be a Red Rock Deli wow that's right that's a good one good reference right what would you what chip would you do from the Red Rock Del probably honey soy chicken I'd do a salt and vinegar I like their salt and vinegar M he'd be a salt and vinegar I think oh he would be that's authentically Australian isn't it correct only Australia has those that's true he'd be a 4 and20 pie James from a service station I don't like the I don't like meat he doesn't care no he doesn't that's right you like i' do a pasty or sausage roll over a pie any day of the week wow yeah all right thanks everyone grab that Jim you guys we'll see you next week Mad Max Mad Max

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Length: 22min 2sec (1322 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 11 2024