Discover this Mad Max Poster and immerse yourself in the intense post-apocalyptic world of the film. Original designs for fans of action and adventure!
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Description of this Max Max Poster
Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and produced by Byron Kennedy. Mel Gibson plays “Mad” Max Rockatansky, a police officer turned vigilante in a near-future Australia undergoing societal collapse. Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, and Roger Ward also star. James McCausland and Miller wrote the screenplay from a story by Miller and Kennedy.
Principal photography for Mad Max took place in and around Melbourne and lasted six weeks. The film received mixed reviews upon its release in April 1979, although it won four AACTA Awards. Shot on a budget of AU$400,000, it grossed over US$100 million worldwide and set a Guinness World Record for the highest-grossing film. The success of Mad Max has been credited [by whom?] with further opening the global market to Australian New Wave films.
The film became the first in the Mad Max series, which spawned three sequels: Mad Max 2 (1981), Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Fury Road (2015). In 2020, a fifth film, titled Furiosa, was announced.
In a dystopian near-future Australia, facing a breakdown of civil order primarily due to a widespread oil shortage, Crawford “Nightrider” Montazano, a member of a crazed motorcycle gang, kills a rookie officer of the Main Force Patrol (MFP), one of the last remaining law enforcement agencies, and flees with his girlfriend in the dead officer’s Pursuit Special. Nightrider manages to elude the MFP until Max Rockatansky, one of the organization’s top pursuers, manages to distract him and lead him to a roadblock, causing a crash that kills Nightrider and his girlfriend.
At the MFP garage, Max is presented with his new police car: a specially built black Pursuit Special with a supercharged V8 engine. A conversation between Max’s superior, Captain Fred “Fifi” Macaffee, and Police Commissioner Labatouche reveals that the Pursuit Special was authorized to bribe Max, who is growing tired of police work, into staying on the force.
Nightrider’s motorcycle gang, led by Toecutter and Bubba Zanetti, rampages through a town, vandalizing property, stealing fuel, and terrorizing the population. A young couple tries to escape, but the gang destroys their car and rapes them. Max and his colleague Jim “Goose” Rains arrest Toecutter’s young protégé, Johnny the Boy, at the scene. No witnesses appear in court, and Johnny is deemed mentally unfit to stand trial. Despite Goose’s furious objections, he is released into Bubba’s custody. While Goose visits a city nightclub that evening, Johnny sabotages his police motorcycle, causing it to stall at high speed the next day and sending Goose off the road. Stunned but unharmed, Goose borrows a utility vehicle to return his motorcycle to MFP headquarters. On the way, Johnny launches a brake drum through his windshield, and he crashes again. Toecutter tricks, then forces, a reluctant Johnny into throwing a match into the wreckage of the SUV, burning Goose alive.
After seeing Goose’s charred body at the hospital, Max informs Fifi that he is resigning from the MFP to save what remains of his sanity. Fifi convinces him to take some time to think, and Max goes on a road trip in his van with his wife, Jessie, and infant son, “Sprog” (Australian slang for a child). When they stop to fix the spare tire, Jessie takes Sprog for ice cream and is attacked by Toecutter and his gang. She escapes, and the family takes refuge at a remote farmhouse owned by an elderly friend, May Swaisey. The gang follows Jessie and chases her into the woods, and they capture Sprog while Max is out searching for them. May helps Jessie free the boy, and the trio escape in the van, but it soon breaks down. Jessie grabs Sprog and runs down the road until the gang catches up and runs them over. Sprog is killed instantly, while a comatose Jessie is taken to intensive care, where she is expected to succumb to her injuries.
Enraged by the loss of his family, Max dons his police uniform and takes the black Pursuit Special without permission to pursue and eliminate the gang. He kills several gang members before being trapped by Toecutter, Bubba, and Johnny. Bubba shoots Max in the leg and rams his arm before Max can shoot Bubba with a sawed-off shotgun. Toecutter and Johnny flee, and Max staggers to his car and chases Toecutter, pushing him into the path of an approaching tractor-trailer. After a lengthy search, Max finds Johnny stealing a deceased motorist’s boots. Ignoring Johnny’s desperate pleas, who claims he didn’t kill the man and isn’t responsible for what happened to Max’s family due to his diagnosed psychopathy, Max attaches Johnny’s ankle cuffs to the corpse’s overturned vehicle and creates a crude time-delay fuse using spilled petroleum and Johnny’s lighter. He gives Johnny a hacksaw, telling him he can either try sawing through the cuffs, which will take ten minutes, or his ankle, which will take five minutes, to survive. The vehicle explodes as Max drives away.