I rewatched (part of) Fury Road with some friends online yesterday and something that was really jarring, not having seen the old Mad Max movies, and not just because of the current *gestures*, is Max opening by saying he was a cop before the apocalypse.
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Hence this hyperbolic nonsense about how the roads between the cities have become ruled by bandit gangs akin to the legendary outlaws of old because the central government is crumbling etc etc
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It's funny because it's an exaggeration of an actual moral panic in Australia, of "hoon gangs" and "hooning" (a criminal underworld based on driving recklessly in fast cars that was supposedly taking over youth culture)
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