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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Like I think it mattered more in one of the previous films, from what I've heard, but it seems really weird in the contemporary version of both fictional and real apocalypses. It's not even so much the morality thing, since apocalypse heroes usually have dark pasts.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
The first Mad Max is a weird animal because it takes place when the apocalypse is clearly about to happen but hasn’t happened yet.
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Which makes for an odd contrast when in the second film there’s armed militants defending an oil tanker while in the first Max and the wife and kid make a family stop for ice cream.
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The vaguely "apocalyptic" setting of Mad Max 1 is really just them wanting to film in the actual real life blasted wilderness outside the big cities but needing to have some kind of justification for why Max would be spending all his time out there
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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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Anyway when Miller got a real budget he was able to switch from the whole realistic-setting-interspersed-with-extreme-violence "pre-apocalyptic" aesthetic to the completely gonzo world we all know and love from The Road Warrior
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I think that’s the reason the ideal Mad Max viewing order is 2 first, then 1, then 3, then 4.
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Replying to @DallinAgatone @BootlegGirl
I'm usually a stickler for watching movies in the order they're made but yeah Mad Max 1 is pretty skippable if you're not a completionist
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If you tell people to watch that one first you'll scare people away just based on production values (and the barely intelligible to Americans authentic accents)
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