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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The timeline is intentionally vague, with each new movie implying that it's just another in a series of exaggerated legends in the loose oral history of the wastelands
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Like it's a huge part of Max's original canon storyline that he's from the Old World and he lost his faith that the world could be saved after he saw his family die But given how far in the past the apocalypse seems to be in Fury Road it doesn't seem possible he's that old
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Mad Max 1 always read as mid apocalypse rather than pre apocalypse to me. 2 is post civilization collapse, but 1 is still a world irreversibly sliding down the drain. He remembers the old world, but we never see him in it, so there's flexibility on his age there.
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FWIW, I just looked up Hardy’s age. He’s 41 now, which means he was 37 or 36 when the movie came out, which is a stretch for having a family before the apocalypse, but you can do a lot with makeup. If we give him a ten year edge either way it could work
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