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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He is a traffic cop It's an apocalyptic future where being a traffic cop is extremely Serious Business and like being in the military (because the highways have been taken over by gangs that form their own warlord government)
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I mean, that may be the name for it, but functionally it's not like they were modern police.
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Sure, but I mean in the first movie civilization still exists, he's an agent of the government and has a boss and a paycheck and everything
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