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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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Is he saying he was a cop before the apocalypse or cop *in* the apocalypse? I also haven't seen the other Mad Max movies, but he says he's a "road warrior," and that seemed like a specific kind of cop w/in that world. Plus, I am completely unsure of the apoc. timeline tbh
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Replying to @moh_in_law @BootlegGirl
He was an actual cop in the pre-apocalyptic world in Mad Max 1, then after civilization collapses he becomes a sort of wandering soldier of fortune ("Road Warrior") in 2 and 3
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @moh_in_law
Well isn’t that the reason for the “half-life” thing and the whole terrible sexual dynamics? That people only live roughly a quarter as long, and maybe half by stealing people’s blood?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
IIRC, the comics suggest that is specific to the war boys/the people Immortan Joe has enslaved, but there are other groups like the Many Mothers or even Immortan et al. who live longer
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Replying to @moh_in_law @arthur_affect
Doesn’t it also imply Max’s blood has special regenerative properties that mean he lives longer than almost anyone else in the Wasteland?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @moh_in_law
Nothing really supernatural happens with the blood transfusions in this movie (George Miller is a former ER doctor and knows how things work) Max's blood is just valuable because he's a generally healthy and uncontaminated person with O negative blood
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Replying to @arthur_affect @moh_in_law
I did not know George Miller was a doctor!
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One of the things that inspired the Mad Max series was him seeing all the truly horrifying injuries coming into the ER from young men "hooning" in the 70s (when auto safety standards were practically nonexistent compared to now)
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And as a young man in that time and place just working through his love/hate relationship with Aussie car culture (which he said was like the equivalent of American gun culture)
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