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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It's just that nothing Max does in Fury Road reads like the way even a hypothetical "good cop" thinks or behaved. And his skills (of blood rage and being surprisingly cooperative with battered women) are not cop things either.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I always had the impression that Max in the original film was a "cop" in the same way that like a western uses "sheriff" and not like modern law enforcement.
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Nah he was an actual cop, he was in the AFP (Australian Federal Police, like the FBI in the US) In their fictional future just before civilization collapses for good, the cities and suburbs are hanging on by a thread, with the militarized highway patrol being Serious Business
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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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