Mad Max – An Australian Cult Classic

It was an exploitation flick, full stop. R-rated films had been introduced to Australian audiences in the early 70s, and native filmmakers spent the next decade using the new rating to push the boundaries of sex, violence and general mayhem on the big screen. But here was the thing: Mad Max became more than an exploitation film; it became a hit.

You all know what came after: Fury Road , a semi-reboot still directed by Miller that everyone loved including me and that won six Oscars just a week or so back. I am the chosen one! However, four days into shooting, Rosie Bailey, who was originally cast as Max's wife, was injured in a bike accident.

Production was halted, and Bailey was replaced by Joanne Samuel, causing a two-week delay. In the end, the shoot took six weeks over November and December , with a further six-week second unit.

The unit reconvened two months later, in May , and spent another two weeks doing second unit shots and re-staging some stunts. Still, as filming progressed the Victoria Police became interested in the production, helping the crew by closing down roads and escorting the vehicles. Shooting took place in and around Melbourne.

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Many of the car chase scenes for Mad Max were filmed near the town of Little River , northeast of Geelong. The early town scenes with the Toe Cutter Gang were filmed in the main street of Clunes , north of Ballarat. Much of the streetscape remains unchanged. Some scenes were filmed at Tin City at Stockton Beach.

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Mad Max was one of the first Australian films to be shot with a widescreen anamorphic lens, [8] although Peter Weir 's The Cars That Ate Paris was shot in anamorphic four years earlier. The only one which worked properly was a 35mm lens which was employed in the whole of Mad Max. The film's post-production was done at a friend's apartment in North Melbourne, with Wilson and Kennedy editing the film in the small lounge room on a home-built editing machine that Kennedy's father, an engineer, had designed for them.

Wilson and Kennedy also performed sound editing there. Tony Patterson edited the film for four months, then had to leave because he was contracted to make Dimboola George Miller took over editing with Cliff Hayes, and they worked on it for three months. The musical score for Mad Max was composed and conducted by Australian composer Brian May not to be confused with the guitarist of the English rock band Queen. Miller wanted a Gothic, Bernard Herrmann —type score and hired May after hearing his work for Patrick It was later shown in New Zealand in after the success of the sequel, with an 18 certificate.

When shown in the United States during , the original Australian dialogue was redubbed by an American crew.

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AIP also altered the operator's duty call on Jim Goose's bike in the beginning of the film it ended with "Come on, Goose, where are you? The only dubbing exceptions were the voice of the singer in the Sugartown Cabaret played by Robina Chaffey , the voice of Charlie played by John Ley through the mechanical voice box, and Officer Jim Goose Steve Bisley , singing as he drives a truck before being ambushed. Since Mel Gibson was not well known to American audiences at the time, trailers and television spots in the United States emphasised the film's action content.

The original Australian dialogue track was finally released in North America in in a limited theatrical reissue by MGM , the film's current rights holders. Upon its release, the film polarized critics.

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In a review, the Australian social commentator and film producer Phillip Adams condemned Mad Max , saying that it had "all the emotional uplift of Mein Kampf " and would be "a special favourite of rapists, sadists, child murderers and incipient [Charles] Mansons ". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Mad Max disambiguation. Australian theatrical release poster. Some of this section's listed sources may not be reliable. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources.

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