Someone sent this to me. I thought it was pretty cool.
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I watched Mad Max for the first time the other day. I was surprised that the world wasn’t a post-apocalyptic hellscape yet.
There's a tiny hint something devastating has happened because there's a warning about radiation sign at one point in the movie. It was done as an excuse for why there are so few cars on the road. Lots of people are dead.
The Road Warrior explains the history of what happened in the intro, but also since it was told by someone who would have only heard it second-hand, it could be wrong.
There's definitely something to the idea that the Mad Max films are folktales rather than something coherent. There are deliberate continuity errors between Fury Road and Furiosa (for example, one of Immortan Joe's sons is different and the History Man in Fury Road is a woman.)
Edit: I guess it wasn't a radiation sign, but it was certainly an implication that something really bad happened in Australia.
My favorite interpretation of Mad Max is kinda the direction Overwatch took it which is basically "Oh yeah, everyone else is fine, it's just Australia that became a weird apocalyptic hellscape"
That's just Tuesday in Australia, really.
I had a HQ panel van twenty-something years ago, and I miss it now. My parents had an XB GT when I was young which is the base vehicle for the V8 interceptor in the movie, they were iconic Australian muscle cars of the time.
The ending of Furiosa really enhances the notion that these are folk tales. They describe but also film multiple depictions of the fate of one of the main characters, as if different tellings of the story give a different ending.