Miller really leaned into that idea in Mad Max 2, as the story goes, he edited the film mainly without sound first, then added it in, so he could tell a purely visual story first, and if you keep count, Mel Gibson only has 16 lines of dialogue as Max, but it's one of the best performances I've ever seen, it's all in the expressions. Brilliant filmmaker!
Police pursuit cars on Aussie highways today... candy cars... look inside and you'll see a full roll cage, Recaro style racing seats and full harnesses, alloy everywhere, no rear seats and engines that they dont tell ya about. And then there's the electronics...
Saw this movie at a drive in . It was the first feature. After it ended about half the people started to leave but ended up hot rodding around the outside of the parking area and two cars hit going out the exit at the same time. A fist fight broke out then. All that was missing was leather outfits and crazy hairdos.
I have driven in that town and stood on that same bridge. In over 30 years, that place has changed little to none at all. Very cool to visit and see how cheap the film really was as the locations of most of the road scenes were filmed literally like meters apart.
gutz1981 it's one of those rare movies that made a mountain of money. But $300.000 Australian to make the movie was a huge amount of money back in 79 Cheers.
@@TheGodParticle George even sacrificed one of his own cars when he was running short of money. The Bongo van that Roop and Charlie hit, it was a casualty of the movie , not something originally intended to be destroyed
@@paultrappiel9943 Clunes was one of the locations. It was the setting for the town scenes, such as when they picked up the Night Rider's coffin, and terrorised the locals
02:04 I bet that hit against the backhead wasn't planned and I'm pretty sure the stuntman received some injuries to the neck but keeping it in the movie is just perfect.
@Allstahr No, he didnt. he survived just fine, and is still around today. that was a professional stuntman that was in that scene. there was a Gang as you mentioned, but they were only used in scenes not requiring stunt work.
Plus you can also see that that is not Max's (Mel Gibson's) leather jacket. It is in fact Jim Gooses leather jacket as it has elbow pads on it. I think it is Byron Kennedy doing the insert shots wearing Gooses jacket as you can see the same elbow pads as Max sets up the fuel bomb to kill Johnny the Boy.
Plus you can also see that that is not Max's (Mel Gibson's) leather jacket. It is in fact Jim Gooses leather jacket as it has elbow pads on it. I think it is Byron Kennedy doing the insert shots wearing Gooses jacket as you can see the same elbow pads as Max sets up the fuel bomb to kill Johnny the Boy.
David Bracks was the original pole cat hitching a ride on the tanker.He is also the guy getting dragged behind the bike while lying on his back through the town.A genuine Aussie hard arse.....Legend
steve green no they didnt what Dale (the stuntman) did was make a classic mistake when you fall off a bike you are suppose to let go of the bike..but what dale did was keep hold and what happens is the bike grabs the ground and the force throws you over putting you in front of the bike... very dangerous position to be in..as we see.
steve green no worries mate..yes luckily he was fine..sore.. but fine..what makes it more hurtful to watch is the slow motion that's what sold it more..
Amazing & groundbreaking stunt work. George Miller often used the same guys throughout his Max films. I forget his name-he was in MM2/The Road Warrior and Fury Road (his last gig before retirement). Anyway, he was one of Humungous’s bikers. He did the forward flips in one of the bike crashes in The Road Warrior. He actually gets his legs clipped which was obviously unplanned. That must have hurt like hell too. They mention the stunt in the Fury Road extras. The beauty of the Max films is that it is mostly practical effects and real stunts, and not just a bunch of special effects and CGI.
"Vehicular manslaughter" implies nobody intended for anyone to get hurt. The plot of the movie implied that everyone blown up, scorched, crashed and/or otherwise injured, someone intended for them to get killed
Wow... the thing about that first film and the thing that made it great was.... it was so close to the realities of the day. We did have those bikes, and we did have those cars, the land really is like that... and the whole film just pushed a few of those aspects over the top. The best sci-fi takes normality and just gives it a little twist where you have to suspend belief... this film is a true classic.
It was a perfect score, but not what I would have expected looking back, seems like the sort of movie that might have had a bit of rock music to accompany it.
@@michaelbechtel4944 Yeah, I want to say that the car seen in this clip actually survives to this day and it was a second car built for the sequel that was destroyed. At least according to a documentary which I currently can't locate at the moment. XD
That car is in USA now , it was a spare car for crash scene that went off cliff , now on RUclips you will see 2nd crash car it was kept for many years crushed twisted wreck but on the RUclips clip you see it rebuilt and the exact car used in fury road then converted to the bare metal twin blower in film. Filming now in Australia 🇦🇺 for the new Mad Max , I've heard release date could be 2023. Been filming easy 12 months.. Cheers from OZ
Swap fuel tanker with hand sanitizer tanker and you've got 2020 in a nutshell lol 😂 Also that front end on Max's interceptor still looks bad ass as does the car all these years later 🙂
I was in the Forces at the time and I was one of a pack of bikers. We had a camp cinema so we all piled in there to see this as soon as it came out. Of course then after seeing that we were all 'OUTLAWS' and the cops were 'the bronze'!! I dont give a toss if the film was cheap it was EPIC at the time and launched an unknown actor called MEL GIBSON to MASSIVE stardom!!
Damm I miss real movies. You know? Like blowing up actual cars and where the actors take real motorcycle spills and vehicles landing on them. CG effects ruined all of that.
@@seanyuke3249 He's all good: In the original Mad Max from 1979 there is a notorious scene in which a group of bikers get into an accident and one is hit in the head by one of the rolling bikes. The biker in question is Dale Bensch who was also a member of the outlaw motorcycle club "The Vigilantes" whose members starred as some of Toecutters gang. It was rumoured for many years due to the realism of many of the scenes that the stuntman had actually died. “There’s an urban myth that a stuntman was killed, and that was me,” Bensch clarifies. “The scariest thing was dropping the bike on that bridge. They took the speedo and tach off because they didn’t want to damage more than they had to. They wet the surface to make it easier, but I hung onto the bike too long and it flipped me over with it; that’s why it looked bad. But it’s a famous scene, so it worked out all right!”
When VCRs were first affordable, I rented this. But it had the American accents. Once I was able to get the movie with the Aussie accents, the entire movie was much more enjoyable and authentic.
Max's "Interceptor" was one of my first automotive "Heroes"....I remember being so very disappointed when my Dad's mechanic friend told me that you can't really switch a "Roots" blower on and off like that.
Unfortunately in the USA MFP is an acronym commonly used by Crest toothpaste for multi fluoride protection. But why not have your teeth and roads protected by MFP at the same time.
This was not scripted. Bike wheel to the back of the helmet was an accident. Obviously it was included in the final film because it looked nasty. The stunt man was not hurt.
There’s an urban myth that a stuntman was killed, and that was me,” Bensch clarifies. “The scariest thing was dropping the bike on that bridge. They took the speedo and tach off because they didn’t want to damage more than they had to. They wet the surface to make it easier, but I hung onto the bike too long and it flipped me over with it; that’s why it looked bad. But it’s a famous scene, so it worked out all right!”
Well, that big smack that the stunt man takes on the back of the head by a front wheel looks solid enough. That guy would have been pretty sore for a while.
Favorite part is lifting up on red super charger switch, then the pulse of power & faster speed. But also like the attitude, ok, you want to go head to head with a car - fine!
A good reason for it: When the first movie was set, it was still meant to be relatively "civilised," in other words, very much pre- WW III. Country Victoria, where much of the film locations were, is pretty green most of the time, save for if it's a really long, dry summer. Although as anyone that has lived in the state of Victoria will tell you, the weather around there doesn't tend to stick to the seasons. All the movies in the franchise after this one are set after WW III happens, so is therefore meant to be a desolate wasteland. Much of Mad Max II was shot around a NSW town called Silverton, New South Wales, which looks a lot more like the arid Outback climate that resembles a desolate wasteland
Ouu man...i was 9 years old when this movie came out! It was no.1 thing that year,and if you didnt watch this, you weren't matter among friends 🤣🤣 movie theatres were full,you couldnt get ticket for it in first few days when this movies came to town.
After this scene and my science project at the goat with their clutch drive superchargers, catapulted me to being a gear head. Being told clutch driven supercharged like this in the movies were fake was downright traumatizing. Still looks bada$$ to this day.
You know what’s great about this scene? Not a single word a was spoken yet you were still being told a story
Miller really leaned into that idea in Mad Max 2, as the story goes, he edited the film mainly without sound first, then added it in, so he could tell a purely visual story first, and if you keep count, Mel Gibson only has 16 lines of dialogue as Max, but it's one of the best performances I've ever seen, it's all in the expressions. Brilliant filmmaker!
@@horrorfanandy4647 Sometimes the best words, are never spoken.
That car was and still is a legend 💪🏽
It's a Ford, right?
@@paulh7589 Australian Ford Falcon XB GT😎
Man i love this car
@@paulh7589 No man it's a Mercedes W12E performance.
Police pursuit cars on Aussie highways today... candy cars... look inside and you'll see a full roll cage, Recaro style racing seats and full harnesses, alloy everywhere, no rear seats and engines that they dont tell ya about. And then there's the electronics...
This never gets old. True classic.
Saw this movie at a drive in . It was the first feature. After it ended about half the people started to leave but ended up hot rodding around the outside of the parking area and two cars hit going out the exit at the same time. A fist fight broke out then. All that was missing was leather outfits and crazy hairdos.
-Similar incident @ original fast and furious drive in
And of course yellow police Fords and Pursuit Special Interceptor V8
same thing after Smokey and the Bandit was over ... lol
Life imitates art
Soo… are you saying that movies promote violence?😊
I have driven in that town and stood on that same bridge. In over 30 years, that place has changed little to none at all. Very cool to visit and see how cheap the film really was as the locations of most of the road scenes were filmed literally like meters apart.
gutz1981 it's one of those rare movies that made a mountain of money. But $300.000 Australian to make the movie was a huge amount of money back in 79 Cheers.
@@TheGodParticle George even sacrificed one of his own cars when he was running short of money. The Bongo van that Roop and Charlie hit, it was a casualty of the movie
, not something originally intended to be destroyed
Which town is it?
Looks like Moloort Plains. Between Ballarat and Clunes.
@@paultrappiel9943 Clunes was one of the locations. It was the setting for the town scenes, such as when they picked up the Night Rider's coffin, and terrorised the locals
02:04 I bet that hit against the backhead wasn't planned and I'm pretty sure the stuntman received some injuries to the neck but keeping it in the movie is just perfect.
Yeah, I hope he was alright.
He survived, but you'd think that would've been the end of him.
He survived and got a case of beer as his reward!
@Allstahr No, he didnt. he survived just fine, and is still around today. that was a professional stuntman that was in that scene. there was a Gang as you mentioned, but they were only used in scenes not requiring stunt work.
Well spotted
Revenge is a dish best served on asphalt
it's their own asphalt !
Revenge is best served at the working end of a shotgun.
I'm gonna use that line when I play the game now 😎🤜🤛
@@Jagger-Tyr_13 🤘Sweet!!
One hell of a tagline. 😎👍
I love how Max just rolls out. He's got all the time in the world.
I love the scene when Mad turns around , and the music score intensifies.
At 1:39 if you pause at the right moment, you can see the picture of Max's wife and child in the center of the steering wheel.
Good catch!
I wasn't the first to notice hit, I read about it elsewhere.
Saw that one 30 years ago back when we had Beta video.
Plus you can also see that that is not Max's (Mel Gibson's) leather jacket. It is in fact Jim Gooses leather jacket as it has elbow pads on it. I think it is Byron Kennedy doing the insert shots wearing Gooses jacket as you can see the same elbow pads as Max sets up the fuel bomb to kill Johnny the Boy.
Plus you can also see that that is not Max's (Mel Gibson's) leather jacket. It is in fact Jim Gooses leather jacket as it has elbow pads on it. I think it is Byron Kennedy doing the insert shots wearing Gooses jacket as you can see the same elbow pads as Max sets up the fuel bomb to kill Johnny the Boy.
David Bracks was the original pole cat hitching a ride on the tanker.He is also the guy getting dragged behind the bike while lying on his back through the town.A genuine Aussie hard arse.....Legend
I didnt know you Kiwi's knew what hard was lol.
Doesn't get any better than this for stunt work.. not many things make me wince but that kwaka hitting the guys head... unbelievable
thay didnt plan that whacking the back of his helmet !! he must have felt that !!
steve green no they didnt what Dale (the stuntman) did was make a classic mistake when you fall off a bike you are suppose to let go of the bike..but what dale did was keep hold and what happens is the bike grabs the ground and the force throws you over putting you in front of the bike... very dangerous position to be in..as we see.
interesting. thanks for the reply, was he alright after ?
steve green no worries mate..yes luckily he was fine..sore.. but fine..what makes it more hurtful to watch is the slow motion that's what sold it more..
Amazing & groundbreaking stunt work. George Miller often used the same guys throughout his Max films. I forget his name-he was in MM2/The Road Warrior and Fury Road (his last gig before retirement). Anyway, he was one of Humungous’s bikers. He did the forward flips in one of the bike crashes in The Road Warrior. He actually gets his legs clipped which was obviously unplanned. That must have hurt like hell too. They mention the stunt in the Fury Road extras. The beauty of the Max films is that it is mostly practical effects and real stunts, and not just a bunch of special effects and CGI.
These films gave a whole new meaning to the term "vehicular manslaughter."
Mad Max is what you get when a state fails.
"Vehicular manslaughter" implies nobody intended for anyone to get hurt. The plot of the movie implied that everyone blown up, scorched, crashed and/or otherwise injured, someone intended for them to get killed
Wow... the thing about that first film and the thing that made it great was.... it was so close to the realities of the day. We did have those bikes, and we did have those cars, the land really is like that... and the whole film just pushed a few of those aspects over the top. The best sci-fi takes normality and just gives it a little twist where you have to suspend belief... this film is a true classic.
This is one of the greatest movies that Australia has ever produced what made the world think over what a great movie .
At :37 seconds when the MFP music queues as the Last V8 Interceptor comes in to view, you know shit's about to get real!
The musical score by Brian May is what makes an already gripping movie just grab you by the throat to help you hang on for dear life!
Couldnt have been said more perfectly than this!
It was a perfect score, but not what I would have expected looking back, seems like the sort of movie that might have had a bit of rock music to accompany it.
Not Brian May of Queen. This Brian May was Australian and died way back in 1997
Would have to be one of the best motorcycle stunts I have seen .
Really pissed me off when they wrecked that car in the second movie 🤬
Yes for sure however about 8 yrs ago there was a car show in Portland Oregon and there was an original car there from the movie it was very cool
@@michaelbechtel4944 Yeah, I want to say that the car seen in this clip actually survives to this day and it was a second car built for the sequel that was destroyed. At least according to a documentary which I currently can't locate at the moment. XD
YES! One of the most Bad Ass Machines in cinematic history! Probably take you as fast as you’d ever wanna go!
That car is in USA now , it was a spare car for crash scene that went off cliff , now on RUclips you will see 2nd crash car it was kept for many years crushed twisted wreck but on the RUclips clip you see it rebuilt and the exact car used in fury road then converted to the bare metal twin blower in film.
Filming now in Australia 🇦🇺 for the new Mad Max , I've heard release date could be 2023. Been filming easy 12 months..
Cheers from OZ
Swap fuel tanker with hand sanitizer tanker and you've got 2020 in a nutshell lol 😂
Also that front end on Max's interceptor still looks bad ass as does the car all these years later 🙂
I'm not even super into cars or have any knowledge. Still my favorite fucking car in a movie 😁
Acceleration rate is pretty damn cool too.
@@Jagger-Tyr_13 my favourite is the BTTF version of the Delorean, but the Interceptor is a close second for me
Swap fuel tanker with semi loaded with dunny paper and you've got 2019 in a nutshell.
lmao...and still in 2022 as well.
The music..a trumpet! Saw this in the movie theatre. It WAS the movie to see! Great stunts.....compelling story.
Back then when they did real stunts versus the crap CG that we have now.
i know this is old now but check out Fury Road special features The psychos who made it really did the stunts old school
that guy at the end took a bike to the back of the head like a champ.
@@BudleyBailey I wouldn't say a champ. According to Gibson, the poor bastard bled out of his ears after that.
True....
@@BudleyBailey I was about to say that stunt guy probably ended up in the hospital after that one. Ouch.
One of my favorite movies. I watch it to this day.
From 0:46 to 0:58 I love the sound of those Kawasaki’s. The stuntmen had the most fun on this movie.
I was in the Forces at the time and I was one of a pack of bikers. We had a camp cinema so we all piled in there to see this as soon as it came out. Of course then after seeing that we were all 'OUTLAWS' and the cops were 'the bronze'!! I dont give a toss if the film was cheap it was EPIC at the time and launched an unknown actor called MEL GIBSON to MASSIVE stardom!!
Love how in last 20 minutes of the movie max is doing speedrun on the antagonists....and also literally speedrunning them
Absolute masterpiece
"Come and visit sunny and beautiful Australia"
id love to but your country is sooooo far
@@tarikdtarik9067 and now with Covid you Aussies won't let us in, can't say I blame ya though.
@@ggj666 Even the overseas Aussies can't come back home now. This has gone way too far if I dare say.
Damm I miss real movies. You know? Like blowing up actual cars and where the actors take real motorcycle spills and vehicles landing on them. CG effects ruined all of that.
Very true
fury road was badass with great stunts. George Miller still has the passion.
2:03 the importance of a good helmet.
One of my most fav movies & 1st movie I ever watched on Cable TV
love the mowed grass along this post apocalyptic road LOL
I remember when the Ford Mustang SVO came out. The front end instantly reminded me of THIS beast.
Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!
2:03 Are going to just ignore the fact a stuntman took a motorcycle wheel to the back of the neck here?
I was told he actually died.
@@seanyuke3249 He's all good:
In the original Mad Max from 1979 there is a notorious scene in which a group of bikers get into an accident and one is hit in the head by one of the rolling bikes. The biker in question is Dale Bensch who was also a member of the outlaw motorcycle club "The Vigilantes" whose members starred as some of Toecutters gang.
It was rumoured for many years due to the realism of many of the scenes that the stuntman had actually died.
“There’s an urban myth that a stuntman was killed, and that was me,” Bensch clarifies. “The scariest thing was dropping the bike on that bridge. They took the speedo and tach off because they didn’t want to damage more than they had to. They wet the surface to make it easier, but I hung onto the bike too long and it flipped me over with it; that’s why it looked bad. But it’s a famous scene, so it worked out all right!”
@@macross25 Amazing story! Glad he's alright!
Yeah
The sound of those bikes is a orchestra and then the stealth bomber approaches.
They didn't expect that U-Turn LOL
At 1:00 it is one of only two times the blower pully was screwed on back to front. Kinda like was see it in Mad Max 2.
LEGENDS NEVER DIE🙏
I love this scene..and the ending chase with max and toecutter ...iam a true mad max fan
Great movie.
Max's car is great.
I wonder how a 2nd interceptor in silver would have looked.
The original Fast and the Furious. One of my all time favorite flicks along w/the sequel, The Road Warrior!
Happy 60th Birthday Mel :)
The best actor to have lived but hew he is a real Aussie.
Specialized 29er he not Aussie. he was born in USA moved to Australia when he was 11
63 right now I think
64 now
One of the best film franchises going.
When VCRs were first affordable, I rented this. But it had the American accents. Once I was able to get the movie with the Aussie accents, the entire movie was much more enjoyable and authentic.
Max's "Interceptor" was one of my first automotive "Heroes"....I remember being so very disappointed when my Dad's mechanic friend told me that you can't really switch a "Roots" blower on and off like that.
Those stuntmen took some concussion level hits on that bridge!
Masterpiece & Evergreen 💪😘👍
Unfortunately in the USA MFP is an acronym commonly used by Crest toothpaste for multi fluoride protection. But why not have your teeth and roads protected by MFP at the same time.
Better than CHIPS.
MPF = Metro Force Police
0:56 coming in like a shark
Scrateshooter i
2:03 Not one comment on this insane stunt!!!
This was not scripted. Bike wheel to the back of the helmet was an accident. Obviously it was included in the final film because it looked nasty. The stunt man was not hurt.
Such frank and cordial relationship betwen bikers and car driver
2:04 Concussion ahoy
apparently the stuntman walked away completely unharmed
What a headache, lol
that guy broke his legs, other than that he was fine
No biggie.
That stunt man actually died in that scene of a broken neck.
Now that gas is $5/gal, these movies hit a little closer to home.
One of my all time favourites. Such a great movie and the Falcon....drool!
There’s an urban myth that a stuntman was killed, and that was me,” Bensch clarifies. “The scariest thing was dropping the bike on that bridge. They took the speedo and tach off because they didn’t want to damage more than they had to. They wet the surface to make it easier, but I hung onto the bike too long and it flipped me over with it; that’s why it looked bad. But it’s a famous scene, so it worked out all right!”
Well, that big smack that the stunt man takes on the back of the head by a front wheel looks solid enough. That guy would have been pretty sore for a while.
They removed the side rails off the bridge so they could go over the side.
no CGI makes a better movie
Anyone else notice the switch for the blower is in front of the stick here but behind the stick in MadMax2?
Who cares? It's just theatrical. You don't have a switch for a supercharger irl.
While I was kinda hoping for more of a fist fight, seeing them being killed the same way as Jessie and the baby did will do just fine
Best scene ever!!!
Phenomenonal vehicle...the nitro boost completely removed all the trees on both sides of the road!
Some heavy duty stunts in those scenes , no CGI to make it look easy .
Este filme do mad Max é um dos mais top de todos
Excellent film d'une autre époque !!!!!
To which Max said, "This is how we do it"!!!
" Literally the best way to rid the streets of a crazy biker gang "
Too bad mad max did not become bigger than the road warrior but v8 chase scenes was one of best from all mad max
Está película.es una de las profecías...
That road is a housing estate now. And a lot wider. Sadly.
He sure did get his payback! 4 down 3 more to go, Johnny the boy, Bubba, & Toe Cutter! Max is Awesome right here!
I got a pair of Alpinestar hi point boots because of this movie. They saved my leg once in a bike wreck in 2021
The camera sequence from 1.48 is so good, too bad about the weather changing every second shot.
Favorite part is lifting up on red super charger switch, then the pulse of power & faster speed. But also like the attitude, ok, you want to go head to head with a car - fine!
Never get tired of that Screaming 351 Cleveland!
Who knows what kind of Hell the Interceptor went through between the first and second films? Almost didn't even seem like the same car.
Stunt man didn't count on his head getting whacked by the motercycle.
That was a bonus alright.
the v8 brings the best futuristic chase scenes !
anyone noticed that max's sawn off 12 gauge isnt a sawn off , its smooth and varnished
Trench gun?
This is one of those action films that have some pretty great clean camera editing honestly.
Sweet ride.
The tanker scene looks like real life to me
Max, the Lord of the road
like that old COE IHC TranStar big rig baby!!
Epic movie 👍
If you look at the thumbnail image for this video, it looks like crazy Mel Gibson is smoking the blower on his engine via the windshield wiper.
Loved this car so much the only car I could find with a similar body style was a AMC JAVELIN, so I bought one.
Mad max 👋
Oh that poor stuntman catching the other bikes forks/wheel in the head there at the end had to hurt IRL.... ouch.
Great movie. 😊👍
Show ! Great !!! Wonderfull
I love how green it is compared to Fury Road.
A good reason for it: When the first movie was set, it was still meant to be relatively "civilised," in other words, very much pre- WW III. Country Victoria, where much of the film locations were, is pretty green most of the time, save for if it's a really long, dry summer. Although as anyone that has lived in the state of Victoria will tell you, the weather around there doesn't tend to stick to the seasons.
All the movies in the franchise after this one are set after WW III happens, so is therefore meant to be a desolate wasteland. Much of Mad Max II was shot around a NSW town called Silverton, New South Wales, which looks a lot more like the arid Outback climate that resembles a desolate wasteland
Ouu man...i was 9 years old when this movie came out! It was no.1 thing that year,and if you didnt watch this, you weren't matter among friends 🤣🤣 movie theatres were full,you couldnt get ticket for it in first few days when this movies came to town.
In the usa?was it the dubbed version?
the dark one...
After this scene and my science project at the goat with their clutch drive superchargers, catapulted me to being a gear head. Being told clutch driven supercharged like this in the movies were fake was downright traumatizing. Still looks bada$$ to this day.
As matter of fact , Australia produces the best films since 1980.
I saw this movie at the drive in when I was a kid
Very realistic very much fun great actor 😜
melhor filme de carros e motos de todos os tempos!
That car is a beast!! }:)