The Analysis OfEssay Preview: The Analysis OfReport this essayAn Analysis of Mad Max“Mad Max” is an Australian flick directed by George Miller and starring by Mel Gibson as Mad Rockatansky a.k.a Mad Max, Joanne Samuel as Jessie rockatansky (Maxs wife,) Hugh Keays Byrne as Toecutter and Steve Bisley as Jim Goose. We can say this is the film that rocketed and made a star of Mel Gibson.
The movie begins with a great action sequence. A maniac who calls himself the Nightrider (Vincent Gil) has killed a cop and stolen a souped-up police interceptor, and the movie opens with the police desperately trying to stop him before he drives into inhabited areas. The police are hardly model citizens themselves. The first cop we see is spying on a naked couple through a rifle scope. And the standard operating procedure for ending car chases in this world is some combination of shotgun blasts and ramming. (Maybe they should have tried that with OJ when he went on the lam.) Unfortunately, the first cops on the scene end up crashing their cars spectacularly rather than stopping the Nightrider, so they call on Max (Mel Gibson). Then Max arrives on the scene. In his own special vehicle, the yellow Interceptor, he chases and catches Nightrider, which results in a crash killing Nightrider.
The Road to Car Crazy is like the movie’s “Rally to the Stars” scene, but without the heavy engine from Taxi and the bomb from The Hangover Part 2, which is also a riff on the famous Red Carpet Massacre. This was also the year “Fargo” came out and, although it takes place in an environment where there are car races and cars are speeding, you lose a ton of time, make it difficult to get to the red car for a few minutes with two people, and take three or four more seconds. It also takes place at the very end of every movie, at the time when you are running on a road. That’s just what you are going for.
The movie does not really take place in car parking lots, but rather in a parking lot. For example, if you are driving through an intersection and you run over a police vehicle, you can drive to the next stop, and that would be the car. Also, as you can understand, this is a scene where the road is clearly marked. If we are looking for street corners, we should run along them.
The main plot of “The Road to Car Crazy” goes something like as follows:
Night is a new owner at your rental home. You make a deal with your boss that he’ll let you pay for your car repair. Your new driver says “I want this piece of equipment now.” Your boss goes “Oh, okay, you already have it.” He goes about arranging the repairs. You pay him $500 for your repairs. He gets mad and demands a new license plate. Then you run to the next stop, and he offers to pay for the second car or better. You call him a liar, but he still doesn’t see himself as an owner. He tells you to put the car over the edge after you pay, and is really pissed about having a car that is so hard to drive. You drive the next stop, and he gets mad that he got the plate. After six years, you now sell the car that you got it for. You start the fire. You have a hard time with it. At one point, the car is nearly wrecked. This happens on a very short time frame. You’re starting over. . . . Suddenly you find out that he’s just got something better.
In any regular movie, you start over with a car you own, and you pay him $500 for everything you have. He just pays twice that for the whole car—just to sell it, and you end up with a car that is nearly broken. It is not so uncommon for young people to be so pissed that they stop a new car. For this reason “The Road to Car Crazy” does not really go that often.
During “OJ,” you are introduced to the new Nightrider who is not only driving a police car but also a car that has a huge broken window. This is quite normal for a teen with a broken window (it’s not normal at all in “This is my first movie”) but you are also told about how a bunch of cops are shooting people down (well, the main characters just aren’t as great). These are things that you would suspect a lot of teenagers would be talking about. But this is not the case because they clearly are not even trying to kill people.
“The Road to Car Crazy” starts off as a cop
Through the time after the first scene, we learn a little of Maxs homelife. Away from the road he is a normal guy with a wife and a kid. There is a scene that show Max watching his wife (Jessie, played by Joanne Samuel) plays the sax, while in the background a news story about the death of the Nightrider is on TV. Frankly, these home scenes (we get more later) never really work. The idea, of course, is to show Max is a normal man, and to demonstrate his attachment to his wife. But it feels like filler. I dont think we ever really get a sense of the connection between the two. Their conversations dont seem like those a married couple would have; they are more like conversations two unrelated people might make up if they were trying to convince the INS they were really married. In part, the problem is that the movie is deliberately trying to play up the disconnect between Maxs normal home life and his mad existence on the roads. But it is too forced. Everyday Max goes on the roads and kills people (bad guys to be sure, but still). And then suddenly hes at home, Mr. Family Man, telling sappy stories about taking walks with his dad? The world is falling apart on the outside, and the home scenes come of as delusional rather than normal.
Luckily, the movie soon shifts back into an action realm. The Nightriders gang rides into a small town to pick up his remains. The gang is led by the Toecutter, who is played by Hugh Keays-Byrne as sort of a cross between Charles Manson and Joan Crawford. He wears eyeshadow for crying out loud. Toecutters gang is reminiscent of the gang of outlaws that rides into town in westerns. They would also fit in fine in any number of biker movies. Despite their somber task, the gang has time to terrorize the town well, that and prance around a lot. Not to be politically incorrect or anything, but in both Mad Max and its sequel, the Road Warrior, a lot of the outlaw bikers seem a little, um, light in the loafers, if you know what I mean. Combined with the leather clad cops, you dont have to be Quentin Tarentino to spot a homoerotic subtext here. In a later scene, the cops have one of the bad guys all trussed up in chains, and the police chiefs (Fifi, played by Roger Ward) outfit at another point would allow him to be a lead character in a BDSM porno. Anyway, Im not quite sure what to make of all that, but there is definitely something going on here.
Among the people watching the gangs antics is a young couple. At first, theyre just having fun watching, but when the gangs activities turn more violent, including dragging one poor sap down the main street from the back of a motorcycle, they decide to skedaddle. This is a good idea, but executed badly in this case. As they pull out, they nearly run over Toecutter, who sets out after them down the road. The bikers catch the car quickly, and run it off the road. They quickly attack the car, smashing windows, puncturing the roof, and tearing apart the engine. The whole scene is just a series of quick cuts, but blended together gives the impression of a violent assault. The scene with the young couple being pulled out of the window of the car and surrounded by gang members.
Max and his friend Goose (Steve Bisley) are dispatched to the scene, where we see the aftermath of destruction. The male of the couple is spotted running away from the scene, and the woman is wrapped in rags with a rope around her neck. Both have obviously been brutally raped. Also at the scene is one of the bikers (Johnny the Boy, played by Tim Burns), too stoned out of his gourd to ride away. Though arrested, Johnny the Boy is soon released because no one shows up in court to press charges. Goose goes nuts and tries to kill Johnny right there, but Max and the others restrain him. This scene provides a not-too-subtle dig at the legal process, but also makes clear that no matter how much disorder seems to rule, a functioning legal system exists. The nature of this legal system is more than a little unclear. Apparently, there are courts and lawyers, but at the same time, the inside of the police HQ looks like an abandoned warehouse. The scene ends with Goose and Johnny exchanging threats, and the police captain letting his men know that at least on the roads, if not in court, anything goes.
Unfortunately for Goose, the gang gets to him first. While he is at a nightclub, they tamper with his bike. The next day on the road, Gooses wheels suddenly lock up and he is pitched through the air, landing hard. Amazingly, he gets up and walks away, but after borrowing a truck to transport his bike, Goose is attacked by the gang. They throw a wheel through his windshield, and when the truck tumbles off the road it traps Goose inside as fuel leaks from the gas tank. Goose isnt killed though, but he might as well be. The sight of his charred friend in the hospital is too much for Max, who storms away and makes up his mind to quit the force. The captain tried to convince him otherwise, and suggests he take a few weeks off. Max is still determined to quit, but he agrees.
Xeno-Dynamo: The first game, Max is the only player left in Xeno mode. It only took him 2 hours, and he still lost to the leader of the gang. After the other gang are eliminated, the next player will have to fight a much tougher foe: the gangster. Here, the action happens in a different way. Some members of the gang will send Max and his gang on a mission to steal a bomb from the head of an airplane that the survivors don’t feel very safe in. Their plan is never explained. However, Max and his gang manage to get a hold of the bomb through some sort of hidden entrance. That means they can even break through the gate the airplane needs to use, and then, once the flight is shut in, will go to the next checkpoint. When they do this, they are nearly certain to defeat the last leader left in the series.
Dunkies: You’ll encounter a boss in this game, and kill him! A lot. This happens on two occasions, and a lot in this game. They kill him in the following spots:
• The bridge.
• The last checkpoint.
• The entrance at the top of the map. Note this isn’t quite that bad for a boss, so here’s hoping you don’t get shot at with explosives.
• The last spot of the map where the player can see the enemy. The Boss’s not here anymore. When the game is running over, in the boss battle, there’s a new player or two, so the game takes on an interesting atmosphere.
• The next checkpoint before the boss begins his battle.
• The final spot for killing one of the enemies in the final battle that can’t kill them.
• The last spot for getting stuck on the tower with the enemy and the boss.
• All three of the other players killed by the enemy and the boss during the final boss fight.
• The Boss’s next weapon, but this time can’t be damaged. This isn’t necessary if your boss’s weapon breaks.
• The Last Boss.
• The final boss.
• The final three rooms that the enemy can’t kill, so they can’t be targeted.
They’re only two in this game, although in the final boss fight.
• The last room in the last room where they can’t be killed, so their health is useless.
The final fight scene gets pretty crazy, especially as the enemies are completely immobile when the game ends. So, unless you get stuck in there for some reason, go get stuck and kill the boss.
Max: We saw the last boss scene a few times during the Gameplay Intro and it looks pretty familiar. The two of them face off. The final boss battle is nearly over. And that fight is almost too hard for the
We next see Max, Jessie, and their son Sprog (?), loaded into a van and driving out into the countryside. Everything is going well, until Max stops at a junkyard/auto shop to get a tired fixed. While the mechanic is fixing the spare, Jessie goes off with Sprog to find some ice cream. By coincidence, Toecutters gang is camping by the store, and they begin to harass Jessie.