![]() ![]() On the other hand, I just love action movies. By the time I was out of my teens, I’d lost two friends to car accidents. We did not have airbags and safety belts. In Australia we had big long roads and speed. Having been a doctor who worked in emergency, I saw a lot. Did that make you particularly sensitive to safety?įrom Mad Max 1, I was obsessed with safety. You were a doctor before you were a director. With CG it’s very easy to erase those wires. Here, we were able to get our actors on top of speeding vehicles doing their own stunts and harnessed so that, should they fall, they wouldn’t die. They had to walk very carefully-one slip and there was death. When I was a kid I’d watch incredible stuntmen in Westerns fighting on top of a train. ![]() ![]() The biggest thing was just the safety rigs. In countless ways, the technology enabled all the real-world stuff. You used some advanced tools that didn’t exist in 1979 when you made Mad Max, right? But the hot rods and muscle cars not only survive, they become almost fetishized, like religious artifacts.īut you’re no technophobe. For instance, the kind of vehicles we have now, which rely so much on computers, really wouldn’t survive in a postapocalyptic world. Only the artifacts of the present world survive. There, we have a world that has regressed back to almost medieval behavior. All of the catastrophic events we read about in the news-economic collapse, power grids breaking down, wholesale climate change, some nuclear skirmish on the other side of the globe-as of next Wednesday, all of those things will have happened. ![]()
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