Mad Max

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Movie
German title Mad Max
Original title Mad Max
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Country of production Australia
original language English
Publishing year 1979
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director George Miller
script James McCausland ,
George Miller
production Byron Kennedy
music Brian May
camera David Eggby
cut Tony Paterson ,
Cliff Hayes
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
Mad Max II - The Executor

Interceptor, Ford Falcon XB Sedan from 1972 one of the original vehicles used in the shooting

Mad Max is an Australian action film from the year 1979 . The film, directed by George Miller , was released in German cinemas on February 29, 1980. The action is set in an unspecified future in Australia , the focus of which is the conflict between a rocker gang and the policeman Max Rockatansky, the murder of his wife and son and his campaign for revenge. The film, which was shot on a shoestring budget, was internationally successful, and three more films about Max Rockatansky were made: Mad Max II - The Executor , Mad Max - Beyond the Thunder Dome and Mad Max: Fury Road .

action

The film is set in Australia in an unspecified near future. Motorized gangs rule the streets, murders and raids on the streets are the order of the day. The police (MFP - Main Force Patrol), no less brutal, are waging an almost hopeless war against marauders and rocker gangs. When Nightrider, the notorious head of hell jockeys, breaks out of prison and leaves a trail of devastation on his escape in a stolen V8 police vehicle, policeman Max Rockatansky sets out in pursuit. Eventually, Nightrider dies in a chase with Rockatansky.

Members of the hell jockeys want to confront the alleged murderer of the gang leader. They are led by the brutal toecutter. They first pick up Nightrider's body from the train station in a small town, then marauding through the town. After attacking a couple and destroying their car, they leave, leaving gang member Johnny, a scion of a middle-class family, on a drug frenzy and being arrested by Max and Goose. After a lawsuit, however, he is acquitted and swears revenge.

Toecutter asks his henchman Johnny, Max's friend Goose, to burn after a provoked accident. Johnny refuses, but is pressured by Toecutter until a burning match falls out of his hand and the spilled gasoline sets the accident vehicle on fire with the Goose trapped in it. When Max sees the horribly disfigured Goose in the hospital, he wants to quit his job. Police chief Fifi Macaffee tries to persuade Max to stay with the police. Max goes on a longer vacation and leaves town with his wife Jessie and their son. By chance at a workshop stop, Jessie meets the hell jockeys who harass her and, after she kicks the leader in the testicles , pursues them. Gang member Cundalini also loses his hand during the escape. The rockers attack the family on the farm where Max and his family want to go on vacation and take the son into their power, while Max searches for the attackers in the nearby forest. With the help of the farmer's wife, Jessie succeeds in freeing her son and escaping by car. After the vehicle stops with an engine failure and Jessie flees from the approaching rockers on foot with her son in her arms, she is run over and the son is killed, the woman survives seriously injured.

To get revenge, Max steals a souped-up 440 kW (598 hp) V8 (a converted Ford Falcon XB GT Coupé) from the police and uses it to search for the murderers. He can push some of the rockers off a bridge. In the further chase he is ambushed by Toecutter and his closest confidante Johnny and Bubba; while Max approaches Johnny, who is playing dead after a supposed motorcycle accident, Bubba shoots Max in the leg. Max is on the ground and Bubba drives the motorcycle over his arm as he tries to reach for his gun. When Bubba then makes another attempt to run over Max, the latter can crawl to his sawed-off shotgun shortly before the collision and shoot Bubba with it. Toecutter and Johnny then flee. Max continues to follow her. Toecutter dies while in pursuit in a head-on collision with an oncoming truck. Then Max finds Johnny with a vehicle that has been involved in an accident when it is about to steal the dead driver's boots. Max handcuffed Johnny's ankles to the vehicle that had been involved in the accident and was leaking petrol. Then he improvises a time fuse with a lighter that will detonate the vehicle in about five minutes. He throws a saw at Johnny, stating that it would take at least ten minutes to saw through the handcuff chain, but that if Johnny is lucky, he could sever his foot in just five minutes. Johnny begs Max in vain to loosen the handcuffs and let him go, but Max leaves him and gets into his car without a word. In the last scene you see Max driving away while the car that has been involved in the accident explodes behind him.

synchronization

role actor German speaker
Max Rockatansky Mel Gibson Elmar Wepper
Jessie Rockatansky Joanne Samuel Eva Kinsky
Toecutter Hugh Keays-Byrne Willi Röbke
Jim Goose Steve Bisley Leon Rainer
Johnny Tim Burns Pierre Franckh
Fifi Macaffee Roger Ward Herbert Weicker
Night rider Vincent Gil Gernot Duda
Bubba Zanetti Geoff Parry Peter Ehret
Barry David Cameron Horst Sachtleben
Grease advice Nick Lathouris
Junior Doctor Phil Motherwell Tonio von der Meden
May Swaisey Sheila Florence Alice Franz
Officer Charlie John Ley Ulf-Jürgen Wagner
Roop Steve Millichamp Michael Gahr
Station master Reg Evans Leo Bardischewski
Ziggy Jerry Day Donald Arthur

background

Mad Max was implemented on a very small budget, so that director George Miller used his own trailer for the chase at the beginning of the film because there was no more money. At the end of production, the black V8 Pursuit Special should be sold; however, it was kept for Mad Max II after the success . The motorcyclists seen in many scenes were played by members of local motorcycle clubs , including the Vigilantes MC and the Barbarians from Melbourne .

The indexing was canceled prematurely on March 31, 2015 (list deletion due to the same content in accordance with Section 24 (2) in conjunction with Section 21 (5) No. 2 of the Youth Protection Act ). Thereupon it was submitted to the FSK again for examination and received full approval from the age of 16.

Toecutter actor Hugh Keays-Byrne plays the antagonist Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road .

music

The music comes from the Australian film composer Brian May. George Miller asked for music that should be in the style of Bernard Herrmann . The use of the saxophone in connection with the love theme was also important for the dramaturgy (Max's wife Jessie plays an alto saxophone in one scene ). May's composition won the Australian Film Institute's Best Film Music award . An excerpt of his music (almost 31 minutes) was published by Varèse Sarabande and Milan Records.

vehicles

Replica of the Pursuit Special , a Ford Falcon XB GT Coupé

The Pursuit Special that Max uses to track the rockers is a converted 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupé. The Nightrider's vehicle is a 1972 Holden Monaro HQ LS V8, and the police drive various Ford Falcon XAs and XB with 6 or 8 cylinders. The vehicle that the hell jockeys push and tear apart is a 1959 Chevrolet Impala . Rockatansky's private car is a Holden Sandman . Most of the hell jockeys' motorcycles are Kawasakis .

criticism

"A nightmare of violence, blood, junk and horror that doesn't reveal anything because the film itself succumbs to the fascination of violence."

- Lexicon of international film

“Mad Max is full blown, breakneck exploitation cinema. [...] But stunts in themselves are not worth much if there is no real filmmaker behind the camera. George Miller, the doctor and film fool, who is making his debut here, shows us what really defines cinema: You have to attribute this film entirely to the director, camera and stunt team - even if the leading roles act effectively, it is not Play. "

- Variety

"Spectacular crash scenes, stunts and crazy perspectives made George Miller's cheap film a blockbuster and Mel Gibson a star."

- Cinema

Sequels

In 1981 Mad Max II - The Executor followed , and in 1985 Mad Max - Beyond the Thunder Dome was released . In the fourth part, Mad Max: Fury Road , which was released on May 14, 2015, Mad Max is played by Tom Hardy . One of the scriptwriters of Mad Max: Fury Road is Nico Lathouris , who in the first part plays the owner of the garage where Max wants to have his tire repaired.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Mad Max . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2015 (PDF; test number: 51 170-c K).
  2. ↑ Mad Max in the German dubbing index
  3. ^ The Mad Max Bikers / Toecutter's Gang. In: Madmaxmovies.com. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  4. ^ Mad Max. In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ^ Variety Staff: Mad Max. In: variety.com. Variety , January 1, 1979, accessed April 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Cinema.de: film review Mad Max