That was confusing.
Why would Max say he has a plane when he had a gyrocopter in RW.
He had a plane when he jumped Max at the beginning of BT (which was fairly stupid way to take someone out, like he would not have heard the plane).
I thought that the lost tribe or whatever in BT wanted to get back to “civilization” even though it was pretty much shot by then. They lived in a nice little oasis, but knew that they had come from a city that was home and wanted to get back to that. Where the learnin’ or knowin’ or something was, IIRC.
I think civilization was still functioning in MM, just society was going down hill. The train still ran on time, and the kid with the Chevy had it fixed up. And Bubba Zanetti was a bad ass.
I think they’re supposed to be related.
I always heard it as (forgive misspellings) “Robatanski”. I could be wrong. I drink. Alot.
In the scripts posted online, and in Joan D. Vinge’s (iirc) novelization of MMBT, it is indeed Rockatansky.
Sir Rhosis
Re: Bruce Spence. I believe they were seperate characters. Max had a couple of opporunties in BT to see him up close. (once while hanging from the walls of Thunderdome). More telling is the narration at the end of RW, where the Feral Kid says that the Gyro Captain became the leader of the Great Northern Tribe. I have a hard time beleiving he’d give that up.
My suspicion is that Bruce Spence may actually be a qualified pilot, aiding in his use as a pilot character. Or maybe George Miller likes his gangly ‘look’ as the perfect post-apocalyptic scavanger.
There’s no evidence of nukes being fired until BT, when Max waves a geiger counter over a water dealers supply and it clicks like mad. According to one timeline I have read, the nukes flew after the events of RW. For RW, one should think that Australia has become something of a hardcore Somalia in many regions. The rest of the world was in (conventional) war and economic collapse.
Fun Fact: Wez had more lines in ‘Weird Science’ than in ‘Road Warrior’. Yeah, I know its not credited as being Wez, but its Wez!
Or it could be that there’s just a small and finite number of Autrailian/New Zealand actors. Kind of like how all the actors who are in Farscape can/were often be found in Xena, Hercules, The Lost World and every other show and movie produced in those countries. I mean Lucy Lawless played like five other unrelated characters in Xena and Hercules.
I thought the Feral Kid said that he himself became the leader, not Gyro Captain. I could be misremembering, of course.
Yes, the Feral kid became the leader.
RW has one of the saddest scenes in the movies in it, too; the more so because it’s unexpected: The death of The Last of the V-8 Interceptors.
The Feral kid became leader much later, after he had grown up. Gyro captain was leader at the end of the movie.
Was this indicated by the narration, or something else?
^^^Narration by the voice of the Feral Elderly Man. He says something like: “We headed north with our new leader, the man from the sky. Many years later, I became the leader of the tribe. I never again saw the Road Warrior.”
That’s not even close to exact, but is the gist of it.
Sir Rhosis
Yeppers. As for him leading the tribe, he says something about “in the fullness of time I took my place as leader of the tribe.” so it’s in the narration.
I’ll second that. You got the feeling stuntmen were being killed in that sequence.