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AUSTRALIA · 1981
The Road Warrior
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Synopsis
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
Cinematic DNA
There’s the original ‘Mad Max’ and then ‘The Road Warrior,’ which is a total masterpiece of action filmmaking. It’s so lean and mean, without a lot of dialogue. It’s really awesome.
I wanted to take that kind of District 9 feel and blend it with a little bit of an '80s sci-fi aesthetic, almost like a Road Warrior feel, but in the urban environment.
— Neill Blomkamp · Collider Interview
This Film Influenced
→ Waterworld (1995)
