![]() There’s also not a great deal of dialogue in the film, and there doesn’t really need to be. It takes place in a world that has elements of the world we live in, but is dramatically different in myriad other ways. The Road Warrior is a dreamlike movie, and it succeeds with only the bare minimum of plot. And clearly I’m not the only one, since there are so many examples of this type of character. I’ve always been a bit of a loner myself, and that type of character has always really appealed to me. He showed up, he saved them from the marauders, and then he vanished. Max becomes a sort of mythological figure in the movie, the kind of man told about in stories around the campfire. It belongs to the variety of ONE MAN MOVIE in which the protagonist is given little background, shows up out of nowhere to help people in need, and then disappears into the sunset, never to be seen again.Īnd yes, I realize that Max’s background is shown in the first movie, but the entire point of what I was saying earlier is that there is little background given for Max in just this particular movie, so that the viewer is able to make it up for him- or herself. The Road Warrior is definitely a ONE MAN MOVIE, but of a somewhat different sort. Some time ago I wrote about ONE MAN MOVIES, in which ONLY ONE MAN can save the day. To any number of other westerns and samurai movies. It’s a classic archetype, from The Man With No Name… In that respect it is not unlike its protagonist, a classic loner whose only companions are his car, his dog, and his double-barreled sawed-off shotgun. It’s one of those rare sequels that is able to stand completely on its own. The opening narration does include some brief flashbacks to the first movie, but The Road Warrior is still very much its own film.Īnd I like that because it makes the whole movie feel so much more mysterious. ![]() I’m kind of glad it worked out that way to be honest, since it had the effect of making The Road Warrior feel like a very standalone movie. So when a sequel was made, they changed the name for US distribution in order to avoid confusing audiences. The Road Warrior is actually Mad Max 2, but it was renamed The Road Warrior in the US because the first Mad Max, released in 1979, received only limited distribution in the United States. This is even more impressive considering the fact that the movie is actually a sequel to an earlier film. It’s evocative and poetic, and gives some background to the story while still leaving room in the viewer’s mind for interpretation. Starting a movie with voiceover can be risky, but I can’t think of any other movie that does it as well as The Road Warrior. ![]() It’s such a great movie, and its greatness is apparent right from the opening narration. I’d forgotten how much I love The Road Warrior until I caught part of it on TV the other day, which inspired me to dust off my old DVD copy of it and give it another watch. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again…” And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. The man we called ‘Max’…In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. ![]() But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior.
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