WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:50.050 --> 00:00:52.510 - We made the first film, Mad Max, 4 00:00:52.511 --> 00:00:54.971 it was a low budget Australian film 5 00:00:54.972 --> 00:00:57.807 which seemed to resonate somehow 6 00:00:57.808 --> 00:01:00.644 with every film going territory in the world. 7 00:01:04.106 --> 00:01:07.066 The obvious answer was that it was full of car action 8 00:01:07.067 --> 00:01:08.652 and it was violent. 9 00:01:12.072 --> 00:01:14.700 But it seemed to have something else there. 10 00:01:15.951 --> 00:01:17.702 When I went to Japan, people would say, 11 00:01:17.703 --> 00:01:19.495 oh, it's just like the samurai movies. 12 00:01:19.496 --> 00:01:22.331 And then you'd go to France and they'd say, 13 00:01:22.332 --> 00:01:24.501 it's very much like the spaghetti westerns. 14 00:01:27.212 --> 00:01:31.716 They're stories that recur, we call them myths, 15 00:01:31.717 --> 00:01:35.053 they recur in every time and in every culture. 16 00:01:37.597 --> 00:01:40.267 That's why we recognise these stories almost anywhere. 17 00:01:44.104 --> 00:01:47.648 It allows us to have experiences and to share them 18 00:01:47.649 --> 00:01:50.484 with all people who have gone before 19 00:01:50.485 --> 00:01:52.487 and those that may come after. 20 00:01:56.199 --> 00:01:59.618 - All right, thanks everybody for being a part of this. 21 00:01:59.619 --> 00:02:03.331 It's been a really interesting exercise putting it together 22 00:02:03.332 --> 00:02:06.459 so I hope you get a real big kick out of it. 23 00:02:08.628 --> 00:02:10.921 Now, if you have a look at your sheets, 24 00:02:10.922 --> 00:02:15.718 primarily you're going from can to can to can. 25 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.971 They are your markers. 26 00:02:19.556 --> 00:02:22.850 That's what you're looking for when you go to each location. 27 00:02:22.851 --> 00:02:24.810 - I'll sit on somebody's lap, it's all right. 28 00:02:24.811 --> 00:02:29.148 You can use any means to work out the quiz questions. 29 00:02:29.149 --> 00:02:31.692 So you can get on your mobile phones, 30 00:02:31.693 --> 00:02:34.028 you can pop the movie in and check the film 31 00:02:34.029 --> 00:02:36.072 if you have the facility to do that. 32 00:02:36.073 --> 00:02:38.824 - We got it. - All right, next clue. 33 00:02:38.825 --> 00:02:40.035 - I love winning. 34 00:02:41.161 --> 00:02:43.204 - Just behave yourselves. 35 00:02:43.205 --> 00:02:45.290 We're not actual Road Warriors. 36 00:02:49.086 --> 00:02:51.379 - No one was ready for a film like Mad Max. 37 00:02:51.380 --> 00:02:53.589 - It felt new and exciting. 38 00:02:55.717 --> 00:02:57.426 You couldn't help but talk about it. 39 00:02:57.427 --> 00:02:59.220 - Does anybody have any questions? 40 00:02:59.221 --> 00:03:01.639 - What no speeding? 41 00:03:01.640 --> 00:03:02.890 - No speeding. 42 00:03:02.891 --> 00:03:06.644 - It started out as a small, very low budget film, 43 00:03:06.645 --> 00:03:10.773 very limited expectations that turned out to be huge. 44 00:03:10.774 --> 00:03:12.858 A big enough film to create a sequel. 45 00:03:12.859 --> 00:03:14.610 - Mad Max is back in town 46 00:03:14.611 --> 00:03:16.737 and tackling Hollywood head-on. 47 00:03:16.738 --> 00:03:18.406 - Which then became a phenomenon. 48 00:03:18.407 --> 00:03:20.491 - Opening night at cinemas across the nation 49 00:03:20.492 --> 00:03:21.451 was a sell out. 50 00:03:21.452 --> 00:03:23.202 - Now 30 years later, 51 00:03:23.203 --> 00:03:24.995 a fourth film is on the way. 52 00:03:24.996 --> 00:03:26.956 - Those two words, Mad Max, 53 00:03:26.957 --> 00:03:31.377 they're like the McDonald's or Star Trek or Star Wars. 54 00:03:31.378 --> 00:03:33.546 You might not like Mad Max, but by God, 55 00:03:33.547 --> 00:03:35.756 you know what's being talked about. 56 00:03:35.757 --> 00:03:39.218 - Donald Trump was describing some Mad Max America. 57 00:03:39.219 --> 00:03:40.678 - The world of Mad Max 58 00:03:40.679 --> 00:03:43.139 might not be as far away as we think. 59 00:03:43.140 --> 00:03:45.850 - Film can tell us a lot about who we are and where we live 60 00:03:45.851 --> 00:03:47.560 and how we feel about things. 61 00:03:47.561 --> 00:03:50.438 - Britain plunged into a Mad Max style world. 62 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:54.483 - Mad Max is so dystopian and so unpleasant that, yeah, 63 00:03:54.484 --> 00:03:57.653 it's not the most obvious film to want to emulate. 64 00:04:25.015 --> 00:04:26.015 - Saturday. 65 00:04:31.438 --> 00:04:34.273 You can film the syringe, it's even worse. 66 00:04:34.274 --> 00:04:37.527 So every morning a little . 67 00:04:38.820 --> 00:04:41.114 It's not pleasant. 68 00:04:50.874 --> 00:04:55.044 We'll start looking like a Frenchman, here we go. 69 00:04:55.045 --> 00:04:57.087 Bonjour, I am Bertrand Cadart, 70 00:04:57.088 --> 00:04:59.632 liberal candidate for the Seat of Lyons. 71 00:04:59.633 --> 00:05:02.968 You may know me as the scooter riding French mayor 72 00:05:02.969 --> 00:05:04.136 from the east coast 73 00:05:04.137 --> 00:05:07.139 who appeared in the film Mad Max. 74 00:05:07.140 --> 00:05:10.184 And this is my frog bathroom. 75 00:05:10.185 --> 00:05:15.105 My frog shower mat, my frog shower curtain. 76 00:05:15.106 --> 00:05:17.608 My frog bath bubbly stuff. 77 00:05:17.609 --> 00:05:21.278 I lived on the east coast of Tasmania for 15 years. 78 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.364 I've been the mayor for seven years. 79 00:05:23.365 --> 00:05:27.243 - You've been in Australia for about 40 years, I believe. 80 00:05:27.244 --> 00:05:29.745 Is that seriously your best Aussie accent? 81 00:05:32.457 --> 00:05:33.959 - Yeah, yeah, ha ha. 82 00:05:37.796 --> 00:05:38.796 Right. 83 00:05:46.638 --> 00:05:49.598 I don't think I will be able to ride anymore. 84 00:05:49.599 --> 00:05:51.433 At least my doctor doesn't think so 85 00:05:51.434 --> 00:05:55.271 and I am advised not to ride because if I do crash, 86 00:05:55.272 --> 00:05:59.483 what is the normal gravel rash for a healthy person 87 00:05:59.484 --> 00:06:01.611 would become a death trap for me. 88 00:06:04.698 --> 00:06:08.326 The doctor, he said, it will take six months of chemo 89 00:06:09.661 --> 00:06:12.788 to know if I can save your life. 90 00:06:12.789 --> 00:06:15.875 Now, my leave was denied. 91 00:06:17.335 --> 00:06:20.755 It is why I have no choice but to resign. 92 00:06:22.382 --> 00:06:23.382 Thank you. 93 00:06:33.852 --> 00:06:35.478 I'm 70 years of age. 94 00:06:37.606 --> 00:06:39.024 I have terminal cancer. 95 00:06:40.233 --> 00:06:43.028 Incurable, I know it. 96 00:06:46.323 --> 00:06:49.116 I know I'm going to fight as best as I can. 97 00:06:49.117 --> 00:06:53.829 I have a plan to last until at least January, 2019, 98 00:06:53.830 --> 00:06:58.376 because there is a 40th anniversary of the Mad Max shoot. 99 00:06:59.502 --> 00:07:01.921 And we have a big gathering in Clunes. 100 00:07:04.841 --> 00:07:06.301 Here we go, that's it. 101 00:07:07.719 --> 00:07:10.471 My doctor has allowed me to do it, 102 00:07:10.472 --> 00:07:13.682 he even reckon it's probably good for me to fight my cancer. 103 00:07:13.683 --> 00:07:18.437 He said that will motivate you to live and to survive, 104 00:07:18.438 --> 00:07:21.148 as long as you want to live and survive. 105 00:07:21.149 --> 00:07:22.400 And so far I do. 106 00:07:23.943 --> 00:07:26.779 When the reunion started to be organised 107 00:07:26.780 --> 00:07:28.782 I wanted to be there, and I went. 108 00:07:29.741 --> 00:07:32.826 - Mad Max, the movie that catapulted Mel Gibson to fame, 109 00:07:32.827 --> 00:07:36.163 is celebrating its 30th anniversary this weekend. 110 00:07:36.164 --> 00:07:38.540 - And I went to one of the very first ones, 111 00:07:38.541 --> 00:07:39.793 I think in Little River. 112 00:07:42.087 --> 00:07:44.713 At the time it was not very popular 113 00:07:44.714 --> 00:07:47.967 and I was one of the only actors there. 114 00:07:50.261 --> 00:07:54.723 This film shot on a shoe string has developed a cult. 115 00:07:54.724 --> 00:07:58.060 In Italy, in Germany and in Japan, 116 00:07:58.061 --> 00:07:59.979 in America, I mean everywhere. 117 00:08:01.022 --> 00:08:05.192 This is like a tribe, a sort of a world tribe. 118 00:08:05.193 --> 00:08:08.237 All those people are extraordinary people. 119 00:08:08.238 --> 00:08:11.240 They are all incredibly interesting. 120 00:08:11.241 --> 00:08:12.241 Oh God. 121 00:08:32.178 --> 00:08:35.681 - When I started All American Pool Service, 122 00:08:35.682 --> 00:08:39.685 I dreamt of working that job until I was ready to retire 123 00:08:39.686 --> 00:08:42.397 and then selling the company and retiring off of that. 124 00:08:44.816 --> 00:08:47.901 I soon learned that that wasn't particularly realistic, 125 00:08:47.902 --> 00:08:50.655 that's not really how it works anymore, unfortunately. 126 00:08:51.990 --> 00:08:56.326 So I dissolved that, got rid of that stress out of my life. 127 00:08:56.327 --> 00:08:58.246 And Jeff offered me a job here. 128 00:08:59.581 --> 00:09:04.586 - He was very forthcoming with what he did 129 00:09:05.295 --> 00:09:07.880 and if I did something like that 130 00:09:07.881 --> 00:09:09.465 I probably wouldn't tell anybody. 131 00:09:09.466 --> 00:09:10.758 And I don't. 132 00:09:19.350 --> 00:09:21.852 - You have defied me. 133 00:09:21.853 --> 00:09:26.858 You will know the vengeance of the Lord Humungus. 134 00:09:27.317 --> 00:09:30.110 - He was totally comfortable with it and it's like, 135 00:09:30.111 --> 00:09:32.488 yeah, he's having fun and good for him. 136 00:09:32.489 --> 00:09:35.533 - Nobody gets out of here alive! 137 00:09:36.701 --> 00:09:39.411 - I watched them all and he loves them, 138 00:09:39.412 --> 00:09:42.790 that's all I can say is, you know, he loves them, 139 00:09:42.791 --> 00:09:45.667 he was first doing the Mad Max character. 140 00:09:45.668 --> 00:09:47.920 - I thought he was good looking enough, you know, 141 00:09:47.921 --> 00:09:51.507 to be a lot better character than he picked, 142 00:09:51.508 --> 00:09:55.094 but he thought Lord Humungus was neat. 143 00:09:57.764 --> 00:10:00.516 - When we first got the house it came with a pool, 144 00:10:00.517 --> 00:10:03.101 which I really didn't want, but it was there. 145 00:10:03.102 --> 00:10:04.353 And I come out the door 146 00:10:04.354 --> 00:10:06.730 and my wife's standing out there with three guys 147 00:10:06.731 --> 00:10:09.399 and there's this hulking mass of a human. 148 00:10:09.400 --> 00:10:12.528 He's like, here, here, I'm gonna give these to you, 149 00:10:12.529 --> 00:10:14.863 these are something I think you'll enjoy. 150 00:10:14.864 --> 00:10:18.200 And I'm looking, I'm like, who's Lord Humungus, right? 151 00:10:18.201 --> 00:10:19.618 And I'm like, this you? 152 00:10:19.619 --> 00:10:20.537 He's like, yeah. 153 00:10:20.538 --> 00:10:21.912 I'm like, holy crap, right. 154 00:10:21.913 --> 00:10:26.333 - About 1981 my dad bought me an issue of Starlog Magazine. 155 00:10:26.334 --> 00:10:28.085 I don't think I ever read the article, 156 00:10:28.086 --> 00:10:30.754 but I certainly looked at the pictures. 157 00:10:30.755 --> 00:10:34.132 Immediately, this was it, this was all I wanted, 158 00:10:34.133 --> 00:10:35.759 this was all I watched. 159 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:37.553 - He was in his room a lot. 160 00:10:37.554 --> 00:10:40.055 - You could turn the volume off 161 00:10:40.056 --> 00:10:44.268 and he could tell you every line in that movie. 162 00:10:44.269 --> 00:10:46.270 He had it all memorised. 163 00:10:46.271 --> 00:10:48.690 - I was a Road Warrior in my mind. 164 00:10:50.358 --> 00:10:54.278 When I was like 15 years old I was so deeply into Mad Max, 165 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.321 that that was the world I wanted to live in. 166 00:10:56.322 --> 00:11:00.284 The cars that I wanted to drive, the way I wanted to dress. 167 00:11:00.285 --> 00:11:01.785 And you know, once I got out of high school 168 00:11:01.786 --> 00:11:03.120 and got into the punk rock scene, 169 00:11:03.121 --> 00:11:05.372 I did kind of dress that way a little bit. 170 00:11:05.373 --> 00:11:07.666 - He just was crazy about the Misfits 171 00:11:07.667 --> 00:11:10.961 when he was 14, 15 years old. 172 00:11:10.962 --> 00:11:12.170 He had the guitar 173 00:11:12.171 --> 00:11:15.632 and he would go out in the garage and sing and play. 174 00:11:15.633 --> 00:11:17.218 And all the neighbours loved it. 175 00:11:18.303 --> 00:11:19.596 I'm joking. 176 00:11:20.847 --> 00:11:22.389 The Misfits offered him the job 177 00:11:22.390 --> 00:11:24.182 to sell merchandise on the road 178 00:11:24.183 --> 00:11:27.186 and then it went from merchandise to the road manager. 179 00:11:28.146 --> 00:11:31.899 He had a ball, he got to see the whole world effectively, 180 00:11:31.900 --> 00:11:33.818 from Alaska to Moscow. 181 00:11:36.571 --> 00:11:39.615 Everybody got a nickname on the bus 182 00:11:39.616 --> 00:11:44.037 and Jim was a big bodybuilder and they just called him Tank. 183 00:11:45.788 --> 00:11:47.831 So he's Jim "The Tank" Dorsey. 184 00:11:47.832 --> 00:11:51.753 - This is how the Humungus rolls. 185 00:11:53.463 --> 00:11:55.756 Once you get started and you start to see 186 00:11:55.757 --> 00:11:58.885 and you start to feel some results, it's very addictive. 187 00:12:00.386 --> 00:12:02.387 You know, once the shoulders start coming in 188 00:12:02.388 --> 00:12:04.514 and the triceps pop a little bit 189 00:12:04.515 --> 00:12:06.642 and then you crank the bicep up and you're just like, oh. 190 00:12:06.643 --> 00:12:09.811 You know, the waist is coming in tighter. 191 00:12:09.812 --> 00:12:11.188 That's the inspiration right there, 192 00:12:11.189 --> 00:12:12.564 that's where the obsession comes from 193 00:12:12.565 --> 00:12:15.109 because it's like, oh, I like that, I want more. 194 00:12:17.278 --> 00:12:18.487 - Sensei. 195 00:12:18.488 --> 00:12:20.155 - Yes, sir. 196 00:12:20.156 --> 00:12:25.161 Jim came in here, oh, good lord, probably eight years ago. 197 00:12:25.828 --> 00:12:28.747 He's black belt, as you can see, 198 00:12:28.748 --> 00:12:30.208 and doing quite a good job. 199 00:12:31.250 --> 00:12:33.168 I do remember the first thing I said to him 200 00:12:33.169 --> 00:12:35.796 when he came in here, first time he trained was, 201 00:12:35.797 --> 00:12:37.673 Tank, you gotta get rid of the muscles, 202 00:12:37.674 --> 00:12:39.257 they're just in your way. 203 00:12:39.258 --> 00:12:41.219 But he didn't and he's doing fine. 204 00:12:45.807 --> 00:12:47.766 When he's on the floor, he's very physical 205 00:12:47.767 --> 00:12:49.518 and you know that if you can defend yourself 206 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.062 against somebody that's that big and that strong 207 00:12:52.063 --> 00:12:53.690 then you're doing something right. 208 00:12:56.192 --> 00:12:57.818 When I talk about my karate school, 209 00:12:57.819 --> 00:13:00.946 I show 'em a picture of Tank with his massive muscles, 210 00:13:00.947 --> 00:13:04.366 with some small person on the ground and they go, oh my God. 211 00:13:04.367 --> 00:13:06.786 But yeah, Tank is a lot of fun. 212 00:13:14.669 --> 00:13:17.421 - Too much is never enough. 213 00:13:17.422 --> 00:13:19.840 I always have that feeling like there's more, 214 00:13:19.841 --> 00:13:22.634 there's more that I can do, there's more that I can be. 215 00:13:22.635 --> 00:13:24.136 Yeah, I could put the Humungus costume on 216 00:13:24.137 --> 00:13:25.512 and throw the mask on, 217 00:13:25.513 --> 00:13:29.141 but if I'm not in shape, you're not going to believe it. 218 00:13:29.142 --> 00:13:32.269 - Your waist. - Yeah, yeah, right here. 219 00:13:32.270 --> 00:13:33.771 Where the fat bit is. 220 00:13:35.023 --> 00:13:37.691 The idea is not to do an exact replica, 221 00:13:37.692 --> 00:13:40.527 but to do a, so people, the fan 222 00:13:40.528 --> 00:13:45.824 who are die hard Mad Max fans, they will recognise Clunk. 223 00:13:45.825 --> 00:13:48.076 I'm going to get another set of boots, 224 00:13:48.077 --> 00:13:50.120 hopefully the same type. 225 00:13:53.166 --> 00:13:54.750 And the red bit here, 226 00:13:54.751 --> 00:13:58.629 because all this is what people remember. 227 00:14:00.965 --> 00:14:04.134 My role in Mad Max was very small, 228 00:14:04.135 --> 00:14:07.929 being one of the Toecutter gang members. 229 00:14:07.930 --> 00:14:10.724 Now we all say the same thing, 230 00:14:10.725 --> 00:14:14.978 I never thought that 40 years later I would be remembered, 231 00:14:14.979 --> 00:14:16.730 let alone talked about. 232 00:14:16.731 --> 00:14:17.815 Look at that. 233 00:14:18.900 --> 00:14:21.818 Good for them, you know, like good for them. 234 00:14:21.819 --> 00:14:24.614 As he said, it beats cleaning swimming pools. 235 00:14:25.615 --> 00:14:27.449 - The first time I went over to his house 236 00:14:27.450 --> 00:14:30.952 is kind of when I really started to appreciate his passion 237 00:14:30.953 --> 00:14:32.079 when I saw his costumes 238 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.122 and just the stuff that was in there. 239 00:14:34.123 --> 00:14:37.167 - Well, my wall of fame, if I had to venture to guess, 240 00:14:37.168 --> 00:14:41.129 probably started about four years ago, maybe 2015. 241 00:14:41.130 --> 00:14:45.425 The first guy I ever met was Garret Graham who played Beef 242 00:14:45.426 --> 00:14:48.637 in Phantom of the Paradise. 243 00:14:48.638 --> 00:14:50.222 Each one of these was really cool 244 00:14:50.223 --> 00:14:52.516 to get the reaction from each actor 245 00:14:52.517 --> 00:14:54.560 who played the characters that I cosplay. 246 00:14:55.812 --> 00:14:57.437 But number one and the one 247 00:14:57.438 --> 00:15:00.440 that I was the most nervous going in 248 00:15:00.441 --> 00:15:03.194 was meeting Kjell Nilsson, the original Lord Humungus. 249 00:15:04.737 --> 00:15:07.280 I was nervous about how he was going to take 250 00:15:07.281 --> 00:15:08.323 my portrayal of the character, 251 00:15:08.324 --> 00:15:10.242 whether he thought I did a good job of it. 252 00:15:10.243 --> 00:15:14.121 'Cause this is, this is a world-class athlete bodybuilder 253 00:15:14.122 --> 00:15:18.542 in his prime where this is just some middle-aged fan boy 254 00:15:18.543 --> 00:15:21.211 trying to recreate something he sees on a screen. 255 00:15:21.212 --> 00:15:23.296 I didn't want him to think 256 00:15:23.297 --> 00:15:24.589 that I was trying to steal his thunder 257 00:15:24.590 --> 00:15:26.216 or take over, replace him or anything like that, 258 00:15:26.217 --> 00:15:28.260 I just wanted them to feel 259 00:15:28.261 --> 00:15:32.222 that I did his character justice and he did, 260 00:15:32.223 --> 00:15:33.807 he was proud of me. 261 00:15:33.808 --> 00:15:37.602 He said, you are the next generation of this evil character. 262 00:15:37.603 --> 00:15:39.021 And that really meant a lot. 263 00:15:40.273 --> 00:15:41.356 How is it? 264 00:15:41.357 --> 00:15:42.357 Chocolatey? - Good. 265 00:15:44.318 --> 00:15:45.945 - Can you ever eat more than one? 266 00:15:47.029 --> 00:15:47.905 - No. - Probably not. 267 00:15:47.906 --> 00:15:50.615 - Probably not, well daddy makes some pretty thick pancakes. 268 00:15:50.616 --> 00:15:54.995 I've often wondered if other dads, you know, my age, 269 00:15:54.996 --> 00:15:57.080 mid forties, think of what I do 270 00:15:57.081 --> 00:15:59.249 as being like immature or childish, 271 00:15:59.250 --> 00:16:00.667 because it doesn't seem like something 272 00:16:00.668 --> 00:16:02.210 a normal adult would do, 273 00:16:02.211 --> 00:16:04.005 is make these costumes and dress up. 274 00:16:05.464 --> 00:16:06.549 - Viola! 275 00:16:08.301 --> 00:16:09.760 - Look at that. 276 00:16:10.845 --> 00:16:13.555 That's magnifique, magnifique. 277 00:16:13.556 --> 00:16:16.183 And you managed even to do the red bit. 278 00:16:16.184 --> 00:16:18.602 - Well, we were saying the plastic would be too hard 279 00:16:18.603 --> 00:16:19.853 for the driving and everything. 280 00:16:19.854 --> 00:16:22.564 - Yeah, yeah, no, no, this is fine. 281 00:16:22.565 --> 00:16:25.984 I am impressed. 282 00:16:25.985 --> 00:16:28.070 - All right, let's try it on. - Yeah! 283 00:16:51.302 --> 00:16:55.555 I know at my age and in my condition, 284 00:16:55.556 --> 00:16:59.309 I will never, ever in my life, what's left of it, 285 00:16:59.310 --> 00:17:03.189 I have an opportunity to have another trip like this. 286 00:17:23.125 --> 00:17:25.043 - I've always been a daydreamer. 287 00:17:25.044 --> 00:17:29.965 I've always wanted to live in another time or another place 288 00:17:29.966 --> 00:17:31.175 being another character. 289 00:17:32.510 --> 00:17:35.596 Getting the opportunity to be a different person. 290 00:17:39.642 --> 00:17:41.768 But for so many years, decades, 291 00:17:41.769 --> 00:17:45.564 I thought I was the only person who was into Mad Max. 292 00:18:39.785 --> 00:18:44.790 - I thought it would be much smaller, but I don't know, 293 00:18:47.084 --> 00:18:48.878 it's like I have nothing else to do. 294 00:18:50.463 --> 00:18:54.007 I never worked a regular job in my entire life, 295 00:18:54.008 --> 00:18:56.760 I just do illustrations or stuff like that 296 00:18:56.761 --> 00:19:00.431 and sometimes I can earn money from the things I'm doing. 297 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:05.727 My Mad Max stuff cost me everything. 298 00:19:05.728 --> 00:19:08.521 All my time and all the money I can make. 299 00:19:08.522 --> 00:19:12.567 - He's just speaking about Mad Max every time 300 00:19:12.568 --> 00:19:14.904 that I think, this is the Mad Melvin. 301 00:19:16.906 --> 00:19:20.033 - I started to collect stuff about Mad Max when I was a kid, 302 00:19:20.034 --> 00:19:23.745 after I saw the movie the first time. 303 00:19:23.746 --> 00:19:27.957 10 years ago I had like a handful of stuff 304 00:19:27.958 --> 00:19:29.667 and I thought that it was enough 305 00:19:29.668 --> 00:19:33.421 to start to work on a small book. 306 00:19:33.422 --> 00:19:35.757 But 10 years after my collection 307 00:19:35.758 --> 00:19:38.760 went a little bit out of control. 308 00:19:38.761 --> 00:19:43.890 I began to pick articles, magazines, records, 309 00:19:43.891 --> 00:19:48.396 and every material I could find that was Mad Max related. 310 00:19:49.563 --> 00:19:54.567 My idea is to collect every original item. 311 00:19:54.568 --> 00:19:58.488 I have books and papers, and pictures, 312 00:19:58.489 --> 00:20:01.199 press pictures and stuff like this. 313 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.536 I have a ton. 314 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:07.205 - Well, this is my Mad Max collection, 315 00:20:07.206 --> 00:20:09.666 at least for the first movie. 316 00:20:09.667 --> 00:20:11.584 I don't know what possesses me 317 00:20:11.585 --> 00:20:14.129 to pick out a particular item that I look for on eBay. 318 00:20:14.130 --> 00:20:16.881 I guess those were the things that I just 319 00:20:16.882 --> 00:20:21.010 thought I could find and sure enough I tracked them down. 320 00:20:21.011 --> 00:20:24.139 Alpine Stars high point motocross boots are not cheap, 321 00:20:24.140 --> 00:20:25.015 especially to find them 322 00:20:25.016 --> 00:20:27.058 with the proper heavy lug on the, on the sole. 323 00:20:27.059 --> 00:20:28.476 - It never occurred to me 324 00:20:28.477 --> 00:20:30.771 that somebody would go to all the trouble 325 00:20:31.772 --> 00:20:35.650 to acquire some of the props that were used 326 00:20:35.651 --> 00:20:39.320 or to build their own props. 327 00:20:39.321 --> 00:20:41.239 - The first thing that I remember that he showed me 328 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:46.244 was he made the dog food, the food that Mad Max ate, 329 00:20:46.245 --> 00:20:49.164 and then he replicated the labels 330 00:20:49.165 --> 00:20:53.543 on a can of hash or something and he was so proud of that. 331 00:20:53.544 --> 00:20:56.963 - Those are the most accurate ones ever made. 332 00:20:56.964 --> 00:21:00.049 When I first got a copy of the Blu-ray of Road Warrior 333 00:21:00.050 --> 00:21:03.428 I took it to my friend Tim's house with a 95 inch screen 334 00:21:03.429 --> 00:21:07.015 and I took that scene frame by frame and dissected it. 335 00:21:07.016 --> 00:21:08.725 And that was when I found out 336 00:21:08.726 --> 00:21:11.978 that the circle that says 800 grams in it 337 00:21:11.979 --> 00:21:13.688 is actually a starburst. 338 00:21:13.689 --> 00:21:15.315 - And he goes, I want you to know, 339 00:21:15.316 --> 00:21:17.358 everything in this room is screen accurate. 340 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:20.195 I'm like, I realize, okay, I'm gonna screw with him now. 341 00:21:20.196 --> 00:21:22.113 So I'm looking at 'em like, well, 342 00:21:22.114 --> 00:21:23.615 you know, I'm sorry to disagree with you, 343 00:21:23.616 --> 00:21:25.909 I'm gonna call a little bullshit on this one, but this, 344 00:21:25.910 --> 00:21:28.703 I distinctly remember the slight scratch near the, 345 00:21:28.704 --> 00:21:30.580 you know, like the trigger here. 346 00:21:30.581 --> 00:21:32.999 And he like leaps up out of his desk 347 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:35.084 and he's like, whoa, wait a minute, wait. 348 00:21:35.085 --> 00:21:35.961 And he's like looking at it and he's like picking it up. 349 00:21:35.962 --> 00:21:37.462 He's like, no, no, I'm pretty sure that's right. 350 00:21:37.463 --> 00:21:39.380 I'm like, dude, I don't know. 351 00:21:39.381 --> 00:21:41.633 And he's ready to like pop the DVD in. 352 00:21:41.634 --> 00:21:45.720 - It's hard work finding the actual screen accurate 353 00:21:45.721 --> 00:21:49.724 baseball face masks or the five draw telescope 354 00:21:49.725 --> 00:21:51.643 as opposed to the standard four draw. 355 00:21:51.644 --> 00:21:52.852 - Dude, I don't even know 356 00:21:52.853 --> 00:21:54.354 what the hell half this shit is, okay. 357 00:21:54.355 --> 00:21:57.566 - Anybody who's into it knows you nailed it. 358 00:22:00.528 --> 00:22:04.614 - I spent 10 years in underwear behind my computer 359 00:22:04.615 --> 00:22:06.866 searching for items on eBay, 360 00:22:06.867 --> 00:22:12.038 searching for articles, searching for magazines. 361 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:14.124 - When he's working on something 362 00:22:15.417 --> 00:22:18.586 he's working on it really hard 363 00:22:18.587 --> 00:22:22.423 and speaking about it every time. 364 00:22:22.424 --> 00:22:27.470 - In my Mad Max folder it's around 15,000 pictures, 365 00:22:27.471 --> 00:22:31.808 scans of articles. 366 00:22:31.809 --> 00:22:33.851 Mostly scans of articles. 367 00:22:33.852 --> 00:22:38.606 The biggest task was to read them all and it took me years. 368 00:22:38.607 --> 00:22:40.484 Actually really years. 369 00:22:42.861 --> 00:22:47.866 I think the Holy Grail for me is a Mad Max 1 script. 370 00:22:48.993 --> 00:22:53.289 And I got it from Bertrand Cadart. 371 00:22:59.712 --> 00:23:02.171 - Have you heard of Mad Max before? 372 00:23:02.172 --> 00:23:03.631 Yeah? 373 00:23:03.632 --> 00:23:05.133 Don't tell me you watched it. 374 00:23:05.134 --> 00:23:06.509 - Yeah, I have. 375 00:23:06.510 --> 00:23:09.262 You're too bloody young! 376 00:23:09.263 --> 00:23:10.763 What about you, young man? 377 00:23:10.764 --> 00:23:13.308 You should not, you're only 14, 378 00:23:13.309 --> 00:23:16.769 when it was released you had to be 16 to see it. 379 00:23:19.023 --> 00:23:21.400 Let alone this little bloke. 380 00:23:22.901 --> 00:23:26.279 - I was just about to turn 14 and this movie came out 381 00:23:26.280 --> 00:23:30.575 and it's rated over 18 in France so I thought, 382 00:23:30.576 --> 00:23:31.827 well, I've got to see this. 383 00:23:32.786 --> 00:23:34.871 We just snuck in to the movie theatre 384 00:23:34.872 --> 00:23:36.873 so we didn't get caught 385 00:23:36.874 --> 00:23:40.252 and I remember being petrified watching the scenes. 386 00:23:44.089 --> 00:23:45.840 We talked about it at school and, 387 00:23:45.841 --> 00:23:47.592 mates would say, oh, you see that movie? 388 00:23:47.593 --> 00:23:49.636 It's filmed in Australia. 389 00:23:49.637 --> 00:23:51.387 I thought, wow, Australia. 390 00:23:51.388 --> 00:23:54.224 I ended up on the Sunshine Coast because of Mad Max. 391 00:23:56.477 --> 00:24:00.563 When I first met Bertrand he came here as a customer 392 00:24:00.564 --> 00:24:02.440 and I didn't even know who he was, you know, 393 00:24:02.441 --> 00:24:04.901 and then he said, oh, you've seen Mad Max? 394 00:24:04.902 --> 00:24:07.570 And my wife is rolls her eyes, as usual, 395 00:24:07.571 --> 00:24:10.031 don't get my husband getting to start about Mad Max 396 00:24:10.032 --> 00:24:12.909 because he'll never stop. 397 00:24:12.910 --> 00:24:15.161 And then he told me who we was. 398 00:24:15.162 --> 00:24:18.164 - There is a big bloke that goes on the roof of the car 399 00:24:18.165 --> 00:24:20.250 with a mighty crowbar. 400 00:24:21.293 --> 00:24:23.586 You're looking at the crowbar man. 401 00:24:23.587 --> 00:24:24.837 - You're the crowbar man? 402 00:24:24.838 --> 00:24:26.756 - I am the crowbar man. 403 00:24:26.757 --> 00:24:29.801 I am the crowbar man. - Bullshit. 404 00:24:29.802 --> 00:24:34.807 - I say, you betcha I remember, the crowbar, yeah, wow. 405 00:24:36.308 --> 00:24:39.227 I went and watched everything, all the scenes 406 00:24:39.228 --> 00:24:42.647 where I can see him and then all my mates in France, 407 00:24:42.648 --> 00:24:43.482 they're just gonna freak, 408 00:24:43.483 --> 00:24:46.235 it's just like, I'm gonna be a rockstar now, you know. 409 00:24:59.540 --> 00:25:03.459 - With Mad Max people would sit at the end of the screening 410 00:25:03.460 --> 00:25:05.837 and just sit and try to recover 411 00:25:05.838 --> 00:25:08.673 from the previous 100 minutes. 412 00:25:08.674 --> 00:25:10.925 There were a lot of mild films around 413 00:25:10.926 --> 00:25:13.636 so this Mad Max stood out. 414 00:25:13.637 --> 00:25:16.139 We knew we had something that was going to 415 00:25:16.140 --> 00:25:18.224 impact on audiences. 416 00:25:18.225 --> 00:25:20.143 - For me, it was all about the cars, 417 00:25:20.144 --> 00:25:23.438 the Aussie classic muscle cars. 418 00:25:23.439 --> 00:25:25.773 And especially the black Interceptor. 419 00:25:25.774 --> 00:25:26.941 Was always a favourite of mine, 420 00:25:26.942 --> 00:25:29.277 you can never get sick of it. 421 00:25:29.278 --> 00:25:32.822 - When they went to the drive in 1979, 422 00:25:32.823 --> 00:25:35.617 we see on the screen were cars that they actually owned. 423 00:25:36.910 --> 00:25:39.538 Monaros, Falcons, HJ panel vans. 424 00:25:41.999 --> 00:25:46.711 - Everyone has a story about their car or their family car. 425 00:25:46.712 --> 00:25:50.089 And it stays with them, it's something you'd never, 426 00:25:50.090 --> 00:25:52.550 well I don't think I'll ever forget 427 00:25:52.551 --> 00:25:54.178 'cause my dad loved his cars. 428 00:25:55.387 --> 00:25:57.930 It had to be a V8 and we all loved it 429 00:25:57.931 --> 00:26:00.975 being revved up after a drink at the pub 430 00:26:00.976 --> 00:26:03.019 and driving home from the tennis club 431 00:26:03.020 --> 00:26:05.606 and whose dad could outdo whose dad with the V8. 432 00:26:09.276 --> 00:26:12.069 - Over 10 years ago I decided to build myself 433 00:26:12.070 --> 00:26:14.364 a Mad Max black on black Interceptor. 434 00:26:15.324 --> 00:26:19.619 It took me seven long years to find the parts, 435 00:26:19.620 --> 00:26:21.788 figure out how it all bolts together, 436 00:26:21.789 --> 00:26:26.250 and then finally I put the wheel flares 437 00:26:26.251 --> 00:26:28.336 and the nose cone and the roof spoiler on 438 00:26:28.337 --> 00:26:32.215 and molded it all in and gave her a shot of high fill 439 00:26:32.216 --> 00:26:33.966 and then chiseled her back to her straight lines 440 00:26:33.967 --> 00:26:38.055 and then hit her with some black and here it is today. 441 00:26:41.975 --> 00:26:44.520 I use it to go down and get my lottery on a Sunday. 442 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.690 It's not something I just want to put away and stare at, 443 00:26:49.691 --> 00:26:52.151 it's something that I want to use and enjoy. 444 00:26:52.152 --> 00:26:53.862 And I do really enjoy it. 445 00:27:46.081 --> 00:27:49.959 - When I first arrived in Australia on a motorcycle 446 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:52.837 I never thought in a million years 447 00:27:52.838 --> 00:27:54.464 that I would live here. 448 00:27:55.757 --> 00:27:59.093 I was bumming around the world on a motorcycle 449 00:27:59.094 --> 00:28:00.970 trying to have a good time. 450 00:28:00.971 --> 00:28:04.141 And waiting for life to give me opportunity. 451 00:28:05.434 --> 00:28:10.730 And I discovered this immensity of land. 452 00:28:10.731 --> 00:28:13.734 Roads with no end. 453 00:28:14.902 --> 00:28:18.905 At the time was not many police and a lot less people, 454 00:28:18.906 --> 00:28:20.616 it was in the early seventies. 455 00:28:22.618 --> 00:28:25.828 You could open the throttle of your motorcycle, 456 00:28:25.829 --> 00:28:29.707 go as fast as bloody thing would go for 200 kilometres 457 00:28:29.708 --> 00:28:32.252 without seeing one single house. 458 00:28:33.795 --> 00:28:36.047 That worked for me. 459 00:28:39.259 --> 00:28:43.679 I decided to customise Japanese bikes, 460 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:46.474 which nobody was doing in Australia. 461 00:28:46.475 --> 00:28:49.936 I did that with a couple of French friends 462 00:28:49.937 --> 00:28:51.562 and we had to learn everything. 463 00:28:51.563 --> 00:28:54.523 We had to buy a book, how to laminate fiberglass. 464 00:28:54.524 --> 00:28:55.525 We knew nothing. 465 00:28:56.610 --> 00:29:00.821 And no one wanted to buy our stuff, 466 00:29:00.822 --> 00:29:04.283 it was just, come on, you know. 467 00:29:04.284 --> 00:29:09.289 We are real bikers here, we want a crust of a dead fly 468 00:29:10.374 --> 00:29:12.960 on our Belstaff jacket. 469 00:29:14.753 --> 00:29:17.713 At the same time, George Miller 470 00:29:17.714 --> 00:29:22.802 was trying to convince people to help him shoot his film. 471 00:29:22.803 --> 00:29:25.096 Nobody believed in George 472 00:29:25.097 --> 00:29:27.182 as much as they didn't believe in me. 473 00:29:28.433 --> 00:29:32.269 So I had all those fairings dangling in the shops 474 00:29:32.270 --> 00:29:35.064 and when George sort of approached those people to say, 475 00:29:35.065 --> 00:29:37.400 look, I need someone to customise bikes 476 00:29:37.401 --> 00:29:42.113 that we got from Kawasaki to look as futuristic as possible. 477 00:29:42.114 --> 00:29:43.990 One of the dealer said, look, 478 00:29:43.991 --> 00:29:46.993 there is one guy that might be able to help you. 479 00:29:46.994 --> 00:29:48.661 Here is his number. 480 00:29:48.662 --> 00:29:51.080 We made absolutely no money out of it. 481 00:29:51.081 --> 00:29:54.375 The price was probably below cost. 482 00:29:54.376 --> 00:29:57.503 Eventually George one day said to me, 483 00:29:57.504 --> 00:30:01.632 would you like a part in the film? 484 00:30:01.633 --> 00:30:05.928 I said to him, but what about my accent, you know? 485 00:30:05.929 --> 00:30:08.348 He said, it's all right, you don't say anything. 486 00:30:10.767 --> 00:30:15.104 - This here is my original script. 487 00:30:15.105 --> 00:30:20.443 My wife read this and she was horrified. 488 00:30:20.444 --> 00:30:22.361 And I said well, what's so crazy about it? 489 00:30:22.362 --> 00:30:25.031 And because my English was not good enough 490 00:30:25.032 --> 00:30:27.491 to understand what was written, 491 00:30:27.492 --> 00:30:29.785 she said, you have no idea 492 00:30:29.786 --> 00:30:31.621 what you're getting yourself into. 493 00:30:33.582 --> 00:30:37.753 I never thought that 40 years later I still would have it. 494 00:30:39.755 --> 00:30:44.760 We are doing these trips for me as a pilgrimage 495 00:30:45.385 --> 00:30:47.554 back to where we shot the film. 496 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:51.807 It means a lot to me to do this after 40 years. 497 00:31:26.510 --> 00:31:27.552 Who is there? 498 00:31:30.263 --> 00:31:31.680 This is Clunk! 499 00:31:38.063 --> 00:31:43.068 Every year in Japan you do Mad Max festival. 500 00:31:46.530 --> 00:31:47.697 - Yes, yes, yes. - Yes? 501 00:31:50.742 --> 00:31:52.243 Look, this is crazy. 502 00:35:25.373 --> 00:35:29.835 - I felt like a pop singer, I felt like the Beatles. 503 00:35:29.836 --> 00:35:32.963 - They were not afraid to show their emotions. 504 00:35:32.964 --> 00:35:34.923 Some of them were almost in tears, 505 00:35:34.924 --> 00:35:36.967 in fact, not almost, in tears. 506 00:35:36.968 --> 00:35:40.137 - They were actually falling against me, crying on my chest. 507 00:35:40.138 --> 00:35:43.349 Just falling on you, just sobbing, you know. 508 00:35:43.350 --> 00:35:46.268 - Saying, I cannot believe you are here. 509 00:35:46.269 --> 00:35:47.561 - You thought, oh my God, you know, 510 00:35:47.562 --> 00:35:49.480 for God's sake, get off me! 511 00:35:49.481 --> 00:35:51.900 But inwardly I loved it, you know. 512 00:35:53.276 --> 00:35:54.902 I'll be walking down the street 513 00:35:54.903 --> 00:35:57.863 and all of a sudden I'll hear somebody's voice in my ear. 514 00:35:57.864 --> 00:36:01.992 "You and me, Max, we're gonna give 'em back their heroes." 515 00:36:03.161 --> 00:36:05.580 What that hell, people are quoting my lines. 516 00:36:07.499 --> 00:36:09.416 There are fans all around the world. 517 00:36:09.417 --> 00:36:13.379 I went on my honeymoon to Sri Lanka, a young waiter come up. 518 00:36:13.380 --> 00:36:15.965 He said, excuse me, sir, what is your good name? 519 00:36:17.008 --> 00:36:19.301 I said, my name is Roger Ward. 520 00:36:19.302 --> 00:36:22.888 Oh, very famous name here, sir, very famous name. 521 00:36:22.889 --> 00:36:26.225 I said, I think you're thinking of Roger Moore. 522 00:36:26.226 --> 00:36:28.560 Oh no, no, no, Roger Moore, he was a saint. 523 00:36:28.561 --> 00:36:33.273 He was James Bond, no, no, you were Fifi in Mad Max! 524 00:36:33.274 --> 00:36:34.274 Oh my God. 525 00:36:36.194 --> 00:36:38.153 You know, you get that all around the world. 526 00:36:38.154 --> 00:36:42.449 Just people identify with that and with you 527 00:36:42.450 --> 00:36:43.742 as if we're all one. 528 00:36:43.743 --> 00:36:46.912 That's ridiculous, I know, but I love it. 529 00:36:46.913 --> 00:36:49.415 - If you're not moved by that 530 00:36:49.416 --> 00:36:53.752 then I think you're a bit of a cynical bastard 531 00:36:53.753 --> 00:36:56.713 who should have a long, hard look at themselves. 532 00:36:56.714 --> 00:36:57.716 - Jim Goose. 533 00:36:58.925 --> 00:36:59.925 Fifi. 534 00:37:01.344 --> 00:37:03.680 And Johnny the Boy. 535 00:37:46.681 --> 00:37:49.184 - Donuts, donuts. - No donuts. 536 00:37:50.185 --> 00:37:51.727 Here are the donuts. 537 00:37:51.728 --> 00:37:54.688 Bit more, maybe here. 538 00:37:54.689 --> 00:37:55.815 Yeah, maybe here. 539 00:37:56.900 --> 00:38:01.403 - Yoshi bought a bike off eBay from South Australia. 540 00:38:01.404 --> 00:38:03.989 He paid good money for it and it got to my place, 541 00:38:03.990 --> 00:38:08.577 it was a piece of, won't say any more. 542 00:38:08.578 --> 00:38:11.747 The rims were rusted out, spokes were broken and missing. 543 00:38:11.748 --> 00:38:14.249 Broken piston, wheel bearings were shot, 544 00:38:14.250 --> 00:38:16.376 all the brakes had seized. 545 00:38:16.377 --> 00:38:19.046 The thing was the biggest pile of crap 546 00:38:19.047 --> 00:38:21.173 I've ever had in my shed. 547 00:38:21.174 --> 00:38:25.552 So that's what we started with, and away we went. 548 00:38:33.520 --> 00:38:34.978 - I've built many, many Kawasaki's, 549 00:38:34.979 --> 00:38:36.855 I can't tell you how many I've done. 550 00:38:36.856 --> 00:38:39.691 Hundreds of them, it's been an addiction. 551 00:38:39.692 --> 00:38:42.444 I've owned well over a 1,000. 552 00:38:42.445 --> 00:38:45.072 I'm nuts on Kwakas, that's it. 553 00:38:45.073 --> 00:38:46.865 I'm quackers over Kwakas. 554 00:38:50.245 --> 00:38:52.246 It was successfully completed 555 00:38:52.247 --> 00:38:57.252 and soon after they found Dale's original bike. 556 00:39:00.380 --> 00:39:02.840 They're both here today, they look fabulous. 557 00:39:02.841 --> 00:39:07.427 - Well, this one belongs to Yoshi from Japan 558 00:39:07.428 --> 00:39:09.221 and he leaves this in Australia. 559 00:39:09.222 --> 00:39:10.430 - What? 560 00:39:10.431 --> 00:39:11.473 - The bike. 561 00:39:11.474 --> 00:39:14.351 - Oh, yeah, yeah. - Yeah. 562 00:39:14.352 --> 00:39:16.812 - This is the original bike that I owned, 563 00:39:16.813 --> 00:39:18.939 I was the first owner. 564 00:39:18.940 --> 00:39:21.567 Whoa, clutch is not real good. 565 00:39:21.568 --> 00:39:24.529 There've been five owners of it now. 566 00:39:26.197 --> 00:39:31.201 I sold it in about '79, but in 1994 for its class 567 00:39:31.202 --> 00:39:33.829 it established the land speed record. 568 00:39:35.873 --> 00:39:39.460 142 point something miles per hour. 569 00:39:40.461 --> 00:39:42.254 So that's another little piece 570 00:39:42.255 --> 00:39:44.340 of very interesting history of this bike. 571 00:39:46.968 --> 00:39:48.385 - He always comes up to my place 572 00:39:48.386 --> 00:39:50.721 because now his spare bike is kept there 573 00:39:50.722 --> 00:39:53.016 and he collects it and off he goes. 574 00:39:55.393 --> 00:39:57.812 And only found out last week that 575 00:39:59.397 --> 00:40:01.898 he's got another burnout bike in Japan. 576 00:40:01.899 --> 00:40:03.192 That was a surprise to me. 577 00:41:14.722 --> 00:41:19.018 - Beautiful. 578 00:41:27.235 --> 00:41:29.653 So when did you build this, how long ago? 579 00:41:29.654 --> 00:41:30.654 - 15 years. 580 00:41:31.781 --> 00:41:35.367 But it's old now, it over heats and sucks a lot of petrol. 581 00:41:35.368 --> 00:41:39.955 - You tell me, my Trans Am is just as bad. 582 00:41:49.048 --> 00:41:51.342 - Hey, Clunk! - Yeah! 583 00:41:56.264 --> 00:41:57.807 Long life to Clunk! 584 00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:34.844 What a ride. 585 00:42:39.307 --> 00:42:40.307 - Thanks, cobber. 586 00:42:41.601 --> 00:42:45.687 - Yeah, sure, I'd be happy to. - Thank you so much. 587 00:42:45.688 --> 00:42:49.816 - Thank you for coming, I really appreciate it. 588 00:42:51.819 --> 00:42:52.695 How are you doing? 589 00:42:52.696 --> 00:42:54.237 How was your night last night? 590 00:42:54.238 --> 00:42:57.032 - Is this the most fans you've ever seen in one place? 591 00:42:57.033 --> 00:42:58.451 - Yes. 592 00:43:00.536 --> 00:43:04.206 - The vehicle is a mid 70s F100 I built from ground up, 593 00:43:04.207 --> 00:43:05.290 built it on pictures, 594 00:43:05.291 --> 00:43:07.585 the original pictures from the movie vehicle. 595 00:43:09.462 --> 00:43:11.213 And it's probably one of the most 596 00:43:11.214 --> 00:43:14.634 reliable vehicle I've built, it goes and stops. 597 00:43:18.095 --> 00:43:20.764 The special features are really the flame throwers. 598 00:43:24.310 --> 00:43:26.561 If we all did the same thing, 599 00:43:26.562 --> 00:43:29.190 life's pretty boring sometimes, isn't it, you know? 600 00:43:32.568 --> 00:43:34.194 - My name is Bill Hatzigiannis, 601 00:43:34.195 --> 00:43:36.947 I run a small business on Facebook, 602 00:43:36.948 --> 00:43:41.493 Steel Edge Constructions, where I create model cars. 603 00:43:41.494 --> 00:43:45.163 I'd never seen a coupe with that sort of body structure, 604 00:43:45.164 --> 00:43:48.166 I'd never seen any of the vehicles, motorbikes, 605 00:43:48.167 --> 00:43:51.753 looking as tough as they were on the actual Mad Max movie. 606 00:43:51.754 --> 00:43:54.005 My son loves vehicles, he's a motorhead, 607 00:43:54.006 --> 00:43:56.299 no influence of mine whatsoever. 608 00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:58.927 But yeah, like I'm hoping that he'll be able to carry 609 00:43:58.928 --> 00:44:00.596 the Mad Max tradition on. 610 00:44:01.889 --> 00:44:03.557 Just awesome that there's other people out there 611 00:44:03.558 --> 00:44:07.727 that really enjoy it as much as I do and my family does. 612 00:44:07.728 --> 00:44:09.187 - Seeing all these replica vehicles 613 00:44:09.188 --> 00:44:12.274 and the guys that like spend their last dime 614 00:44:12.275 --> 00:44:13.942 to put these vehicles together, 615 00:44:13.943 --> 00:44:15.610 I understand that passion, 616 00:44:15.611 --> 00:44:16.945 if I had more dimes to spend 617 00:44:16.946 --> 00:44:18.864 I'd be doing the same damn thing. 618 00:44:18.865 --> 00:44:22.284 - Gidday, welcome to the Mad Max event. 619 00:44:25.162 --> 00:44:27.664 This is the biggest convention of Mad Max actors 620 00:44:27.665 --> 00:44:30.166 since 1979 movie release 621 00:44:30.167 --> 00:44:32.043 and they're here in one spot and they're here, 622 00:44:32.044 --> 00:44:33.295 and this won't happen again. 623 00:44:33.296 --> 00:44:35.338 Make the most of it, it's a one-off day 624 00:44:35.339 --> 00:44:37.382 and we're gonna bloody enjoy it. 625 00:44:37.383 --> 00:44:41.219 Let's talk to the actors, we'll go through one by one. 626 00:44:41.220 --> 00:44:43.471 Vince Gill, the Nightrider! 627 00:44:46.893 --> 00:44:48.643 - Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. 628 00:44:48.644 --> 00:44:51.313 - It just overwhelms me, 629 00:44:51.314 --> 00:44:54.357 this movie and the love you all have for it. 630 00:44:54.358 --> 00:44:56.151 Thank you so much. 631 00:44:56.152 --> 00:44:59.070 And to think that we're all still here like 40 years later 632 00:44:59.071 --> 00:45:01.573 and once we were young too. 633 00:45:01.574 --> 00:45:04.117 - Who would've thought 40 years down the road, 634 00:45:04.118 --> 00:45:06.329 thought everyone had forgotten about us. 635 00:45:08.581 --> 00:45:10.206 But apparently not. 636 00:45:10.207 --> 00:45:13.084 - You couldn't do this in America, 637 00:45:13.085 --> 00:45:17.047 they would arrest every one of you folks, seriously. 638 00:45:17.048 --> 00:45:19.758 - Who thought the stupid Swede, 639 00:45:19.759 --> 00:45:23.303 body builder could come here and do something like this 640 00:45:23.304 --> 00:45:24.804 and still here. 641 00:45:28.100 --> 00:45:30.852 - Remember the crowbar man? - Yeah! 642 00:45:30.853 --> 00:45:33.229 - I am the crowbar man! 643 00:45:34.482 --> 00:45:36.191 - Just remember who was the guy 644 00:45:36.192 --> 00:45:37.984 they nearly hit with a crowbar 645 00:45:37.985 --> 00:45:39.486 and they nearly hit with the axe 646 00:45:39.487 --> 00:45:41.155 and they nearly dropped the bike on. 647 00:45:43.449 --> 00:45:44.866 As you know it wasn't a huge budget 648 00:45:44.867 --> 00:45:46.910 so none of us got paid very much. 649 00:45:46.911 --> 00:45:49.287 But we were young, we were inventive, we were keen, 650 00:45:49.288 --> 00:45:52.165 and I think we contributed to the world 651 00:45:52.166 --> 00:45:55.377 as far as how to make movies and action movies. 652 00:45:55.378 --> 00:45:56.795 - I can tell a bunch of stories, 653 00:45:56.796 --> 00:45:59.047 but I just want to say something 654 00:45:59.048 --> 00:46:01.925 about this film and what it means, you know. 655 00:46:01.926 --> 00:46:05.095 I grew up in the Southern Tablelands and when you were 13 656 00:46:05.096 --> 00:46:08.014 all you want to do is get on the road and get out of there 657 00:46:08.015 --> 00:46:10.141 and there was garages around with lots of uncles, 658 00:46:10.142 --> 00:46:14.104 boring out V8s and trying to find a way 659 00:46:14.105 --> 00:46:19.068 to create a sense of freedom and the road 660 00:46:19.819 --> 00:46:21.362 and what was possible. 661 00:46:22.780 --> 00:46:24.447 But what this story also said 662 00:46:24.448 --> 00:46:27.409 was that this story's about the road, 663 00:46:27.410 --> 00:46:30.036 it's about freedom, and it's about death. 664 00:46:30.037 --> 00:46:33.331 And how we all, all you people understand that tension 665 00:46:33.332 --> 00:46:34.582 and what that means. 666 00:46:34.583 --> 00:46:36.960 And this is a great Australian story 667 00:46:36.961 --> 00:46:40.463 because you understand that this film 668 00:46:40.464 --> 00:46:44.259 was about the soul of part of Australia 669 00:46:44.260 --> 00:46:47.971 that you guys and women, you all grew up in. 670 00:46:47.972 --> 00:46:50.765 It's a bit tongue in cheek, it's a bit different, 671 00:46:50.766 --> 00:46:53.101 and the audience for this film around the world 672 00:46:53.102 --> 00:46:54.853 understand that very well. 673 00:46:54.854 --> 00:46:57.689 And nobody understands that better 674 00:46:57.690 --> 00:46:59.733 than the people standing in this crowd 675 00:46:59.734 --> 00:47:02.569 and I just want to say, I'm proud to meet ya, 676 00:47:02.570 --> 00:47:06.406 I hope to shake all your hands and thank you so much 677 00:47:06.407 --> 00:47:10.410 and don't forget your part in creating 678 00:47:10.411 --> 00:47:13.997 this great myth and narrative, thanks very much. 679 00:47:16.834 --> 00:47:19.127 - When I was first starting out to ride 680 00:47:19.128 --> 00:47:21.129 I'd be watching Terry Gibson 681 00:47:21.130 --> 00:47:24.174 riding fast on the Goose bike thinking, 682 00:47:24.175 --> 00:47:26.509 that's how you sit when you ride fast. 683 00:47:26.510 --> 00:47:29.512 I've always been into stunt riders and stuff like that, 684 00:47:29.513 --> 00:47:34.768 I was amazed by the stunts that were done in Mad Max. 685 00:47:34.769 --> 00:47:38.146 There's that style, it's raw, it's real. 686 00:47:53.829 --> 00:47:56.790 - I'm old school, I'm one of the very last. 687 00:47:56.791 --> 00:47:59.084 Actually someone introduced me the other day 688 00:47:59.085 --> 00:48:02.712 as being the oldest stuntman in Australia. 689 00:48:02.713 --> 00:48:05.673 My goal is to be the oldest stuntman in the world. 690 00:48:05.674 --> 00:48:07.467 - We had this car lying around 691 00:48:07.468 --> 00:48:10.136 and we decided we'd build it for the anniversary. 692 00:48:10.137 --> 00:48:12.263 We were contacted by the organisers, 693 00:48:12.264 --> 00:48:15.225 as they heard we may have a vehicle 694 00:48:15.226 --> 00:48:18.520 that could be sacrificed to go through the caravan. 695 00:48:18.521 --> 00:48:20.355 - So the caravan stunt, 696 00:48:20.356 --> 00:48:22.524 I was asked to sort of come up with the concept 697 00:48:22.525 --> 00:48:27.530 and I wanted to keep it to the original scale, low budget. 698 00:48:32.368 --> 00:48:36.704 But my idea was to make it bigger and better. 699 00:48:36.705 --> 00:48:40.543 So I decided, well, two's better than one. 700 00:48:44.296 --> 00:48:46.339 - It's intended life was as a race car, 701 00:48:46.340 --> 00:48:47.674 which it's still going to do 702 00:48:47.675 --> 00:48:50.093 after it's finished its job here today. 703 00:48:50.094 --> 00:48:51.970 It just fast-tracked our build a little quicker 704 00:48:51.971 --> 00:48:53.222 than what we expected. 705 00:48:54.140 --> 00:48:56.933 It was very stressful, the paint's still wet, 706 00:48:56.934 --> 00:49:00.353 we were still putting it together at00 AM this morning. 707 00:49:00.354 --> 00:49:04.984 - The biggest problem is basically the cupboard hardwood 708 00:49:07.403 --> 00:49:11.197 and cabinets, hinges, sinks and things like that. 709 00:49:11.198 --> 00:49:15.911 You will get stabbed more than likely from debris like that. 710 00:49:17.705 --> 00:49:20.374 I once had a splinter that was three metres long. 711 00:49:22.209 --> 00:49:24.503 But that's fine, I just pulled it out. 712 00:49:25.629 --> 00:49:28.548 - Do you want to jump in and give it a rev? 713 00:49:28.549 --> 00:49:30.909 - I'm hoping it'll start, I think the battery's nearly flat. 714 00:49:39.935 --> 00:49:42.896 - I'm old school, no smoke and mirrors, no cameras. 715 00:49:42.897 --> 00:49:43.897 You can't cheat. 716 00:49:46.942 --> 00:49:48.777 We're not going high-tech. 717 00:49:50.279 --> 00:49:52.071 We're keeping it grassroots 718 00:49:52.072 --> 00:49:56.367 so even the ramps are just pretty ramshackle. 719 00:49:56.368 --> 00:50:00.663 My gear is not megabucks safety here. 720 00:50:00.664 --> 00:50:03.876 I've been alive 65 years, so I can't be too damn bad. 721 00:51:05.062 --> 00:51:06.479 I really hope you enjoyed it! 722 00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:08.606 - Yes, excellent job, Rob. 723 00:51:08.607 --> 00:51:12.528 - I've just made history, that has never been done before! 724 00:51:13.570 --> 00:51:15.364 And I never practiced. 725 00:51:16.824 --> 00:51:20.618 If anybody's interested in some of the shrapnel, 726 00:51:20.619 --> 00:51:21.996 if you wanna collectible, 727 00:51:23.330 --> 00:51:25.415 it'll be available over there in about a half an hour. 728 00:51:25.416 --> 00:51:27.458 - How much for a piece of caravan? 729 00:51:27.459 --> 00:51:31.379 - You've done it, you've done it! 730 00:51:31.380 --> 00:51:33.674 You came out all right! - Haven't lost me touch. 731 00:51:48.731 --> 00:51:51.190 - All right, everyone, this car's the one 732 00:51:51.191 --> 00:51:53.192 that you were all asking about before. 733 00:51:53.193 --> 00:51:55.903 It's been signed by the actors. 734 00:51:55.904 --> 00:51:57.989 I'm gonna put Bertrand on, 735 00:51:57.990 --> 00:52:00.908 he's gonna tell you a little bit of a story. 736 00:52:00.909 --> 00:52:04.038 - All right, good evening. 737 00:52:05.122 --> 00:52:08.875 I'm sort of okay, this is why I'm here 738 00:52:08.876 --> 00:52:12.211 and you can see me with the walking stick. 739 00:52:12.212 --> 00:52:15.381 And the reason why I have a walking stick 740 00:52:15.382 --> 00:52:20.720 is because I've been diagnosed with leukaemia. 741 00:52:20.721 --> 00:52:24.265 It is fatal and it can't be cured. 742 00:52:24.266 --> 00:52:28.853 So I decided to come here with you guys as I am myself, 743 00:52:28.854 --> 00:52:32.565 as you can imagine, a Mad Max fan, 744 00:52:32.566 --> 00:52:36.819 and I would like to give some proceed of this auction 745 00:52:36.820 --> 00:52:39.322 to the Leukaemia Foundation. 746 00:52:42.034 --> 00:52:44.410 As much as it is okay for me to go at 70, 747 00:52:44.411 --> 00:52:48.956 I don't think it is okay, I'm going to become emotional, 748 00:52:48.957 --> 00:52:52.251 I don't think it is okay for a young person of 25 749 00:52:52.252 --> 00:52:54.587 to die of leukaemia, you know, 750 00:52:54.588 --> 00:52:57.548 and if we could help them, there you go. 751 00:52:57.549 --> 00:53:00.802 - I will start the auction at 200 bucks, 752 00:53:00.803 --> 00:53:03.805 so who is going to go over 200 bucks? 753 00:53:03.806 --> 00:53:05.014 - Come on! - 250! 754 00:53:05.015 --> 00:53:06.974 - We got 250, 250, 755 00:53:06.975 --> 00:53:08.935 we got a three, we got a three, we got a three? 756 00:53:08.936 --> 00:53:09.936 We got a three over there, 757 00:53:09.937 --> 00:53:12.772 we got a three, we got a 320, we got a 320, 320? 758 00:53:12.773 --> 00:53:15.525 We got a 320 over there, we got a 350, 350, 759 00:53:15.526 --> 00:53:18.194 350 over there, 400 over here! 760 00:53:18.195 --> 00:53:21.406 500 over there, 600 over there, 761 00:53:21.407 --> 00:53:24.784 can we get 650, 650, 650? 762 00:53:24.785 --> 00:53:26.829 - 1,000 - 1,000 over here! 763 00:53:30.290 --> 00:53:31.916 $1,500! 764 00:53:35.587 --> 00:53:38.465 Going, going and, sold! 765 00:53:46.890 --> 00:53:51.520 - I think I'm going to cry, so thank you. 766 00:53:54.398 --> 00:53:56.024 Thank you very much. 767 00:54:22.259 --> 00:54:25.636 - We're up here at Maryborough, at the racing track, 768 00:54:25.637 --> 00:54:30.391 and the shows over, folks, and she's 100% snafu. 769 00:54:30.392 --> 00:54:33.895 But we're still here chipping away, packing up, 770 00:54:33.896 --> 00:54:35.522 and still enjoying it. 771 00:54:36.565 --> 00:54:38.232 That's what we come for. 772 00:54:38.233 --> 00:54:41.402 - So we got some amazing memorabilia from the show, 773 00:54:41.403 --> 00:54:43.196 which was sensational. 774 00:54:43.197 --> 00:54:47.325 But my two brothers here got pieces of the caravan 775 00:54:47.326 --> 00:54:49.452 with the tire marks on it, 776 00:54:49.453 --> 00:54:52.455 and I think that's the greatest thing 777 00:54:52.456 --> 00:54:56.084 these blokes can drag out and show somebody one day. 778 00:55:13.894 --> 00:55:16.812 - The first film is the balls to the wall, 779 00:55:16.813 --> 00:55:20.024 skinflint explosion of energy 780 00:55:20.025 --> 00:55:23.529 that is only created when you kind of have nothing to lose. 781 00:55:24.863 --> 00:55:29.075 - I was not particularly excited to see the film 782 00:55:29.076 --> 00:55:31.244 because I thought, my God, with what we went through, 783 00:55:31.245 --> 00:55:33.497 you know, it's going to be a flop. 784 00:55:34.540 --> 00:55:37.041 - Even the film crew, I remember them all mumbling 785 00:55:37.042 --> 00:55:40.378 and cursing and saying, oh God, it'll never work. 786 00:55:40.379 --> 00:55:42.965 I could hear it, and I'm sure George could hear it. 787 00:55:44.383 --> 00:55:46.217 - Australia didn't have much 788 00:55:46.218 --> 00:55:47.718 in the way of action cinema, 789 00:55:47.719 --> 00:55:52.139 so no one really could have possibly anticipated 790 00:55:52.140 --> 00:55:55.644 the hell that broke loose when Mad Max arrived in cinemas. 791 00:55:59.773 --> 00:56:03.401 - A lot of people did question 792 00:56:03.402 --> 00:56:05.028 some of the violence in the film. 793 00:56:08.907 --> 00:56:13.119 - One ABC journalist actually threw up 794 00:56:13.120 --> 00:56:14.870 during one of the screenings. 795 00:56:14.871 --> 00:56:19.250 - The most famous kind of voice against the film 796 00:56:19.251 --> 00:56:20.835 was Phillip Adams. 797 00:56:20.836 --> 00:56:23.045 - He condemned Mad Max, saying that it had, 798 00:56:23.046 --> 00:56:27.466 quote, all the emotional uplift of Mein Kampf. 799 00:56:27.467 --> 00:56:30.177 - The film would be great for future sadists 800 00:56:30.178 --> 00:56:34.932 and psychopaths and pedophiles, which is, you know, 801 00:56:34.933 --> 00:56:36.602 a lot more than a thumbs down. 802 00:56:37.936 --> 00:56:41.856 - The main thing about Mad Max was word of mouth. 803 00:56:41.857 --> 00:56:45.526 Everyone that saw Mad Max had never seen anything like it, 804 00:56:45.527 --> 00:56:47.321 not just as an Australian film. 805 00:56:48.572 --> 00:56:49.780 - Holy shit. 806 00:56:49.781 --> 00:56:51.992 It was an exciting film to watch. 807 00:56:52.993 --> 00:56:55.786 - Standing with George at the back of the cinema 808 00:56:55.787 --> 00:56:58.664 when the film finished and the lights came up, 809 00:56:58.665 --> 00:57:01.292 the response was just amazing. 810 00:57:01.293 --> 00:57:03.628 Bill Collins wrote that George Miller has made 811 00:57:03.629 --> 00:57:06.047 the most exciting film of the decade. 812 00:57:06.048 --> 00:57:09.008 - But still, if somebody then had said 813 00:57:09.009 --> 00:57:11.761 that I was going to be flown to Japan 814 00:57:11.762 --> 00:57:13.638 and treated like a rock star, 815 00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:15.723 I would have said, you are crazy. 816 00:57:15.724 --> 00:57:17.475 - It really blew everyone away. 817 00:57:17.476 --> 00:57:19.644 What was this story really about? 818 00:57:19.645 --> 00:57:21.520 Why are people connecting with it? 819 00:57:21.521 --> 00:57:23.189 And so in order to answer 820 00:57:23.190 --> 00:57:25.191 some of those questions for himself, 821 00:57:25.192 --> 00:57:29.570 George Miller started investigating Joseph Campbell's work. 822 00:57:29.571 --> 00:57:33.115 - We finally found Joseph Campbell or his writings, 823 00:57:33.116 --> 00:57:34.742 do you know who Joseph Campbell is? 824 00:57:34.743 --> 00:57:36.869 - Campbell's work goes back to 825 00:57:36.870 --> 00:57:39.288 pictures on the side of caves. 826 00:57:39.289 --> 00:57:42.291 So while we look at Mad Max and we say, 827 00:57:42.292 --> 00:57:43.793 this is an astonishing film, 828 00:57:43.794 --> 00:57:45.544 we've never seen this film before, 829 00:57:45.545 --> 00:57:47.505 it didn't just come from nowhere. 830 00:57:47.506 --> 00:57:50.299 It came from recurring patterns of narratives 831 00:57:50.300 --> 00:57:52.343 that began 40,000 years ago. 832 00:57:52.344 --> 00:57:54.512 - The person who alerted everyone to Campbell 833 00:57:54.513 --> 00:57:56.806 more than anyone else was George Lucas. 834 00:57:56.807 --> 00:57:58.599 From A Hero with a Thousand Faces, 835 00:57:58.600 --> 00:58:01.018 he based the Star Wars sagas. 836 00:58:01.019 --> 00:58:02.812 They all dressed in different clothes 837 00:58:02.813 --> 00:58:04.355 but the essential themes 838 00:58:04.356 --> 00:58:07.024 and the essential experiences come through. 839 00:58:07.025 --> 00:58:08.651 - When the mythology is alive 840 00:58:08.652 --> 00:58:11.779 you don't have to tell anybody what it means. 841 00:58:11.780 --> 00:58:13.572 It's like looking at a picture 842 00:58:13.573 --> 00:58:16.742 that's really talking to you, it gets to you. 843 00:58:16.743 --> 00:58:20.413 - The success of Mad Max in Japan, 844 00:58:20.414 --> 00:58:23.082 prompted Warner Brothers in the States 845 00:58:23.083 --> 00:58:26.627 to take another look at it and give it a bit more backing. 846 00:58:26.628 --> 00:58:29.255 And that's what enabled it to get off the ground. 847 00:58:29.256 --> 00:58:31.132 - It was really a turning point 848 00:58:31.133 --> 00:58:33.259 for modern Australian cinema. 849 00:58:33.260 --> 00:58:36.762 - In Road Warrior we attempted to be 850 00:58:36.763 --> 00:58:39.223 much more consciously mythological. 851 00:58:51.153 --> 00:58:54.530 - Every year, hundreds, if not thousands, 852 00:58:54.531 --> 00:58:57.616 I'm not sure of the figures, of Mad Max 853 00:58:57.617 --> 00:59:02.622 dedicated true blue fans come from all over the world 854 00:59:03.081 --> 00:59:05.667 to Broken Hill and Silverton. 855 00:59:07.127 --> 00:59:10.671 This was the best possible location 856 00:59:10.672 --> 00:59:13.175 for the filming of Mad Max 2. 857 00:59:14.968 --> 00:59:20.181 Silverton is a place a Mad Max fan must attend, 858 00:59:20.182 --> 00:59:25.145 he must attend that, and so this is where we're going. 859 00:59:32.444 --> 00:59:34.487 - A friend of mine told me, oh, Broken Hill, 860 00:59:34.488 --> 00:59:36.489 it's the gate of the desert. 861 00:59:36.490 --> 00:59:38.866 But when I get there, I said, 862 00:59:38.867 --> 00:59:40.743 this is not the gate of the desert, 863 00:59:40.744 --> 00:59:42.912 this is the fucking desert. 864 00:59:42.913 --> 00:59:44.790 I was overwhelmed. 865 00:59:46.666 --> 00:59:49.586 I found it was really, really beautiful. 866 00:59:51.338 --> 00:59:53.714 If you go there, you understand right away 867 00:59:53.715 --> 00:59:55.591 why you want to shoot there 868 00:59:55.592 --> 01:00:00.305 because it's like an Australian Monument Valley. 869 01:00:01.515 --> 01:00:04.934 In France and Europe, everything is tiny and dense 870 01:00:04.935 --> 01:00:09.231 and I suddenly discovered empty spaces and a remote place. 871 01:00:11.107 --> 01:00:15.319 - It's a cult following now for Mad Max and Bertrand Cadart 872 01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:18.823 is the man that played Clunk in Mad Max 1, 873 01:00:18.824 --> 01:00:21.201 he joins me this morning, Bertrand good morning. 874 01:00:22.452 --> 01:00:25.746 - Mad Max 2 is really the decay of society 875 01:00:25.747 --> 01:00:30.584 and all its props is now well and truly on the way 876 01:00:30.585 --> 01:00:32.087 to nothingness. 877 01:00:36.049 --> 01:00:39.677 - I came to Silverton in 1973 and bought the pub 878 01:00:39.678 --> 01:00:42.930 and shortly after that various film crews 879 01:00:42.931 --> 01:00:44.641 started rolling into town. 880 01:00:51.398 --> 01:00:55.943 - It was still dirt roads coming into the place. 881 01:00:55.944 --> 01:00:59.697 You always saw people broken down with the bonnets up. 882 01:00:59.698 --> 01:01:02.199 - When they were filming Razorback, 883 01:01:02.200 --> 01:01:05.160 they made the pub look absolutely disgusting, 884 01:01:05.161 --> 01:01:06.996 the outside of it. 885 01:01:06.997 --> 01:01:09.416 When cars would drive past they wouldn't pull up. 886 01:01:12.794 --> 01:01:13.878 - Probably up until then 887 01:01:13.879 --> 01:01:17.047 we'd never ever seen a drag queen in Broken Hill. 888 01:01:17.048 --> 01:01:18.674 We've had some famous people through here. 889 01:01:18.675 --> 01:01:21.802 - I had copies of them all on videos, 890 01:01:21.803 --> 01:01:24.805 but they've been damaged with heat 891 01:01:24.806 --> 01:01:27.016 and they don't work anymore. 892 01:01:27.017 --> 01:01:30.060 - A lot of movies have come here for the outback. 893 01:01:30.061 --> 01:01:31.563 Though Mad Max is the main one. 894 01:01:34.524 --> 01:01:37.192 - I think everybody got paid 20 bucks a day more 895 01:01:37.193 --> 01:01:39.821 if they had a mohawk, more than the other extras. 896 01:01:40.947 --> 01:01:44.408 People were a bit shy about having a mohawk to start with 897 01:01:44.409 --> 01:01:46.035 but it wasn't long before 898 01:01:46.036 --> 01:01:48.579 there were a lot of mohawks around town. 899 01:01:48.580 --> 01:01:51.290 - And we thought, gee, what's going on here, you know? 900 01:01:51.291 --> 01:01:53.959 - I can remember waking up early one morning 901 01:01:53.960 --> 01:01:56.003 and I looked out through the side window 902 01:01:56.004 --> 01:01:58.422 and there's this bloke walking around 903 01:01:58.423 --> 01:02:00.716 in all this leather gear and feathers hanging off 904 01:02:00.717 --> 01:02:02.968 and the cheeks of his arse hanging out 905 01:02:02.969 --> 01:02:05.554 and I just couldn't believe it. 906 01:02:05.555 --> 01:02:07.641 I thought, oh God, this is weird. 907 01:02:10.018 --> 01:02:10.894 I got quite a shock 908 01:02:10.895 --> 01:02:14.064 when I looked out the window and saw that. 909 01:02:17.025 --> 01:02:19.902 - In behind Yoshi there a bit. 910 01:02:19.903 --> 01:02:23.530 For decades in my group of friends, 911 01:02:23.531 --> 01:02:28.536 I was like the only person who loved Mad Max. 912 01:02:31.206 --> 01:02:35.000 Come up a bit more behind Nick here. 913 01:02:35.001 --> 01:02:38.629 Nobody else got it, nobody else was into it. 914 01:02:38.630 --> 01:02:43.384 And then to discover there is an international community 915 01:02:43.385 --> 01:02:47.721 of cosplayers and vehicle enthusiasts and Mad Max freaks. 916 01:02:47.722 --> 01:02:49.848 It's like, holy shit! 917 01:02:49.849 --> 01:02:52.059 - And I couldn't believe it 918 01:02:52.060 --> 01:02:55.688 when they started coming here for these reunions. 919 01:02:55.689 --> 01:02:56.855 - The Silverton Collective 920 01:02:56.856 --> 01:02:58.774 started many, many years ago. 921 01:02:58.775 --> 01:02:59.693 Being a collective 922 01:02:59.694 --> 01:03:02.528 everyone's just basically doing their own thing, 923 01:03:02.529 --> 01:03:04.905 having their own particular fun way 924 01:03:04.906 --> 01:03:06.157 of looking at everything. 925 01:03:07.617 --> 01:03:12.454 - Coming to Silverton, for me it's like sacred ground. 926 01:03:12.455 --> 01:03:15.332 Just knowing that the movie was made here. 927 01:03:15.333 --> 01:03:18.795 - Yoshi comes over here, Tank comes over from America. 928 01:03:22.632 --> 01:03:26.845 And Melvin comes from France, it's a universal movie. 929 01:03:32.767 --> 01:03:36.478 - You are 14 years old and you discover the movie 930 01:03:36.479 --> 01:03:39.690 for the first time in your life in a movie theatre 931 01:03:39.691 --> 01:03:44.820 full with strange guys in leather and crazy haircuts. 932 01:03:44.821 --> 01:03:47.072 That was like, awesome. 933 01:03:47.073 --> 01:03:50.576 Three, two, one. 934 01:03:50.577 --> 01:03:53.787 - The people that are around that come and see them 935 01:03:53.788 --> 01:03:54.706 and they think, oh geez, what are we doing, 936 01:03:54.707 --> 01:03:56.582 filming another Mad Max? 937 01:03:56.583 --> 01:04:00.377 - Little children sometimes are a little bit scared of it. 938 01:04:00.378 --> 01:04:03.047 I have to walk up to them and go really gently, 939 01:04:03.048 --> 01:04:05.174 look I'm a nice person, it's okay. 940 01:04:05.175 --> 01:04:07.051 - I guess you could say I'm a little intimidating 941 01:04:07.052 --> 01:04:08.135 just due to my size. 942 01:04:08.136 --> 01:04:10.471 I'm a nice guy, but people don't get that 943 01:04:10.472 --> 01:04:11.680 until they get to know me. 944 01:04:11.681 --> 01:04:14.391 - I'm trying to calm them down and the parents are like, 945 01:04:14.392 --> 01:04:17.353 yeah, yeah, scare them more, scare them more. 946 01:04:22.525 --> 01:04:25.944 - I feel like I'm at home with all the other crazies. 947 01:04:25.945 --> 01:04:27.447 It's like coming to Mecca. 948 01:04:28.448 --> 01:04:33.453 - I'm Michael, Stacie, my daughter, Josh, Cody. 949 01:04:34.037 --> 01:04:35.829 Family trip. 950 01:04:35.830 --> 01:04:39.041 - Well, it's been the trip of a lifetime really. 951 01:04:39.042 --> 01:04:43.754 Like traveling back to Silverton from Maryborough 952 01:04:43.755 --> 01:04:47.216 in a big convoy of about 12 cars, 953 01:04:47.217 --> 01:04:49.927 that was one of the best experiences I've ever had. 954 01:04:49.928 --> 01:04:52.387 - I'm like my father in many ways, 955 01:04:52.388 --> 01:04:54.681 just looking at the old cars and stuff 956 01:04:54.682 --> 01:04:58.894 and helping out and all that so yeah. 957 01:04:58.895 --> 01:05:02.899 - 'Cause I needed all the drivers too, hang on. 958 01:05:04.317 --> 01:05:07.112 So yeah, so I needed a back up vehicle. 959 01:05:08.363 --> 01:05:11.490 Joshua brought the Griffin car, 960 01:05:11.491 --> 01:05:14.660 and he's our little navigator. 961 01:05:14.661 --> 01:05:17.955 And it's just awesome, you can go out to the scenes out here 962 01:05:17.956 --> 01:05:19.666 and it's exactly like in the movie. 963 01:05:27.048 --> 01:05:29.967 When I hit the Mundi Mundi plains, 964 01:05:29.968 --> 01:05:33.679 go on over the hill and down, you know, it's just awesome. 965 01:05:33.680 --> 01:05:35.431 Just like on the movie. 966 01:05:44.190 --> 01:05:46.942 - I've always been more a loner you might say, 967 01:05:46.943 --> 01:05:48.569 rather than big groups, 968 01:05:48.570 --> 01:05:51.489 I don't know what drives people to get together like that. 969 01:05:52.615 --> 01:05:53.949 Really. 970 01:05:53.950 --> 01:05:54.950 - Hundreds tonight, 971 01:05:54.951 --> 01:05:57.703 I've never seen the lookout as busy as it is tonight. 972 01:05:57.704 --> 01:06:00.707 It's just phenomenal, the crowds, the cars. 973 01:06:03.501 --> 01:06:05.502 - You can stand on the spot and go, 974 01:06:05.503 --> 01:06:09.256 shit, that rock looks like it was still in the movie. 975 01:06:17.473 --> 01:06:20.559 - I think it just captures a bit of a dreamtime 976 01:06:20.560 --> 01:06:21.436 for a lot of Australians 977 01:06:21.437 --> 01:06:24.439 how they would like to play and live their life. 978 01:06:25.857 --> 01:06:28.358 Anything to do with wheels and motors 979 01:06:28.359 --> 01:06:31.445 is always a popular thing with guys. 980 01:06:31.446 --> 01:06:33.030 - Off the road. 981 01:06:33.031 --> 01:06:34.823 Get off the road! 982 01:06:41.080 --> 01:06:45.125 - Back in the day, those cars were on the road for us. 983 01:06:45.126 --> 01:06:46.668 We'd like to catch the bus to school 984 01:06:46.669 --> 01:06:47.711 and be looking out the window 985 01:06:47.712 --> 01:06:50.589 and you see all these cars that could have been in Mad Max 986 01:06:50.590 --> 01:06:53.009 and yeah, we just loved those cars. 987 01:06:55.678 --> 01:06:59.348 - Mid-seventies, petrol had been hugely cheap. 988 01:06:59.349 --> 01:07:01.642 - And my car needed so much of it 989 01:07:01.643 --> 01:07:04.811 that I was continually running out of petrol. 990 01:07:04.812 --> 01:07:07.147 - Young men could quite simply go out 991 01:07:07.148 --> 01:07:11.818 and buy themselves a ridiculously overpowered automobile. 992 01:07:11.819 --> 01:07:16.073 And the sense of freedom you get from that was massive. 993 01:07:16.074 --> 01:07:18.200 And then there was the oil crisis. 994 01:07:18.201 --> 01:07:20.744 - This may be the worst weekend they've ever faced 995 01:07:20.745 --> 01:07:23.789 for finding gasoline to give them the automobile freedom 996 01:07:23.790 --> 01:07:25.082 they take as their due. 997 01:07:25.083 --> 01:07:27.918 - You had these incredible automobiles 998 01:07:27.919 --> 01:07:30.128 that sucked a huge amount of juice 999 01:07:30.129 --> 01:07:33.882 and all of a sudden petrol wasn't cheap anymore. 1000 01:07:33.883 --> 01:07:37.678 - Big V8s and the like were just cut up and got rid of 1001 01:07:37.679 --> 01:07:38.929 because it looked as though the fuel 1002 01:07:38.930 --> 01:07:42.391 was going to keep on getting more expensive. 1003 01:07:42.392 --> 01:07:43.767 - I remember being told things like, 1004 01:07:43.768 --> 01:07:47.020 fuel is going to run out in two, maybe three years. 1005 01:07:47.021 --> 01:07:50.482 - When we had fuel rationing we saw what started to happen 1006 01:07:50.483 --> 01:07:52.401 after about three or four days. 1007 01:07:52.402 --> 01:07:54.486 - I will not take the blame for this thing, 1008 01:07:54.487 --> 01:07:56.238 I will not take the crap and the harassment 1009 01:07:56.239 --> 01:07:57.073 from these customers. 1010 01:07:57.074 --> 01:07:59.700 - Why didn't they come out and tell us there was no gas? 1011 01:07:59.701 --> 01:08:02.577 - Lives were disrupted by something as simple 1012 01:08:02.578 --> 01:08:04.830 as not having enough fuel to run their cars. 1013 01:08:04.831 --> 01:08:08.959 - When Mad Max came out it kind of crystallised, 1014 01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:11.086 oh this is what it could look like. 1015 01:08:11.087 --> 01:08:14.423 We'd see a breakdown in order and chaos would ensue. 1016 01:08:14.424 --> 01:08:16.508 Gangs would take over the highway. 1017 01:08:16.509 --> 01:08:19.970 - Timing of Max and the timing of that whole 1018 01:08:19.971 --> 01:08:22.973 car culture, power high-octane thing 1019 01:08:22.974 --> 01:08:27.227 was right in the sweet spot to create even more reverence 1020 01:08:27.228 --> 01:08:32.316 to these beautifully illogical overpowered vehicles. 1021 01:08:40.658 --> 01:08:43.452 - I remember when I first arrived here 1022 01:08:43.453 --> 01:08:45.829 for the first time in 2004, 1023 01:08:45.830 --> 01:08:48.915 we came over the brow of the hill and just parked up here. 1024 01:08:48.916 --> 01:08:51.543 I got goosebumps, the hairs went up on the back of my neck, 1025 01:08:51.544 --> 01:08:53.503 it was just absolutely incredible. 1026 01:08:53.504 --> 01:08:57.007 It just felt, well for me, it felt like I'd come home. 1027 01:08:57.008 --> 01:09:00.302 I was so familiar with seeing this place in the movie. 1028 01:09:00.303 --> 01:09:02.179 Just absolutely incredible. 1029 01:09:02.180 --> 01:09:04.264 - We actually call Adrian Mad Max 1030 01:09:04.265 --> 01:09:06.683 because he thinks he's Mad Max. 1031 01:09:06.684 --> 01:09:09.353 He dresses like Mad Max, got a dog like Mad Max, 1032 01:09:09.354 --> 01:09:11.480 he does everything Mad Max. 1033 01:09:11.481 --> 01:09:13.231 I think he eats dog food and all that. 1034 01:09:13.232 --> 01:09:15.776 - I remember sitting at the kitchen table, 1035 01:09:15.777 --> 01:09:17.319 I had my head in my hands, I was like this, 1036 01:09:17.320 --> 01:09:19.571 and my mum came and she said, 1037 01:09:19.572 --> 01:09:20.947 is everything all right, you know, is everything okay? 1038 01:09:20.948 --> 01:09:25.202 And I said, Mum, you know, I've just been to see 1039 01:09:25.203 --> 01:09:28.539 two of the most extraordinary films that I've ever seen. 1040 01:09:29.791 --> 01:09:31.917 And that was the start that set me on this quest 1041 01:09:31.918 --> 01:09:35.004 to find out more and more about these incredible movies. 1042 01:09:37.423 --> 01:09:40.426 To me, Mad Max 2 was film perfection, it was flawless. 1043 01:09:43.012 --> 01:09:46.390 The first thing I wanted to do was see if I can find a car, 1044 01:09:46.391 --> 01:09:48.475 which I did, I found an Aussie coupe in Texas, 1045 01:09:48.476 --> 01:09:50.727 funnily enough, and I bought the car 1046 01:09:50.728 --> 01:09:54.481 and over the next 18 months turned into the Interceptor. 1047 01:09:59.821 --> 01:10:01.988 I think at the time I was the only person in Europe 1048 01:10:01.989 --> 01:10:04.700 that had one of these replicas and I was happy. 1049 01:10:07.203 --> 01:10:09.287 But I knew that there was something more I needed to do, 1050 01:10:09.288 --> 01:10:10.997 something else I wanted to do. 1051 01:10:10.998 --> 01:10:13.834 My future plans including the family and the car, 1052 01:10:13.835 --> 01:10:16.461 is moving to Australia to live. 1053 01:10:16.462 --> 01:10:18.964 I actually said to my wife, Linda, I said, 1054 01:10:18.965 --> 01:10:21.925 do you think you could live there? 1055 01:10:21.926 --> 01:10:26.054 Well thinking it would never happen, she actually said yes, 1056 01:10:26.055 --> 01:10:28.598 you know, just to kind of pacify me. 1057 01:10:30.810 --> 01:10:32.310 I've been with Linda now for 35 years 1058 01:10:32.311 --> 01:10:35.105 and our first date was actually taking her to the cinema 1059 01:10:35.106 --> 01:10:37.023 to see Mad Max 1 and 2. 1060 01:10:37.024 --> 01:10:39.025 But I don't really think she ever expected me 1061 01:10:39.026 --> 01:10:40.026 to do all this. 1062 01:10:41.028 --> 01:10:44.030 Thinking back now, I got away with things that maybe 1063 01:10:44.031 --> 01:10:46.284 a normal husband wouldn't have got away with. 1064 01:10:47.493 --> 01:10:49.828 At the time it was just a dream but I thought to myself, 1065 01:10:49.829 --> 01:10:52.372 if I'm ever lucky enough to ever live in Australia, 1066 01:10:52.373 --> 01:10:53.832 and certainly live out here, 1067 01:10:53.833 --> 01:10:56.918 I would love to do some kind of display. 1068 01:10:56.919 --> 01:10:58.712 - We all thought it was going to be bullshit 1069 01:10:58.713 --> 01:11:02.257 and you know, no one's going to go to the Mad Max Museum. 1070 01:11:02.258 --> 01:11:04.634 But it's the most popular thing out here. 1071 01:11:04.635 --> 01:11:07.512 Everyone that comes here and they don't know where it is, 1072 01:11:07.513 --> 01:11:09.848 well, where's Mad Max Museum? 1073 01:11:09.849 --> 01:11:10.683 Up the hill. 1074 01:11:10.684 --> 01:11:14.102 - This being known as the Hollywood of the Outback, 1075 01:11:14.103 --> 01:11:16.230 I just found it odd that there was really nothing 1076 01:11:17.356 --> 01:11:19.024 to show that films are shot here. 1077 01:11:19.025 --> 01:11:20.817 Especially with a film like Mad Max 2 1078 01:11:20.818 --> 01:11:24.404 which of course is one of the biggest films ever made. 1079 01:11:34.624 --> 01:11:36.291 The majority of photographs here 1080 01:11:36.292 --> 01:11:38.460 were given to me by cast and crew members, 1081 01:11:38.461 --> 01:11:40.670 extras as well from Broken Hill. 1082 01:11:40.671 --> 01:11:41.797 There's a lot more to the film 1083 01:11:41.798 --> 01:11:44.132 than the 90 minutes you see on the screen. 1084 01:11:44.133 --> 01:11:47.010 For instance, we have just this photograph here 1085 01:11:47.011 --> 01:11:49.221 that shows one of the bad guys 1086 01:11:49.222 --> 01:11:51.348 eating a chocolate bar, having a laugh. 1087 01:11:51.349 --> 01:11:52.682 And I think that's important, 1088 01:11:52.683 --> 01:11:55.018 just to let people know, and show people, 1089 01:11:55.019 --> 01:11:57.438 exactly what went on at the same time. 1090 01:11:58.731 --> 01:12:01.650 These are just a few of the people that I've ever met 1091 01:12:01.651 --> 01:12:05.320 or people that have called in to see us at the museum, 1092 01:12:05.321 --> 01:12:08.907 which is a real honour for me, a real big honour. 1093 01:12:08.908 --> 01:12:11.535 Oh, actually we were doing some work at the back 1094 01:12:11.536 --> 01:12:13.328 and a chap came round the back 1095 01:12:13.329 --> 01:12:15.455 and he just said, oh, are you the owner? 1096 01:12:15.456 --> 01:12:16.873 I said, yes, he said, 1097 01:12:16.874 --> 01:12:18.583 my wife would love a photograph with you. 1098 01:12:18.584 --> 01:12:20.669 And I said, yeah, that's no problem, I'll come around. 1099 01:12:20.670 --> 01:12:21.711 And he said, oh, I should let you know, 1100 01:12:21.712 --> 01:12:23.880 it's Mel Gibson's sister. 1101 01:12:23.881 --> 01:12:26.758 So you can imagine that I was a little bit nervous. 1102 01:12:26.759 --> 01:12:29.594 You never know who's gonna walk through the door. 1103 01:12:29.595 --> 01:12:32.097 - Go up there and growl at the camera. 1104 01:12:32.098 --> 01:12:34.182 Right down the lens, run up to it. 1105 01:12:34.183 --> 01:12:35.850 - Mel came into the bar one day 1106 01:12:35.851 --> 01:12:38.019 and he had all this gravel rash 1107 01:12:38.020 --> 01:12:41.773 and it was all weeping and it looked terrible. 1108 01:12:41.774 --> 01:12:43.400 And I said, ugh, I'll go and get 1109 01:12:43.401 --> 01:12:44.901 someone to do something about that 1110 01:12:44.902 --> 01:12:46.987 and he just laughed because it was just makeup 1111 01:12:46.988 --> 01:12:51.658 and here's stupid me thinking that was the real thing. 1112 01:12:51.659 --> 01:12:53.451 - Well, this display here 1113 01:12:53.452 --> 01:12:57.831 features parts from the Interceptor double car, 1114 01:12:57.832 --> 01:13:01.751 which is the one that they rolled and wrecked. 1115 01:13:01.752 --> 01:13:03.878 If you're lucky enough when you're fossicking around 1116 01:13:03.879 --> 01:13:08.049 you can find little bits and pieces that are still around. 1117 01:13:08.050 --> 01:13:10.218 To some people it looks like bits 1118 01:13:10.219 --> 01:13:12.596 of broken glass and things like that, 1119 01:13:12.597 --> 01:13:14.347 but for me, finding something like these pieces here, 1120 01:13:14.348 --> 01:13:15.348 the bits off the car, 1121 01:13:15.349 --> 01:13:18.101 must be like a prospector finding gold. 1122 01:13:18.102 --> 01:13:21.063 - Oh, that's rock. 1123 01:13:23.691 --> 01:13:24.691 God dammit. 1124 01:13:28.321 --> 01:13:30.906 - Oh, I found it, I found what you were picking up. 1125 01:13:32.450 --> 01:13:36.286 Mad Max first entered my life on June 8th, 2016. 1126 01:13:36.287 --> 01:13:37.663 That's the day I met Tank. 1127 01:13:40.374 --> 01:13:41.917 I was working for a television station 1128 01:13:41.918 --> 01:13:44.502 at Eternal Con on Long Island 1129 01:13:44.503 --> 01:13:46.671 and I'm interviewing an Iron Man 1130 01:13:46.672 --> 01:13:48.256 when out of the corner of my eye 1131 01:13:48.257 --> 01:13:53.178 I see this hulking, naked figure. 1132 01:13:53.179 --> 01:13:54.554 I think my first question to Tank was, 1133 01:13:54.555 --> 01:13:56.641 who the hell are you and why are you naked? 1134 01:13:57.850 --> 01:13:59.893 I said, can I just come up to your house for a weekend 1135 01:13:59.894 --> 01:14:03.480 and do a little three minute video for my news station? 1136 01:14:03.481 --> 01:14:05.523 - Ham and Swiss or spinach and feta? 1137 01:14:05.524 --> 01:14:08.818 - I'll go ham and swish, swish, swish. 1138 01:14:08.819 --> 01:14:10.111 - Two days later, we start filming. 1139 01:14:10.112 --> 01:14:12.697 He calls me up a couple of days later and he goes, 1140 01:14:12.698 --> 01:14:15.533 by the way, this is what I do all year long. 1141 01:14:15.534 --> 01:14:18.578 - And some cake to chase that coffee down. 1142 01:14:18.579 --> 01:14:19.788 Just the plain one. 1143 01:14:19.789 --> 01:14:21.623 - And he said, do you want to come to Australia with me? 1144 01:14:21.624 --> 01:14:22.792 I said, hell yeah I do. 1145 01:14:24.293 --> 01:14:27.296 We traveled the world together many times over. 1146 01:14:30.174 --> 01:14:33.301 And eventually we fell in love. 1147 01:14:33.302 --> 01:14:34.344 Some days I want to kill him, 1148 01:14:34.345 --> 01:14:36.389 but he feels like my best friend, you know? 1149 01:14:38.724 --> 01:14:40.183 - I have lipstick on now? 1150 01:14:40.184 --> 01:14:41.184 - No. - Okay. 1151 01:14:42.728 --> 01:14:45.648 - I think that he has a very rigid view on masculinity 1152 01:14:46.732 --> 01:14:49.026 and I challenge that a lot. 1153 01:14:50.403 --> 01:14:52.737 Men can have feelings, men can open up. 1154 01:14:52.738 --> 01:14:54.739 - I don't know what it is. - It's a piece of car. 1155 01:14:54.740 --> 01:14:56.367 - He hides behind a lot of walls. 1156 01:14:58.994 --> 01:15:01.080 He gets to hide behind the mask. 1157 01:15:02.164 --> 01:15:04.500 - Oh! - Oh, yes! 1158 01:15:05.459 --> 01:15:08.253 - Yeah! - Holy shit! 1159 01:15:08.254 --> 01:15:10.004 Oh my god! 1160 01:15:10.005 --> 01:15:13.007 - It's a piece of potentially Toadie's badge! 1161 01:15:13.008 --> 01:15:14.926 - Yep. - Wow. 1162 01:15:14.927 --> 01:15:17.012 We got to compare it to some screenshots. 1163 01:15:18.514 --> 01:15:21.725 - Well done, Tank, that's gold, mate. 1164 01:15:21.726 --> 01:15:24.477 Suck it, King Tutankhamen. 1165 01:15:26.689 --> 01:15:29.024 - I like to visit the movie location 1166 01:15:29.025 --> 01:15:34.030 and after a while I started this rock museum. 1167 01:15:34.572 --> 01:15:37.907 I went quite everywhere where they shot the movies 1168 01:15:37.908 --> 01:15:39.659 so I have quite a lot. 1169 01:15:39.660 --> 01:15:41.870 Obviously rocks were really important 1170 01:15:41.871 --> 01:15:43.872 for me at the beginning. 1171 01:15:43.873 --> 01:15:48.878 Now I succeed to pick up a little piece of the road, 1172 01:15:50.045 --> 01:15:51.254 of the bitumen. 1173 01:15:51.255 --> 01:15:53.840 I mean they shot the movie on that bitumen 1174 01:15:53.841 --> 01:15:57.469 so it's like, you know, interesting. 1175 01:15:57.470 --> 01:15:58.928 Actually I don't really care about 1176 01:15:58.929 --> 01:16:01.514 how beautiful the rocks are, 1177 01:16:01.515 --> 01:16:04.476 it's just they were picked at the right place 1178 01:16:04.477 --> 01:16:08.980 and now it's a beautiful 1179 01:16:08.981 --> 01:16:13.319 collection of stuff. 1180 01:16:20.576 --> 01:16:24.412 - Gradually I realised that whilst I was 1181 01:16:24.413 --> 01:16:27.415 from a completely different background, 1182 01:16:27.416 --> 01:16:32.421 I had through this film extraordinary unforeseen affinities 1183 01:16:33.672 --> 01:16:35.173 with those people. 1184 01:16:35.174 --> 01:16:37.926 I would like to really congratulate you 1185 01:16:37.927 --> 01:16:39.803 on keeping this cinema open. 1186 01:16:39.804 --> 01:16:43.306 I'm now very fond of them and strangely enough, 1187 01:16:43.307 --> 01:16:45.184 they seem to be very fond of me. 1188 01:16:49.313 --> 01:16:51.689 - We all rub shoulder to shoulder. 1189 01:16:51.690 --> 01:16:54.026 We're all stars in our own right. 1190 01:16:57.071 --> 01:17:00.490 Being a fan of Mad Max, it grows on you. 1191 01:17:00.491 --> 01:17:02.450 It grows on you. 1192 01:17:02.451 --> 01:17:05.621 - Hey, for a 38 year old movie that's not bad, huh? 1193 01:17:06.831 --> 01:17:10.209 - It's a story of survival, and I thought about myself. 1194 01:17:12.002 --> 01:17:16.632 In 1998, they said, you've got a tumor in your spinal cord. 1195 01:17:18.092 --> 01:17:22.136 The doctor got all the tumor out of the spinal cord 1196 01:17:22.137 --> 01:17:25.014 but it left all this damage. 1197 01:17:25.015 --> 01:17:29.769 It took me months, but I finally got the big toe moving. 1198 01:17:29.770 --> 01:17:32.856 Nine months later I walked out of there. 1199 01:17:32.857 --> 01:17:34.357 It's up to each and every one of us 1200 01:17:34.358 --> 01:17:38.736 to have that determination to push ourselves through. 1201 01:17:38.737 --> 01:17:41.282 - I've got that fighting spirit, I won't give up. 1202 01:17:42.241 --> 01:17:43.825 I've been through a hell of a lot of trauma 1203 01:17:43.826 --> 01:17:46.744 and this one's been through it with me. 1204 01:17:46.745 --> 01:17:49.163 Still fighting the fight of cancer now, 1205 01:17:49.164 --> 01:17:52.458 and I'm not going to give up, I won't stop smiling 1206 01:17:52.459 --> 01:17:54.168 and keep the fight. 1207 01:17:54.169 --> 01:17:57.255 Every day is worth living and you've got to fight it. 1208 01:17:57.256 --> 01:18:02.468 - And that's Mad Max, daily battle to survive. 1209 01:18:02.469 --> 01:18:05.388 We'll get there, yeah, we'll make it. 1210 01:18:05.389 --> 01:18:08.224 - First thing I done, when I got back 1211 01:18:08.225 --> 01:18:12.729 I asked the person with me to get a handful of soil 1212 01:18:12.730 --> 01:18:14.564 and put it in my hands. 1213 01:18:14.565 --> 01:18:18.110 I rubbed it through my fingers and I said, I'm home. 1214 01:18:23.407 --> 01:18:27.452 - Now you'll be able to walk. 1215 01:18:27.453 --> 01:18:30.246 - I can die happy now, it's all good. 1216 01:18:30.247 --> 01:18:32.832 - Last of the V8 Interceptors. 1217 01:18:32.833 --> 01:18:35.084 It fills people's lives, makes 'em happy. 1218 01:18:35.085 --> 01:18:37.921 If it makes 'em happy then it's good to do. 1219 01:18:37.922 --> 01:18:41.883 - The mateship, the comradery, it's infectious. 1220 01:18:41.884 --> 01:18:43.844 It's Australian and I love it. 1221 01:18:45.346 --> 01:18:47.806 - And it only lasts a few days. 1222 01:18:48.849 --> 01:18:52.101 And then it's time to go back to the real world 1223 01:18:52.102 --> 01:18:53.103 and that's hard. 1224 01:18:54.355 --> 01:18:56.481 That's a bit of a let down, I mean, you're not only 1225 01:18:56.482 --> 01:18:58.858 going back to your day job and taking the costume off 1226 01:18:58.859 --> 01:19:00.945 but you're leaving family behind. 1227 01:19:02.821 --> 01:19:05.323 This is not just a Comic Convention or something. 1228 01:19:05.324 --> 01:19:06.533 This is a family reunion. 1229 01:19:07.952 --> 01:19:10.453 - And it's incredible 'cause 10 days maybe total 1230 01:19:10.454 --> 01:19:12.413 have been spent together and they feel like 1231 01:19:12.414 --> 01:19:14.041 I've known them my whole life. 1232 01:19:17.962 --> 01:19:19.087 - There's been so many great things 1233 01:19:19.088 --> 01:19:20.838 that have come out of all this, 1234 01:19:20.839 --> 01:19:22.633 people that have come into my life. 1235 01:19:23.717 --> 01:19:25.426 That have changed my life, 1236 01:19:25.427 --> 01:19:30.390 and hopefully they'll stick around for the rest of my life. 1237 01:19:30.391 --> 01:19:31.891 - You're a special one. 1238 01:19:31.892 --> 01:19:33.268 - Am I now? - Mister Tank. 1239 01:19:35.187 --> 01:19:37.647 How'd we do? - We did great. 1240 01:19:37.648 --> 01:19:40.566 - There was always individuals inspired to create 1241 01:19:40.567 --> 01:19:43.695 and over time if you love it, you just stay with it 1242 01:19:43.696 --> 01:19:45.697 and it doesn't matter if you don't know anyone else 1243 01:19:45.698 --> 01:19:47.073 who's involved in it. 1244 01:19:47.074 --> 01:19:49.659 Certainly, you want to be executed? 1245 01:19:49.660 --> 01:19:53.913 But the beauty of it is there is a big community out there 1246 01:19:53.914 --> 01:19:55.748 of people who are all like-minded, 1247 01:19:55.749 --> 01:20:00.211 who have the same roaring desire for this franchise. 1248 01:20:11.348 --> 01:20:14.308 Nothing can prepare for that moment 1249 01:20:14.309 --> 01:20:17.061 when you drive towards the Wasteland city 1250 01:20:17.062 --> 01:20:18.688 for the first time. 1251 01:20:18.689 --> 01:20:21.357 And you're seeing it rise out of the desert 1252 01:20:21.358 --> 01:20:23.193 and it's on. 1253 01:20:27.364 --> 01:20:29.282 - We started Wasteland Weekend in 2010. 1254 01:20:29.283 --> 01:20:32.368 We wanted to have a gathering of Mad Max fans 1255 01:20:32.369 --> 01:20:34.370 and do it out in our own little piece of the wasteland 1256 01:20:34.371 --> 01:20:36.415 and we thought some people might show up. 1257 01:20:37.499 --> 01:20:40.334 - It's a crazy event, it is massive. 1258 01:20:40.335 --> 01:20:41.961 I think last year they had probably around 1259 01:20:41.962 --> 01:20:43.714 4,000 people attend. 1260 01:20:45.924 --> 01:20:48.677 It takes hours to get in, it's just, it's insane. 1261 01:20:49.803 --> 01:20:53.306 - We go in, we kill, we capture them! 1262 01:20:53.307 --> 01:20:55.975 Being Wez at Wasteland Weekend 1263 01:20:55.976 --> 01:21:00.146 is nothing short of being an epic rock star for a week. 1264 01:21:00.147 --> 01:21:01.231 Wez, you missed your cue. 1265 01:21:03.192 --> 01:21:04.485 Valley of Death? 1266 01:21:06.070 --> 01:21:08.946 - This is the Valley of Death! 1267 01:21:08.947 --> 01:21:11.240 - Tank's tribe is really the tribe for 1268 01:21:11.241 --> 01:21:13.201 screen accurate Mad Max 2 stuff. 1269 01:21:13.202 --> 01:21:16.037 - We kill, we capture! - Wez, no! 1270 01:21:16.038 --> 01:21:17.955 - I don't think anybody's living a better life 1271 01:21:17.956 --> 01:21:19.916 than Steve Scholz when he's dressed up as Wez. 1272 01:21:19.917 --> 01:21:21.501 It's incredible to watch. 1273 01:21:21.502 --> 01:21:24.212 - I understand your pain. 1274 01:21:24.213 --> 01:21:27.548 - And now it's Lord Humungus and Lady Faye 1275 01:21:27.549 --> 01:21:29.133 of the Dogs of War. 1276 01:21:29.134 --> 01:21:30.176 - People ask me all the time, 1277 01:21:30.177 --> 01:21:32.178 with all this cosplay stuff that I do 1278 01:21:32.179 --> 01:21:33.596 do you make any money doing it? 1279 01:21:33.597 --> 01:21:35.306 And I say, believe it or not, 1280 01:21:35.307 --> 01:21:38.352 the one thing that actually makes money is the DJing thing. 1281 01:21:39.686 --> 01:21:43.189 DJ Humungus is very heavy, unforgivingly heavy. 1282 01:21:43.190 --> 01:21:45.775 Still very danceable. 1283 01:21:47.569 --> 01:21:49.905 It started out as just a silly idea, who knew. 1284 01:22:00.082 --> 01:22:02.875 - My dogs, we're gathered here today. 1285 01:22:02.876 --> 01:22:03.752 - So good. 1286 01:22:03.753 --> 01:22:06.379 - You must not be selfish. 1287 01:22:06.380 --> 01:22:09.132 You must not hoard your gasoline from one another. 1288 01:22:10.467 --> 01:22:13.636 You must listen to each other's reason, especially hers. 1289 01:22:13.637 --> 01:22:15.221 - So many people showed up. 1290 01:22:15.222 --> 01:22:16.889 There's people like ringed three and four deep 1291 01:22:16.890 --> 01:22:18.391 outside the dome. 1292 01:22:18.392 --> 01:22:20.226 I'm looking up, there's people climbing the dome, 1293 01:22:20.227 --> 01:22:22.770 local Cal City Police Department was there 1294 01:22:22.771 --> 01:22:24.730 working the event, they were on the dome 1295 01:22:24.731 --> 01:22:25.691 to see what was going on. 1296 01:22:25.692 --> 01:22:27.275 - Local sheriff's department was on the dome. 1297 01:22:27.276 --> 01:22:28.152 - Oh man. 1298 01:22:28.153 --> 01:22:30.486 - We have multiple wedding requests every year, 1299 01:22:30.487 --> 01:22:31.779 but okay, if you want to do that. 1300 01:22:31.780 --> 01:22:33.990 I mean, it's, it's your wedding if you want us to ruin it. 1301 01:22:33.991 --> 01:22:37.160 - With the power assumed by me. 1302 01:22:37.161 --> 01:22:39.704 And once I did one, everybody else 1303 01:22:39.705 --> 01:22:41.998 just wanted to follow suit at Wasteland, 1304 01:22:41.999 --> 01:22:42.833 said, I've got to get in on this, 1305 01:22:42.834 --> 01:22:44.458 I need the Lord Humungus to marry me. 1306 01:22:44.459 --> 01:22:48.963 - If any Wastelander has an objection to this union. 1307 01:22:48.964 --> 01:22:51.799 - Tank doesn't become Tank until he puts that mask on 1308 01:22:51.800 --> 01:22:54.468 and then he just gets to become this funny, 1309 01:22:54.469 --> 01:22:58.139 lighthearted guy, everybody eats it up, everybody loves it. 1310 01:23:01.226 --> 01:23:04.854 Tank's only just started doing that without the mask with me 1311 01:23:04.855 --> 01:23:07.148 in the last couple of months. 1312 01:23:07.149 --> 01:23:11.694 Gently over time, he's changed into something 1313 01:23:11.695 --> 01:23:14.615 a little softer and a little more open-minded. 1314 01:23:18.869 --> 01:23:22.246 - A lot of people give me strange looks when they ask me, 1315 01:23:22.247 --> 01:23:24.248 oh, where did you meet your husband? 1316 01:23:24.249 --> 01:23:25.625 I always hesitate. 1317 01:23:25.626 --> 01:23:27.502 They might think, well, why do you want to go 1318 01:23:27.503 --> 01:23:29.795 and celebrate the apocalypse? 1319 01:23:29.796 --> 01:23:31.798 You know, isn't that kind of depressing? 1320 01:23:33.884 --> 01:23:35.968 But it's quite the opposite for us. 1321 01:23:35.969 --> 01:23:40.806 Sometimes when you face the potential end 1322 01:23:40.807 --> 01:23:44.186 you face the ability to celebrate life itself. 1323 01:23:52.319 --> 01:23:54.195 - The whole post-apocalyptic genre 1324 01:23:54.196 --> 01:23:55.905 is I think a positive thing, 1325 01:23:55.906 --> 01:23:58.366 because it means there is a post-apocalypse. 1326 01:23:58.367 --> 01:23:59.660 There is something after. 1327 01:24:00.786 --> 01:24:02.203 - You can be more your own person. 1328 01:24:02.204 --> 01:24:03.621 Like everyday you get up and you go to work 1329 01:24:03.622 --> 01:24:06.374 and you're, you know, you're Joe Schmo in your cubicle job 1330 01:24:06.375 --> 01:24:07.792 being told what to do by your boss 1331 01:24:07.793 --> 01:24:09.919 and you feel like you have no autonomy in your life. 1332 01:24:09.920 --> 01:24:12.964 The end of the world, you're in charge. 1333 01:24:12.965 --> 01:24:16.676 It's easier to feel like you're more important in the waste. 1334 01:24:16.677 --> 01:24:19.971 - Wasteland is very inclusive and people may think, 1335 01:24:19.972 --> 01:24:21.514 oh, only certain people can come here. 1336 01:24:21.515 --> 01:24:23.557 Let me tell you, everybody is beautiful 1337 01:24:23.558 --> 01:24:26.310 and passionate about what they do as far as Wasteland goes. 1338 01:24:26.311 --> 01:24:31.066 - The real world I work for the Port of Los Angeles. 1339 01:24:32.484 --> 01:24:35.278 - I'm a middle school science teacher. 1340 01:24:35.279 --> 01:24:36.612 - Anybody could belong. 1341 01:24:36.613 --> 01:24:41.325 It doesn't matter how old you are or what your background is 1342 01:24:41.326 --> 01:24:44.996 or what country you're from or what language you speak. 1343 01:24:44.997 --> 01:24:47.248 It doesn't matter, I think everybody fits in. 1344 01:24:47.249 --> 01:24:49.750 I think everybody's trying to fit in somehow. 1345 01:24:49.751 --> 01:24:53.004 - I had no idea that there was other people 1346 01:24:53.005 --> 01:24:56.173 as weird as I am, but like I found my family. 1347 01:24:56.174 --> 01:24:57.926 It's like my home away from home. 1348 01:24:58.969 --> 01:25:01.762 We've got people in Japan, Australia, 1349 01:25:01.763 --> 01:25:05.850 Holland, Italy, Ireland. 1350 01:25:05.851 --> 01:25:07.351 - Canada, Mexico. - Scotland. 1351 01:25:07.352 --> 01:25:10.563 - We know there's other groups out there, there's Germans. 1352 01:25:10.564 --> 01:25:12.690 - Oh yeah, the Germans! 1353 01:25:15.902 --> 01:25:20.114 - Our group consists of more than 300 people. 1354 01:25:20.115 --> 01:25:22.784 Prop makers, models, dancers. 1355 01:25:25.287 --> 01:25:27.663 In this rotten and rusty world 1356 01:25:27.664 --> 01:25:32.044 the Cult of Chrome's the cult to achieve something bigger. 1357 01:25:34.755 --> 01:25:36.756 - We all understand the language of survival. 1358 01:25:36.757 --> 01:25:39.050 We all understand the apocalypse. 1359 01:25:39.051 --> 01:25:41.845 - Everybody somehow can relate to Mad Max. 1360 01:26:26.556 --> 01:26:29.476 - There's always a new fan base that rediscovers it. 1361 01:26:30.519 --> 01:26:32.144 And that's where it keeps on growing. 1362 01:26:32.145 --> 01:26:35.272 - When Fury Road came out it gave a real shot in the arm. 1363 01:26:35.273 --> 01:26:38.901 Now we have a new set of inspirational visual things 1364 01:26:38.902 --> 01:26:40.861 that we can play with. 1365 01:26:41.823 --> 01:26:45.241 - Fury Road changed how I look at the whole series. 1366 01:26:45.242 --> 01:26:47.243 - It was at the festival of Cannes, 1367 01:26:47.244 --> 01:26:51.122 so Mad Max gained cultural prestige. 1368 01:26:51.123 --> 01:26:53.791 - Having Furiosa as a strong female character 1369 01:26:53.792 --> 01:26:55.042 that's also disabled, 1370 01:26:55.043 --> 01:26:57.420 it's just really great to see that representation in film. 1371 01:26:57.421 --> 01:27:00.923 - Women can kick arse just as much as men can. 1372 01:27:00.924 --> 01:27:03.717 - When I saw the movie, made me free. 1373 01:27:03.718 --> 01:27:07.638 More Japanese women watched that movie. 1374 01:27:07.639 --> 01:27:11.100 - Max and Furiosa stand their own ground. 1375 01:27:11.101 --> 01:27:13.978 I really liked that balance, that equality. 1376 01:27:13.979 --> 01:27:15.396 - None of us would ever know each other 1377 01:27:15.397 --> 01:27:16.772 if it wasn't for the Mad Max movies, 1378 01:27:16.773 --> 01:27:19.693 if it wasn't for Mad Max and then Wasteland 1379 01:27:20.902 --> 01:27:22.571 we all wouldn't be here right now. 1380 01:27:26.408 --> 01:27:27.950 - Dressing up didn't seem like 1381 01:27:27.951 --> 01:27:30.161 it was ever going to be a thing that I did. 1382 01:27:30.162 --> 01:27:31.537 Now that I'm comfortable doing it 1383 01:27:31.538 --> 01:27:34.498 and I don't feel like a complete doofus 1384 01:27:34.499 --> 01:27:36.918 it is transformative. 1385 01:27:38.628 --> 01:27:41.506 Meeting Tank brought out the doer in me. 1386 01:27:45.260 --> 01:27:49.096 - I think he is a very lucky individual 1387 01:27:49.097 --> 01:27:52.766 to have found something that he is that passionate about. 1388 01:27:52.767 --> 01:27:55.978 Even if people do not understand 1389 01:27:55.979 --> 01:27:59.691 how somebody can be so passionate about a movie. 1390 01:28:01.151 --> 01:28:04.236 - It opened up a world of adventure 1391 01:28:04.237 --> 01:28:07.031 that I otherwise would not have encountered. 1392 01:28:07.032 --> 01:28:12.244 And of friendships and of understanding of other people. 1393 01:28:12.245 --> 01:28:15.831 - A lot of people say, it took me a lot to get out here 1394 01:28:15.832 --> 01:28:18.792 and to be around people 'cause they're not a people person 1395 01:28:18.793 --> 01:28:19.877 or they're an introvert. 1396 01:28:19.878 --> 01:28:21.170 But you know what, they have this passion, 1397 01:28:21.171 --> 01:28:22.546 like I want to do this. 1398 01:28:22.547 --> 01:28:25.132 - There are people that live Wasteland all the time. 1399 01:28:25.133 --> 01:28:27.344 They bought land out near the site. 1400 01:28:28.512 --> 01:28:29.970 - My life has always been, 1401 01:28:29.971 --> 01:28:32.431 if a door opens I'll run through it. 1402 01:28:32.432 --> 01:28:34.475 I've done a lot of really dumb stuff in my life 1403 01:28:34.476 --> 01:28:35.476 because of it. 1404 01:28:36.520 --> 01:28:38.437 But on my death bed, I would lay there and go, 1405 01:28:38.438 --> 01:28:39.438 yeah, I've lived. 1406 01:28:47.989 --> 01:28:50.074 - We can open her up a bit. 1407 01:28:50.075 --> 01:28:51.575 - Whoa, whoa! 1408 01:28:51.576 --> 01:28:52.911 Woo hoo! 1409 01:28:58.708 --> 01:29:02.628 - My general formula for my students is, 1410 01:29:02.629 --> 01:29:05.923 follow your bliss. I mean, find where it is 1411 01:29:05.924 --> 01:29:08.510 and don't be afraid to follow it. 1412 01:29:15.809 --> 01:29:19.646 The influence of a vital person vitalises. 1413 01:29:20.939 --> 01:29:22.732 The world is a wasteland. 1414 01:29:25.819 --> 01:29:27.778 People have the notion of saving the world 1415 01:29:27.779 --> 01:29:31.449 by shifting it around and changing the rules and so forth. 1416 01:29:33.118 --> 01:29:36.495 Any world is a living world if it's alive. 1417 01:29:36.496 --> 01:29:38.289 And the thing is to bring it to life 1418 01:29:38.290 --> 01:29:41.292 and the way to bring it to life is defined in your own case 1419 01:29:41.293 --> 01:29:44.713 where your life is and be alive yourself it seems to me. 1420 01:29:58.935 --> 01:30:02.146 - There was a moment I had climbing up the mountain 1421 01:30:02.147 --> 01:30:07.026 overlooking the Pinnacles where a friend of mine was worried 1422 01:30:07.027 --> 01:30:08.027 and he's like, you know, be careful, 1423 01:30:08.028 --> 01:30:09.486 watch your foot here, let me help you. 1424 01:30:09.487 --> 01:30:14.366 I said, don't worry, this is where I want to die. 1425 01:30:14.367 --> 01:30:17.911 And I mean that, this is, can you imagine a better place 1426 01:30:17.912 --> 01:30:20.915 to call the home for the rest of your existence? 1427 01:30:42.520 --> 01:30:45.022 - One of the requests that I've made 1428 01:30:45.023 --> 01:30:49.068 when my time is eventually up is I've asked my wife, Linda, 1429 01:30:49.069 --> 01:30:51.779 to come out here on a windy day and scatter my ashes 1430 01:30:51.780 --> 01:30:54.198 and make sure they blow all across the plains 1431 01:30:54.199 --> 01:30:56.159 and that would make me a happy man. 1432 01:30:57.452 --> 01:31:01.455 - All the Mad Max fans, they are fans forever, 1433 01:31:01.456 --> 01:31:04.833 until their last day and some of them are going to be 1434 01:31:04.834 --> 01:31:07.711 buried in their car or in some sacred land 1435 01:31:07.712 --> 01:31:09.213 in the wasteland somewhere. 1436 01:31:09.214 --> 01:31:11.840 Me, when my book will be finished 1437 01:31:11.841 --> 01:31:14.886 I will turn the page and move onto something else. 1438 01:31:19.015 --> 01:31:23.644 Now my next dream is to maybe write a book about 1439 01:31:23.645 --> 01:31:26.021 Crocodile Dundee's movie. 1440 01:31:26.022 --> 01:31:30.192 I have a lot of ideas on what maybe the next dreams 1441 01:31:30.193 --> 01:31:34.905 I will fulfill in 20 years, who knows? 1442 01:31:34.906 --> 01:31:36.700 I mean, I don't know. 1443 01:31:40.286 --> 01:31:45.125 - Life is very short in the scale of things. 1444 01:31:48.420 --> 01:31:53.425 And so bite on it, make every day, every hour, every minute 1445 01:31:57.637 --> 01:32:01.182 as intense as can be. 1446 01:32:08.314 --> 01:32:09.481 I never thought one day 1447 01:32:09.482 --> 01:32:13.485 that I would go back to the wasteland 1448 01:32:13.486 --> 01:32:16.740 as maybe the last thing I do.