Mad Max 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Mad Max 2 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Mad Max 2

[eli]

Original UK video release in mono from Warner Home Video in 1983 had the original on-screen title of Mad Max 2 as intended. However, when a hi-fi stereo release was brought out on VHS in the 80s, the American print with The Road Warrior title was used. This was possibly due to a stereo master not being available of the Mad Max 2 print as Warner Home VIdeo had chosen not to make this a stereo release in the linear era (despite it being recorded as such). DVD and Blu ray has since reverted back to the original intended title of Mad Max 2.

[cassandra]

Emil Minty owns the boomerang he used on set, he keeps it in his office.

[cassandra]

The breed of Max's dog is an Australian Cattle Dog or "Blue Heeler".

[caroline]

Director and co-screenwriter George Miller was given the rights to this and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) to get him to step aside as the director of Contact (1997).

[addison]

The design of the complex parallels strategies used by pioneers during the American Westward expansion. These travelers utilized their wagon trains to circle and corral livestock in order to defend themselves against Native American Indian attacks.

[elmer]

Lord Humungus wears a Cooper HM6 hockey mask,The mask was originally white plastic but was painted silver and detailed with black paint to look like steel with dingy patina. Wire mesh was attached underneath the holes in the mask. The original straps were replaced with what appear to be leather straps fastened together with copper rivets.

[beth]

David Slingsby was a stage actor cast here as the "quiet man," but he hesitated on accepting the role as he was concerned about the scene where the rabbit was killed. Miller respected his principles and promised to shoot the scene in such a way that a rabbit wouldn't actually be harmed or killed. Miller adds though that the rabbits are vermin who've ruined the Australian desert with their burrowing and eating and rabbiting.

[frances]

When Max comes back to the Mack truck to retrieve it, a squealing sound is heard as the engine is turning over. This sound is caused by the AIR starter, as opposed to an electrical starter. Max attempts to start the Mack tractor three times, each time you can hear the air starter go from fast to slow, as the air pressure drops. It would not be possible to repressurize the starter's compressed air tank that quickly. On the third attempt, the truck starts, accompanied with a cloud of dust from the starter and smoke from the exhaust stacks. The first two starts are sound effects, only the third is actually starting the engine.

[jesus]

The picture of the nude woman on the vertical stabilizer of the gyro is Karen Price, Playboy's January 1981 centerfold (she is most noticeable when Max first approaches the machine, while the Gyro Captain is hiding under the sand).

[nicholas]

Brian May, who composed the soundtrack for Mad Max (1979), returned to compose the soundtrack for this movie. But he didn't compose the soundtrack for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and was replaced by Maurice Jarre.

[charlie]

Dinki-Di, is an Australian slang for 'Genuine', 'Authentically Australian' or 'True'. In the videogame it is mispronounced as dinki'di.

[kyle]

This movie and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) contain quotes from former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (1972 - 1975). These are the lines "We"re going to either crash, or crash through" from this movie, and "One day cock of the walk, next a feather duster" from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

[clayton]

Humungus' pistol case contains an ornamental skull and crossbones. It appears to be a Totenkopf design which was a Prussian Hussars Shako hat badge. FACT. verified by the Mad Max 2 Muesum Silverton Australia !!

[jeffrey]

Because it was filmed out in a remote region of the Australian Outback, the production team would have to wait two or three days before they could get to see the dailies.

[kenzi]

George Miller said that the character of the Gyro Captain was written in part so that the studio would have to pay for a helicopter for the shoot. Aerial shots were quite expensive. But they were necessary to show the point of view of the Captain in his gyrocopter.

[francisco]

The name of Toadie (Max Phipps, the man who gets his fingers cut off by Feral Kid's boomerang) is only spoken once: Wez says "Toadie get the gas."

[alyssa]

Because he was relatively unknown in the U.S., the trailers did not feature Mel Gibson, but instead focused on the chases and action scenes.

[ronnie]

Two stunt performers were injured during the filming of the climatic highway battle. Stunts didn't go according to plan, went wrong, and George Miller, an experienced doctor, examined the injured stunt performers.

[amber]

Miller points out an early crane shot ("cherry-picker") during the introduction of Bruce Spence's character. "I use it most films where I can get away with it," he says. "It's just such a great way to keep the tension going."