Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) on Netflix
R19811h 34mActionAdventureSci-FiThriller
Max Rockatansky, once a policeman, drives a wasteland that was Australia, scavenging for fuel with his dog. Marauders give chase, and a gyrocopter pilot leads him to a besieged oil refinery.
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A global war brings oil shortages and ecocide, and civilization collapses into barbarism. Max Rockatansky, a former policeman whose wife and son were killed by a biker gang, travels the wasteland with his dog, looking for food and petrol. Marauders on bikes, led by Wez, chase him, and he outmaneuvers them with his driving and a shotgun. He takes petrol from a wrecked pursuer's vehicle. He then tries to collect fuel from an apparently abandoned gyrocopter, and its pilot ambushes him; Max overpowers the man with the dog's help, then lets him live in exchange for guiding him to a working oil refinery. They reach it while a motorized gang attacks the place.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
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- In one scene, stunt coordinator Guy Norris broke his femur when he flew off his motorcycle and his leg hit the car, and his injury is visible in the released film.
- Mad Max 2 grossed A$10.8 million in Australia alone, double what Mad Max had earned there, but it never took the national record because Gallipoli, released earlier in 1981, grossed A$11.7 million in Australia.
- Warner Bros. changed the sequel's name to The Road Warrior in the United States because the first film was not well known in North America, and the print ads, trailers and TV commercials did not refer to the Max character at all.
- The original cut was more bloody and violent but was cut down heavily to receive an "M" rating from Australian censors, with entire scenes deleted; when the film was submitted to the MPAA in the United States, two more scenes were shortened.
- A museum dedicated to Mad Max 2 was established in 2010 in the small town of Silverton, 25 kilometers from Broken Hill in New South Wales, by Adrian and Linda Bennett, who had built a collection of props and memorabilia after moving there.
- Gibson and Fairchild are the only two actors who appear in both Mad Max and Mad Max 2, though Fairchild portrays a different character in each film.
- Following Mad Max, director George Miller tried to develop a rock and roll movie with the working title Roxanne; after working together on the Mad Max novelization, Miller and Terry Hayes teamed up in Los Angeles to write it, but the script was shelved.
- While filming Mad Max 2, stunt coordinator Guy Norris broke his femur when he flew off his motorcycle and his leg hit a car, and the injury made it into the released film.
