The Great White is a dried up Pacific Ocean. The area is dotted with lighthouse-strongholds and rusted freighter and tanker ships. Several cargo and shipping harbors also litter many areas. Some areas have the remains of dried up corral reefs and under sea cave systems.
"The Great White used to be a vast ocean. No one knows how the water withdrew from the land, we only know that it now lies barren, without a drop to its name. What once used to be home to coral, fish and algae is now a desert of salt, sand and sharp rock.
The 2015 dystopian blockbuster 'Mad Max: Fury Road' takes place in a world plagued by drought. The water supply is controlled by a violent oppressor named Immortan Joe.
In this new timeline, the nuclear apocalypse takes place right after the events of the first "Mad Max," with the titular Max fleeing out into the wasteland as the oceans dry up and people flee the cities.
The world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland caused by ecocide and a nuclear war over resources. In Australia Max Rockatansky is crossing the desert in a motor vehicle pulled by camels.
What caused the world to become such a wasteland in the Mad Max franchise? Very little is addressed in the movies, according to creator interviews, this is what happened: The Persian Gulf War lasted two days and left the country destabilized, with all of their rigs burning. They instantly stop exportations of oil.
Nobody died in Mad Max, Hooper or Where Eagles Dare. These myths arise when people see a stunt that looks convincing (perhaps by going slightly wrong) and swapping scare stories. The high fall in Hooper preceded one for the movie Steel, in which AJ Bakunas did die.
What happened to all the water in Mad Max? - Quora. It's never been made entirely clear, but it appears the “pockylips” in the Mad Max series was a combination of climate change, resource scarcity and nuclear war.
After an unseen nuclear exchange, the Wasteland as seen in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome and Mad Max: Fury Road has been vastly transformed. Much of the dusty rock of the Outback has been replaced with endless sand dunes, with almost no pre-Fall roads present.
The Citadel is a cluster of three rock towers that sit above an aquifer of relatively fresh water. By channeling the water through the rock, the people of the Citadel have been able to irrigate a small area of the Wasteland.
Mad Max depicts a society that is anything but childish, warm, or innocent – water is so scare that women are exploited for their breast milk as a source of hydration and nourishment.
Immortan Joe keeps a whole crew of women captive in order to harvest their breast milk and use it for sustenance for him and his closest. Essentially, these women are slaves, used only for their bodies' ability to produce milk, which he also commodifies, and then trades with Gas Town and the Bullet Farm.
Both the original Mad Max and Fury Road feature almost no dialogue, with the simple stories of each movie being told almost entirely in visual terms. According to director George Miller, who helmed both radically different installments of the series, this choice was an intentional one.
Even though it is not clear if Jessie dies or lives in a vegetative state for the remainder of Mad Max, the intro to Mad Max 2 shows Max walking away from two graves, signifying that both his infant son and wife had died.
Joe wound up crashing in a futile attempt to avoid her. Angharad later succumbed to her injuries. Joe had The Organic Mechanic perform an emergency C-section to save her child, but the infant died as well. Joe was particularly enraged to learn that this child was a male, and free of genetic defects.
Dog's shocking and tragic death — killed by a marauder while protecting a defenseless Max — further illustrated Max's evolution from the first movie to The Road Warrior. At the end of Mad Max, Max got revenge on his family's killers and drove deeper into the desolate Australian Outback.
The original Mad Max, which was released in 1979, opens with the caption, “A few years from now.” That, and a piece of graffiti on a road sign dated December 1984, puts the events of the first film squarely in the mid-80s, most likely 1985.
In Mad Max, he is 23 years old in the year 1997; in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, he is 26 years old in the year 1999; and in Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome, he is 40 years old in the year 2014; and in Mad Max: Fury Road, his age is retconed to 36 even though the film takes place 46 years after Beyond Thunderdome in the ...
Hugh Keays-Byrne, most known for appearing as Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road and Toecutter in the original 1979 Mad Max film, has died. He was 73. Reps for the actor said he died peacefully on Tuesday morning.
Mad Max: Fury Road focuses on Nux (Nicholas Hult), a War Boy who used Max's blood to keep himself alive. Like the rest of the War Boys, Nux was very white from head to toes and had severe health issues, which is why he and the rest needed blood transfusions.
One scene in Mad Max was enough for the whole film to be banned in New Zealand and Sweden: the one where Goose is burned alive inside his car. This scene was, unintentionally, very similar to an incident with a gang in New Zealand that happened shortly before Mad Max's release.
It is also believed that the more chrome something is, the more glorious it is. Most prominently, near death War Boys will huff chrome spray paint in their final moments to enter into a dissociative high that will lead them on the road to Valhalla, and give them cool chrome coloured teeth and mouth.
It was the 21st-highest-grossing film of 2015. Although the film made a gross profit, The Hollywood Reporter calculated that the net loss incurred by the film was around $20–40 million. In the United States and Canada, the film was released in 3,702 theatres the same weekend as Pitch Perfect 2.
The series follows Max, initially a police officer in a future Australia which is experiencing societal collapse due to war, critical resource shortages, and ecocide. When his wife and child are murdered by a vicious biker gang, Max kills the gang in revenge and becomes a drifting loner in the Australian Wasteland.
According to George MIller, in the original timeline the nuclear exchange happened after the events of Mad Max 2, but according to the 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road prequel comic books, the war occurs after Max Rockatansky defeats the Toecutter's road-gang and disappears into the Outback, but prior to the events of The Road ...
