The first Mad Max movie is literally just a cop (Max) fighting against a deadly biker gang in a small town. The second movie didn’t say anything about an apocalypse, it was just set in a desert wasteland.
It was the American (maybe international?) version of Mad Max 2 that added a prologue about an apocalyptic world event.
So yeah, in the original Australian version, this may just be some lawless hicks surviving in the Australian desert, while the rest of the world continues on like normal.
They get to New Zealand, and it’s a complete utopia. When they try to ask if their oil didn’t run out, they just answer that they stopped using that stuff decades ago.
and it turns out it was a just a large trailer park community in the Australian desert that had all gone through the deepest hallucinogenic drug effects from Meth and Opioids and somehow survived undetected for 20 years on their own in the wilderness.
I’ve camped at Silverton before—where most Mad Max were shot. There’s a campground a few kilometres out.
It was 53C (127F). Didn’t drop below 40 until 1am. No drugs needed; just go loony in the heat.
The american numbers should always be bigger than those hippy numbers.
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Like the episode of Stargate where Carter and O’Neill gate into an ice world and can’t get back so they think they’re going to die, except they got the signals crossed with a second gate buried in Antarctica and Hammond just sends helicopters to rescue them.
Best blooper reel ever.
“Oh god! I’m stuck on a glacier with McGuyver!”
I’ve been hearing this joke since Thunderdome.
Whenever I play either fallout or the mad max game I like imagining the world outside the country the game focuses on to be going on business as usual, ignoring the anarchist apocalypse across the pond, which for some reason brings me great joy :3
Unfortunately, we kind of know what happened to some of the other countries in Fallout. Kind of.
This is my working assumption for all those teenage dystopias.
Hunger Games? World outside the US is fine. Better, now that the hegemon is more interested in watching it’s own population murder each other for television ratings.
Don’t want me making that assumption about your story? Maybe mention anywhere outside the continental US at least one [1] time. At least Handmaid’s Tale acknowledges Canada. And I guess heaven forbid Mexico ever get a mention.
Wasn’t the epilogue of A Handmaid’s Tale basically the rest of the world saying “wow, what happened in America was super fucked”
Kind of like Russia compared to Europe. Like just nonsensically kicking themselves in the nuts over there for no reason and being belligerent for no upside.
