SCREWLOOSE wrote:Love the idea Max was transporting Interceptor parts in the Camel Wagon..Was this touched upon in the comic series prior to Fury Road? I would need to dig the comics out from the attic to familiarise myself with them.
Personally I really like the Camel Wagon, how its looks, its functionality and the noise it makes as it roars past the Airtruk towards Auntie and her oncoming posse. However I was not a fan of George Miller’s intention to make a Thunderdome style “Razor Cola” as you showed in one of your videos...out of interest was that the same vehicle with a kit installed or a secondary vehicle that had been made and then repurposed for the end chase scene when the idea was scrapped.
One more question and I promise to shut up...The book “The Art of Mad Max Fury Road” shows the Rotar Riders concept idea...basically a helicopter style apparatus strapped to a persons back. Did George Miller ever have any intention to try incorporate this into the film or was it always conceptual?
Max transporting the new Interceptor parts is not mentioned in the comic book at all. Mark Sexton mentioned this plot point in one of the podcasts, the name escapes me right now. So there's no need to look for any evidence of that in the prequel comic books, but it's cool to think that Max was wandering around trying to build himself a new Interceptor even before Beyond Thunderdome!
The alternative version of Max's Camel Wagon (Max #2) is the same car that Max used to drive. In short - that is a dressed up Camel Wagon. In the script it was meant to have fox tails and roof headlights and stuff, essentially 'tricked out' by Bartertown's mechanics. I think they wanted to make it look like an iteration of the Interceptor with the roof spoiler and the tanks in the back. And the fact that the cabin of the Camel Wagon was in fact an XB Sedan - the same type of car that Max used to drive in the first Mad Max (Yellow Interceptor). They just cut it in half. So when you think about it, Max was never without his car of choice - Ford Falcon in one way or another.
As far as "Roto Raiders"...
This is a very interesting topic you touched upon. I know I haven't made new videos in ages but I've been digging really deep (and I'm in fact editing a 40 min video that will answer your question).
The "Roto Raiders" were very much an idea that was supposed to be included in Fury Road. Essentially - it was a tribe of people using DIY helicopters akin to the Gyrocopter from MM2. Their function in the story was that they would attack the War Rig when it was stuck in the bog in the former Green Place. The idea was that when the War Rig was bogged down they'd see those lights in the fog in the distance thinking those were motorcycles. And then those lights would fly up revealing that those were not motorcycles but flying 'Rotoraiders' that would attack the War Rig from above. Then there would be a fight between them and the War Rig etc. But the entire sequence was cut and the only remnant of it is the sequence when Max comes back to the War Rig after blowing up the Peacemaker. Furiosa is not sure who she's seeing so she aims her gun at the fog.
But what's even more interesting is that the "Roto Raiders" were actually present - in a way - on the vehicle list as far as 2012. I have that list and I asked people why those things are in there, maybe Miller wanted to use them? The answer I got was that they never intended to build them, but they were still on the list.
And yet the most interesting thing is that Miller always wanted to use 'flying Vuvalini' in Fury Road. There was a tribe called 'Furies' in the original ending of Fury Road that was inspired by Greek mythology. But that's a very deep topic that requires many paragraphs to explain.
