My Mad Max Timeline website is up!

[Uncle Entity]

I think I just spent a half hour reading this thread, and I'm still not caught up. I love this discussion.

That's very good.
It's great to talk about continuity and characters' backgrounds.

[Uncle Entity]

Where is Peter Barton?

The 'LINKS' section of the website should be updated.

[Taipan]

We don't put stuff in here that's fanfic. And it's Peter Barton.

[Uncle Entity]

We don't put stuff in here that's fanfic. And it's Peter Barton.

LMAO.

Breaking news: each Mad Max site is "fanfic" stuff, you know.

I will contact Peter Barton --- he already inserted 'MAD MAXED' in his list, after all. I'm a long time, TRUE Mad Max fan.

Approaching the 90.000 visits. I'm so glad about this huge success.

[thebravecaptain]

Everyone should remember that GM has never been particularly concerned with things like continuity in his films—cars appear on different sides of the road, destroyed cars appear before they even make their first pre-destroyed appearance, etc. His approach to filming, particularly with the first two films, was to create a visceral, kinetic experience. And this clearly carried over to things like story (remember, the Interceptor is referred to as a PURSUIT in MM10. Obviously there was a pretty serious World War between MM1 and MM2. GM let his art department make decisions based notes, which allowed them the liberty to create exceptional levels of detail and texture, but it made things like a conversation about a timeline difficult.

[Uncle Entity]

Everyone should remember that GM has never been particularly concerned with things like continuity in his films—cars appear on different sides of the road, .

This happened because he used to film from different angles. I don't remember this instance, in truth. You can always pretend that the cars move from one side to another in-between the shots

Said that, the timeline can work. Have a good read!

[Taipan]

Everyone should remember that GM has never been particularly concerned with things like continuity in his films—cars appear on different sides of the road, destroyed cars appear before they even make their first pre-destroyed appearance, etc. His approach to filming, particularly with the first two films, was to create a visceral, kinetic experience. And this clearly carried over to things like story (remember, the Interceptor is referred to as a PURSUIT in MM10. Obviously there was a pretty serious World War between MM1 and MM2. GM let his art department make decisions based notes, which allowed them the liberty to create exceptional levels of detail and texture, but it made things like a conversation about a timeline difficult.

I think everyone should know how skewed people's perception of George Miller is. Everyone seems to think that he 'doesn't care' about continuity, the details in Mad Max movies and such...and so did I!
But that's just what he wants everyone to think.
Because he knows that turning Mad Max movies into 'myths' serves those movies really well! The proof? Well, here we are 40 years after the release of the first Mad Max and we're still trying to figure out all the details!
So George Miller is very smart when it comes to this, he never shows full cards and it makes people interpret his movies however they like. He often quotes Freddie Mercury "If you see it darling, it's there".
So he leaves it up to us to interpret Mad Max movies.

HOWEVER! What we don't see are the internal mechanics of those movies. We never get to see how that world was created, because it was done at the production stage. The continuity, backstories for everything, how it relates to history...
It's all worked out by Miller and his team! I became absolutely fascinated with this topic once I found out Miller .. for example knew exactly where Fury Road takes place. Even though in all of the interviews he pretended not to know. Or what the Citadel really was... or what happened before Mad Max 1.... what happened after Mad Max 2.... He's got it all written down and figured out! We just don't know about it because he doesn't want us to. So for lack of a better term 'he plays dumb', frames the movies as myths and watches us try to figure it out.

Just recently Miller said in an interview that he actually felt validated that there are people out there that analyze his movies in extreme detail and they get all the details he purposefully put in those movies. He listens to the Mad Max Minute Podcast that dissects all of the Mad Max movies minute by minute and it makes him happy that people actually pick up on all of the little details in those movies. So if you say that "George Miller isn't particularly concerned with things like continuity" etc... I'm sorry but that can't be further from the truth. He is extremely concerned with those things but pretends he isn't so that we can come up with our own theories. Which in itself is fun, but personally, I really don't care much about fan theories, I'd rather learn what the man who created it had in mind himself.

[Uncle Entity]

I think everyone should know how skewed people's perception of George Miller is. Everyone seems to think that he 'doesn't care' about continuity, the details in Mad Max movies and such...and so did I!
But that's just what he wants everyone to think.
Because he knows that turning Mad Max movies into 'myths' serves those movies really well! The proof? Well, here we are 40 years after the release of the first Mad Max and we're still trying to figure out all the details!
So George Miller is very smart when it comes to this, he never shows full cards and it makes people interpret his movies however they like. He often quotes Freddie Mercury "If you see it darling, it's there".
So he leaves it up to us to interpret Mad Max movies.

Agreed. That's part of his magic.

[Uncle Entity]

So many visits! Thanks a lot.

[BillytheClub]

Having watched the original trilogy countless times over the last 30+ years I've always been under the impression that a Nuclear War happened between the first two films and most contemporary professional reviews seemed to assume this too. If that wasn't Miller's intention, it isn't terribly well communicated - the opening flashback/narration of MM2 ("two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all") and the film's entire scenario and storyline make little sense in any other context.