Nightwalker wrote:I just noticed something about that big PA-truck that I don't recall someone else noticed. (but when someone else did, I must have missed it).
I think all or part of those speakers are fake/non functional. At the back of the truck you can see 4 big round pipes sticking out that are closed with something. But at each pipe there is a chair. So I think those pipes are big drums and that whole construction is one big resonance box.
What do you all think about this?
Totally agree, although I was also thinking that what if they were also a weapon some kind as if the speakers amplified the bass of the drums to be like a sonic weapon? This storyboard especially made me think of it...
Obviously it's hard to make out whats causing the action there or the destruction of the vehicles in the bottom left corner but I noticed the skull motif on the main truck could be the PA truck given the storyboard's creation 12 years ago compared to practicality of the real thing could of made way for changes.
I'd just like to add to the above comments regarding the "drum vehicle".
If the plot follows similar to how I think it might then I think this vehicle would fit into that. If there is a strong distinction between mutants, pure breeds and their ideologies - wanting to repopulate a pure human race vs killing those not like the mutants - then I think you could see this vehicle as part of a psychological weapon used by a highly mobile cult, essentially.
There certainly seems a much darker, cultish, even religious feel to some of the vehicles with the skulls, black paint, spikes, faux metal crucifix and so on.
From the leaked storyboard with the explosion, I don't think its the PA truck exploding, it think it the Black Tanker with its haul of thousands of litres of fuel. Think of the explosion! Like the compound in RW.
Blowing up the PA truck would just have a few bass bins being scattered around.
Mud Guts wrote:From the leaked storyboard with the explosion, I don't think its the PA truck exploding, it think it the Black Tanker with its haul of thousands of litres of fuel. Think of the explosion! Like the compound in RW.
Blowing up the PA truck would just have a few bass bins being scattered around.
I meant that the PA truck was causing the destruction since it seems like there's an extreme "force" coming from the skull truck in the background and with the skull motif on the actual PA truck I was thinking they could be one and the same.
Also I don't think the black tanker is hauling fuel since it's officially the "War Rig" that Imperator Furiosa is driving so my guess is that the tanker is actually a "mobile home" for the Five Wives and whatever survivors are with them and reside inside.
pauli77 wrote:There certainly seems a much darker, cultish, even religious feel to some of the vehicles with the skulls, black paint, spikes, faux metal crucifix and so on.
It is interesting that Road Warrior had a lot of these elements to it in the production design - the skull motifs, the various sub-gangs, etc - but it doesn't particularly stand out to casual viewers of the film. We kind of picked it all apart many years later...! I guess it is all just part of their world, part of what makes the film so complete - the level of detail - without the film ever actually highlighting it and saying "hey, look at this!"
Fury Road could be the same - we can certainly see a lot of design elements sitting there in what we're seeing right know, but have no idea how prominently it will all feature in the finished film.
pauli77 wrote:...If there is a strong distinction between mutants, pure breeds and their ideologies - wanting to repopulate a pure human race vs killing those not like the mutants...
Please God, don't let there be mutants in this film. That's another element you only find in cheap rip-offs of Mad Max, not in the actual Mad Max universe.
I posted these thoughts on the Speaker Truck on another thread ...
"singer/songwriter/performer iOTA as Coma-Doof Warrior. "
So here's my guess on this one.
The 'Speaker Truck' is some kind of Doof-Doof super weapon. Iota will be Coma-Doof Warrior strung up in the harness hanging in the centre of the car body atop the truck. The four 'drums' with seats beind them will be manned by slaves directed by Coma Doof something like the old drummer on roman warships keeping the beat for the slave rowers. The resultant rythm/pounding is some kind of ultra sonic weapon.
A sonic weapon could be worse than mutants, right up there with lazer guns. The rigging is interesting, not sure if it is a place of honor or torture in front of all the speakers.
The speakers across the top of the boom truck appear to have solid metal frames around them. I expect we will see some action take place on top of them.
I find it interesting (and frustrating) that there seems to be a major focus on "weapons" in these forums.
Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Australian, but I'm more intersted in the vehicles themselves and have always loved how George Miller has focused on the action with minimal use of guns and "sonic weapons"...wtf!!
I'm sure the PA truck is a platform for a speech of some sort, with a drum perfomance (like an indigenous performance) most likely from Furosia considering the similar skull logo to the gigahorse which I believe to be one of her "tribes" vehicles.
The lack of "guns" especially machine guns seen in a lot of "tribute" works spawned by Mad Max 2, has always been something I admired about the Mad Max trilogy and I hope this continues with the next trilogy.
pauli77 wrote:...If there is a strong distinction between mutants, pure breeds and their ideologies - wanting to repopulate a pure human race vs killing those not like the mutants...
Please God, don't let there be mutants in this film. That's another element you only find in cheap rip-offs of Mad Max, not in the actual Mad Max universe.
Actually from the prop images that have been revealed, I would take it, considering the obvious black back straps, that they are meant to be masks made of others skin. Quite terrifying for sure, but not "mutants" in the classic cinema tradition.
If you look at the Smegma Crazies from MM2 it takes only a small stretch of the imagination to believe that the masks they wore were made from some of their "victims". Skin stretched as a mask.
