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Silverton
“In the roar of an engine, he lost everything… and became a shell of a man… a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.”
The narrator (Harold Baigent)
With the success of Mad Max, George Miller is increasingly courted by Hollywood. While he was offered to direct Rambo, the director refused to devote himself to the continuation of the adventures of Max Rockatansky.
Influential, he then obtains a budget ten times more important than for the first episode. At the time, it was the most expensive film ever produced in Australia. Determined to always shoot in his homeland, the filmmaker, Mel Gibson and the crew of the feature film settled near Broken Hill, in the small, almost abandoned town of Silverton.
The decrepit buildings and the vast expanses of desert make for a compelling natural setting. The decorators don’t have to do a lot of redesigning to give the place the post-apocalyptic feel that the specifications demand. Nevertheless, here in the Outback, the weather conditions are often harsh. While almost no water has fallen in fourteen years, the production has been hit by torrential rains. The temperatures are also very cold. Vernon Wells, the interpreter of the famous biker with the red iroquoise, has to deal with pants that show his buttocks. A very amusing detail for Mel Gibson. The latter claims that he relied on the color of his colleague’s buttocks to determine whether it was cold or hot. Vernon Wells’ buttocks regularly turned purple when not in use.
Mad Max 2won five Australian Film Institute Awards.
Mad Max 2 Museum
Small ghost town located 25 km from Broken Hill in New South Wales, Silverton is home to a Mad Max museum since 2010.
Fifty people live year-round in Silverton, where miners once dug for silver. In the 1890s, the village had a population of three thousand. A motley collection of tin and scrap metal buildings, it was gradually abandoned when a new deposit of silver, lead and zinc was discovered near Broken Hill. In 2010, the Mad Max Museum was inaugurated, where many documents and objects from the filming of the second part of the saga are collected. It is possible to admire two reproductions of the famous Interceptors cars and many costumes.
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Mad Max Interceptor
In terms of badass cops, Max Rockatansky gets the prize. A skilled pilot and an outstanding policeman, Mad Max tears up the asphalt and everyone on it aboard his Interceptor.
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.