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The filming location was a remote Australian mining town called Broken Hill. "When my butt cheeks went purple on set," Wells recalled, "they'd send everyone into the bus so we could warm up."ģ.
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A lot of them had cheek cutaways in the back, but it was actor Vernon Wells (who played magenta-mohawked henchman Wez) whom Gibson nicknamed "Barometer Bum" - because he could tell how cold the weather was by the color of Wells' backside. Many of the costumes came from specialty leather and fetish shops.
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Miller has said he made "Road Warrior" partly to "overcome all my frustrations on the first 'Mad Max' because that was such a low budget - and such a tough- movie that I had all this sort of pent up energy for the story and the filmmaking."Ģ. The international success of 1979's "Mad Max" gave Miller license to retell Max's story the way he might have if he'd had greater resources. The production saga behind the original "Mad Max" was nearly as wild as what wound up on screen, and the same is true of its first sequel, as you'll see below.ġ. Plus, it made an A-lister out of Mel Gibson, finally made Australian director George Miller's " Mad Max" franchise a success in the U.S., and influenced countless other post-apocalyptic-wasteland sagas.
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Thirty-five years after it detonated on these shores (on May 21, 1982), "The Road Warrior" remains one of the greatest action films ever made.