Max's early ease and his eventual suffering become the heart of the picture. Max's world is destroyed when his wife and child are murdered by a vengeance-minded gang. Mel Gibson had so much presence that even when soaked in the mellifluous anonymity of the voice-over, he roots the picture in an emotional reality as Max Rockatowsky, the highway cop of the low-budget dystopian future. (This may not have been a bad instinct in those days before the snack spread vegemite, the band Men at Work and Nicole Kidman.) The roughness of the Aussie speech and the distinction of the actors' voices obviously
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Up, Tiger Lily?") The movie was dubbed because it was felt that the cast's Australian accents would scare off exploitation house audiences. (Their soothing, untroubled enunciation almost functions in the same way the ridiculous English dubbing did for Woody Allen's "What's "Max" sounded as if it had been revoiced by airline pilots. Miller'sĭirectorial debut, "Mad Max," has so much comic-book volatility that it triumphed over the wretched dubbing it received when it was released in the United States in 1979. New breed, ferocious and wild," Tina Turner snarled about the characters populating George Miller's "Mad Max" series.
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