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(1985) |
KA: Mad Max 3.
“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” the third installment in the ever-popular "Mad Max" series, takes the legendary action hero to a Casablanca-like town called Bartertown, where he is chosen to face off with the guy who runs the place in a huge bowl-shaped dome called 'Thunderdome'.
As the movie opens, Max (Mel Gibson) is driving camels in the wasteland, when suddenly, he is attacked and stripped of his camels and the vehicle they were pulling. Left to die in the middle of nowhere, Max comes across the infamous Bartertown, a town built by Aunty Entity (Tina Turner), a dominatrix who promises to give the camels back to Max if he can take out a muscular warrior called Blaster (Paul Larsson) in the dreaded Thunderdome, a caged arena shaped like a bowl where all fights are to the death and consists of only one rule: Two men enter. One man leaves.
While every person who previously tried out for Thunderdome failed to even survive the audition, Max comes along and plays the game. Being the first to survive the audition, Max makes a deal with Aunty and agrees to fight Blaster.
Max knows Blaster’s weakness, but when the fight begins, it seems at the moment that Max is going to get the crap beat out of him, but Max eventually strikes back with what it looks like an unexpected victory. However, Max discovers that the deal he made with Aunty was not fair and he abruptly quits with both opponents still alive.
Since Max has broken the law of Thunderdome, he now faces a wheel which determines his punishment. The wheel lands on Gulag, and Max is banished from Bartertown and finds himself lost in the desert and passes out.
When Max wakes up, he finds himself in a small village inhabited by a group of children who survived the nuclear holocaust, where he is said to be their savior Captain Walker, but Max sets the record straight and tells them that he is not Captain Walker, but also tells them about Bartertown, so the kids leave their village and head for the infamous town with Max closely following them, determined to get the best of Aunty once and for all.
Like the other two Mad Max films, “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” climaxes with another apocalypse-on-wheels chase sequence, resulting in a pure adrenaline race to the finish. In addition, “Thunderdome” has one of the most memorable fight scenes in movie history, and proves that nobody who messes with Mad Max gets away with it.
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Though many critics consider “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” the weakest of the Mad Max movies, it became the most successful. Mel Gibson’s third portrayal of Max is as explosive as ever.
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Before the fight between Max and Blaster begins, Max is referred to as "The Man With No Name." This is a reference to a character played by Clint Eastwood in the classic "Dollars" trilogy in the '60s and also a tribute to Toshiro Mifune's character in the samurai movies "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro," which were actually the inspiration for Clint Eastwood's character in the "Dollars" trilogy.  -Thanks to Brian
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After this movie, Mel Gibson went on to achieve greater success with another film series: the "Lethal Weapon" movies.
In what may be seen as a small tribute to Warner Brothers, the distributor of "Thunderdome", Max finds an old pull-the-string-and-he-talks Bugs Bunny doll while talking to the kids. -Thanks to John Edward Kilduff
You notice that the gyro pilot (Bruce Spence) from "Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior" is also in Beyond Thunderdome. However, when Max meets him in MM3 he doesn't appear to recognise him... surely he'd remember the captain who saved his life and shared in his adventures for the entire course of the 2nd film? It's never made clear in the 3rd film whether he's the same character or not? -Thanks to Matt A
When Max is asked to check his guns at the door of Bartertown, one of arsenal that he lays on the table is Bubba Zannetti's Luger from the first movie. -Thanks to Brandon Rustad
Rebekah Elmaloglou, cameos as one of the lost children, she also played Sophie in early episodes of "Home and Away". -Thanks to Rob Swoosh
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The movie was co-directed by George Ogilvie.
Tina Turner was supposed to be scripted to drive a vehicle, but she wasn't comfortable with the vehicles used in this movie, so the filmmakers had to use a special automatic.
Tina Turner stated in the interview that accompanies her 60th birthday concert (on DVD as The Best of Tina Turner: Celebrate!(yr.: 2000)) that actress Bette Midler was supposed to have played Aunty Entity but was unavailable. -Thanks to Amy Green
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As the two previous movies, Beyond Thunderdome was filmed on location near Sydney, Australia. See our featured link for more info.
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Maurice Jarre did the original soundtrack score, and co-star Tina Turner sang the theme, “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” which made it to No. 2 on the Billboard Charts. The soundtrack listing is as follows.
1. We Don't Need Another Hero - Tina Turner
2. One of the Living - Tina Turner
3. Bartertown - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
4. Children - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
5. Coming Home - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
6. We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) [Instrumental] - Maurice Jarre
Tina Turner, who co-starred with Gibson in this movie, also sang the theme song.
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