The Wasteland of Mad Max Explained
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The complete comprehensive guide to Mad Max’s Wasteland featured in Warner Bros. Discovery’s Mad Max (1979), Mad Max: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).
00:00 - Intro
03:14 - The Fall
12:19 - The Last Road
12:42 - The Green Place
14:38 - The Compound
17:19 - Bartertown
18:38 - The Underworld
21:34 - Thunderdome
23:41 - The Devil's Anvil
23:57 - The Crack in the Earth (The Oasis)
25:16 - Tomorrow-Morrow Land
29:12 - The Citadel
34:44 - The War Boys
39:49 - Gas Town
41:46 - The Buzzards
42:56 - Rock Riders
23:16 - Rock Rider Canyon
43:54 - Bullet Farm
With the help of the History Men and Women, we explore the world of George Miller’s Mad Max; from Aunty Entity's Bartertown to Pappagallo’s Compound to Immortan Joe's empire in the Citadel. Along the way, I explain who in the desert is The Coma-Doof Warrior, the Crow Fishers, War Boys, Imperators, etc. This exploration goes over the budget of the first Mad Max (1979) in comparison to its predecessors. Explaining why Mad Max shifted to a post-apocalyptic setting. Answering the question, why did Max Rockatansky’s world end? What exactly led to The Fall? As well as using interviews to give us a the most accurate timeline of all of the events we've seen so far.
I use text from The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road by Abbie Bernstein and Mad Max: Fury Road: The Prelude to the Blockbuster Film! (2015) by George Miller to explain the events between Thunderdome and Fury Road. Like the Max competing in The People Eater’s Gas Town’s Thunderdome 2.0 or Colonel Joe Moore’s Siege of the Citadel. This information also helps us go more in-depth when it comes to the design of the cars (like the Gigahorse, The War Rig, The Buzzard Excavator, The Lone Wolf), the settlements, inhabitants, and creatures; and how they went on to become the inspiration for Bethesda’s Fallout Video Game Series.
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I saw some video where they discussed the identity of MAX in fury road. He isn't the same Max according to that theory. Max in fury road is the grown feral child from Mad Max 2. 29:10 Great video BTW.
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Mad Max doesn't take place in 1982. Mad Max takes place either in 1985 or, at most, 1987. The placard on the front gate of the Halls of Justice reads "Established 1983." Additionally, the sign that reads "High Fatality Road" in the scene introducing us to Max Rockatansky has graffiti on it that says, "... was here December 1984." These are very subtle but distinct bits of information for the audience deliberately inserted by Miller in his great way of not forcing exposition on the audience that they don't necessarily need to know.
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@@jesustyronechrist2330 - Apparently you and thirty-two other people do.
the timeline would still be messed up though right? like the 45 years before and max would be 89? min. 29. Im so confused on the timeline and now im thinking they just kinda messed up.
Nope, it doesn't take place in 80's. It's literally said in the beginning of the movie "from now". Each time I watch the movie, it's a few years from now...
@@giveall9695 - "A few years from now" means a few years from 1979 when the movie was released. And you don't know what "literally" means.
Quentin Kenihan, who plays Imortan Joe's son, Corpus Collosus, was told by doctors he probably wouldn't live long enough to see puberty, let alone live up to the age of 50.
I'm really glad to see he's still here with us and was ecstatic to see him in the mad max movie.
He’s not with us anymore. He died in 2018. 😢
@@shaun3276Richard Carter is in Furiosa, even though he sadly passed in 2019, I wonder if there is any footage with Quentin Kenihan, since he did say he was reprising his role before he passed.
@@shaun3276 oh no! 😪
miller has said in interviews that after Mad Max 1, there isn't a fixed timeline that we see the stories told about MAX through oral history and legend.
Also the mad Max game is an excellent source of lore
Did you know that Scrotus is in Furiosa?
He’s redesigned for the better imo, and he’ll be played by Josh Helman (Slit)
@@ultraviolet540 didnt know that, thanks
Bryce making a forty five minute video dedicated to Mad Max??
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Can’t thank you enough for this long in depth video on the wasteland of Mad Max.
My dad watched these movies as a kid. I will always remember when we found the disc set that had road warrior and thunder dome. We watched RW and I loved it so much. I already had experience with Mad Max because I played the 2015 video game but that was my first time watching any of the movies. That’s one of my favorite memories of my dad
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Nice to hear some insight into World of Mad Max
Another interesting thing is, a piece of ancillary media I can't remember stated the Pacific Ocean is drastically more shallow and receded while the Atlantic is flooded and the Ice Caps have melted. This is because the fact all the nuclear weapons in the world being shot in all directions from 7 different nations had tectonic/volcanic consequences that significantly altered ocean currents (which, in turn lose their ability to regulate climate). So, it's said Sidney harbor is dry and we see the salt desert that used to be underwater because the Australian Pacific Coast is now 500km further out. It creates an environmental feedback loop with the additional myriad effects of nuclear war that affect the entire area of the world and keep getting worse. Meanwhile, coastal America and Europe are now underwater and the effects of nuclear war are likely even worse there. Meaning these parts of the world are even more irradiated with infrastructure even more ruined while being submerged and possibly even seeing a mini Ice Age. Not good.
It's kinda funny to me just how random Bryce picks his topics to go over.
The first Mad Max I saw was Thunderdome (also how I learned who Tina Turner was 😂) nice to hear about it again. "2 men enter, 1 man leaves!"
Definitely more Mad Max please.
Pardon but the "Fall" happens between Mad Max and the Road Warrior, Nukes are used between Road Warrior and Thunderdome. No radiation in story before Thunderdome or Furry Road.
I was 18 years old when mad max came out and one of my friends older brother was in the vigalanties mc. 13 years later i moved into a house a few streets away from mays house. Cheers from Australia
I DONT KNOW WHO IS MORE MAD, ME OR THIS WORLD!
I just want to say thank you for educating me I am a long time fan of Mad Max but I did not see that coming I didn't know anything about the comic book references and how it all tied in thank you very much
Great Stuff. love the detail as I was not aware of many of the details you gave. I think I'm going to have to find the mad max comic you were showing!
Please dive deeper into Mad Max in more videos. Thank you.
I dont think the host is that "young", but Fukushima wasnt famous around the nuclear "ethos" only because the 2011 accident. Fukushima was famous already during the late 70s and early 80s as part of the project that would propel Japan to the forefront of the use of nuclear energy, a fact very much in notoriety given that a country which was the only one ever destroyed by a nuclear bomb would be the forefront of the nuclear energy "ideal". The plant started operation on those times, and through the 80s was considered one of the safest in the World.
It is proposed that if they did not changed its design philosophy during the 90s, and instead kept their focus, the accident in 2011 would never have happened, as people point out changes for efficiency in the 1990s and 2000s were the primary drive to the weakness that the accident relied on to happen.
This was really engaging.
As a long time fan of the MM franchise, this was awesome!! Nice work
Damn now I'm hella interested in this whole world of Mad Max! I love these explanation vids, easy to understand while also being super in detail of the world and it's inhabitants. I 💚 it!!
The making of Mad Max could be a movie all on it's own!
11:18 fukushima nuclear power plant was active in 1971 the fall happened in 1983-1984 7:29 it definitely would have been a known place in the wasteland and Japan and the outback are close
On the gambling aspect, i fully agree. Max loots a body in road warrior next to the gyro and discovers 1 dice. And he tosses it to the side. Probably an explanation of characteristics, max not being a gambler that is.
For the budget of the original movie, they put out a really good product, especially for that time.
.. a timeless classic
Good stuff!
Very will done. More please!!
I get to regularly fang my black V8 2 door Australian built ute on the same roads the first movie was filmed on and have parked ute in the same carpark that was used as the set for the scene when Max gets his 2 door XB Falcon.
The reason I think Jedediah and the Gyro Captain are the same characters is that Max recognises him later on in the film. Well, come to think of it Jedediah recognises Max in the Thunderdome
Incredible work, Bryce! I have only seen Fury Road, but the franchise stuck with me. I learned so much from this video! Excited to see the new Furiosa. Thanks!
good info thanks
good stuff, very informative🙂🙂
Pre Mad Max and what started the fall was the Persian Gulf War (that's the Two Tribes but it was more like two major military forces and their allies). Mad Max - Mid-1980s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - Late 1980s Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - Mid-2000s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - 2030s Mad Max: Fury Road - Late-2040s. Max would have been in his twenties for the original He was still looking freakishly good for his age in Thunderdome and more "Immortan" than Joe by Fury Road.
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Also lead additives in fuel weren't officially banned until 1991 so it's possible that excessive use of lead additives in gasoline could also significantly contribute to the fall of society.
a "get out of jail free card" is a reference to the board game monopoly its one of the "chance" cards people can pick up in the game . it was a very popular game at the time . I totally got it , but I'm an old fart .
Monopoly is actually still a thing believe it or not
After you said "this isn't the first time we've seen an actor come back for a second round as a different character"; you then described the fourth movie as containing the return of the villain from the first flick. So, if it wasn't gyro dude, who was it? Who came first? Guy...
Thx now i understand the movie Hop and Glory much better!
I’m asking here since it’s his most recent video. Does he have a video about the hunger games after the war? I saw his haymitch video where he talks about him raising geese at the end. Do any of you know where al that info is or if he’s made a video.
Since I was a kid I've always loved the mad Max movies. Something in them just spoke to me that this was going to be the future. Horrible people fighting for what's left of resources. But the way they use Joe in the fury road movie. in the way he uses the ideal of The Valkyrie snatching you from the battlefield to bring you Valhalla.that was just chef's kiss on that world.from the moment the first war boy yelled witnessed me as he falls out the citadel trying to get max back in. I know this movie was going to blow my mind. I can't even imagine if they actually gave Miller the money and kept on the series back in the day with Mel Gibson. How many delightful wonderful tasty treats we would have I don't know but it sounds good
When it says a few years from now , it refers to the time your viewing it not when the movie was made . This way it stays evergreen .
I love that they're called the Boobalini. Totally love it.
Very very very good job!!!!!
In this universe Gas really cost an Arm and Two Legs😢😊
I know your Hunger Games videos didn’t get the most views, but I really enjoyed all of them
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I'm only disturbed by MadMax's age in Fury Road. The problem that he's young and states that he was a enforcer ones, states that the Apocalypse happened not long ago, but when you look at the surroundings, and people of young adult age(war boys, daughters of Immortal Joe), established constructions it looks like they happened long ago, which contradicts the short span of time from the Fall. Max should have been the same age as Immortal Joe and other warbosses, then it would bake sense.
When the max and the gyro captain meet in mm3, they share a look of " don't I know you " can't be the only one who noticed that
Also Australia has no Oil feilds below the continet but lots of water Aquifa's
1963 - Max's Birthdate
1980 - The Fall
1984 - Mad Max (1)
1987 - Road Warrior
1997 - Furiosa's Birthdate
1999 - Nuclear War
2005 - Thunderdome
2007 - Furiosa (beginning)
2025 - Furiosa (ending)
2032 - Fury Road
This is all based on legitimate on screen evidence such as the sign in Max 1, as and Max’s back tattoo in Fury Road, as well as too many interviews to count.
Toe cutter's gang was a real biker crew in Australia too
Ah, the way I'll rewatch this series as I've rewatched the Hunger Games' videos 😌
With the gyro captain being to different guys you have to remember that the story is a legend...it doesn't matter who actually plays the character...it's almost like a play in a Roman forum..or at least that's how I saw it🤷♂️
I have always understood a few to have a default of 3 unless specified.
How do you explain Jedidiah’s apparent recognition of Max when Max went to barter town
3:45
Well, if you adjust the film's budget for inflation, it still only comes out to around $1.5 million...
Imagine that kind of success in 2024. We get about a dozen movies per year with a budget near $100M and they are almost always huge flops. That doesn't even consider the fact that marketing budgets are typically around 1.5× the production budget.
Hollywood/film industry seems like a huge money laundering scheme nowadays doesn't it?
Good video👍🇦🇺 i’m Australian from Victoria
the buzzards vehicles always remind me of one of the cars from the Australian movie The Cars that Ate Paris (1974)
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The very first Mad Max movie stars that the world went to war over fuel
I always wondered how all of the Tribe didn't immediately die of radiation sickness. It's like, all that red dust accumulated and making up more of the air than oxygen? Yeah. That's all going to be highly-radioactive. You can literally SEE the fallout lol.
Unless, umm...life...finds a way and people born into the post-nuclear world maybe have developed partial resistance to radiation.
i felt like im watching an interview !!
You should totally check out Wasteland Weekend
Why is there a hummer jeep in one of your shown comics at 09:56?
You said before madmax cars are all pre 80ies 😅
Loved the Fallout game reference.
That was awesome. The one detail that bugs me, is that by Fury Road most steering wheels are "RHT" set up, even though the entire story should take place in a world where "LHT" was predominant, and all salvaged vehicles should reflect that with the steering on the right side of the vehicle.
Likely one of the reasons Thunderdome is rated PG 13 is because that rating didn’t exist until around the time it came out… though I doubt the first 2 movies would have made that cut lol.
Ive always called a couple =2, a few =3, several =4.
In the third part of Mad Max, when he meets Captain Giro, he says "I know you, you have a plane" Something like that. I'd say you missed it.

It makes sense that a nuclear exchange had not taken place in The Road Warrior because the gasoline refinery was still able to generate electricity to run the pumps and power the lights and machinery. If there had been an EMP, nothing that relied on electricity to drive pumping action would be working.
Yeah, they kind of retconned nuclear with the latest movie to before road warrior... but up until then it was accepted that nuclear war happened after road warrior but before thunderdome.
The original actor for the gyro captain backed out at the last minute, and the actor from the last movie was the only one available on short notice.
The stilt walkers are or were, common in parts of Europe and Africa.
As a fellow ADHD-er, I love your tangents 😂 1000/10 excellent content
Wooo! Mad max rocks
Its 3.
Everyone knows that a few is 3. This guy is a dope.
did you just call saltpeter "salt pepper"?
Okay so my grandpa was actually friends with one of the people that worked on mad Max and the movie takes place around the mid to late 80s I believe is what he said correct me if I'm wrong I'm not completely sure
you are all wrong and really need to watch the movies again. Mad Max 1 is set just as the fabric of society is collapsing, Mad Max 2 is set after the apocalypse, Beyond thunderdome makes it clear a nuclear event happened, Fury road has war boys with cancer from the radiation.
The actual video starts at 3:28
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It would be cool if the book of Eli and mad max was set in the same universe
i love this and i love your videos/commentary but the ai art really kills me
9:00 sounds like America now
The comics were a mistake. They probably shouldn’t be considered canon.
Hold on I 🤔 the gyro captain was the same guy and his son was a result from that woman he was with in the 2nd film
Not big on police but hopefully Miller repaid their coolness
MadMax took place around 1984
Kinda sucks that Goose was not Hummungus.
good video but the second mad max is in 1990 and the third one is in 2005 or 2007
What a day what a lovely day!!!!
More mad Max
Come on. If anyone deserves a comic or series based on them, it's Lord Humungus. He's the most woke and well spoken character in the entire series. So picture this.
We start with Hugo, or Humungus, and his life partner Geoffrey raising their two adopted children in the last years humanity. He works as a liberal arts professor with a major in English literature. Geoffrey is a child psychologist and a prominent author of parenting books.
During season/part 1 they watch as the world goes crazy around them. Resources are dwindling and armed militia start fighting off gangs of highway men. Paranoia and polarization of groups drives deeper wedges into society. Anyone different is dangerous.
Then famen leads to plague as the dead start piling. Geoffrey and Hugo gather their family and gather their family and head out into the wild as lynch mobs of the bigots and ignorant gather groups of minorities and fringe groups for execution.
They join the first wave of road people. Others who have fled the chaos spreading.Traveling from safe place to safe place. Geoffrey helps with medical and psychiatric trauma, Hugo becomes the defacto teacher for the caravan. They find peace.
Meanwhile the cities are falling apart. The militias have devolved into raiders. Starvation and cannibalism are a daily fact. The world governments are at each other's throats. Border wars are springing up everywhere. People join the military in droves just to eat. Then the bombs drop.
Driven out of the cities by the fallout, the raiders begin attacking farming communities, small towns and caravan groups. Among them is Hugo and Geoffrey's caravan while crossing the irradiated Australian Outback.
The raiders leave the group of adults and children to die in the harsh wasteland. We follow their journey and hardship as they must fight for their very survival. Hugo has to watch as Geoffrey slowly dies, waisting away as they both refuse to partake in any cannibalism or ill gained food and water. He watches as one by one the people he loves most die in front of him.
The last of the caravan people think they have found salvation as cars approach but find themselves forced into cruel slavery. Hugo is forced to fight other slaves for food for him and his only surviving son. His size earns him a new name, Humungus.
Geoffrey organizes a rebellion among the slaves. During the battle the slaves are cut down in waves. Geoffrey among them. Humungus' face is burned off by a flamethrower. In the end the last 5 surviving slaves band together as a new raider group and decide to raise the children strong. To take whatever they need. To never be weak again.
And leading them? The Atolla of RocknRolla. The Warrior of the Wasteland. The God among us.
Lord Humungus!
Excellent, good writing!
29:57 Indeed the oceans... ANother thing that makes NADA sense! But yeah Max be at least coming up on the big SEVEN-O in terms of age.
I disagree with your findings re: "several". I would say it connotes at least 4 to 7 or even 8 years - and then you go to "nearly a decade" for 8 and 9 years. "Several" is, in my education and comprehension definitely more than 3.
A couple - 2-3
A few - 4-6
Several - 7-11
Dozens 12-?
@@Priest_Of_Zebak I would agree with that.
Mad Max isn't Post Apocalyptic.
It's what happens when regular Australians take a wrong turn and get lost in the Outback for a few hours.
Furious is the Wasteland Jesus. She is 33 in Fury Road. She dies at the end and raised from the dead ti become the new ruler.
He's got the knowin, n, the doin of a lot of things.