

The children are descended from survivors of a crashed Boeing 747, some of whom left to seek help and never returned. Savannah Nix finds Max near death and hauls him back to her home, an oasis populated by a primitive tribe of children and teenagers. When the horse collapses from exhaustion, Max frees himself and continues on foot until he also collapses.
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She is then able to terrorize Master into keeping the refinery running.įor breaking a deal, Max is bound, placed on a horse, and sent into the Wasteland (Gulag), his punishment determined by the spin of a wheel. Max reveals Aunty's plot and Master threatens to shut down the refinery, so Aunty has Blaster killed. Max knocks Blaster's helmet off and prepares to kill him, but relents upon seeing that Blaster has an intellectual disability. The giant dominates until Max blows a bosun's whistle, which makes Blaster grab his head in pain. Max publicly accuses Master of stealing his vehicle, and a battle is scheduled against Blaster. In doing so, Max sets off his alarm and discovers that Blaster is hypersensitive to high-pitched noises.īack on the surface, Aunty tells Max that, by law, conflicts in Bartertown are resolved by a fight to the death in a gladiatorial arena called Thunderdome. When Master Blaster learns his newly-acquired vehicle belonged to Max, he forces Max to disarm a booby-trap. Max infiltrates Underworld to size up Master Blaster and befriends Pig Killer, a convict sentenced to work there for slaughtering a pig to feed his children. "Master Blaster" has begun to challenge Aunty for control of Bartertown, and she wants Max to kill Blaster so she can more easily subvert Master to her will.

The refinery is run by a resourceful dwarf called Master, who rides around on Blaster, his giant bodyguard. Initially refused entry because he has nothing to trade, he impresses the local officials with his toughness, and the founder and ruler of the town, Aunty Entity ( Tina Turner), offers to resupply him if he completes a task.Īunty explains that Bartertown's precious energy comes from a subterranean refinery, called Underworld, that turns pig feces into methane. The airborne bandit Jedediah and his young son attack him and steal his vehicle, and Max follows Jedediah's trail to a trading post called Bartertown. In Australia Max Rockatansky is crossing the desert in a motor vehicle pulled by camels. The world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland caused by ecocide and war over resources. A fourth installment, Mad Max: Fury Road, was released in 2015, starring Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky. Preceded by Mad Max in 1979 and Mad Max 2 in 1981, the film is the third installment in the Mad Max franchise, and is the third and last film to feature Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky. It stars Mel Gibson and Tina Turner in a story of a lone roving warrior who is exiled into the desert, and there encounters an isolated child cargo cult, centered on a crashed Boeing 747 and its deceased captain. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie and written by Miller and Terry Hayes.
