History Trivia / MadMax

* TheWikiRule: [[http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/The_Road_Warrior_-_Mad_Max_Wiki The Mad Max Wiki]].

* NamesTheSame: The first two films were not scored by Music/BrianMay, guitarist of Music/{{Queen}}, but by a Australian composer of the same name.

* ImageSource: For WastelandWarlord.

* FakeAustralian: Creator/MelGibson, who plays Max, was born in America (to an American father and Irish mother) and actually only raised in Australia. (He's not even a citizen, instead having Irish and American citizenship). Creator/TomHolland, who plays him in ''Fury Road'', is English.

* FakeAustralian: Max has never been portrayed by an Australian. Creator/MelGibson, who plays him in the first three films, was born in America but spent his adolescence and early adulthood in Australia. Tom Holland, who plays him in ''Fury Road'', it British.

* FakeAustralian: Because Creator/MelGibson was born in NY, but raised in Australia.

* WordOfGod: GeorgeMiller has said that the films are not part of a consistent canon, but rather a series of loosely-connected folk tales.

* WordOfGod: George Miller has said that the films are not part of a consistent canon, but rather a series of loosely-connected folk tales.

* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: Hugh Keays-Byrne plays the violent, murderous Toecutter but interviews show that Keays-Byrne is a very humble old fellow who seems really grateful to be able to do another Mad Max villain in Immortan Joe decades later. A scene in a behind-the-scenes clip for ''Fury Road'' shows him walking in full costume while stuntmen (also in full costume) stand on the trailer used to transport the screen-used cars. He bellows "You look amazing!", and they respond with the Warboy salute.

* BannedInChina: This movie was banned in New Zealand for the scene when Goose is burned alive inside of his vehicle. It mirrored an incident with a real gang not long before the film came out. It was later shown in New Zealand in 1983, after the huge success of ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'', but only as long as it had an R18 certificate.

* CastTheExpert:
** A lot of the extras recruited to play biker gang members were actual local bikers, whom the pocket-change-budget production paid in beer.
** Creator/GeorgeMiller was a physician before he became a filmmaker, and used his medical expertise to create the injuries seen in the film.
* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/GeorgeMiller.
* DeletedScene: [[http://www.madmaxmovies.com/mad-max/filming-locations/mad-max-cut-scenes/index.html The Mad Max Movies page]] lists various scenes that were cut from the first movie, but were said to have shown up in early cuts of the US version, especially on cable and VHS/Betamax. One deleted scene was said to have the biker gang return to Main Force Patrol headquarters and [[KillEmAll kill the remaining MFP officers]]. That [[FridgeBrilliance may explain]] [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the absence of Max's comrades]] when he goes hunting for the bikers.

* MethodActing: Hugh Keays-Byrne and the other actors playing the bikies stayed in character most of the time to create a real feeling of tension between them and the MFP actors. It worked a little too well; Geoff Parry (Bubba Zanetti) recalled being refused service at a bank and David Bracks (Mudguts) said he was kicked out of a restaurant. A lot of the crew were afraid of Hugh as well, who was almost constantly in character as the Toecutter. Tim Burns (Johnny the Boy) was so into character, that he annoyed everyone on-set, and was abandoned one day during lunch while handcuffed to the wreck.
* MissingEpisode: As noted above, some American viewers claim to have seen a number of additional scenes in early US cuts of the film such as the bikers killing off the remaining MFP officers, Max & Goose having a race and Max arming himself from the police arsenal before going after the bikers. These were said to be shown in cuts of the film on cable television in the early 1980s as well as VHS/Betamax copies. At the time of this writing, video of these deleted scenes have not been found.

* NoBudget: Prior to the release of ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', ''Mad Max'' had the highest profit ($100 million US Dollars) to cost ($300,000-400,000 Australian) ratio of any film. Most of the actors provided their own cars and the extras were paid with beer.
* TheOtherMarty: Originally, filming was scheduled to take ten weeks-six weeks of first unit, and four weeks on stunt and chase sequences. However, four days into shooting, Rosie Bailey, who was originally cast as Jessie, was injured in a bike accident. Production was halted, and Bailey was replaced by Joanne Samuel, causing a two-week delay.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/MelGibson.
* StudioHop: The film was released by Roadshow Entertainment in Australia, American International Pictures in the US, and Creator/WarnerBros in the rest of the world.
* ThrowItIn: Jessie doesn't use real sign language. They're just some movements that Joanne Samuel made up.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: The events of the film were heavily based on Creator/GeorgeMiller's memories of all the serious injuries and death he witnessed while working in a Sydney ER, as well as the serious car accidents, some of which killed friends of his, that occurred around his boyhood home in rural Queensland.

* YouLookFamiliar: 36 years after playing BigBad Toecutter, Hugh Keays-Byrne returned to the franchise to the play ''another'' BigBad as Immortan Joe in ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]''.

* ActorInspiredElement: It was Roger Ward's idea for his character to wear a scarf in one scene. "If I was going bare top, I was going to wear a tie."

* CastTheExpert: A lot of the extras recruited to play biker gang members were actual local bikers, whom the pocket-change-budget production paid in beer.
** George Miller was a physician before he became a filmmaker, and used his medical expertise to create the injuries seen in the film.

* FakeAustralian:
** Because Creator/MelGibson gets a pass (he was born in NY, but raised in Australia), there is Music/TinaTurner in ''Beyond Thunderdome'', and most of the cast in ''Fury Road'' (Max, Nux and Angharad: British; Furiosa: South African; Capable and Toast: American).
** For that matter, Max himself has yet to be portrayed by a native Australian; Gibson's successor in the role, Creator/TomHardy, is English.
* FoodAsBribe: Most of the extras used in the original film were paid in beer.

* MethodActing: Hugh Keays-Byrne and the other actors playing the bikies stayed in character most of the time to create a real feeling of tension between them and the MFP actors. It worked a little too well; Geoff Parry (Bubba Zanetti) recalled being refused service at a bank and David Bracks (Mudguts) said he was kicked out of a restaurant. A lot of the crew were afraid of Hugh as well, who was almost constantly in character as the Toecutter.