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Mad max 2 dog10/4/2023 My book also details some pretty disgusting ideas and imagery used in the writing and brainstorming process for Fury Road, arguably in contrast to the film’s eventual interpretation as a powerful feminist statement. “I’m going CHI-CHI BOOM! CHI-CHI BOOM! CHI-CHI-BOOM! in every direction.” He also recounted that evening to me in detail: “I just went mental in there,” he said. Late one weekend evening, O’Neill arrived on the set of Bartertown with a pump-action shotgun, intending to create a more lived-in looking environment (in his words, to “distress the set a bit”). Real dog skulls were used to decorate the film set, prepared by the set dresser and decorator Martin O’Neill, who recounted to me in gory detail how he picked up dead dogs from the pound then boiled them.Ĭharlize Theron filming Mad Mad: Fury Road. My book recounts various debaucheries such as how, during pre-production of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, some crew members (unbeknown to Miller) drove its spectacularly freaky skeletal vehicles around backstreets in Sydney while – in the words of the production designer Grace Walker, who was one of them – “pissed as tits”. “I think, I hope, it was a joke,” said another. “We were all gobsmacked,” one person in attendance told me. According to multiple interviewees, Miller suggested they find a four-legged one and amputate its leg. For example, during the making of Mad Max 2, the crew were having difficulty locating the three-legged dog stipulated in the script. Reading Blood, Sweat & Chrome made me reminisce on some of the more … colourful elements in Miller and Max that might never have made it into an authorised book but were published in mine. But that logic swings both ways there are merits in both authorised and unauthorised accounts. So it was interesting to read an account that came with the blessing of Miller and co, one revealing some things I couldn’t – including various details about Miller’s combative relationship with the studio, and the friction between Theron and Hardy. In the end, no images from any Mad Max movie – or even the words “Mad Max” – could be used on the cover. Writing an unauthorised book turned ever more tricky. ![]() Yet I would estimate that, conservatively speaking, about 25 people (most of them involved with Fury Road) either pulled out of interviews with me or never agreed – because my project didn’t have the director’s blessing. ![]() When my book finally arrived on the shelves, I expressed my gratitude to Miller for his work, describing him in the introduction as “the most influential Australian artist of the 20th century” as well as a man who seems to me “humble” and “down to earth”. I didn’t, however, get to chat to Theron, Hardy or other super-famous talent – including Miller himself, who declined to be interviewed. George Miller on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road with crew and cast members including Nicholas Hoult and Tom Hardy.
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