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#MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME DRIVER#
#MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME SERIES#

He offers to trade his skills in lieu of material goods to which the Collector tells him "the brothel's full." Max suddenly grabs the man and shoots the headdress off a guard who threatens him with knives. Max demands to be let inside for an hour to find the pilot who stole his vehicle and camels. Max approaches the gatehouse and finds a man, The Collector, who is making deals for goods with visitors. Some time later, Max crests a ridge and sees desert vehicles like his heading toward a remote city called Bartertown.

He finds his small whistle in the belt of one of his boots and blows on it almost ritualistically.

#MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME DRIVER#

The driver is Max Rockatansky, a loner who scratches a living out of the desert. A monkey in the back of the vehicle throws several items out for the driver, including his boots and water. Though the owner tries to catch up, Jed gets away quickly. The plane, being flown by a man named Jedediah and his son, flies over the vehicle again and Jed jumps out, landing on it. As the frame moves in closer, a plane flies in very close to the vehicle, knocking it's driver off.

The film opens with an aerial view of a desert vehicle being towed by a team of camels.

The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Agreeing to help the children in their search for "Tomorrow Morrow Land", Max and the children set off across the desert wastelands and returns to Bartertown, where Max has score to settle with Aunt Entity. Max is banished into the desert wasteland, where he is rescued by a tribe of children, who thinks Max is a pilot named Captain Walker, who is the chosen one who will take the children to the promised land "Tomorrow Morrow Land", and learns the children are survivors of a plane crash and Captain Walker was their leader. After being forced to fight Master Blaster, a tiny man and his masked muscle-man in "Thunderdome" a gladiator like arena, when being caught up in a power struggle for control for Bartertown. The Road Warrior known as Max Rockatansky arrives in the desert town "Bartertown" ruled by the evil Aunt Entity, where people living in the post-apocalyptic Australian outback go to trade for food, water, weapons and supplies. When his vehicle and all his possessions are looted by the eccentric pilot Jerediah and his son Jerediah Jr. Is "Mad" Max, indeed, their saviour? Can he overthrow Bartertown's ruthless tyrant? However, an unforeseen complication after the brutal fight in the stronghold's combat arena, The Thunderdome, will banish, once more, Max into the vast wilderness, only to discover the peaceful haven of The Lost Tribe: a community of marooned children who survive on their own, waiting for the arrival of the legendary Captain Walker. There, a lethal challenge awaits Max, who, in return for his freedom and provisions, must engage in a bloody match to the death with the grotesque symbiotic being, the Master/Blaster. Left for dead in the unforgiving deserts of post-nuclear Australia, after defeating Lord Humungus' barbarian horde of bikers in Mad Max 2 (1981), the former officer of the tough Main Force Patrol, Max Rockatansky, happens upon Bartertown: the remote market-town outpost in the middle of the dry Wasteland, and the realm of the autocratic Queen Aunty Entity.

Unfortunately, EMI offshoot Fuel 2000's reissue of this previously unreleased gem features nothing in the way of liner notes or additional material, marking it as a bit of a disappointment for film music buffs.After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen. The soundtrack provided Turner with one of her biggest hits, the sprawling and majestic "We Don't Need Another Hero," which despite containing the silly lyric "All we want is what's beyond the Thunderdome" spent a good deal of the year at the top of the Billboard charts. His segue into the raunchy "Bartertown" saxophone section showed a keen ear for the era, and complemented Turner's "One of the Living" opener with a sly wink. Jarre, who previously helmed the baton for films like Witness and A Passage to India, conjured up an elegant storm of a score that remained reverent to May's brutish dissonance, while establishing a memorable melody - "The Children" - and introducing a lushness that was absent from the first two films. What sounded odd in theory came across a great deal better onscreen.

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Gone was composer Brian May (not the Queen guitarist) and in came Maurice Jarre and Tina Turner - the latter had a starring role - to give the Australian series some mid-'80s shine. Upon its 1985 release, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome divided critics and fans alike with its big-budget rendering of Mel Gibson's iconic vigilante.