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The Cars That

Ate Gas Town

The Buzzards of Gas Town’s spiky dune

buggies weren’t intended as a homage

to Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris.

“Brendan McCarthy did beautiful concept

drawings influenced by a lizard in the

Australian desert with spikes on it. When

I saw them I said ‘That looks like The

Cars That Ate Paris.’ He hadn’t seen it!”

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Rictus Erectus And
Corpus Colossus
Immortan Joe’s yin and yang sons –
“a child in a man’s body and a man in
a child’s body” – are played by Nathan
Jones an Aussie bodybuilder and
actor Quentin Kenihan who “suffers
from brittle bone disease and won’t
let it bring him down”. Originally only
Rictus Erectus was in the script until
Kenihan contacted Miller. “He said ‘Is
there anything I can do?’ I thought the
two would be a really good balance.”

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CHAPTER 3

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Furiosa

The movie belongs to Charlize Theron’s

wheel-trooper as much as it does Max.

“She rose out of the initial notion of

the movie in which the MacGuffin was

human: five wives running away from

the warlord who uses them as breeders”

explains Miller. “It had to be a female

warrior and she had to be a road warrior

in her own right.”

“What

A Lovely

Lovely Day!”

The movie’s most quotable line delivered

by Nicholas Hoult’s Nux also became the

movie’s tagline. “From his perspective it

was a lovely day” laughs Miller. “Going

into this storm was a sign that he was

going to soon end up in Valhalla.”

The Doof Warrior
The movie’s breakout image was of a mad axeman shredding a flamethrowing guitar atop a moving
truck. “If you’re leading an army you need the music of war” Miller says. Fun fact: musician iOTA was
playing live. Funner fact: The Doof Warrior’s mask is the dessicated face of his dead mum.

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