Mad Max

Peter Weir‘s The Cars that Ate Paris helped to ignite the whole crazy cars craze in Australian exploitation cinema, and one of the beneficiaries of that was a young doctor turned filmmaker George Miller. Aiming to make a silent film with sound, telling the story kinetically, it’s obvious from the very beginning that Miller was a consummate director, but the script he had developed with James McCausland, demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge of how movies work dramatically, prioritizing a...