Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mel Gibson's third (and final) adventure in the wastelands of the Australian outback, is widely regarded as the weakest film in the franchise. Many supporters of this sentiment claim that Thuderdome's tribe of children, cartoonish violence and M rating were detrimental to The Road Warrior's R rated legacy. The plot itself might also be responsible for alienating its audience, with its holes and questionable logic. To assuage your confusion and increase your enjoyment of the film, I have compiled a list of Frequently Asked Questions about Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and trawled through Joan D. Vinge's novelisation to answer them in the time honoured format of the 'trading card'.
1. What's up with Master's broken English?
2. What was Savannah doing in the Nothing when she tumbled Max?
3. What happened to Gecko?
4. Why did Max return to Bartertown?
*Gecko's scenes were cut from the film for pacing reasons, though parts of it were included in the music video for Tina Turner's #1 smash hit, 'We Don't Need Another Hero'.
5. Why did Max rescue Master?
*It was Pig Killer's idea to rescue Master; Max went along with it out of spite for Entity. Savannah and Max's dialogue in the drainpipe (discussing Max's reasons for returning to Underworld) was not in the original script. This ADR was likely inserted after Gecko's scenes had been cut.
6. How did Pig Killer know that the train would help them escape Underworld?
7. Is Jedediah the Gyro Captain from The Road Warrior?
*George Miller has denied a connection between Jedediah and the Gyro Captain from Mad Max 2. However, Max never saw Jedediah or his son when the flying jalopy hijacked his caravan, yet he recognised Jedediah as someone who owned a plane. The only reason Max might have for assuming Jedediah was a pilot was if he'd seen him flying something before, like a gyrocopter.
8. Why didn't Aunty Entity kill Max?
9. Why is Rebekah Elmaloglou in Tomorrow-morrow Land?
*No idea. But it's fairly common practice to reuse extras throughout a movie, and no-one might've noticed that the same ten year old girl was used in two different locations - except for the fact that Rebekah Elmaloglou went on to become a minor Australian celebrity.
10. Is Beyond Thunderdome the best of the Mad Max movies and one of the greatest Australian films of all time?
*Yes. Yes it is.
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