Hugh Keays-Byrne, of Mad Max fame, dead at 73

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Seems like it didn’t end so well for the gyro captain either.

This thread is giving me flashbacks of that far off time in '16 when we had a brief discussion about the mythology of the Max character and i still maintain Max is by far the least interesting aspect of all the films and probably only exists as a cypher for the survivors to tell their stories through.

Scenes from Wasteland, the annual Mad Max tribute event in the Mojave desert

The Mad Max / Max Rockatanksy character is better understood as a mythological figure shared by disparate groups in the “wasteland,” spread across space and time. Max isn’t a foundational historical figure like Christopher Columbus or Daniel Boon. Max is a mythical archetype like Achilles or King Arthjur who might once have existed but whose origins are lost in time. Notice that each of four movies has a distincnt narrator who is far more connected to her/his own unique setting than to Max. T…