Mad Max 2

THE MONTAGE:

BLACK AND WHITE ACADEMY FORMAT

la.THE WASTELAND.DAY.

Flurries of dust and sand swirl around us as we move

through an eerie, barren land. The only sound is the

howl of a rising wind.

Ahead something looms out of the storm. As we approach

we see that it is the rusting remains of a massive oil

pump.

The wind drops to be replaced by the voice of a very old

man. This Is the Narrator:

NARRATOR V/O

The vision dims and all that remains

are mememories. They take me back -

back to the place where the black

pump sucked guzzolene from the

earth...

DISSOLVE.

lb.ANOTHER PART OF THE WASTELAND. DAY.

Out of the dust storm emerges the ancient wreck of a

prime mover and fuel tanker. It is partly charred, its

wheels and sides studded with metal crossbow bolts.

NARRATOR V/O

And I remember the terrible battle

we fought - the day we left that

place forever...

DISSOLVE.

1c.A HILLTOP IN THE WASTELAND.DAY.

A warrior, dressed in leather and steel, stands on a

hill crest. This is MAX. Behind him is a strange road

vehicle:
two engines and a seat mounted on a chassis.

NARRATOR V/O

But, most of all, I remember the

courage of a stranger, a road

warrior called Max. To understand

who he was you must go back to the

last days of the old world ...

FADE TO BLACK.

ld/e. A MOB OF ARAB STUDENTS...

....storm a heavily-fortified embassy and raise the

Iranian flag.

1f.U.S. SOLDIERS LAND ...

... on a beach in the Persian Gulf and fight their way

across the sand.

NARRATOR V/O

... when, for reasons long

forgotten, two mighty warrior

nations went to war ...

1g. AN OIL WELL ERUPTS...

... and then another ... and another.

Plumes of flame burst across the skyline.

NARRATOR:

...and touched off a blaze which

engulfed them all.

1h. A LINE OF CARS...

... stretches for blocks until It finally reaches a gas

station.

An attendant pulls down a sign which reads:

$7 / Gallon

and replaces it with another sign:

AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY

A group of angry motorists gather around, yelling and

pushing.

The attendant produces a gun motioning them back ...

NARRATOR:

...For without fuel they were

nothing. They had built a house of

straw ...

1i. BUSINESSMEN AT A STOCK EXCHANGE ...

... are yelling and shoving.

BUSINESSMEN:

Sell! Sell! Sell!

Torn up scrip litters the floor ...

1j. THE FOYER OF A HUGE CORPORATION.

The company's crest is chiselled on the wall. It is

accompanied by the words:

SEVEN SISTERS PETROLEUM

"Fueling The World"

on the floor below, beyond the marble pillars, we see

the building is abandoned - littered with broken

furniture and piles of documents.

DISSOLVE.

1k. A CORRIDOR.

We pass through a door designated:

CHIEF EXECUTIVE:

At the other end of the imposing room we see a

businessman clearing out his vast desk. His name is

PAPPAGALLO. On the wall behind him we see photo- graphs

and Paintings of oil wells and re fineries.

PAPPAGALLO takes a wad of maps and puts them in his

briefcase, followed by a copy of "Whole Earth,

catalogue" and another book. The cover reads:

TEACH YOURSELF SOLAR ENERGY

1l. LIVING ROOM.

An ANXIOUS FAMILY is gathered in front of a television

set - A politican addresses the nation.

POLITICIAN:

Stage three of the national

emergency is effective immediately,

citizens are warned ...

The speech is cut Short as static fills the screen.

The family looks up at the lights as they flicker...

lm. IN A FACTORY ...

a giant machine grinds to a halt.

ln. IN A CITY STREET...

...anxious faces look up as the street lights flick off.

lo. AN INDUSTRIAL CITY SCAPE.

It is dark, decaying, Silent ...

NARRATOR V/O

People stopped in the streets and

listened:
for the first time they

heard the sound of silence.

lq. IN A DESERTED STREET.

A terrible scream... a YOUNG MAN runs down the street

... a shot is fired.

The YOUNG MAN falls dead ... crushing the meat and eggs

he has been clutching to his chest ...

NARRATOR V/O

Their world crumbled ...

DISSOLVE.

lq.IN A DESERTED CITY STREET.

Bank notes, blown by the wind, flutter towards a store

dummy, lying smashed on the road ...

A rat emerges from the back of the mannequin's skull and

scurries away as we hear the roar of a big engine.

The wide wheels of a big car crush the dummy. As the

vehicle roars down the street, it is followed by two big

bikes...

NARRATOR V/O

And only those mobile enough to

scavenge, brutal enough to pillage

would survive.

DISSOLVE.

(THE FOLLOWING IS ALL FOOTAGE FROM MAD MAX)

Ir. A GROUP OF OUTLAW BIKERS...

... leap from a hillside onto the roof of a moving fuel

tanker. They pass a hose into the tank..

NARRATOR V/O

At last, the vermin had inherited

the earth.

DISSOLVE.

1s. A PACK OF BIKERS ...

... swarm around a car and start to hack it to pieces.

DISSOLVE.

1t. A SERIES OF RAPIDLY DISSOLVING IMAGES.

Speeding cars, speeding bikes, crashing vans, crashing

police cars, crashing bikes, brawls, smashed windows,

explosions.

NARRATOR V/O

And in this maelstrom of decay,

ordinary men were battered and

crushed...

lu. MAX IN POLICE UNIFORM.

... turns and smiles.

NARRATOR V/O

...men like the Warrior Max...

DISSOLVE.

IV. MAX PLAYS.

... with a woman - JESSIE and their child.

DISSOLVE.

... through a wheat field. He catches her. They

tumble on the ground laughing.

Ix. MAX EMBRACES JESSIE.

NARRATOR V/O

who in the roar of an engine, lost

everything ...

DISSOLVE.

ly. ON A HIGHWAY...

JESSIE carrying the child, scrambles from her van and

runs down the road. A GANG OF OUTLAW BIKERS run them

down... the child's ball bounces down the road.

MAX runs towards their bodies...

Iz. SILHOUETTED ON A HILLSIDE GRAVEYARD.

(PRODUCTION FOOTAGE)

MAX stands looking down at two headstones...

DISSOLVE.

laa. IN FRONT OF A ROARING FIRE.

MAX fuels the blaze with the remnants of his past life:

children's toys; photo albums; his police badge.

lbb. MAX WITH HIS SHOTGUN.

...turns to camera, wild-eyed ...

NARRATOR V/O

And became a shell of a man. A

burnt out, desolate man, a dead man,

running from the demons of his past.

A man who wandered far away...

1cc. MAX DRIVING.

The supercharger On the front of the vehicle dominates

the foreground.

NARRATOR V/O

And it was out here in this blighted

place, that he learned to live

again...

FADE OF COLOUR:

THE SCREEN WIDENS TO ANAMORPHIC RATIO.

2.HELICOPTER AERIAL TRANSITION. DAWN.

We soar along the empty highway up and down its rises

and around its curves until we are out in the vast

wasteland.

3. WASTELAND. DAY.

The black hole of the supercharger dominates the frame.

Behind the wheel we see MAX looking about 3 years older.

He is gaunt, unkept - his leathers tattered and torn.

The black-on-black pursuit car, bearing the scars of

numerous road duels, cruises down the roller coaster

highway.

As MAX crests a hill he hits the brakes. His companion,

a mongrel DOG, sitting in a baby's auto seat, lifts its

head to look.

The black-on-black slides to a stop.

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