Mad Max 2 Page #2

4.RURAL SHACK 0N HIGHWAY. DAY.

On a ridge close to the road, silhouetted in a

dust-blown field, is a strange assortment of WARRIOR

LIKE MEN. They are cannibalizing a farm vehicle:

siphoning its fuel and loading food and other loot into

their bizarre vehicles.

The DOG growls. MAX looks further along the ridge. On

the horizon we see a burning wooden shack and three

bodies strung from a gnarled, dead tree.

MAX looks back to the MEN. Several of them, having seen

him, are running to their vehicles.

The first of them is a muscular man with a red mohawk

haircut - He is heavily protected by a leather and metal

chest plate, shoulder pads and leggings. This is WEZ.

He runs to where a GOLDEN YOUTH sits on the pillion seat

of a huge bike.

WEZ is followed by TWO MORE MOHAWKERS on bikes, THREE

GAYBOY BERSERKERS in road racers and FOUR SMEGMA CRAZIES

in bizarre dune buggies.

MAX guns the big motor. The black-on-black takes off.

MAX hits the supercharger - surging away..

Through the rear window we see WEZ lead the other nine

vehicles down the hill, giving chase...

WIPE.

5.ELSEWHERE ON THE HIGHWAY. (A LITTLE LATER). DAY.

High angle helicopter shot of the chase. The Marauders'

vehicles are strung down the highway. Only the fastest,

led by Wez, can keep up with the black-on-black.

WIPE.

6.THE WRECKS ON THE HIGHWAY. (STILL LATER). DAY.

The black-on-black surges around a wide curve, revealing

only three vehicles still in pursuit.

The first machine is Wez's big road bike, the GOLDEN

YOUTH riding pillion. It is followed by a bizarre road

racer and a strange dune buggy.

As the black-on-black crests a rise MAX is confronted by

a tangle of wrecked vehicles on the road ahead.

He swerves, slaloms through the wrecks and accelerates

into a sweeping right hand curve.

WEZ ramps his bike over the first wreck and corrects,

avoiding the other wrecks.

The road racer ramps two wheels over the first wreck but

cannot correct. It clips the second wreck. sends it

spinning, then continues after the black-on-black.

The dune buggy decides to avoid the wrecks altogether

and veers off the road to the right. It heads across

open terrain aiming to intercept the black-on-black on

the curve.

7.THE MARAUDERS CATCH UP - HIGHWAY. DAY.

A light flashes on MAX's dashboard, an alarm whoops.

MAX looks down at the fuel gauge: close to empty. He

curses and flicks a switch, cutting off the

supercharger.

The black-on-black slows ...

The DOG whimpers, crawls off its chair and under Max

seat.

WEZ overhauls MAX on the passenger side, He raises his

forearm, aiming his gauntlet-style crossbow at MAX'S

head.

MAX barely has time to glimpse the road racer drawing

alongside the driver's door.

The passenger - a GAYBOY BERSERKER - wields a brutal,

gas-powered 'gun': the heads of six metal arrows

protrude from a big barrel. This weapon is the

"Porta-pak".

MAX hits the brakes.

The road racer and the bike surge past the black car...

just as the porta-pak fires.

Two arrows thud into the black car, three go astray and

one hits WEZ in the arm.

MAX throws the black car in behind the road racer ...

WEZ, fighting to control the bike, leaves the road...

MAX changes down and hits the supercharger...

The black car leaps forward, ramming into the back of

the road racer, bullying it along.

Wheels and metal screaming, the two cars approach an

intersection littered with furniture and other debris.

A road rig lies abandoned on the roadside.

MAX eases back for a moment then flattens the

accelerator...

The black car slams into the back of the road racer...

hurling it forward, just as the dune buggy regains the

highway...

8. THE INTERSECTION. DAY.

The driver of the road racer screams as his vehicle hits

the dune buggy, spinning it like a top, sending it

crashing into the side of the road rig.

The road racer slides through a 180 degrees, rolls,

smashes through a road sign and hits a power pole.

The pole thuds to the road as MAX throws a handbrake "U"

turn and skids to a halt in the middle of the

intersection.

MAX, carrying a jerry can, gets out of the black car.

He looks down the highway.

9. A RISE OVERLOOKING THE INTERSECTION. DAY.

WEZ is stopped on the crest of the road, looking down on

the intersection. The arrow is still in his arm.

We see the GOLDEN YOUTH clearly for the first time: he

is strikingly beautiful.

10. THE INTERSECTION.

MAX, unfazed , hurries to the wreck of the dune buggy,

crushed beneath the road rig. Fuel streams from its

ruptured tank.

From inside the wreck we hear the moans of the injured

driver.

MAX puts the jerry can under the escaping fuel and -

tearing a bandana from his neck - mops up the gasolene

lying on the bitumen.

Suddenly, there is a shrill whistle.

MAX looks up at the crest of the road.

11. THE RISE OVERLOOKING THE INTERSECTION. DAY.

WEZ grins as he pulls the arrow slowly out of.his arm.

His eyes never leave MAX.

He holds up the arrow and WEZ mouths the words:

For you!

With that he puts the arrow back into his quiver and

guns the motor. He reals the font wheel, hangs there a

moment, then spins the bike around and roars back to the

wasteland.

12. THE INTERSECTION.

MAX, examines the road rig: most of the tyres have been

punctured with arrows, the rear doors torn off and its

contents pillaged.

MAX taps the.fuel tank - empty.

He reaches up to open the door of the cabin ...

There is an anguished scream. MAX turns.

The hand of the dying driver emerges from the twisted

metal of the dune buggy.

The fingernails score deeply into the paintwork, a rush

of dark blood pours out of the wreck. Then, silence.

MAX opens the cabin door ...

A figure drops down, crashing onto his shoulders. As

MAX struggles from its grasp we see that it is the

bloated putrefying corpse of the rig's driver. Two

crossbow bolts are buried in its neck.

MAX stoops and picks up a toy hurdy-gurdy which has

fallen from the dead man's hand.

As he walks back towards the black-on-black he turns the

handle, playing the first few notes of "Happy Birthday".

He stops next to the vehicle, in the middle of the

intersection. He looks from one direction to another

... undecided ... and then sees the smashed road sign.

He picks up a fragment which reads:

ONE TREE HILL:

And throws it into the air.

It lands at his feet, pointing north.

He gets into the car and drives off in that direction.

FADE TO BLACK.

13. DESERT ROAD. NEXT MORNING.

The-black-on-black travels slowly through the shimmering

desert. The only sounds are the rumble of the engine

and the whistle of the wind.

As the car crests a rise MAX looks ahead and sees a

large kite - in the shape of a man's grinning face

hovering above a dune.

MAX leaves the DOG to guard the car ilnd, carrying a

Jerry can and a tyre iron, cautiously makes his way

across the sand.

14. ON THE DUNES. DAY.

From the top of the dune MAX sees that the kite is

tethered to an abandoned vehicle: a primitive version

of a gyrocopter - little more than a motor, a seat and a

rotor mounted on a chassis.

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