![]() ![]() ![]() While not as eccentric now, Road Warrior, in its day, was unlike anything else, as forceful in its slander against a macho car culture as it is fearful of the looming eventuality from a planet unable to shake a comfortable – if deadly – norm. The spectacle can’t be denied, part of that rare breed like the original Rambo that on its surface depicted masculine brawling, but underneath, exhibited brainy concepts usually lost in the gunfire. For the climax, Road Warrior finds nearly 20-minutes of compelling, ridiculously perfect action, totally uninterrupted. On film, stunt men perform stupidly dangerous moves, clinging to vehicles charging ahead full speed, then smashing into other makeshift cars that don’t merely explode, but shatter. It’s a movie of chaos, fear, and brutality, plus a setting that established a drained, war/disaster torn world’s aesthetics. Road Warrior’s villains see no issue in their waste, recklessly killing one another, not unlike the continued fossil fuel burning today envelops the planet in toxins. Instead, the goons feel superior in their ability to keep their tanks full as others suffer, trying to acclimate to a different normal. It’s not as if their fuel use is to sustain their numbers hunting for food or water neither is mentioned as critical. Road Warrior came into existence following an oil crisis in the early 1970s, a warning clearly ignored into a new millennium.Ĭonsider the need for gas in Road Warrior is entirely self-defeating. Rather, the alert is how cult-like our world’s dedication to a not-unlimited resource became. The warning isn’t that humanity is certain to don leather chaps and bear stylish mohawks in the future (although the look defined a counter-culture punk movement throughout the 1980s). Road Warrior became a pertinent warning about a world addicted to oil
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