Mad Max - Special Edition

Yes the bog stock motor with an electrically driven fake super charger and speeded up film...... "Ooooooo scarey...." LOL

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: That's what made it so good! Today everything is fucking CGI!

@bigintol03: 1:21:28 - When he gets out of the car and looks around - that is a place called (or is near) Lara, I and a freind of the time used to travel through there a lot, at the time... It really was open plains and a few farm houses etc.. and now it's all houses and factories and industrial - right around the bay from Geelong to Melbourne. If you fuck around the area in google maps you can find most of the exact locations where scenes were filmed. https://goo.gl/maps/Zpuzo6WqWDJuXHVj9 ------------- https://goo.gl/maps/9HdZ8JyFeosuW19x7 -------------- I think it was filmed 42 or 43 years ago... so lots of scenery has changed....... trees... roads, new growth, deterioration etc.....

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: That's really cool, I was going to ask if you remember them filming that movie!

@bigintol03: Nope - didn't see or hear a thing.. Raced along the same roads though. I mean it was a low budget film, they had to be very prompt and organised, drive in, get their scenes done, and then get out... They were not on site for weeks or months... Just a few days here and here and then gone - vanished into the mists of time.... AND I think they did their filming in the area a few years before I frequented it.... Most of it was filmed in an area that was pretty small - https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.9313118,144.32526 ----- Here you can see both the edge of the train line and possibly the tran station where they picked up the Knight Rider in his coffin (far left) and far right is the You Yangs mountain heap - that is hard to see from the road, because over 40 years lots of trees have grown up since... https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.9609705,144.49997 ------ The huge underpass - this wasn't there 40 years ago https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.9021813,144.65364 ---- And all the factories etc... https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8549681,144.80890 ------- So if you stop the movie at exactly 1:19:28 - you can see a scene similar to this one in the real world..... except the tall chmineys of the chemical refineries are behind us - and you can see the curve of the giant west gate bridge as it goes over the yarra river into Melbourne... But now... it's fucked - https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.86998,144.7481745 ---- And then next passover brige on the railway - https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8656948,144.76397 - it's really hard to pin point some stuff from the past because everything has changed.... Here you can see the Koroit oil and chemical refineries... https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8494616,144.82930 ----- And here is the West Gate Bridge - just above the tree line and along the base of the city sky scrapers.. https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8494616,144.82930 - that tells me that the bridge in the movie was more north and further out... away from the city. https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8465101,144.84570 and https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8465101,144.84570 ----- https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8465101,144.84570 ---- https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8089787,144.84967 --- And here is an old road that got closed off when another freeway was put through. https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.6954431,144.61119 ----- and at Rockbank that used to be a goat track of a little 2 lane road with a small railway signal box (man pulling levers to control the points) and fuck all else... and now it's suburbia ---- no over pass, no houses factories nuthin... AND now from the overpass, that wasn't there 40 something years ago, there are TWO sets of train lines.... https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.7708743,144.74574 ---- https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.7708743,144.74574 ---- And you can see the city of Melbourne from here --- https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.7708743,144.74574 - but you can't see the refineries for the trees. https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.7708743,144.74574 Not an overpass - they are or were putting in an underpass. https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.7731448,144.75594 --- Here from the west Gate Bridge - you can make the refineries out through the mesh - a long way off..... https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8285403,144.89622 --- and this is a view of the west gate bridge... from the bridge. https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8254188,144.88737 and from newport. https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8517234,144.89851 --------- So with all the issues of TIME and industrialisation and suburbanisation and loads of trees growing up really tall and lots of things like bridges being built, pulled down and camera / image quality / air pollution ALL these things... From being open single lane roads - in mostly treeless plains and a few farm houses here or there, now it's just totally changed... and even for me... it's not impossible but it's hard going to identify all the places as they are now, from 40 + year old memories... So much as changed.... I think I have actually found the same bridge - or quite close to it - 1:19:28 - here is the city and the refinery area. https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8444596,144.78608 - anyway enough for now. https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8444596,144.78608

I think under the circumstances, it's going to be as good as it gets..... Jut under that bridge - where wasn't 2 or 4 or 6 lane freeways - it was just goat track roads and open plains.... https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.8442233,144.78561

@bigintol03: Yeah at 1:19:50 - the Melbourne to Geelong freeway was just a 2 lane road each way.... So the overpass - well that has gone and the freeway is now 4 or 6 lanes each way.... and the view at exactly 1:19:54 - well the only hope of finding that position is an overpass, with a left hand corner on the freeway - and an area of land that fits into that..... This is possibly it.... https://www.google.com/maps/@-....38.0558116,144.39010 No more little over passes - all clover leaf turn offs and high speed entrances and exits to the freeway... Zoom in on the M1 freeway (Pacific Highway) https://www.google.com/maps/@-....37.9484322,144.43603 All the minor roads are no longer overpasses - they are underpasses.... https://www.google.com/maps/@-....38.0215421,144.45293 EVERYTHING has changed so much I can only approximate a few areas, and ID a few spots exactly, and everything else is long gone.

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Damn dude, thanks for taking the time to write all that research out!

@bigintol03: and at 1:25:57 - see that big downhill run on the other side - came down that with a heap of other riders on bicycles and was sailing well past 90 Kmh - and probably could have made 120 Kmh... but the road was unfamiliar and so was going that fast as well as the hard right turn across the bridge at the bottom of the hill.. well on a bicycle doing 120... it was.

@bigintol03: I have also looked really hard for that bridge on the maps... and there is only one major valley and river out of that area and I have never been able to find it...

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Like you said Shane, it's all changed since '78 or '79,when ever the movie was filmed!

@bigintol03: I think this version was a reedited directors cut.... Dunno - just check the original release run time vs. this ones run time. It just seems a bit better - sort of fleshed out and very smooth in the story telling... Don't know.

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: It contained footage that I'd never seen before!