See, in order to keep the power running, she needs the generator to keep running, and only Master (Angelo Rositto) knows how to keep the pig shit / methane production going underground. She likes to think she runs Barter Town, but there's a bit of a power struggle. Mostly that he's dangerous, which is good, because Aunty has a problem. Like Max, Aunty was someone else before, and she senses that he's resilient, and adaptable. Instead, he meets Aunty (Tina Turner) **, and her goons.Īunty likes Max's moxie, and when he dispatches some goons with the knife hidden inside his flyswatter, she's even more impressed. The pilot has to be here somewhere, so Max has one hour to find him. He doesn't have anything worth trading with The Collector (Frank Thring) at the gate, so he has to be a little more, shall we say, persuasive, but you still have to turn in your weapons or get lost. To Barter Town, he's just some dude who walked in, just like everybody else. Those stories don't get passed around until the Feral Kid (Emil Minty) grows up, anyway. No one in Barter Town cares that he used to be a cop or that he saved a whole community and smuggled out their gasoline from Lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) that one time. Max has to enter with the rabble, because who is he? Nobody. It is for me, but that's because I'm a sucker for world-building in post-apocalyptic cinema, and Barter Town is a great example of how humanity reforms itself after collapse. If you meet somebody who will admit to liking Thunderdome (as I do), this section of the film is probably their favorite part. He's understandably not pleased that someone knocked him off of his vehicle and took it, so he follows the trail of detritus to Barter Town. We don't even know it's Max right away, but I mean, who else is the movie going to start with? Max has scraggly, long hair, and one of his eyes is a different color after the crash Wez (Vernon Miller) caused in the last movie, but it's still him. There's significantly less vehicular mayhem on display for most of Beyond Thunderdome, starting with the fact that Max (Mel Gibson) is riding on a camel-drawn truck, which he quickly loses to Jedediah (Bruce Spence), who is not the gyro-copter pilot from The Road Warrior * but is another pilot who has a son (Adam Cockburn).

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