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Originally Posted by AllBlackDan
Was that crazy guitar playing goon used for bad guy morale purposes?
*sigh*
Going back to the first movies, the point Miller has always tried to make is that after the nuclear holocaust, the world basically goes 100% nuts. It's full on Lord of the Flies type ****, and it's mostly run by the strongest (aka mostly men). So his vision was basically like some cross between bikers meets metal heads meets junkies meets hoarders meets who knows what else. Some of it for sure takes roots in some of the ancient war traditions, hence the big war drums. He just thought it would be cool to imagine these guys pumping themselves up with that guy playing guitar. You gotta imagine that these guys are half delirious from starvation/thirst, and probably wasted on who knows what. But when you look at the big real world biker shootout that just happened in Waco, I think Miller's vision is actually pretty bang on.
Let's just put it this way:
A dude playing guitar to pump up 500 blood thirsty post apocalyptic nuts is no weirder than:
1) the Force
2) a robot sent back into the past to kill 1 man to change the future
3) a dude who lives inside a computer program
Once you allow your imagination to accept that the world basically ended, these tiny details shouldn't be the thing holding anyone up (FuRake I'm looking at you).