Movie Quiz: It Would Be Crazy to Succeed on 12/12!

In the early 1970s, an Australian doctor working in an emergency room in the city of Sydney saw injured and dead bodies passing by, the victims of many road accidents that were rampant in the country, and in particular on rural Queensland roads. . This doctor’s name is George Miller, the future director of the Mad Max franchise.

It was after meeting with aspiring filmmaker Byron Kennedy that they decided to write a feature film inspired by these painful experiences and testimonies. What was originally supposed to be a contemporary film centered on a character who takes to the roads of Australia to help victims of a car accident quickly takes the form of a dystopian story that incorporates the main event of the oil shock that occurred in 1973.

The story goes that on the day of the auditions, actor Steve Beasley – who will play Jim Goose – arrived with a friend with a swollen nose and various bruises on his face from a fight the night before. A person who impresses the casting director, who asks the young person to come back in a few days to do some tests.

This young man’s name is Mel Gibson, and he will play the title role in a film that will take him to the heights of Hollywood. Independently financed and on a very limited budget, the film, a huge worldwide success, would long hold the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-grossing low-budget film in history until it was dethroned by The Blair Witch Project in the 1990s.

A success that would lead to two sequels, released in 1981 and 1985, and a fourth film, Fury Road, thirty years later. Here is a quiz with twelve images from these four films. It’s up to you to try to match the right pictures with the right opus, trying to achieve flawless results!