Mad Max: Why Filmmaking Was a Nightmare for Director George Miller

Mad Max: Why Filmmaking Was a Nightmare for Director George Miller

Considered a sci-fi classic, the feature film Mad Max, which hit theaters in 1979, was a hell of a shoot for director George Miller, who recently opened up about it.

Mad Max is considered an SF classic. But did you know that making a post-apocalyptic film was very difficult for Australian director George Miller, to the point that he thought the end result would be a disaster?

Before production began on Mad Max, George Miller had to deal with financing difficulties and stress. “My producing partner Byron Kennedy and I managed to raise money from our closest school friends to offset the film’s very tight budget.”– says the film director Interview with The Guardian. “That is why they were obligated to pay. It would be terrible if we couldn’t.”

This modest budget greatly affected the day-to-day shooting, to the point that George Miller had to improvise as an editor. “Since we didn’t have money for an editor, I edited the film myself for a year”he says.

“Every day, for a year, I came face to face with what I didn’t do, what I missed”he continues. “Why did I put the camera here? Why didn’t I ask the actors to go faster?”

Emphasized that he combines the functions of both director and editor, George Miller therefore did particularly poorly on Mad Max, perhaps lacking the perspective necessary to analyze what he was creating. The Australian filmmaker thought the film would be a disaster.

Ultimately, the post-apocalyptic adventure, directed by Mel Gibson, will be a sci-fi classic that will be celebrated by millions of viewers.

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Source: allocine

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