The year is 1979. We have incidences on spooled. No mad bikers. Both trouble.

The movie? Mad Max. The Hello everyone and welcome to on.oed. I am Paul Sheer joined as always by my co-host Amy

Nicholson a writer for the New York Times film section and now a person is also putting up her reviews on letterbox finally.

You saw! I'm so excited. As a user of letterbox, I love seeing you out there on letterbox.

So follow Amy there or on Instagram where she's posting.

My book is out right now,

Joyful Recollections of Trauma.

And you know what?

What a great time for us to talk about Mad Max?

Because we are, you know, in this moment,

we forget about George Miller for a couple of years.

Then he comes back, blows our fucking socks off, and we're getting ready for

Furiosa, so let's go and look at this movie that was made on a shoestring budget and became a worldwide hit. This movie captures a moment in time as we're

dealing with the ramifications of the 70s, this idea of like what does the 80s hold but we're not yet in the 80s that we know the Wall Street 80s the greed 80s we're in this

scared beginning of the 80s which I think is a great moment in time to see on a post-apocalyptic thriller

even if it wasn't intended to be post-apocalyptic which we'll get into.

And Amy here's the deal This podcast will be about an hour. You can either

listen to the whole thing or I'll give you this knife and you can cut off one of

ears. The choice is yours. But until then, unspool it.

The year is 1979, and George Miller is starting the engine that will defeat. is Mad Max, his first feature film, George is only 34, but directing movies is already his second career.

First, he had been an emergency room doctor, and that had been pretty brutal. Now one time he tells a story

that a young girl got wheeled in all mangled from an accident. She kept on

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