![]() ![]() “Hey, it’s been a pleasure doing business with you, but I’m leaving. “Let’s have a look at this machine of yours.” “My vehicle and all the juice I can carry.” “Now, to do the job I need five gallons of diesel and some high-octane gasoline.” (beat) “Think of it as a down payment.” I deliver a rig big enough to haul that tanker of yours: you give me back my vehicle and as much juice as I can carry.” You want to get out of here… you talk to me.” “Two days ago I saw a vehicle that’d haul that tanker. Look, I just want my gas: I want to get out of here. Look, he said if I brought him back here you’d give me some gas. “Yeah, they’re heading hard to the southwest in heaps of trouble. “Two or three miles down the road, left for dead. “The arrangement was I wouldn’t kill you.” Touch those tanks and-” (imitates sound of explosion) The transcriptions are by ear, with occasional help from the Blu-ray’s English subtitles, and are probably not perfect. Here’s my listing of all of Max’s speeches, with timecodes taken from the most recent US Blu-ray release of the film. In the entry for timecode 0:39:18 below, for instance, there’s a distinct pause between the two sentences, but since no-one else actually interrupts I consider them part of a single speech. If anything, I may be running multiple lines together, since I’m defining a speech as “everything Max says until another character speaks or the scene changes”. This is not counting grunts, wordless shouts, or the little tongue-click he uses to sic his dog on the Gyro Captain. And since I was in the mood to re-watch the film anyway after viewing Mad Max: Fury Road, I thought I’d go through and count them.īy my count, Gibson’s Max has 38 speeches (totalling 326 words) in the film. I’ve seen the claim made that Mel Gibson only has 16 lines of dialogue in Mad Max 2 (or The Road Warrior for Americans): it’s mentioned, for instance, on IMDb’s trivia page for the film.
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