Mad Max 2 Page #2

DISSOLVE.

ly. ON A HIGHWAY...

JESSIE carrying the child, scrambles from her van and

runs down the road. A GANG OF OUTLAW BIKERS run them

down... the child's ball bounces down the road.

MAX runs towards their bodies...

Iz. SILHOUETTED ON A HILLSIDE GRAVEYARD.

(PRODUCTION FOOTAGE)

MAX stands looking down at two headstones...

DISSOLVE.

laa. IN FRONT OF A ROARING FIRE.

MAX fuels the blaze with the remnants of his past life:

children's toys; photo albums; his police badge.

lbb. MAX WITH HIS SHOTGUN.

...turns to camera, wild-eyed ...

NARRATOR V/O

And became a shell of a man. A

burnt out, desolate man, a dead man,

running from the demons of his past.

A man who wandered far away...

1cc. MAX DRIVING.

The supercharger On the front of the vehicle dominates

the foreground.

NARRATOR V/O

And it was out here in this blighted

place, that he learned to live

again...

FADE OF COLOUR:

THE SCREEN WIDENS TO ANAMORPHIC RATIO.

2.HELICOPTER AERIAL TRANSITION. DAWN.

We soar along the empty highway up and down its rises

and around its curves until we are out in the vast

wasteland.

3. WASTELAND. DAY.

The black hole of the supercharger dominates the frame.

Behind the wheel we see MAX looking about 3 years older.

He is gaunt, unkept - his leathers tattered and torn.

The black-on-black pursuit car, bearing the scars of

numerous road duels, cruises down the roller coaster

highway.

As MAX crests a hill he hits the brakes. His companion,

a mongrel DOG, sitting in a baby's auto seat, lifts its

head to look.

The black-on-black slides to a stop.

4.RURAL SHACK 0N HIGHWAY. DAY.

On a ridge close to the road, silhouetted in a

dust-blown field, is a strange assortment of WARRIOR

LIKE MEN. They are cannibalizing a farm vehicle:

siphoning its fuel and loading food and other loot into

their bizarre vehicles.

The DOG growls. MAX looks further along the ridge. On

the horizon we see a burning wooden shack and three

bodies strung from a gnarled, dead tree.

MAX looks back to the MEN. Several of them, having seen

him, are running to their vehicles.

The first of them is a muscular man with a red mohawk

haircut - He is heavily protected by a leather and metal

chest plate, shoulder pads and leggings. This is WEZ.

He runs to where a GOLDEN YOUTH sits on the pillion seat

of a huge bike.

WEZ is followed by TWO MORE MOHAWKERS on bikes, THREE

GAYBOY BERSERKERS in road racers and FOUR SMEGMA CRAZIES

in bizarre dune buggies.

MAX guns the big motor. The black-on-black takes off.

MAX hits the supercharger - surging away..

Through the rear window we see WEZ lead the other nine

vehicles down the hill, giving chase...

WIPE.

5.ELSEWHERE ON THE HIGHWAY. (A LITTLE LATER). DAY.

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