If Max isn't really the hero of this movie...
Who do you think is the real hero of this movie if Max here is just a supporting protagonist? Is it the Gyro Captain, or Pappagallo?
shareI would say Pappagallo, since The Plan was apparently his, and he intended from the beginning to lead the refinery inhabitants to a better life. Max and the Gyrocaptain both started out as self-centered scavengers, and joined up with Pappagallo later on, for their own reasons. The only reason Max or the Gyrocaptain wanted into the refinery in the first place was to score gasoline, not to join the community.
- HOW kin I be so brainless, when I is so smart?
I only asked because every movie after the first seems to be less about Max and more about another character. Like Fury Road, it seems to focus on Furiosa more.
shareNot in this one, Max is without a doubt the protagonist here, and does the most heroic acts throughout.
I consider this the only Mad Max movie to be solely focused on him. In the others (even the first) they meander a little and occasionally shift focus to different characters, but here we follow him from start to finish and focus on his character arc.
We get no backstory on any other character. We never find out how the people came across the refinery, how long they've been together etc.
The refinery situation is ultimately secondary to Max regaining his humanity.
I thought only the first Mad Max was about him.
shareI have heard/read that Pappagallo was formerly an executive of Seven Sisters Oil, which is the brand on the tanker, and apparently the previous owners of the refinery. So I assume that the refinery was kind of an outpost before the world crashed, and most of the refinery inhabitants are former employees of Seven Sisters, or the children of former employees. Wouldn't be so hard to imagine that Pappagallo was visiting the outpost in an official capacity and got marooned, or that he sought it out after the crash.
- HOW kin I be so brainless, when I is so smart?
Maybe. Who knows?
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I'll go along with that theory.
I never had a problem with not knowing, just saying that George Miller was clearly more interested on focusing on Max's journey itself rather than who he he's helping which changes in Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road.
Even when Papagallo starts giving his speech to the community, we don't stay on him we cut to the beginning of Max's relationship with the feral kid which is giving him the music box.
Then again, the other hero of the movie could be the Feral Kid. Especially considering that an older version of the Feral Kid is narrating the movie.
sharebuddyboy28...Max aint a hero...heroes make heroic acts cause they wanna help others...Max is an anti-hero...a selfish *beep* who only make things if he can gain something out of it except in Fury Road at the end when he comes back and really helps the women back to the base.
~If the realistic details fails, the movie fails~
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