The CWR Blog: Post-Apocalyptic Action (and Post-Modern Feminism) to the Max
"Fury Road" features plenty of explosive fury and open road but lacks some of the thematic substance of the original Mad Max trilogy

Roughly two-hundred years later, provoked by post-modern malaise and the threat of nuclear holocaust, the medical doctor Miller (who often treated patients hurt in car accidents) came up with the mythology of Mad Max. A fascination with the role of energy and infrastructure also played a role. James McCausland, who co-wrote the screenplay of the first Mad Max film, said years later: “George and I wrote the [Mad Max] script based on the thesis that people would do almost anything to keep vehicles moving and the assumption that nations would not consider the huge costs of providing infrastructure for alternative energy until it was too late.”