The road of rage. How George Miller created a cult post -apocalyptic franchise

"When the world collapsed, each of us broke in our own way. It is difficult to say who has become more crazy - I am or everyone else. ” - Max Rocatansky

When in 1979 an unknown Australian director shot his first full -length film Mad Max, no one suspected that this was the beginning of the greatest dieselpank franchise.
George Miller, a native of the emigrant family, a doctor by education, became famous overnight. His first "Mad Max" with a budget of 300 thousand dollars hit the Guinness Book of Records as a film with the highest ratio between production and profit costs (more than $ 100 million) This dizzying record could not beat for almost 20 years!
But then few knew what works it cost Miller. He collected money for shooting literally for friends and relatives, some artists and crew members agreed to work just for a beer mug, and Miller and his partner Byron Kennedy brought the sound right in the living room.
This book is not just a chronicle of the film, but the story of two heroes - a brilliant Miller and his crazy Max. The real revelation in the best traditions of the Universe of the main post -apocalypse of the cinema cinema