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From: mte@busch.UUCP (Moshe Eliovson)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"
Message-ID: <465@busch.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 23:41:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 23:41:54 1985
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Summary: highly improbable as an understatement?

In article <2823@topaz.ARPA>, reiher@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA writes:
> From: Peter Reiher <reiher@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA>
> 
> Steve Rabin writes:
> 
> >The plot is not intended to be believable, or
> >to stand on its own, and to judge it on these grounds is to miss the
> >point.  Judge it for its dramatic and emotional effect, and for the
> >new ideas and questions with which you leave the theatre.
> 
> I think that the plot was meant to be believable on the same level as
> the Trojan Horse or Beowulf.  Judging it as anything but a myth
> seems to me to miss the point.  Max is an archetypical hero, performing
> an archetypical task.  (Miller invariably mentions, in his interviews on
> this film, that a group of aborigines, on hearing the part of the story
> about the children waiting to be taken off into the sky, excitedly said
> that they had a legend just like that.)  Miller was trying, as his major
> task, to produce a universal myth.  I think he failed.
> 

	I agree with Steve- nobody should expect this to be as coherent
and semi-logical as it's predecessors.  

	Peter is right too, Miller sure goofed this one up compared to
Mad Max & The Road Warrior.  But, I don't think this is anywhere near
the level to be judged next to the Trojan Horse or Beowulf.  For their
respective time periods these were excellent "works".

	You really can't complain about feasability though, after all
it is sf, but on the other hand, sf people are sometimes very demanding
for sound reasoning.

	I just cannot buy the monkey though...!

	Moshe Eliovson
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