Sunday, August 13, 2006

8/13/06-My favorite movie opening....EVER

As a service to you, beloved reader....and because we're essentially up to date and all.....I thought I'd throw you a little treat....here is the opening monologue to the # 2 rated movie on my personal top 10....but the opening is just the greatest.  Check it out:

My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember the Road Warrior. The man we called 'Max'.

To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men.

On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed.

Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.


The Road Warrior....Jeff sez.....check it out.

Later,
Jeff

Here he is...in all his leatherclad glory....and before a drunken night in Malibu!!  :)

"Mel Gibson - Mad Max" Photograph

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