Mad max motorcycle5/17/2023 ![]() Only, instead of flying over the wreckage like Superman, Norris’s knee clipped the top of the buggy and he whirligigged like a marionette shot from a catapult. Oi, Robbo! Show these cunts how ya wuhk the zeeerox machine, ‘ey.”Īfter that, stay tuned until about the 2:25 mark for footage of how they filmed the bike-crash “stunt,” which involves… uh… driving a motorcycle FULL SPEED into an overturned dune buggy, with the rider (Norris) then flying end over end into a pile of empty cardboard boxes. Gawt us a fackin’ college boy in the office we do. See that soygn? Spelled roight and everything. ![]() “Oi, fackin oath, maite, this cunt’s gonna be a real to do. ![]() I think my favorite part comes early in the clip, when the booming-voiced announcer describes Mad Max 2 as “the most expensive Australian film ever made,” and then the video immediately cuts to this: “We thought we were bulletproof.”Īlong with descriptions of Norris’s career and some of his stunts on Fury Road, Wired includes a featurette shot during the making of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (which was just called “The Road Warrior” in the US, where hardly anyone had seen the micro-budget Ozploitation flick Mad Max), which is an absolute classic. “Those days, we thought you could eat four-inch nails for breakfast and wipe our bum with sandpaper,” he says. And at 54, performed what he says will be his final driving stunt on Fury Road. ![]() Wired this weekend had a pretty great profile of Mad Max: Fury Road stunt coordinator Guy Norris (names don’t get much more Australian than “Guy Norris”) who got his start as a 21-year-old stuntman on Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, his first film gig, which was released in December 1981. ![]()
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