As part of my birthday present, Nina took us on a tour of some of the locations from the movie. I took photos and placed them on top of stills from the corresponding scenes from the movie.
This first image is from the police headquarters in the film. The building is a renovated pump house that is now part of the Scienceworks Museum in Melbourne. The scene is when the lawyers are driving up to spring Johnny the Boy from custody.
The second image is from a stip of resort houses built in the 40s in a city called Avalon, an hour west of Melbourne. It is a run-down looking place and is now little more than a shanty town. This is where the Biker gang hung out in the film and where Jesse went to get an ice cream cone, ending the scene with kick to the Toe Cutters clackers.
The last image is from Edgars road, just north of Avalon, and east of the You Yangs mountains. The road was used for all the chase scenes and you can see the mountains throughout. It is farm country and feels very remote, even though it is only an hour west of the city.
Needless to say, this was seriously cool.
It was also a reflective experience walking around these sites, thinking about how they seemed like such an alien world to me when I was sixteen, and how I live near them now.
I guess I've learned to roll with it.
2 comments:
Nick,
sounds like an awesome road trip. Nina must be a pretty cool chick!
Some other locations around Victoria (Australia) where Mad Max filmed are located Clunes - a historic town just north west of Melbourne. I believe this is where scenes in the deserted country township were shot. Check out the FilmBallaratHepburn website link for more info: http://www.filmballarathepburn.com/filming/filmed-here.php?film=mad-max
Sometimes moving to a new country can be exciting and at other times you can feel isolated and alien. I think a lot of people can relate to this, especially in Australia where so much of the population have migrated from elsewhere, or have experience the expat lifestyle (as so many young aussies do). I dare say that you are amongst good company, in terms of people understanding what its like to be in your shoes.
I look forward to reading the next blog installment.
Cheers!
did you know that spotswood was only half the locaton of the headquarters the actual office was in pickle st port melbourne in the old gas works site which is a park now also the halls of justice was filmed at the end of bay st port melbourne cross the road from the beach which is now town houses how i know about this is not only i lived in port melbourne i saw it made when i was 17 years old and the coupe i saw it very up close as it was on a truck oppsite my parents house in cruickshank st port melbourne when the crew was having lunch at the pub and also eing told to f off by the star himself when i got to close to the vehicle
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