Over the summer director George Miller called his long-gestating “Mad Max: Fury Road” a “western on wheels” and indeed, the original trilogy didn’t shy away from using the archetypes of the western genre, with Max Rockatansky himself taking the place of Clint Eastwood’s similarly taciturn antihero in an arid landscape. In fact, Miller directly nodded to Eastwood’s most famous character in “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” by having a character introducing Mel Gibson’s Max as “The Man With No Name.” A new supercut from Dave Black has further driven the point home, so put on your leather jacket, practice your squint and check it out below.
Set to Ennio Morricone’s haunting “Man With A Harmonica” cue from the “Once Upon A Time In The West” score, the three-minute-and-twenty-seconds long montage, titled “The Man We Called Max” cuts scenes from the original trilogy – in the wrong aspect ratio, we must note – into a wonderfully moody piece that...
