Today, we wish filmmaker George Miller a happy birthday!

Today’s scene that I love comes from 1983’s Mad Max 2 (a.k.a. The Road Warrior).  In the scene, Lord Humongous and his followers arrive at a compound.  Humongous and his followers are both ludicrous and menacing at the same time.  While watching this scene, Miller makes sure that the viewer knows that, even if Humongous’s followers are a little bit daft, Humongous himself is truly dangerous.

Incidentally, when Mad Max 2 was in the pre-production stages, one idea was that Max would discover that, underneath the mask, was his old partner from the first film, Jim Goose!  Miller says that idea was abandoned but, just as I imagine Immortan Joe was actually Toecutter grown up, I also always assume that Humongous was the formerly cheerful Jim Goose.