Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gibson first burst onto the global consciousness--and the pages of fan magazines--with a pair of post-apocalyptic films about a man who just couldn't take it anymore. That man, of course, was Mad Max...
What: No--I mean, in fact in Mrs. Soffel, Tim, in all your other American films, and Gallipoli as well...it seems like in this film, if you'll pardon my inference, you've gone back to the kind of role you first did in Mad Max...
...major difference from the Mad Max kind of two-dimensional role--I saw this guy as having a lot more dimension and a more real approach to life, and a conflict inside himself which he resolves more completely in the end...I think you have to be different. I think in those films he's seen as normal--it's normal behavior for that world. In this it is not, it's abnormal...
What: Is it true that you turned down $10 million to do a fourth Mad Max film...
...University of California at Santa Cruz, "everyone with anything to look with is looking at it." Every optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere is trained on 1987A; a newly launched Japanese satellite is scanning it for X rays emitted by the supernova's hot gases; the Solar Max satellite is looking for the gamma rays characteristic of very energetic explosions; and another spacecraft, the International Ultraviolet Explorer, has already made observations of the explosion's ultraviolet radiation. These indicate that the star's atmosphere, which astronomers have determined is exploding outward at a speed of about 36 million m.p.h...