EJ Holden Ute: Mad Max (movie) Cooked Goose

That looks great. I love it. I am a very big Mad Max fan. Been one sense I first saw the movie back in 79. I remember back then, here in the States. The movie was a little hard to swallow even with the horrible US voice overs. Back then the cars confused the heck out of us over here. We would all try to figure out what all of the cars were with what knowledge we all had back then. Only knowing American Muscle and not knowing that Aussie had their own Muscle Car era cars. It did make the future thing work a little better for us. What I loved about the movie is that it had my 3 favorite movie subjects. Sci-Fi, Cars and Cops. It does not get any better then that.

It was nice when we came into the age of DVDs. Getting my copy with the option to watch it with the original voices. After 25 years of watching that movie and knowing it word for word. It made the movie so much better and like it was seeing it for the first time. I cannot watch it the old US way ever again.

 Very cool and nice to see a different Mad Max Movie car model. Nice work.

Matt

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That looks great. I love it. I am a very big Mad Max fan. Been one sense I first saw the movie back in 79. I remember back then, here in the States. The movie was a little hard to swallow even with the horrible US voice overs. Back then the cars confused the heck out of us over here. We would all try to figure out what all of the cars were with what knowledge we all had back then. Only knowing American Muscle and not knowing that Aussie had their own Muscle Car era cars. It did make the future thing work a little better for us. What I loved about the movie is that it had my 3 favorite movie subjects. Sci-Fi, Cars and Cops. It does not get any better then that. It was nice when we came into the age of DVDs. Getting my copy with the option to watch it with the original voices. After 25 years of watching that movie and knowing it word for word. It made the movie so much better and like it was seeing it for the first time. I cannot watch it the old US way ever again.  Very cool and nice to see a different Mad Max Movie car model. Nice work. Matt

why the hell did they use us voiceovers its the same flippin language!!

This is what I have learned about this over the years. Back in the late 70s. They (Whom ever "They" might have been) felt that the movie would not go over well with the Aussie accents. Back then Americans were not that exposed to Australia like we are today. I was a little more in tune to it then the average US citizen, because I had 2 sisters that moved "Down Under" in the early and mid 70s.

 There was also allot of words in the Aussie vernacular that was use in that movie that there was no way the U.S. movie goers were going to even get. If you were to ever see the US version of Mad Max you would find so many words changed so that "We" would understand it better.

 By the time  The Road Warrior came out. The voice track was left alone. Made the movie so much better. I think that was apart of why TRW did so much better then MM here in the States.

Matt

Check out this U.S. Theatrical Trailer. You will get a little taste of what all of us Mad Max fans had to deal with over the years here in the States. So of this dialog with really sound weird to you. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbaEEp0nA8A&feature=related

It was kind of funny with the US voice overs. First, there was a bunch of guys that were in real fast shots that all had the same voice and after Mel got to be a big star here in the US. It got real strange to hear another voice come out of his mouth. When I finally got to see the movie the way it was meant to be about 4 years ago. It was really cool to hear Mel's voice come out of his mouth.

 Sorry for the Thread Hy-Jacking. I will shut up now. LOL.

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Sorry for the Thread Hy-Jacking. I will shut up now. LOL.

it's ok since it keeps the thread alive. i just watched the 'u.s' mad max trailer you posted. hilarious. it reminds me of those horrible 'comedy' movies that redub normal movies to make them 'funny' (they're not). i think they should have got the original movie, after all, where else will you hear terms like 'ducks guts'?

Very cool  build of an unusual movie car. Its really well done.  

I just watched the trailer. Its a blast seeing all those old shots from around Melbourne.

I have a very minor question. The back of your ute looks like it has the rear quarter panels from an EH station wagon, which is a slightly different from the EJ /EH ute. Was it that way in the movie, I don't remember?

you guess right. The model was originally an EH wagon, which has the vertical & square style rear lights. i've bodged it a bit to look like the EJ style rear lights (also carried over to EH ute). the other issue is i have the EH wagon rear window instead of the ute rear window. The model is a vac-formed body, so modifying it was terribly hard.