Max Rockatansky Film" ranked him #75 in their Top 100 Movie Characters of All Time. Max Rockatansky Max Rockatansky is the title character and protagonist of the post-apocalyptic action films from the "Mad Max" franchise, which spans 1979 to 2015. He appears in the films "Mad Max", "Mad Max 2", "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome", and "". Created by director George Miller and producer Byron Kennedy, the character was played by actor Mel Gibson in the first three films, and by Tom Hardy in the fourth. In "Mad Max", Max Rockatansky is a Main Force Patrol officer tasked with maintaining law and order
Mad Max 2 (soundtrack) optimistic picture, and it was really like a modern revival of an old Western," said May. "Whereas in "Mad Max" I had a jagged brass, very atonal and difficult to play, in "Mad Max 2" I had deep basses, cellos, and lots of short motifs that were not totally melodic but were just enough to be unified." The score also bears resemblance to the Western genre, featuring a refined orchestra that differs from the first film. It is also often compared to "Mars, the Bringer of War" from Gustav Holst's orchestral suite "The Planets". The manuscripts of the orchestrated cues