Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome the set for Bartertown built at an old brickworks (the Brickpit) at Homebush Bay in Sydney's western suburbs and the children's camp shot at the Blue Mountains. ""Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" proved far more challenging than "The Road Warrior"," said cinematographer Dean Semler. "We were dealing with more varied environments than before and it was essential that each of the worlds created for the film have a distinctly different look." The musical score for "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" was composed by Maurice Jarre, replacing Brian May, who composed the music for the previous two films. The film also contains two
Mad Max duo produced "Mad Max", working with first-time screenwriter James McCausland (who appears in the film as the bearded man in an apron in front of the diner). According to Miller, his interest while writing "Mad Max" was "a silent movie with sound", employing highly kinetic images reminiscent of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd while the narrative itself was basic and simple. Miller believed that audiences would find his violent story more believable if set in a bleak dystopian future. Screenwriter McCausland drew heavily from his observations of the 1973 oil crisis' effects on Australian motorists: Kennedy and Miller first took