Mad Max (franchise) for 2015's "Fury Road". The series features a few recurring cast members in different roles. Bruce Spence played different aviators in two of the films, first the Gyro Captain in "Mad Max 2" and then Jedediah the Pilot in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome". Hugh Keays-Byrne has taken antagonist roles twice: he played Toecutter in "Mad Max" and Immortan Joe in "Mad Max: Fury Road". Max Fairchild appeared as Benno Swaisey in "Mad Max" and as "Broken Victim" of the Humungus's gang in "Mad Max 2". Many licensed products are based on the "Mad Max" franchise. Products include novels, comic books,
Mad Max: Fury Road Max, is "actually a secondary figure" in a film that is not about a roaming Max Rockatansky. Instead, the movie is "actually" about a "feminist revolt led by Imperator Furiosa" against Immortan Joe. Further themes pointed out by critics have included vengeance, solidarity, home, and redemption. In his review of "Mad Max: Fury Road", film critic A. O. Scott wrote: "The themes of vengeance and solidarity, the wide-open spaces and the kinetic, ground-level movement mark "Fury Road" as a western, and the filmmakers pay tribute to such masters of the genre as John Ford, Budd Boetticher and, not least, Chuck