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: Fury Road before". These elements contrast this film with the male-centered hero in the previous Mad Max films. According to Mandalita De Barco of NPR, Theron's character, "Furiosa has a shaved head and a fierce leather outfit. And with a mechanical arm she jerry-rigged from salvaged tools, Furiosa is a sharpshooting powerhouse who can also handle an 18-wheel war rig charging through the desert." She is "a female road warrior." Throughout the film, Furiosa "is a character exactly equal to Max." Director Miller describes Furiosa and Max as "protagonist/antagonist". Kyle Smith of the "New York Post" said that the title character, Mad