GIBSON: ‘MAD MAX INSPIRED IDOL AND DURAN DURAN’
MEL GIBSON credits his MAD MAX movies with spawning BILLY IDOL and DURAN = DURAN’s road warrior 1980s look.
He insists the low-budget George Miller films inspired pop videos and f= ilms.
The actor/director tells the Los Angeles Times, "Look at all the films = that came from it, that took from it. Waterworld was Road Warrior on wate= r and there have been a dozen others.
"And look at the music in the 1980s, Billy Idol and Duran Duran, they a= ll took this look… The Mohawks, the black leather and studs, all the bo= ndage stuff." Gibson still smiles when he recalls how basic the set was: "I lived in = a miner’s cottage while we were making it. It was made of cement. It had = a bedroom and a kitchen and an outside bathroom. We were in the middle of= Broken Hill and it’s just bleak desert.
"George managed to make it look mythic. It was real low-tech. We made i= t for dozens and dozens of dollars."
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