The left eye of the post-modern heroes

[Uncle Entity]

Rockatansky has a glass eye (The left eye) in the third installement.Probably,Max has met another organized group of survivors ,after the events of MM2,in which there was a surgeon! Strange thing...Sallow(Rutger Hauer)of the "Salute of the Jugger" movie and Snake Plissken too.They haven't the left eye.OOOps...and the "Deacon" of Waterworld? He's a bad guy but... However,it's a sort of pride question,for me.My grandpa had a glass left eye just like my hero!!! He was a good type,a dreamer of the old generation and -in a his own way- an hero.

[Freeway Warrior]

In Reply to: The left eye of the post-modern heroes posted by Tiziano Caliendo on March 21, 2000 at 11:32:53:


Thanks for mentioning an observation I never thought of before. Wow, what an insight.

Your grandfather sounded like a really great man. You were very fortunate to have such a

caring and inspirational person in your family, one that you were able to know.

I wonder if my mother's father was like your grandfather. He died three years before I was born.

What makes my story a happy is my grandfather served in the Long Range Desert Patrol

Group during WWII, driving Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks armed with machine-guns to strike at

the German forces in N. Africa. I never knew about this aspect of my grandfather until a year

or two after I started playing the auto-combat board game Car Wars and watching the

Mad Max Trilogy. ) Perhaps my grandfather's spirit is what gave me the interest in the genre

of autodueling. )

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Michael P. Owen / [email protected] / [email protected]

Seattle WA Autoduel Team Gaming Group (Car Wars, GURPS, Formula De)

Car Wars Internet Newsletter Editor

SWAT Matrix HQ: http://www.serv.net/~owenmp/swathome.html

[Freeway Warrior]

In Reply to: The left eye of the post-modern heroes posted by Tiziano Caliendo on March 21, 2000 at 11:32:53:


I forgot to tell you my grandfather was also born in Australia then moved to America in the early

days of his childhood. Could this fact be another reason why I enjoy Mad Max? )



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Michael P. Owen / [email protected] / [email protected]

Seattle WA Autoduel Team Gaming Group (Car Wars, GURPS, Formula De)

Car Wars Internet Newsletter Editor

SWAT Matrix HQ: http://www.serv.net/~owenmp/swathome.html