Thunderdome is a ritual gladiatorial combat, to the death. To this end the scheming Aunty Entity manipulates Mad Max into a gladiatorial battle (known as the " Thunderdome") against Blaster with hopes Max will kill him, in effect using Max as a convenient means of exacting political assassination without disrupting the precariously constructed charade of lawful order that prevents Bartertown from erupting into chaos. She was an Amazon-like woman who ruled with an iron-fist but found herself being challenged by the diminutive Master and his brutish henchman Blaster: Aunty Entity is enraged at this but is unable to publicly oppose the duo of "Master Blaster" due to Master being the only one who knows how to work all the machines that keep Bartertown running. As she tells Max in no uncertain terms, she will stop at nothing to defend the parody of civilisation she has managed to establish. At some point following the fall of civilisation she had become powerful enough to establish Bartertown as a permanent trading settlement, fortify it, and impose a brutal semblance of law and order upon it's residents and those who came to trade. Ultimately she recognizes that Max and herself share the same qualities, which is the reason she spares his life at the very end of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.Īunty Entity claimed that before the 'pox-eclipse' she was a nobody, but the day after, she had the chance to become a somebody, for she was one that survived. Max's connection to his past is internalized however, unlike Aunty Entity's which is represented by Bartertown. It was argued by George Miller that, should Max join The Lost Tribe and rebuild civilization in destroyed Sydney - he would become just like Aunty Entity, desperately protecting his world to eventually become a tyrant. Aunty's personality reflects Max's in a way that she built a physical world for herself and she will not allow for any evolution or change, much like Max who is incapable of letting go of his past. She was selected because Aunty's age was to be indeterminate, to underline the fact she is a survivor with a lot of charisma, capable of building a place like Bartertown and that she represents both good and evil. Tina Turner was selected to play the role because she is perceived as a positive persona and to give the sense that Aunty Entity was once a hero which amplifies how tragic that character is. ![]() (.), they love their world too much, and they want to hold on, and they won’t allow the next, natural evolution, natural change, to happen. They create a new order, and they love that world too much, then they become what you might-call holdfast. Unfortunately, according to Miller, in the process she became a tyrant : Aunty Entity built Bartertown with good intentions, trying to rebuild civilization, bring back trade and give people hope for tomorrow. When creating the character, George Miller started with an assumption that 'today's tyrant is yesterday's hero'.
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