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"Mad Max: Fury Road" is the opposite of subtle. There are massive explosions, hordes of dehydrated mutants, women being literally milked... It's an insane wonderland of brutality and over-the-top visuals. But there is nothing crazier in the entire moving picture than the Doof Warrior, a bullheaded mutant wearing a red onesie, riding a truck made out of amps and speakers who wields a flame-throwing guitar and never stops playing rock music.

Here'due south the crazier part: all of it was existent. Or at to the lowest degree, the role player/musician wearing the makeup really did all of that for real... And to discover out more than nigh how it all came together, MTV News hopped on the telephone with "Fury Road" production designer Colin Gibson.

MTV News: There'southward a lot of crazy elements in the movie, but every time that guitar guy appears you tin can't take your optics off of him... So where did the initial genesis of that await and of that thought come from?

Colin Gibson: Well, the initial genesis I have to say, when I came in -- when I was offered the project -- there wasn't a script, but there were all the storyboards. And every armada, every boxing, every ground forces, has a little drummer male child. Uncle George, being George Miller, imagined the biggest piffling drummer boy in the earth.

Then the plan basically was to try to come up with a vehicle, an idea that could exist heard over the roar of a couple of hundred amps. And the only fashion to do that was to build the largest, last Marshall stack at the end of the universe.

Bungee cord included, the best guitarist in the world in front of information technology -- and so backing with some tiger drummers and basically trying to build the drums more than and more. We ended up with an viii-bike bulldoze, an ex-military rocket launching track to requite us enough calibration, and so turned the reverberators and congenital them out of old ac duct steel.

With that and a little stage and a huge PA system -- and then George bandage a fantastic vocalist performer, cabaret creative person called iOTA in the role of Coma the Doof warrior. And the Doof machine basically was but that. It was a huge affair that went "Doof, doof, doof," and gave us the shell of the battle.

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MTV: So wait, the whole thing actually worked?

Gibson: Yous bet your sweet... George -- unfortunately -- doesn't like things that don't work. I have in the past built him props that I idea were just supposed to be props, and then he goes, "Okay, plug it in now."

The get-go version of the guitar which -- I think I put besides much into the flame thrower, not enough into the reverb. And yes, the flame throwing guitar did have to operate, did have to play, the PA system did take to work and the drummers... Unfortunately, I did get exercise in all positions and I've got to tell you, the drumming was very uncomfortable at lxx [kilometers] an 60 minutes, eating sand.

MTV: Since it was then uncomfortable, was anybody hopping up on the truck between takes to cheer up the troops? Or were they all similar, "Please. Simply a moment of serenity."

Gibson: Non between takes, there was far too many during the takes where it was being played -- so no. George actually had the guitarist come over, fairly early in pre-production in Africa. And so he had a month or half dozen weeks of getting used to it, of really being able to play at total speed, while bungee jumping and bullheaded.

MTV: Let's talk about the flame throwing guitar a piddling scrap. Was that in the storyboard besides or was that something that developed along the way?

Gibson: Information technology wasn't in the story boards per se, it was more a way of punctuating action. Information technology was a chip like a Osculation concert: there needed to exist flames. In that location needed to be fun. And unfortunately, there weren't besides many places on the vehicle to have it washed -- and virtually all the other vehicles had flame throwers or machine guns.

And and so George wrote in the battle between Max and the Doof warrior as Max makes his way forth the single file trail of vehicles, making his fashion back to the front end in the last race. So it was necessary to arm the Doof warrior as well. We had to give the flame thrower to his vehicle.

MTV: I have to imagine in that location are sure challenges involved to making a playable guitar that also tin can shoot fire... Then how practise you fit everything that'south important into that one chassis?

Gibson: Well, I'm short and I've spent my life working on those sort of bug. Fitting everything into a small chassis is just role of my lifestyle.

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MTV: Fair enough... For the Doof warrior himself, the movie is vibrant -- at that place'southward these incredible oranges and blues throughout -- but the red onesie that this guy is wearing, is very unique and different. Why choose that color in particular for him?

Gibson: The coloration that we chose for the movie was an ongoing gag. George was trying to control what the audition focused on. Usually, directors desire to draw the middle to the right thing, and production wise, we tried to throw makeup on the characters, we tried through the coloration of vehicles and the sets and the weaponry... [We colored] everything back to a sort of browbeaten metallic and blackness with a slight rust betwixt information technology, and so that people'south flesh tones would pop.

So that our lead heroes, the people nosotros saw in close upward, their flesh would pop. Just slightly secondary characters like the Doof Warrior had to have a style to brand them popular in the frame, merely not working on their flesh tones -- and so the easiest thing was to make them red.

MTV: Was there always a worry nigh overloading the grapheme with everything going on? Not that the motion picture is underplayed in any way, it's brilliantly over the top, only was there a concern that a bungee-jumping flame-thrower guitar playing bullheaded mutant in a ruby onesie riding a car fabricated of amps might be one element too much?

Gibson: Oh no, I don't think that George is 1 to worry about going over the superlative. My job, partly, was equally ballast. I'grand a bit of a fan of real physics, and so equally long as I can make it believable, and logical, as to what they could do, I was happy to go ahead. George will always push things merely a fiddling further, because that's what he does for a living.

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MTV: George also came upwards with this incredible back-story for anybody... I imagine the Doof warrior has a backstory, too?

Gibson: Pretty much everybody had to take a reason for existing. His reason for existing was that he could play the guitar -- and there was sort of a theory of what the social hierarchy and everything was: you were either available to do battle, as a war male child; or you had a higher status than anyone else; or you had a item skill.

Plainly mechanical was the strongest of those [skills], but this was i, too. And though he was born bullheaded, and ordinarily that would of meant y'all had nothing, and [they would] break his legs and leave him on the colina, Spartan style. But he had this talent to play the guitar -- and then he certainly had earned his place in the pantheon.

"Mad Max: Fury Road" is in theaters now.

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