Seeing George Miller walk out on stage to introduce The Road Warrior made all my pains go away. A medical doctor turned filmmaker, Miller may not have magical healing powers, but his movies have the capacity to make audiences forget about their troubles, at least for the length of the running time, and that certainly applied to me. In his introduction, Miller recalled that he and his writing partner (Terry Hayes) began working on the screenplay in San Francisco, at Christmastime in 1980, continued working on the drive to Los Angeles, continued working on the plane home to Australia, and then finished it up. A year after they started on the script, the movie opened in theaters in Australia, which is indeed remarkable. Miller also...
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