During the Spring Festival, I accidentally saw a drifting video of a modified Porsche Boxster on the Internet. The main thing that attracted me was its rusty appearance, metallic body, and needle-like front lip. And .50 caliber machine gun...
A Porsche Boxster changed like this? After carefully reading the introduction, I discovered that it was actually a prop car that would be used in the future filming of the sequel to "Mad Max". This also made me more curious about this wasteland style.
What is wasteland style?
I checked some information on the Internet, and there are different opinions on the wasteland style. The highly representative games "Wasteland" and "Fallout" are both based on the background that after the nuclear explosion, the continent became desertified, and mankind returned to an era of weak meat and strong food with no water sources and scarce supplies. In fact, the wasteland is also called post-apocalyptic, which is the end of the world in the Bible. It mainly looks for some moral, political, emotional and other contents in a world where civilized order and rules are broken. It does not necessarily involve experiencing a nuclear explosion. It is very possible. It's a disaster.
It is different from cyberpunk and steampunk. Cyberpunk is a kind of powerful technological supremacy and rebel utopia. For example, we can see a lot of it in "Blade Runner" and "The Matrix" High-tech products; while steampunk is based on humans, respecting and controlling technology, such as the many machines in the anime "Steam Boy".
How crazy are the cars in "Mad Max"?
In terms of movies, we have to mention "Mad Max 4" mentioned at the beginning. Why is it the fourth movie? Because the third part was released in 1985, it is indeed a long time ago for me who was born in the 90s. More importantly, the fourth part has 150 specially built wasteland prop cars. For those who like wasteland style cars For fans, it is simply a pleasure.
The first thing that appears in the movie is a Ford Falcon GT modified model driven by the protagonist Max. It is equipped with a 5.8-liter V8 engine and a huge fuel tank at the rear. The dilapidated rust body looks thick. wasteland style.
The villain’s chariot is relatively more violent. As the villain leader Immortal Joe’s car, the Gigahorse is composed of two Cadillac Coupe DeVilles, with two Chevrolet 8-cylinder engines in front. , the truck's chassis is equipped with two-meter-high giant tires, which makes it the overlord of the western desert. With heavy metal rock music and flames spouting from the exhaust, this should be a unique kind of freedom and wildness.
There is also a War Rig that carries a large amount of supplies and the beauties of Immortan Joe’s harem. It is composed of a Tatra T815 chassis and a body of Peterbilt 358 (the truck brand that created Optimus Prime). It has a high air flap. The giant shovel-shaped front lip, skull decoration and needle-punched weapons vividly express the sense of wasteland and doomsday.
How do people play Wasteland style in real life?
Of course, in addition to movies, wasteland-style car modifications will also appear in our daily lives, such as a wasteland weekend party held in the desert every year in the United States.
There are wasteland-style cosplay and music performances here. Many people participate every year. Of course, there are also many heavily modified doomsday tanks.
There is also the Burning Man Festival in Inner Mongolia, which is relatively close to us... If it weren't for the comments from netizens, I might have subconsciously thought that this was a screenshot from the GTA 5 game.
Car modification culture originates from our lives. It uses a carrier to present thousands of different forms and brings us different fun. The wasteland style has also been relatively popular abroad in recent years and I think It's a pretty hardcore gameplay. If it were you, would you build such a tank? (Friends who have any additions or ambiguities in the explanation of doomsday wasteland, cyberpunk, and steampunk are welcome to leave a message below)