This return to popularity coincided with Miller writing the third in the Mad Max series, which revolved around the Gibson character Max Rockatansky encountering an isolated trading station known as Bartertown, ruled over by an implacable and ferocious figure known as Aunty Entity. The massive success of her 1984 Private Dancer album reinvigorated her career, spawning her signature song in What’s Love Got To Do With It, and turned her into an A-list star once again. In the early Eighties, Tina Turner had not enjoyed the renaissance in her career that would shortly follow, but was instead seen as a nostalgia act, still best known for her Phil Spector-produced collaborations with her abusive former husband Ike. Could the third picture not be more accessible and commercial – almost, you know, for kids? He described making the initial film as “a very unhappy experience”, but was more content with its much-acclaimed sequel, which nevertheless drew comment for its extreme violence.
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Nonetheless, after Miller directed the first two pictures, Mad Max and The Road Warrior, he was in the mood to expand the series in a lighter, more fantastical direction, as well as co-directing on this occasion with the filmmaker George Oglivie. The films are proudly Australian, rather than American, revolve around hard-as-nails antiheroes who are considerably grittier than their US counterparts, and, in the case of the first three pictures in the series, starred Mel Gibson, an actor whose persistent flirtation with permanent cancellation has made the pictures harder to watch. The Mad Max series is anomalous when it comes to action cinema. But then George Miller came along in 1984, and gave her the role of a lifetime. She only portrayed fictitious characters three times, and two of those appearances – a cameo as the mayor in the Schwarzenegger meta-flop The Last Action Hero and a brief appearance as a singing drug-crazed sex worker in the Ken Russell rock opera Tommy – were hardly challenging.
It’s something of a surprise, then, that she didn’t act more. Whether it was being portrayed, memorably, by Angela Bassett in the biopic What’s Love Got To Do With It, singing the Bono and Edge-penned theme tune to Goldeneye, or appearing in the 2021 HBO documentary Tina, she was someone whose iconic and unique persona seemed brilliantly suited to film. The singer Tina Turner, who has died at the age of 83, had a long and distinguished association with cinema throughout her career.
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