ERROR: Beirut Actually Has a Lot in Common with Mad Max

Why the next installment of the progressive mega-action road warrior saga should be filmed in our hometown.

Beirut would make an excellent setting for the sequel to George Miller’s road rage post-apocalyptic action classic. The main argument stands that the pPost-Apocalypse has already happened here. Consider:

No president for more than a year.

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No functioning Cabinet.

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Burning garbage everywhere.


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Monstrous erections of miscellaneous architecture (Ecochard’s words) further browned, beaten and bullet-riddled through successive bursts of haphazard violence.

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Smaller communities essentially turning inwards upon themselves for self-preservation.

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Gender inequality.
The gender equal element of the film might do wonders in spotlighting the nation’s gender shortcomings and promoting advancement on this sorely marginalized issue.

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Highways to hell.
Lebanon’s wildly serpentine roads, hairpin mountain turns, landslid-valleys, geometrically fractal deviations, highways that fold back on themselves, bridges that spring out of the middle of thoroughfares or lead to nowhere in particular, it’s all practically a film set 50 years in the making.

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Colorful extras.
Ten minutes in Beirut Souks or Mar Mikhael would provide ample diversity of bizarre-looking fashion mutants to populate the fillers of the film. Hipsters…

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Goddesses…

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Neo-Ninjas…

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Freaks…


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Not to forget the comparable scenes of Apocalypse…
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At least twice…
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And last but not least, road warriors aplenty, and modified vehicles, without which the franchise would not hold water.
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