The 33-year-old has been linked to roles in the latest Mad Max and Batman films and will be seen later this year in a new version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

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It was like stepping onto the set of "Mad Max, " the 1979 Mel Gibson film in which everything seemed in a perpetual state of destruction or chaos.

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Not much different, I'd guess, from what gets forecast at most salons and dinner parties when the talk turns this way: The future as a Mad Max movie, only without the style and thrills.

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But given today's rhetoric about bullying, you could be forgiven for thinking that kids today are not simply reading and watching grim, postapocalyptic fantasies like "The Hunger Games" but actually inhabiting such terrifying terrain, a world where "Lord of the Flies" meets "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, " presided over by Voldemort.

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Once ashore, the shells of buildings reminded me of ancient Greece, Rome or Petra re-conceived by the creators of Mad Max or Akira.

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Beyond the pool and the ocean views, there is a bunker, a trauma hospital and something akin to Mad Max's version of an auto body shop, where specialized gear heads will fix "the ballistic glass on your armored vehicle, " as Mr. Stock puts it.

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Not much information seems to be available about Mad Max, who may recently have switched to the AIP from the Citizens Party.

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