Gallery: Mad Max: What It Takes to Make the Most Intense Movie Ever

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    Step 1 | Stuntman Guy Norris guns the Interceptor to 60 mph.
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    Step 2 | When he hits a mark in the sand, Norris twists the wheel and hits a button that triggers a nitrogen-­powered flat steel blade, which slaps the sand and retracts, sending the car into a roll.
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    Step 3 | “You feel it every time the car hits down: Whap. Whap. Whap,” Norris says. He got 8½ flips on a test run, “which would have been a world record in film.” On the day of the shoot, he got 5½.
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