Blurred wipes between shots represented the turning of pages.a near-naked deceased female was extracted from an iron maiden (a torture device consisting of an iron cabinet with a hinged front and spike-covered interior)whippings of individuals who were bound in stocks or other restraining devicesa rotating wheel with a nude woman tied to itthe pre-rape stripping of the blouse of a femalemultiple axe-executions and beheadingsa group of four bound, topless females burned at a stakean upside-down, swinging male torture victim used as a cathedral""s giant bell-clapperProposal of Marriage:The last image culminated in a dissolve from the human bell-clapper into the hoop skirt of the young 15 year-old Empress-to-be (Marlene Dietrich) being pushed on a flower-decorated swing in her garden.Rocky awaited news from Adrian outside a gynecologist""s office and was told that she was pregnant (Rocky beamed: "I knew you had it in you"); as they walked home, they expressed their hopes about the child in their future - Rocky boasted: "If this kid has your good looks and your good brains and my good left hook, he""s really gonna be somethin""".Without fuel they were nothing.They""d built a house of straw.The thundering machines sputtered and stopped.Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche.Their world crumbled, the cities exploded.A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear.Men began to feed on men.On the roads, it was a white-line nightmare.Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage, would survive.The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice.And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed.Men like Max, the warrior Max.In he roar of an engine, he lost everything, and became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past...[Note: In Oliver Stone""s TV mini-seriesWild Palms (1993), he title of the fifth and final episode, directed by Phil Joanou, was "Hello, I Must Be Going" - with the same Marx Brothers song that was sung at a climactic moment by Senator Anton Kreutzer (Robert Loggia).