Reflection Section Week 10

Text Title: Fancy buying a Mad Max garage?

Text Type: News Article

Text Creator: Nile Bijoux

Text Purpose: To provide interesting information to readers.

Date: Sep 11 2021

Critical Literacy Question: Is the text fair?

The Doof Wagon

Australian auctionhouse Lloyd Auctions is putting   up for sale many of the vehicles from the filming of  Mad Max: Fury Road. These vehicles include the Doof Wagon, Furiosa's War Rig, and a twin-supercharged 1973 Ford Falcon Coupe Interceptor. 

The Doof Wagon is a repurposed missile carrier, mounted with roughly 100 loudspeakers. In the film, the Doof Wagon housed mounted drummers, who would pound on drums made of aircon-duct drums, while Coma the Doof Warrior-- who is blind and disfigured-- slung in a web of bungy sounded the distorted 'guitar of war.'

Other auctions include two Chevorlet Coupes, one of which contains a straight-twelve engine, built from two straight-six engins out of two GM straight-six engines. It is not clear if any of these vehicles function, but they are perfcet for anyone who is looking to get their old vehicle memoribilia fix.

Critical Literacy: I think the text is fair. I think this because, despite the use of words with positive connotations, the text makes no attempt to coerce the reader into purchasing a vehicle from this action, or to paint the auction in a negative light to the viewer.