Chapter 579

Why do Michael Bay's films always fall into the strange circle of high box office and low reputation? In conclusion, the reasons why Michael Bay was disliked by film critics can be summarized as "six knives", including bad habits such as showing off skills and lack of integrity.

So why did the audience like him so much? It may also be concluded that his film "three board axe", although his moves are not new, can always win the favor of the audience. It can be said that it has been tried repeatedly. Some Chinese netizens have given Michael Bay a homophonic nickname "selling copies", which can really summarize the characteristics of his works to some extent: he is responsible for selling copies and box office. The film quality ranks second.

He loves to show off his skills: success also shows off his skills, and failure also shows off his skills. The dazzling motion lens, sharp editing style and hot special effect scenes are fully displayed in all works. The popcorn scenes that the audience likes to talk about are really refreshing.

These are the three board axes accumulated by Michael Bay in advertising and MV. Now they have been integrated into his blood and become an integral part of his gene. Michael Bay has never changed the characteristics of showmanship. In contrast, Michael Bay's narrative ability is gradually changing, and getting worse and worse. The story is perfunctory and the characters are Facebook, A pile of logical loopholes, all of which make "love dazzle technology" more and more annoying.

No integrity: in order to sell advertisements, the plot and logic can all stand aside. It is not a problem to withdraw money with Chinese bank cards in the desert of Texas, it is not a problem to drink Chinese milk drinks in the United States, and it is not a problem to make money.

However, Michael Bay's films have appeared a lot of vulgar and boring content in recent years, which is interesting against the implanted advertisements of no products. For example, the big breasted spice girl runs in the fire. It's okay to appear once and use it again and again. Is there nothing new? This is not a B-level film. You're shooting a 100 million yuan production joined by a first-line coffee. You don't need to use these low-level things at all, okay?

It has been 20 years since the Jedi men. Michael Bay's unique skills are still the same, abusing slow lens, wide-angle and explosion. Endless explosions, drug traffickers killing police also exploded, clones running for their lives also exploded, insurgents in the American army also exploded, aliens also exploded, and everyone worked hard to explode at all times. Then the protagonists wearing invincible aura escaped from the explosion with elegant slow motion.

His bomb perspective, known as the peak of his life, is the worst scolded by film critics. Of course, the audience is very happy, really happy.

This is Michael Bay's second Axe: slow mirror. To be fair, it's really a great idea to use slow motion to express intense action scenes. Michael Bay applied this move to a skilled level, so that later it became a common game in the industry. Michael Bay also had many disciples and grandchildren fighting in slow motion.

There is also a bad temper. Michael Bay is one of the few directors who regard the media as nothing. "I'm in charge of my public relations". He is one of the first directors to use the Internet to express his voice. Before Facebook and twitter were popular, he would skillfully use his personal website to "fight back" against his remarks. Now it's a face book.

Michael Bay often spoke mercilessly, but it also won the reputation of "directness". In fact, it attracted a group of loyal fans. Before the release of Pacific Rim, director del Toro and Michael Bay choked each other, which helped each other play a role in publicity. Personality and frankness are double-edged swords. Of course, they can attract fans and hatred for him.

It's easy to understand that the film is too long. Michael Bay doesn't care about making the film extremely lengthy for those who can't give up car chasing, explosion, slow mirror and special effects. Pearl Harbor in 2001 was 183 minutes long, and Jedi Warmen in 2003 was just a street action film with the city as the background. Unexpectedly, it could shoot 143 minutes. God knows how many more clips were edited by Michael Bay after repeatedly gritting his teeth and weeping blood.

Michael was scolded miserably by film critics, but with the support of data, film companies supported him.

In addition to being a profitable director, Michael Bay is also an excellent money saving expert and a reliable producer favored by capitalists. He can always make more money within a limited budget.

Let's look at the figures directly. The production cost of his debut Jedi Warmen was US $19 million. In the same year, the production cost of several films comparable to the box office of Jedi Warmen was US $72 million, the production cost of brave heart was US $29 million, and the production cost of fuse was US $60 million.

Let's look at the figures. In 2007, the production cost of "Transformers 1" was US $150 million. For several films with similar box office in North America in the same year, the production cost of "Spider Man 3" was US $258 million, and the production cost of "Pirates of the Caribbean: the end of the world" was US $300 million. Whoever is the investor will provide Michael bedan for years. To what extent does "selling copies" save money? He "recycles" the pictures of Pearl Harbor directed in 2001 into transformers.

With such tough results, film companies keep opening their legs to him, oh! Is to open the door.

Behind Michael Bay, there is always a reliable producer with strong trading ability. Even for a water losing masterpiece such as escape from clone Island, the global box office has reached US $160 million, and the DVD sales have exceeded US $100 million. Although he is listed in the top ten tragedies, this is because film critics love to use a magnifying glass to deal with Michael Bay, even without the original version of mm, Spielberg and paramount of DreamWorks still trust them and continue to shoot hundreds of millions of big productions transformers. It can be seen that all this is not as bad as the media say.

Jerry Bruckheimer escorted Michael Bei in the early stage, which also directly gave him room for exercise and development. In the first episode of transformers in 2007, David was the producer, but Mark was also one of them, which also made the film level the highest in the series. The producer center system in Hollywood is perfect, and the personal level of "selling copies" will eventually come out even if it does not improve Of course, like the transformers series, the "crime" of over commercialization of the film can not be attributed to "selling copies" because of too many hands of producers and capital.

Mark and Mai copy have many similarities. They pay the same attention to commerciality and box office. Everyone is one of the top business directors. They also don't mind advertising implantation. They have a lot of experience in controlling success.

An old guy like Woody Allen, how dare you ask him to put an advertisement in a movie? He dares to chase you nine blocks.

With the support of mm, Michael completed his holding in the digital field and began to carry out drastic reform, holding iron man and transformers There are two series. At the same time, marvel has a foot in the universe. D2 is not worried about orders and is not afraid to have nothing to do. Of course, David has the strongest relationship with Mai copy.

They love to turn over the salted fish in the Transformers, and the production idea of Mai copy is totally to David's appetite. He is a rough man and likes to be straightforward. Michael's three axes chopped on the plate and he was at the G-spot. He told the reporters without shame. "This is the old fellow who has been looking for the best partner for twenty years.

How does Mai copy evaluate David? In fact, David is not very knowledgeable and his trading ability is one tenth lower than that of Jerry Bruckheimer and Spielberg, but he is young, energetic, has the same idea, has a strong background, and is willing to delegate power. He fully supports him to toss and turn, so he appreciates David: "he is a very talented producer with strong executive ability."

Because the backstage background is large enough and the resources are sufficient, Michael Bay doesn't engage in any trilogy. In the original version, he repeatedly assured fans and audiences that there is only trilogy, and I won't play after shooting, but the third box office is good enough to go against the sky. The global box Office of 1.1 billion makes Michael Bay cool to the sky. Driven by interests, he broke his promise and continued to shoot If the fruit collapses, it's not as good as before.

Now they decided to imitate Marvel Universe and directly build a transformer universe, ready to build the transformer into another star wars gold mine. Mark's proposal was obviously profitable, and he agreed without hesitation.

The origin of transformers is the Japanese cartoon, which is listed as one of the three science fiction masterpieces of Japan together with "space fortress" and "shell attack mobile team". Although it is an animation, it has a complete world outlook and value system, which is a prerequisite for creating a series. Since it has this world, it can naturally play and produce as much as possible.

The world outlook of transformers can be called the world outlook. Since the rise of machine civilization from Cybertron, the battle between fanatics and bloggers has spread all over the universe. Many battles in distant rivers are difficult to be introduced into the real version and made into films, but they can be made into cartoons and animated films, or expressed in the form of comics.

After they put forward the transformers universe, they began to connect various story lines through comics, cartoons and animated films, and finally point to the real-life film version, which will be the final display stage.

Mai copy was very interested in this huge project. He said, "if this is successful, it will be our star wars gold mine!" with this gold mine, why don't you worry about the success of D2?

Mark said: "of course, this is our goal. As a large company, there are few gold mines in hand. How can we feed tens of thousands of people? Michael, I appreciate your talent. If you are interested in joining this project, we can increase your share to 8%, which is 8% of all the revenue of the series."

Michael Bay said happily, "I'd love to!" "Transformers" sold well at the box office, but the real oil and water is still in the peripheral products led by DVD. It is a qualitative leap to successfully touch the peripheral products. Maybe he will become George Lucas of "Transformers".