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In late October, Wayne led the "Wonder Woman" crew on a plane to Italy. Countless media followed the news, and almost all major mainstream entertainment media sent reporters to Italy in tacit understanding.

"Wonder Woman has never lacked attention, although Warner Bros. has released relevant news according to the publicity plan slowly and without delay, but on the crew side, since the audition ended, including the main actors and the main behind-the-scenes team members, Basically no public interviews.

The news of the crew is silent. This is usually the favorite method of the big directors. There is James Cameron in the front, Wayne now, and there are still many other directors who do this.

However, "Wonder Woman is a commercial film after all, and it is basically impossible to start shooting in a low-key manner if you want to completely block external interference.

Wayne, too, fantasized about dodging all the media flashes and letting the entire crew get to work.

But doing this, Warner Bros. will definitely be the first to object. They can acquiesce that Wayne temporarily silences the news of the crew in order to raise the suspense, but they will never allow the company to invest 200 million US dollars in top-level big productions. There is no movement in public opinion at all, which is not in line with business logic.

No film company would be so extravagant as to do so, if there is, it must be that the film company is not professional enough, and there is absolutely no other reason.

"Wonder Woman's filming location is as far away as Italy, in Los Angeles, another Walt Disney-funded project, and the start-up press conference has caused quite a bit of controversy.

Just after Wayne led the crew to set off, another high-profile project "Pearl Harbor" held an official launch conference. This project, which was announced as a production cost of up to 140 million US dollars, attracted huge attention on the day it was launched.

Whether it's a movie fan or a media reporter, the expectations for this movie are very high. This year's "Saving Private Ryan's achievements are still vivid in our minds. After the announcement of the project of "Pearl Harbor, the epic of World War II, everyone's expectations were instantly lifted." Fill directly.

It's just that at the launch press conference, the high-spirited Michael Bay, facing the reporter's question, did not shy away from declaring that he is already one of the best directors in Hollywood, and that he is about to start filming "Pearl Harbor, and he will definitely do it." In the summer of next year, overwhelm Wein Greenberg's project.

"No one can succeed forever. Wayne Greenberg's **** of the summer season will be ended by my work next year. Of course I know that his "The Flash" this year has done well, but it is this movie that also Showing that Wayne Greenberg's talents are exhausted, I'll be the new summer boss..."

Even if producer Jerry Bruckheimer saw that something was wrong and hurriedly ended the press conference, Michael Bay's remarks caused huge controversy.

If you look at it objectively, Michael Bay is undoubtedly one of the most proud directors in Hollywood this year. In the eyes of relevant practitioners and fans, he is highly recognized.

But one thing can be confirmed, that is, no one will compare him and Wayne together. In any respect, the two are not the same level, and there is no comparison or discussion. Once his remarks broke out in the media, it directly detonated major well-known entertainment media.

No one knows why this wind is blowing. This Hollywood director holding "Jedi Men, "Breaking the Dead Island and "Peerless Catastrophe" seems to have his personal image posted overnight." Arrogant", "ignorant", "shallow" and so on.

"I suggest Michael Bay to look through Wayne's previous works, so he will discover his shallowness and ignorance!"

LA Times Kenneth Turan

"A director who only explodes, explodes, and explodes, trying to use endless explosions to rival the great dark art, Michael Bay must be crazy!"

The New Yorker David Dembey

"A lunatic who only plays with dynamite wants to collide with another lunatic who plays with dark humanity, Michael Bay has absolutely no chance of winning. His remarks are like a primary school student who got a good grade, madly clamoring to be with a madman. A grown-up professional boxer! I can't think of any more realistic metaphor than that..."

The Hollywood Reporter Todd McKinsey

Several well-known North American film critics expressed their views on Michael Bay's remarks in their newspaper columns almost tacitly.

However, attentive movie fans have also discovered that almost all the film critics who choose to speak out for the first time are supporters of Wayne in previous years, and they are all located in the two big cities of New York and Los Angeles, while well-known film critics in other cities in North America, But chose to be silent.

The reason is very simple, the name Wayne Greenberg, for most North American film critics, is a name that makes their teeth itch.

He was the one who instigated Warner Bros. to cancel the routine PR to film critics on the eve of the film's release, as many people know. But no matter what angle they stand, they do their best to discredit Wayne's film, and it has little effect in the summer.

On the other hand, Michael Bay's reputation among film critics is not as good as that of Wayne, the guy who wants to ruin their jobs.

Since his debut, the film has never lacked big scenes, especially all kinds of explosive scenes with full visual impact, which have become the label of his works.

It is exactly the same. From the beginning of "Jedi Men, Michael Bay seems to have opened up the two veins of Ren and Du, and suddenly found that even if he didn't think about the logic of the plot, the story was self-consistent. As long as it exploded, exploded, and exploded again, it would never happen. Lack of fan support.

Any words related to film art can be said to be a disgrace to Bang Bei. This guy shoots movies from the perspective of most fans. It can be said that he shoots whatever fans like to watch.

Therefore, Michael Bay's reputation in the field of film industry is simply too stinky. Whenever his new film is released, there will always be countless film critics and film critics. Attacking his works is no different from shit. .

When these two are mentioned together, most film critics are all in the attitude of watching a good show, and naturally it is impossible to make remarks that are biased towards one side.

It's just that Warner Bros. deeply understands that the group of film critics is indeed slowly declining, but the first to die will always be those middle and low-level practitioners, at least during this period, the well-known film critics in North America. The influence cannot be underestimated.

Therefore, Warner Bros. has always maintained its public relations with Todd McKinsey and others. Even if they put aside the commercial works of the summer, and want to gain something during the awards season, no company can directly skip this group of vampires.

If the individual voices of film critics are not enough to push Michael Bay's remarks into hot news nowadays, the editors-in-chief of the major entertainment media following him will speak even more unpleasantly.

Bob Strauss, the well-known editor-in-chief of Hollywood Daily Entertainment, commented unceremoniously in the latest issue of the newspaper:

"I suggest Michael Bay to watch Wayne's Joker in 1993, not only will this film let him see the huge gap between the two, but it will also let him know that he is like the name of the film. Same. Funny as a clown."

Bella Grant, editor-in-chief of the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times, also spoke in her own newspaper: "Hollywood has never lacked talented directors, but every talented director who is struggling in Hollywood has to deal with Wayne Greenberg. Maintain the minimum respect!

The person they have to face is the winner of the Academy Award for Best Director, and a film master who ranks among the top 100 films in the 100-year-old North American film list. "

Austin Collins, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, even said bluntly in an interview with the media: "Michael Bay just thought that he could be compared with Wayne Greenberg, but in fact, if Wayne looked at him more, he would It's an insult to oneself Chi Luoluo..."

Compared with the more polite celebrities, the reaction of the fans was much more intense. Just after the relevant discussion had fermented for a day, dozens of Wayne's extreme fans surrounded the shooting site of "Pearl Harbor. They held banners, Strongly demanded that Michael Bay retract his arrogant remarks.

"Someone is doing something on purpose!"

At the Pearl Harbor makeshift studio outside Los Angeles, Michael Bay's agent, Chris Karim, took advantage of the crew's lunch break to climb into his client's director's trailer and whisper, "Damn, you better finish the studio as soon as possible. Part of the scene, and then took the crew to the Oahu military base to shoot."

Hearing the manager's frowning voice, Michael Bay's brows slowly wrinkled. "Those extreme movie fans are still out there?"

"Yes, not only those extreme fans, but also dozens of journalists from different media."

Nodding lightly, of course Michael Bay knew that someone was deliberately making things bigger. In fact, when he said these words at the time, he did have some swelling after his success, but more of it was to cooperate with the promotion plan of Touchstone Pictures, that is, Walt Disney.

To put it bluntly, the director who touches porcelain every year, Wayne Greenberg, has a name and a surname, and he can’t count them with ten fingers. Everyone is trying to better expand the influence of their films at the beginning of filming. Before But the media has never called it true.

Seeing that his face was also very ugly, the agent cautiously walked to the trailer door, put his ear to the door, listened softly for a few seconds, and then lightly sat back next to his client.

"I learned a little bit of news through some channels of caa."

Looking at the silent Michael Bay, the agent Chris Karim paused for a while, and while organizing his own words, he continued slowly: "Through the relevant information, a conclusion has been reached within caa, Warner Bros. and There should be some kind of tacit understanding between Walt Disney.

These two giants secretly promoted public opinion, obviously wanting to promote the film better and earlier. Mike, I have to warn you, don't trust Jerry Bruckheimer so much, Disney distribution would never have done this without his nod as a producer! "

Leaning gently on the back of the chair, Michael Bay suddenly laughed, he looked at his agent, shrugged and said, "You and I both know the reason for what I said. I just didn't expect that public opinion would condemn me one-sidedly. , tsk, tsk, tsk, Walt Disney..."

He is not a small person who has just entered Hollywood. It stands to reason that if the film company wants to create public opinion for publicity, the situation that will emerge is usually that there are media supporters on both sides, and then through the voices of supporters on both sides in the media, the Information to hype two films.

The ultimate goal must be to let more ordinary people hear the relevant news of these two films, and to inspire more ordinary people to look forward to these two-step films. This is the most normal tacit win-win approach for major Hollywood film companies.

But now? Even Michael Bay himself thought that the Walt Disney distribution department must have seen the voice of one-sided condemnation, which is more conducive to the long-term fermentation of public opinion, which is why the current situation occurs.

Everyone who can succeed in this circle still has at least some pride. He lowered his head and glanced at the scattered newspapers on the table, which were full of various reports mocking him.

"Artistic? Humanistic care? Ha!"

The smile at the corner of Michael Bay's mouth did not diminish, but there was no warmth in the smile at all, but instead a strong sarcasm. "Who says my videos just explode..."

When everyone thought that he was overestimating his own strength and tried to compare himself with the king of darkness with a shallow commercial film, he really wanted to prove that as long as he really wanted to make such a movie, he would definitely can do the best.

Especially in recent years, the critics have ridiculed and attacked him. Even when the global box office of "Peerless Heaven's Tribulation broke through 500 million US dollars, it did not make those film critics shut up. On the contrary, their evaluation of him has always been shallow and ignorant. Commercial film director.

Some film critics, I'm afraid they haven't seen "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation", so they can't wait to give bad reviews. When facing this group of self-proclaimed film industry guides, film critics have long since risen to the point of life attacks.

A large part of the reason why there is this "Pearl Harbor" is that Michael Bay wants to prove himself. He wants to tell everyone that as long as he wants to transform, he can still make the movie a hit while taking into account the so-called humanistic feelings and social thinking.

"Saving Private Ryan gave him a good inspiration. Is there anything more humanistic than war movies?" The more cruel the battlefield, the more precious it will be able to reflect the emotions between people.

Reflection on war has always been the mainstream thought in Western society. Michael Bay's great ambitions and uninterrupted success gave him the confidence to try to transform!

In this film, he received an unprecedented high investment, and there must be an unprecedented pomp. In order to reproduce the brutal and heroic war scenes of World War II on the big screen, he received the full support of the North American Department of Defense for the first time.

The building in the five corners of North America specially allows the "Pearl Harbor crew to enter the Pearl Harbor shooting in the US military base on Oahu!"

That's not to mention, Michael Bay has bigger ambitions. After receiving the investment from Disney's Touchstone Pictures, the first thing he did was to spend huge sums of money to buy back 15 old-fashioned American fighter jets.

Moreover, the war scenes in the film, those scenes of explosions, air raids, and naval battles, he is going to try to restore the real guns and live ammunition as much as possible.

Not only that, holding a large amount of production funds in his hand, Michael Bay waved his hand, and started working together in the locations needed by the crew, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico, and England across the ocean, to build what the crew needed for filming. giant photo studio.

In short, this project in his hands has reflected what is called pride from the very beginning.

"Look, Chris." Michael Bay looked at his agent firmly, put away all his expressions, and said solemnly: "In the end, who will become a joke, really not sure! As long as the ants dare to stretch their legs, I can still stumble over an elephant! This is Hollywood, where miracles happen, and I'm not a little ant!"

Here in Los Angeles, all kinds of public voices made a lot of noise, but they did not affect Wayne, who was far away on the European continent. After the crew landed in Rome, the capital of Italy, without any pause, a group of people was immediately separated, and the camera director Robert led to the scene.

What made Nina miss the beautiful town of Ravello, which is half paradise, she didn't go there in the end. The crew, led by Wayne, went straight to Palinuro on the coast of Cilento in southern Italy.

In the past, this isolated beach immediately fell into a hustle and bustle with the arrival of the crew. Schwartz was in command of a large group of assistants, doing the final simple field repairs, while Gilmour led a group of women and took the trouble to tell them how to move.

"Have you heard? Wayne. Someone wants to snipe you next summer and end your dominance over the North American summer."

Wayne, who was leaning over to look at the director's notebook, raised his head, just in time to see Angelina Jolie standing in front of the sun, wearing a simple linen dress that just wrapped around the key undulating parts of her body.

Closing the book in his hand, he tilted his head, looked at the woman in front of him with interest, and nodded lightly. The body and movement training for several months is completely worth it. This kind of healthy lines trained by human beings is completely incomparable to later corrections.

"I've never been afraid of competition, and I've never lost it."

Smiling and waving his hand, he looked at the messy studio behind him and secretly calculated the shooting time.

It is this feeling of incomparable confidence, Angelina Jolie looks at the man with a unique appreciation in her eyes.

No matter what the media reported, she knew that there was nothing wrong with what this man said. He has never been afraid of competition, and he has never lost a competition. If you look closely, you will find that the other party has grown rapidly along with brutal competition since he entered Hollywood.

"I heard that the "Pearl Harbor, the target is "Saving Private Ryan..." Thinking back to the newspaper reports, Angelina Jolie teased: "One is definitely not 'Eighteen A World War II epic banned from an R-rated film! Wayne, everyone says that Michael Bay is the director who understands the needs of moviegoers the most.

"whispering sound."

When he heard the name "Pearl Harbor," Wayne couldn't help sneering, then took out a cigarette from his trousers pocket, and took a big gulp with a sea breeze on his face.

"What are you laughing at?" Seeing the man disapproving of her words, Angelina Jolie rolled her eyes twice, and said playfully again: "My agent found out that Michael Bay's World War II epic is completely different from what he had before him. All of his works, not just explosions and explosions..."

"Cough cough cough cough."

Before the woman could finish speaking, Wayne was almost choked to tears by a puff of green smoke because of the content of the other party's words. He raised his hand to take the water cup handed by the assistant, raised his head, Gudong Gudong drank most of the cup before slowing down.

Angelina Jolie saw through the man's movements at a glance. The reason why he choked on the smoke was because he couldn't hold back his laughter. "Damn, what's so funny."

"I tell you, girl."

Seeing that the preparations in the crew were about to be completed, Wayne shook his head and said bluntly: "If Bombshell doesn't play Blast, what do you think he has left?"

After speaking, he ignored the surprised woman, turned around and took Nina to the main departments of the crew. Before the first scene was officially filmed, he wanted to check again.

In fact, when Wayne heard that Jerry Bruckheimer started, produced, directed by Michael Bay, and the golden partner's latest big project was Pearl Harbor, he almost couldn't help laughing.

If Bang Bei doesn't play Bang and instead pursues art, he knows better than anyone what will happen.

To this day, he has the impression that Michael Bay was almost abandoned by the entire Hollywood film company on the way to seek transformation, and he finally recovered because he himself realized this.

To put it bluntly, this is a typical example of being fooled and crippled by film critics, and then turned to repentance, otherwise there would be no Transformers movies.

Raising his wrist and looking at the time, Wayne turned to look at the reporters not far from the crew, frowning slightly. In the end, he waved his hand and called Gilmour, the assistant director, and said:

"Find a few assistants at random, go get some drinks for those reporters, and tell them, I hope that after the filming officially starts, they will not make sounds and actions that affect us, especially the camera flash!"

"Don't worry, boss." Gilmour nodded in agreement as he wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Just now, I have communicated with the group of reporters. After the filming officially starts, they will not affect the crew."

Reaching out to pat Gilmour on the shoulder, Wayne's eyes revealed admiration. "Ok, check it again for the last time, and we will officially shoot the first shot in ten minutes."

This future one of the three great Mexicans also has great ambitions, of course he knows this. Moreover, it is definitely impossible for his own crew to keep the other party for a long time. If possible, Wayne is going to give the other party a chance to choose after finishing this project.

Gilmour has far more talents than ordinary people, and as his assistant director, Jin Xiaoye has done his job well, carefully learning how to control a huge crew, no matter from which point of view, Wayne is willing to provide him with a The opportunity to direct the tube, just like Zack Snyder did.