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MoviesOnline.ca Interview with Michael Bay

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Brian at 2007-06-21 8:15 am

MoviesOnline.ca has an extensive interview with Michael Bay about Transformers, including why the humourous tone of the movie, how fan reaction fits in, why he's so hard on the actors, why the actors seem to love him anyway, etc. etc.

"MoviesOnline: This scene in the back yard is so wonderful and so much of that is comic timing. How did you create that comic timing with the characters not ‘being’ there?

MICHAEL BAY: What I do is I do a series of animatics, which are crude cartoons. And a movie really comes to life, I mean working with the writers and creating the script, but it all starts with the concept drawings. That becomes the tone of the movie. I showed Steven a picture of Megatron in the hanger and he’s like, ‘Omigod, I love it. That’s the movie!’ And I’m like, ‘I know.’ ..."

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Mighty_Maximal said, - 2007-06-21 09:14:18

No comment.

Perceptor said, - 2007-06-21 09:36:20

Insightful there MM! :) (?) Love the new Optimus Prime poster. Interesting read. My favorite line of dialog, he's talking about focus groups. Then, after some tweeking, talks to an female,

Michael Bay: "...A lot of the ladies, like 35, 40, they are like, ‘I didn’t want to come here. I didn’t want to see this. I was dragged here.’ It’s true! This one lady goes, ‘This kinds of reinvents super heroes.’ She said this great line. She goes, ‘We’re tired of the suits and the whatever. This is totally new and different.’ Anyway, it’s still nerve-wracking, you know what I’m saying?..."

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