Special feature of 1905 film network Michael bay, his movies can never stimulate your lacrimal gland, but they can keep your adrenal gland burning all the time. Fans call him an explosion maniac, and his fierce fighting and extremely destructive action scenes are his unique skills. People who have worked with him call him a tyrant on the set, and his fiery temper and amazing efficiency are well-known in the industry. Hollywood filmmakers call him the most attractive director in Hollywood after Steven Allan Spielberg. If you are willing to spend money with him, he will definitely spend every penny on the cutting edge. Michael bay, he has never been a master of film art, but he is definitely a different craftsman born under the Hollywood system.
Debut: MV director
Michael bay is a native of Los Angeles. When he was a child, Beckham loved to play with volcano models, and once burned through the floor of his home, causing a tragedy. When he was three years old, he was seven years younger, and his strong desire for destruction had already appeared. David fincher, the famous director, became a member of george lucas Industrial Light and Magic Special Effects Company at the age of 19, while michael bay, who is three years younger than Finch, is a veritable "senior brother". At the age of 15, he became an intern in file management at Lucasfilm. The deepest memory that this job left for michael bay when he was a student is that on one screening, after watching the film, the audience all left with a puzzled look, and did not discuss endlessly as excitedly as the audience did. The 15-year-old Beckham has made a decision in his mind: I also want to make a blockbuster that will make the audience High.
Michael bay majored in film and English at Wesleyan University. Unlike many directors who lost their jobs as soon as they graduated, he took the first business in his career — — Shooting MV for Donny Osmond, a red star in the 1970s. The owner of the record company left the fledgling young man with $160,000, so that he could do it at his own discretion. You know, the cost of filming in michael bay had never exceeded $5,000 before. Carrying this "huge sum of money", he carefully completed the task and earned the first barrel of director commission in his life — — 500 dollars.
Michael bay, who was young and frivolous, quickly became famous in the industry by shooting MV. Later, invitations for advertising films from big companies such as Nike, Reebok and Coca-Cola came one after another. In the early 1990s, michael bay won the Golden Palm (Cannes Golden Lion Award) in advertising. In the filming of commercial films, Michael is also honing his personal ability to enter Hollywood, such as how to arrange the lights, how to capture the lens and the most important point — — How to tell the stars what to do.
During the filming of an advertisement in the Mojave Desert, michael bay’s mother came to visit the class and watched her son command more than 200 people running around the studio. A helicopter rose and fell around him, and her mother was shocked. Michael said to his mother, "This is a cool money-burning war, and someone paid me to do it. Can you believe it?"
Success: from wage earners to major shareholders
In 1994, Jerry Bruckheimer, a Hollywood gold medal producer, extended an olive branch to michael bay. In front of him, a play called "The Story of Two Miami Black Policemen Arresting Drug Dealers" was presented. Because the original script was so vulgar, Don Simpson, one of the co-producers, even refused to sign the film before the official shooting. Michael bay decided to start with actors. He chose will smith and martin lawrence, who were still unknown at that time, and the three brothers marched to Miami, first shooting the trailer, and then gradually enriching the details of the script. This also sets the tone of michael bay’s films from the side: vision is king. Looking at today’s film industry, it seems that the only person who inherits this crazy creative way is Mexican geek director robert rodriguez (representative).
When shooting the scene of fierce fighting at the end of the film, the studio suddenly fell into a storm and the scenery was destroyed. At this time, the early funds of the crew had already seen the bottom. Seeing that the big-screen debut was about to be ruined, michael bay patted his thigh and took out $25,000 from his $125,000 director fee to complete the filming. In the end, "Jedi Men" won $140 million in the world at a cost of $19 million, and Michael won a good start. However, after the film was sold, Michael, who was in the forefront, was like a migrant worker, claiming the $25,000 from the producer. This passive experience has taught michael bay an important lesson.
And the birth of two box office bombs, michael bay became the youngest "1 billion yuan box office director" in history, and the big productions placed in Michael’s hands were one after another. At this time, he decided to break away from the role of odd jobs for big studios and prepare to try a new way of playing for big directors.
In 2000, michael bay took over the World War II blockbuster, which cost as much as 140 million US dollars. This time, he asked for a 50% profit share after deducting the shooting and advertising expenses. He became a shareholder of the film, of course, he was more careful and tried to spend every penny on the cutting edge. During the filming, he used high-level public relations to get rid of the US military and saved tens of millions of dollars for the film. In the end, this summer box office predator made michael bay a fortune of up to $40 million.
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