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In late October, Wayne led the crew of "Wonder Woman" to board the plane to Italy. Countless media were moved, and almost all major mainstream entertainment media sent reporters to Italy tacitly.

"Wonder Woman" has never lacked attention. Although Warner Bros. slowly released relevant news according to the promotional plan, but on the crew, since the audition ended, including the main actors and the main behind-the-scenes team members, they have basically never received public interviews.

The crew news is silent. This is usually the favorite method that big directors use. There is James Cameron in front, Wayne now, and there is still no shortage of other directors behind.

However, "Wonder Woman" is a commercial movie after all. It is basically impossible to completely block external interference and start shooting in a low-key manner.

Wayne also fantasized about avoiding all media flashes and letting the entire crew devote themselves to their work.

But if this happens, Warner Bros. will definitely be the first to jump out and oppose it. They can assume that Wayne temporarily silences the crew's news in order to raise higher suspense, but will never allow the company to invest in top-level productions worth 200 million US dollars. There is no movement in public opinion, which is inconsistent with business logic.

No film company is so luxurious that it does this. If so, it must be because the film company is not professional enough and there are no other reasons.

The launch of "Wonder Woman" is far away in Italy. In Los Angeles, another project invested by Walt Disney, was launched. The launch conference caused considerable controversy.

Just after Wayne led the crew, another highly anticipated major project, "Pearl Harbor", held an official launch conference. This project, which claimed that the production cost was as high as 140 million US dollars, attracted huge attention on the day of its launch.

Whether it is a movie fan or a media reporter, they have high expectations for this movie. The results of this year's "Save Private Ryan" are still vivid in their minds. After the World War II epic "Pearl Harbor" was announced, everyone's sense of expectations was instantly filled with everyone's sense of expectations.

However, at the launch conference, Michael Bay, who was full of energy, did not hesitate to face the reporter's question and claimed that he was already one of the best directors in Hollywood, and that he was about to start filming this "Pearl Harbor", and he will definitely surpass Wayne Greenberg's project in the summer next year.

"No one can succeed forever. Wayne Greenberg's domination of summer season will be ended by my work next year. Of course, I know that his "The Flash" has performed very well this year, but it is precisely this movie that also shows that Wayne Greenberg's talent has been exhausted and I will become the new ruler of summer season..."

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

Objectively speaking, Michael Bay is undoubtedly one of Hollywood, one of the most proud directors this year. In the eyes of relevant practitioners and movie fans, he is highly recognized.

However, one thing is confirmed, that is, no one will compare him and Wayne together. From which perspective, the two are not at the same level, and there is no comparison or discussion. Once his remarks were exposed by the media, they directly triggered major well-known entertainment media.

No one knows why this wind blew up. This Hollywood director who holds "The Jedi Men", "Brave the Deadly Island" and "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" seems to have been labeled as "arrogant", "ignorant", "shallow" and other labels overnight.

"I suggest Michael Bay go and read Wayne's previous works, and that way, he will find his shallowness and ignorance!"

---"Los Angeles Times" Kenneth Tulan

"A director who only knows how to explode, explode, and explode again actually tries to use the endless explosion to compete with the great dark art. Michael Bay must be crazy!"

--- "The New Yorker" David Denby

"A madman who only knows how to play with explosives wants to collide with another madman who plays with dark humanity. Michael Bay has absolutely no chance of winning. His remarks are like a primary school student who has achieved good grades, clamoring to make a fight with an adult professional boxer! Apart from that, I can't think of any metaphor that is more in line with the actual situation..."

--- "Holly Dock" Todd McKinsey

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

However, some careful movie fans have also discovered that almost all the critics who chose to speak out at the first time were supporters of Wayne in previous years, and they were all in the two big cities of New York and Los Angeles. While well-known critics from other cities in North America chose to remain silent.

The reason is simple. For most North American film critics, the name Wayne Greenberg is a name that makes them hate them.

It was him who encouraged Warner Bros. to cancel the routine public relations of film critics on the eve of the release of the film. Many people knew this. But no matter what angle they stood, they tried their best to discredit Wayne's film, and it had almost no effect in the summer season.

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

Since his debut, this guy has never lacked large scenes in the movies he has filmed, especially various explosion scenes with full visual impact, which have become the label of his works.

The same is true. Starting from "The Jedi Men", Michael Bay seemed to have opened up the Ren and Du meridians, and suddenly found that even if he did not consider the plot logic, the story was self-consistent. As long as he exploded, exploded, and exploded again, he would definitely not lack the support of movie fans.

Any vocabulary related to film art can be said to be a shame when it comes to the explosion. This guy is completely from the perspective of most movie fans. He can be said to shoot whatever movie fans like to watch.

So Michael Bay's reputation in the field of film professionalism is so bad that it can't be more stinky. Whenever his new film is released, there will always be countless film critics and film critics, and attacking his works is no different from shit.

When these two were mentioned together, most film critics were all watching the show, so it was naturally impossible to make remarks that were biased towards one side.

However, Warner Bros. deeply understands that the group of film critics is indeed slowly declining, but the first ones to die are always those middle and low-level practitioners. At least during this period, the influence of those well-known film critics in North America should not be underestimated.

Therefore, Warner Bros. has been maintaining public relations with Todd McKinsey and others. Even if we put aside the summer commercial works and want to gain something in the awards season, no company can directly skip these vampires.

If the film critics' respective voices are not enough to push Michael Bay's remarks into hot news nowadays, the editors of major entertainment media following will be much more unpleasant.

Bob Strauss, the well-known editor of "Holly Domestic Entertainment", commented without hesitation in the latest issue of the newspaper:

"I suggest Michael Bay must watch "The Joker" released by Wayne 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. He is as funny as a clown."

Bella Grant, editor-in-chief of the entertainment edition of the Los Angeles Times, also spoke in his own newspaper: "Hollawu has never lacked talented directors, but every talented director who is struggling with Hollywood must maintain the minimum respect for Wayne Greenberg!

The person they have to face is the winner of the Oscar Best Director Award and the top film master in many works in the list of North American films in the past 100 years."

Austin Collins, the editor-in-chief of "Vanity Fair", even said bluntly in the face of media interviews: "Michael Bay just wishfully thought that he could be compared with Wayne Greenberg. In fact, if Wayne looked at him more, it would be an insult to himself, Chiloro..."

Compared to the relatively polite celebrities, the fans' reactions were much more intense. Just after the related discussions fermented for a day, dozens of Wayne's extreme fans surrounded the shooting scene of "Pearl Harbor". They held banners and tried their best to ask Michael Bay to withdraw their arrogant remarks.

"Someone is doing something on purpose!"

In the temporary studio of Pearl Harbor outside Los Angeles, Michael Bay's agent Chris Karim took advantage of the crew's lunch break and climbed into his client's director's trailer and whispered: "Damn it, you'd better finish the scenes in the studio as soon as possible, and then take the crew to the Oahu military base to shoot."

Hearing the anger of the agent, Michael Bay's brows slowly frowned. "Those extreme movie fans are still outside?"

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

Nodding slightly, Michael Bay certainly knew that someone was deliberately making things bigger. In fact, when he was saying these words, he did have some of the expansion after success, but more so, it was to cooperate with the promotional plan of Touchstone Pictures, which is Walt Disney.

To put it bluntly, every year, Wayne Greenberg's director, who has a name and a surname, cannot count ten fingers. Everyone is just to expand their influence in the filming at the beginning of the filming. No media has ever called Zhen before.

Seeing that his face was also very bad, the agent walked carefully to the towing door, put his ear on the door, listened gently for a few seconds before sitting back to his client.

"I learned a little news through some channels of CAA."

Looking at the silent Michael Bay, agent Chris Karim paused for a moment, and while organizing his own language, he continued slowly: "Through the relevant news, a conclusion has come from within CAA that some kind of tacit understanding should have been reached between Warner Bros. and Walt Disney.

These two giants have taken secretly to promote public opinion, obviously wanting to promote the movie better and earlier. Mike, I must remind you, don’t trust Jerry Brookheimer so much. Without him, the nod of his producer, the Disney distribution department would never do this!"

Relaxing gently on the back of the chair, Michael Bay suddenly smiled. He looked at the agent, shrugged and said, "You and I know the reason for what I said. But I didn't expect that public opinion would condemn myself one-sidedly, tsk, tsk, tsksk, Walt Disney..."

He is not a small person who has just entered Hollywood. Logically speaking, if a film company wants to create public opinion for the sake of publicity, the situation that arises usually has media supporters on both sides, and then through the voices of supporters on both sides in the media, they constantly hype the information of the two films.

The ultimate goal is to let more ordinary people hear the news about these two films, and to raise more ordinary people and expect these two steps of the film. This is the most normal way to win-win for Hollywood large film companies.

But what about now? Even Michael Bay himself thought of it. The Walt Disney Distribution Department must have seen the voice of condemning itself one-sidedly, which will help the long-term fermentation of public opinion, so the current situation will emerge.

Everyone who can succeed in this circle has at least pride. He lowered his head and glanced at the scattered newspaper on the table, filled with reports that mocked him.

"Artistic? Humanistic care? Heh!"

Michael Bey's smile did not diminish, but there was no warmth in his smile, but instead he was full of sarcasm. "Whoever said my video would only explode..."

When everyone thinks that he is overestimating his abilities and trying to compare shallow commercial films with that dark king, he really wants to prove that if he really wants to make such a movie, he will definitely be able to do the best.

Especially in recent years, the critics' ridicule and attacks have not even made the critics shut up their mouths when the global box office of "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" broke through 500 million US dollars. Instead, they have always been a shallow and ignorant commercial director for his evaluation.

Some film critics, probably before watching "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation", couldn't wait to give bad reviews. When facing him, film reviews had long risen to the point of attacking life.

A big part of the reason why this movie "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 stand out while taking into account the so-called humanistic sentiment and social thinking.

"Save the Soldier" gave him a good inspiration. Is there any more humanistic feelings than a war film? The more cruel the battlefield is, the more precious the emotions between people will be reflected.

Reflecting on war has always been the mainstream idea in Western society. Michael Bay has great ambitions and his continuous success has given him the confidence to try to transform!

In this film, he received unprecedented high investment and must have an unprecedented grand show. In order to reproduce the cruel and heroic war scenes of World War II on the big screen, he received strong support from the North American Department of Defense for the first time.

The buildings in five corners of North America are specially allowed to enter the Pearl Harbor crew to film Pearl Harbor in the Mid-American military base on Oahu!

That's not all. Michael Bay has greater ambitions. After receiving investment from Disney's Touchstone Films, his first thing was to spend huge sums of money to buy back 15 old-fashioned Mid-style fighter jets.

Moreover, he is preparing to restore the war scenes in the film, those explosions, air raids, and naval battles as much as possible.

Not only that, holding a large amount of production funds in his hand, Michael Bay waved his hand and started construction at the locations needed by the crew in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico, and England across the ocean to build the giant studio needed for the crew to shoot.

In short, this project was reflected in his hands from the beginning what it means to be proud of.

"Look, Chris." Michael Bay looked at his agent with a firm look, put away all his expressions, and said seriously: "In the end, who will become a joke is not necessarily the case! As long as an ant dares to stretch his legs, he can still trip the elephant! This is Hollywood, where the miracle happens, I am not a little ant!"

In Los Angeles, various public opinion voices were very awesome, but they did not affect Wayne, who was far away in the European continent. After the crew landed in Rome, the capital of Italy, there was no stop. Some people were immediately separated, led by the camera director Robert to film the scene.

What made Nina think about was that Ravello town, which was half as beautiful as heaven, did not go in the end. Under the leadership of Wayne, the crew rushed to Palinuro on the coast of Cilento in southern Italy.

In the past, this isolated beach immediately fell into a busy life with the arrival of the crew. Schwartz directed a large group of assistants to do the final simple venue renovation, while Gilmore led a group of women, telling them how to move.

"Hear? Wayne. Someone wants to snipe you in the summer next year and completely end your rule over North America's summer."

Wayne, who leaned over to look at the director's record book, looked up and saw Angelina Jolie standing in front of the sunshine, her simple linen dress just wrapped around the key undulating parts of her body.

Close the notebook in his hand, he tilted his head, looked at the woman in front of him with interest, and nodded gently. The body and movement training that lasted for several months was completely worth it. The healthy lines of humans trained by themselves were completely incomparable to later corrections.

“I’ve never been afraid of competition, and I’ve never lost.”

Smiling and waved his hand, he looked at the messy set behind him, secretly calculating the shooting time.

It was this extremely confident feeling that Angelina Jolie looked at the man with a hint of unique appreciation.

No matter how the media reported it, she knew that this man was right at all. He had never been afraid of competition, nor had he lost competition. If you look closely, you will find that the other party has grown rapidly from entering Hollywood, with cruel competition.

"I heard that the Pearl Harbor is the benchmark for "Save Soldier Ryan"..." After recalling the newspaper reports, Angelina Jolie joked: "A World War II epic that is definitely not an R-rated R-rated film! Wayne, everyone said that Michael Bay is the director in the circle who knows the needs of fans the most, and even no one, you won't fall apart, right?"

"whispering sound."

When Wayne heard the name "Pearl Harbor", he couldn't help but sneer, then took out a cigarette from his pants pocket, and took a big mouthful of comfort in the face of the sea breeze.

"What are you laughing at?" Seeing that the man disagreed with his words, Angelina Jolie's big eyes turned back and forth twice, and said playfully again: "My agent found out that Michael Bay's World War II epic is completely different from all his previous works. It is definitely not just an explosion or another explosion..."

"Ahem cough cough cough cough."

Before the woman could finish her words, Wayne almost choked out tears by a mouthful of green smoke because of what the other person said. He raised his hand to take the water cup handed by the assistant lady, raised his head and drank more than half of the cup before he recovered.

Angelina Jolie saw through the man's movements at a glance. The reason why he was choked by smoke was just because he couldn't help laughing. "Damn it, what's ridiculous."

"I'll tell you, girl."

Seeing that the preparations in the crew were about to be completed, Wayne shook his head and said directly: "If Explosion Bet doesn't play with the explosion, what do you think he can have left?"

After saying that, he ignored the woman with a surprised face, turned around and took Nina to the main departments of the crew. He wanted to check again before the first one was officially filmed.

In fact, when Wayne heard that Jerry Brookheimer initiated, produced and directed by Michael Bay, the latest major project of this golden partner is "Pearl Harbor", he almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

If the explosion bet doesn't play with explosion and instead plays with pursuing art, he will know more clearly what the outcome will be.

He still has an impression that Michael Bay was almost abandoned by the entire Hollywood film company on the road to transformation, and finally recovered because he realized this himself.

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

He raised his wrist and looked at the time. Wayne turned his head and looked at the reporters not far from the crew, frowned slightly. Finally, he waved his hand to call the deputy director Gilmore and instructed:

"Come some assistants to give some drinks to the reporters, and then tell them that I hope that after the crew officially starts filming, they will not make any sounds and movements that affect us, especially the camera flash!"

"Don't worry, boss." Gilmo nodded and agreed while wiping the sweat beads on his forehead. "Just just now, I had already communicated with that group of reporters. After the filming officially starts, they will not affect the crew."

He reached out and patted Gilmore on the shoulder, and Wayne's eyes revealed appreciation. "Okay, check it again for the last time, we will officially take the first shot in ten minutes."

This future one of the three Mexican masters also has great ambitions, and he certainly knows this. Moreover, his crew will definitely not be able to retain the other party for a long time. If possible, Wayne will be planning to give the other party a chance to choose after the end of this project.

Gilmore has a talent far beyond ordinary people, and as his deputy director, he has done his job well and carefully learned how to control the huge crew. No matter from any perspective, Wayne is willing to provide him with a director opportunity, just like Zach Schneider back then.