Bay To Go All Kurosawa on Transformers' Ass

Transformers franchise director Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, Armageddon) has taken to heart the overwhelming consensus from brain-carrying members of the human race that his Transformers franchise is possibly the First Signs of the Apocalypse due to the Roland Emmerich-like catastrophe in (lack of) plotting, character, and (minimum) pre-school logic.

According to an interview in the LA Times, Bay suggests that the first two Transformer movies were to completely fool movie-goers into complacency and now, with Transformers 3: LOL, Bay plans to really really try because, you know, he wasn’t before – and he will shock the world with depth! And scope!

“There will be a nice crescendo ending,” Bay said. “It gets much more into the robot character. The last time you kind of met a few of the robots; this time you’re gonna get a much cooler landscape.”

So we can expect Bay to channel his inner Kurosawa and branch out to robot character, something that hitherto has been completely void in all of Bay’s movies – featuring robots or humans. To this point “character” has been ebonically correct robots. Perhaps he will work in a monochrome palette with longer set scenes and wide shots as well.

‘Transformers,’ Michael Bay and the sound of awards season – L.A. Times Blog