Bay does a fine job applauding his two stars here, Smith being a consummate professional and Lawrence being the funniest actor he’s ever worked with. He still points to that shot as the beginning of his rise to super stardom. Smith insisted he keep the shirt on but have it unbuttoned.
Bay wanted Smith running down a street without a shirt on.
Bay explains it was structured the same way as Lawrence’s character’s introduction, but, instead of a wife and kids, Lowery woke up with two, Latina twins. An introduction to Will Smith’s Mike Lowery was originally in the film, but it was cut.You can break rules, and you can make your own rules.” He goes on to say, “There are no rules to film. Bay notes the difficulty he had working with the local, Miami crew and how none of them were fully confident in his unorthodox way of shooting and cutting scenes.You be the judge on where that other $8 million went. He mentions the budget was $17 million, but then states he had $9 million to make it.He doesn’t miss a beat blaming Lawrence for all the “fucks,” though. Mother Bay wasn’t to pleased with the number of times the actors say the word, “fuck.” Bay cut it down from 18 to roughly 12, give or take, to appease his mother. Bay remembers showing the first scene of Bad Boys to his mother.Bay, humility abounding, points out that it’s his Porsche they used for the scene. This scene was one of four scenes added to the film after it initially tested. The opening car-jacking scene was based on true accounts of how it’s pulled off sometimes with a beautiful woman distracting the drivers.Personal safety was not an interest for this man, who proclaimed, “It’s gonna be bitchin’.” Scoffing at danger, Bay got his shot, and it looks magnificent. Of course, it’s over the “A Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Production” card, so who cares if the director is crazy? He goes on to explain he get this notoriety, because he demanded the miniature MIAMI sign seen at the beginning be directly underneath the landing planes. “Sometimes people think I’m crazy.” Second sentence in.Bad Boys (1995)Ĭommentators: Michael Bay (director, auteur), not nearly enough money. His Armageddon commentary was so much fun and surprisingly insightful, so there’s no telling what we’ll be in store for with Bad Boys. Bay is sure to spew all kinds of love for both of these guys, as well as the massive number of explosions we’ll be seeing throughout the film. It started something with Martin Lawrence that would eventually sputter out some time around Bad Boys II. It began Will Smith’s rise to divine power. Decided to pass.īad Boys started a lot of things. That’s why in this week’s Commentary Commentary, we’re covering Bay’s first movie, the calling card, if you will, that would eventually launch this man to such great heights, he could make hundreds of millions of dollars playing with toy robots. We didn’t get enough of Michael Bay’s ego blowing the world up a few weeks ago. In this edition, Kate Erbland brings this column once more into the loud, colorful, fast-moving mind of Michael Bay for his commentary on Bad Boys. Welcome to Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts.
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