For two glorious years, Optimus Prime was the hero of the United States. He starred in Transformers, an animated series austerity (Cynics would call it a toy commercial medium time) that pitted Prime Minister and his army of Autobots against Megatron and his Decepticons vicious. In the small screen, these robots in disguise were just cartoons, they were gods of titanium huge, huge in their shells machine, tractor trailers, police cars, combat aircraft.
In the form of toys, Transformers combines the seductive touch of a Rubik's Cube with the voyeurism of automotive-Vroom Vroom of Hot Wheels. Add a touch of the Cold War moral clarity and caught us. Children 5 to 11 - and was boys - faithfully tuned in week after week watching the saga of the robots Doughty, who struck out from their planet, Cybertron, with vague and mixed motives - conquest, freedom, resources, defense - and brought the civil war on our planet. We were welcomed as liberators and adopted the first mech-like our father. Some literally: In 2001, 30-year-old National Guard Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, legally changed his name to Optimus Prime. "It really hit him when I was a kid," he told reporters before the first television transmission to Middle East in 2003. "My father died and I really do not have anyone around."
Then in 1986, the original Prime did something that distinguished him from most other cartoon heroes. Died. He died for freedom, justice, and shelf space. In the toy business, no room for paternal affection - online, only next year. Transformers: The Movie, released in August of that year, was the first swan song. During nearly two decades, through various toy lines and restart battalion doubtful (a gorilla named Optimus Primal? Please.) sons of the first pope waited Bot.
Finally, in July 2004, it was decreed from the throne of Steven Spielberg: There would be a live-action remake of Transformers. (The Wonder! Joy! Blogging!) One year later, another revelation: Michael Bay, known for such explorations Truffautian of modern manhood as Armageddon and The Rock, would direct. (! Rage baba! Blogging!)
The formation of an Autobot
Bumblebee transformation 1974 Chevrolet Camaro to Autobot tower was only part of a 14-month along f / x process that required over 60,000 virtual parts and 34,000 texture maps. The project pushed Industrial Light & Magic 5500 processors and 280 terabytes representation of disk storage to a maximum capacity. - Erik Malinowski
A prayer approached via the Internet: Please God, do not let Michael Bay screw this. Debate shook the virtual room of nerd Thunderdome, aka Is not It Cool News, where Transformers (4 July) were made more traffic than any other next film - a feat in the Spidey-infested, fuel franchise summer of '07. "It was like he told them that Michael Bay directed Star Wars," says Harry Knowles, editor of Is not It Cool News. "I do not understand, because the things that makes the Bay are better cars look cool, make things explode. Detonator is the best in the business."
So why all the pain of a battered Transformer Bay-s? It's a toy. A caricature. What next? Please, do not let Brett Ratner desecrate the Care Bears? And it kicks ass robots are exactly what you expect from the high priest of the childishness of high octane?
But among a certain sect of the geeks, there's more at stake. First step to practically akin to latchkey children in the mid 80s. He was our father all in a moment of flesh and blood models are increasingly few and far between: Stallone had started sinking long. Arnold was already more credible as the machine that man. So when Prime declared, "One will be maintained and you fall!" in that seismic, removal-this-the sound of your wall (or, more accurately, Voice actor Peter Cullen), who believed him. Thus began the cyber-outsourcing of masculine heroism, a process that eventually, inextricably, the Y chromosome have links to Xbox.
"I've heard many people say, 'Michael Bay, which has destroyed my childhood," says the man himself same as the chair of the Santa Monica, California, the editing bay. Appropriately, Bay is wearing a black T-shirt Decepticons. He is aware of its image and, to some extent, enjoy. "I knew there were fans," he sighs, shaking his power Shaggy blond hair. "I did not know there were people he had hunted. I urge you to see the 1986 animated movie, go see the cartoon. You want to shoot yourself. "
This article originated in http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-07/trans_movie.
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