Bad Boys Vs Bad Men

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The cinema industry attracts large numbers of people everyday. It is the magnet of any town. It sometimes attracts even those who do not wish to see a film. A Hollywood film producer, Michael Bay, rarely disappoints those who watch his films. His films typically show intense slow motion shots that form a general circle around characters, nonstop action packed scenes where the camera is constantly moving, and a slow motion shot which often features one object crashing into, or tumbling towards the camera is a good indication that it is a Michael Bay film. Michael Bay was born and raised in California. Michael Bay quickly emerged as one of Hollywood’s boldest and most bankable feature film directors. The films that Bay has directed and produced …show more content…

Michael Bay started his career directing music videos and advertisements for several film industries in the 80’s. It was in the 90’s when he had his first big debut directing the film, Bad Boys. The film Bad Boys has two completely different parties in this film, the bad boys and the bad guys. The Bad Boys are Miami Narcotics Detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence). Their incentive is to protect a beautiful mistress (Tia Leoni) from the bad guys as they take down a Colombian drug lord at the same time. This is a great film which strikes the right balance of action and comedy, mixed in with how the director conducts his story structure, camera placements, and how he edits his films. As you would expect from a film with Smith and Lawrence, there are many funny scenes in Bad Boys. However, Bad Boys is essentially an action film, Smith and Lawrence take care of the comedy of it as well. As a director, Michael Bay, gets most of the credit for the success of the action scenes. Bad Boys would not have been as exciting without two …show more content…

It grabs your attention and draws you into the movie and leaves the audience wanting more. From acclaimed director Michael Bay comes “Pain and Gain,” a new action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie. Based on the unbelievable true story of a group of personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong. Many times, throughout the film close up shots happen when it is a more dramatic scene and typically are shot in slow motion. According to The New York Times, the opening scene, a police chase from which the rest of the story flashes back, sets a tone of hectic excess (2013). Mark Wahlberg, running from the heavily armed forces of law and order, dashes across rooftops and in and out of traffic, sometimes in slow motion, through streets and alleys. The camera swirls around him, freezing as a glob of saliva pops out of his mouth, dropping down to allow us a peek up his nostrils and then tilting and sliding to register the impact of his face on the windshield of a car. This allows the audience to see how the movie ends and makes you want to know how it got to that point. As Wahlberg makes his way out of the building and across the street he is then hit by the police car and the camera goes into slow motion and zooms in to his face as it slams into the windshield of the car. There are

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