Feeling nostalgic as of late, I’ve spent the previous few weeks going again and watching a few of Michael Bay’s greatest motion pictures. After watching basic motion flicks like The Rock and revisiting end-of-the-world catastrophe movies like Armageddon, I’ve observed a standard thread by means of the divisive director’s filmography. And no, it doesn’t contain Bay’s love of explosions, gritty movie filters, or his signature 360-degree shot.
As an alternative, it entails JFK. That’s proper, John F. Kennedy, the thirty fifth President of the US, who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. So, what does a former president who died 30 years earlier than Michael Bay directed his first film must do with one of the vital fashionable administrators of the ‘90s? Let me clarify…
I First Seen Michael Bay’s Fixation With The JFK Assassination Whereas Watching The Rock
Revisiting The Rock was a wild, loopy, and all-around pleasing expertise. Nicolas Cage is the proper quantity of over-the-top-ness together with his portrayal of Stanley Goodspeed, the late Sean Connery knocks it out of the park together with his tackle John Mason, and the motion is simply too good. However I fully forgot about this 1996 field workplace smash hit’s ending, or a minimum of the ultimate shot of the film, lengthy after Goodspeed and Mason saved the day.
Earlier than they depart and go their separate methods, Mason tells Goodspeed that if he fancies a journey, he recommends Fort Walton, Kansas, earlier than handing him a observe describing the placement of a mysterious treasure. And you realize what it’s? None aside from a microfilm revealing who truly killed JFK greater than 30 years earlier.
Subsequent, I Seen The Conspiracy Got here Up Once more In Armageddon
Just a few weeks later, I confirmed Armageddon to my children and found yet one more JFK reference on this 1998 catastrophe flick. Within the scene when Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) goes over his crew’s calls for earlier than going off into house to avoid wasting the world by blowing a large asteroid in two, the lead driller says that along with not having to pay taxes after the mission, additionally they wish to know who actually killed JFK.
I do know, I do know, the JFK assassination was all the fashion again within the mid-to-late Nineteen Nineties, however I couldn’t cease laughing as I considered Michael Bay’s fascination with the “granddaddy of all of them” in the case of conspiracy theories.
And Who Seems In Transformers: Darkish of the Moon? You In all probability Already Know
Although not the most effective Transformers film, 2011’s Darkish of the Moon was a enjoyable time and a pleasant change of tempo from its disastrous 2009 predecessor. And you realize who exhibits up on this wild and action-packed summer time blockbuster? John F. Kennedy, or a minimum of a digital recreation of the thirty fifth president.
Within the opening scenes of the film, Kennedy, upon studying {that a} spacecraft from Cybertron crashed on the lunar floor, authorizes a mission to place man on the Moon as a canopy operation to allow them to analysis the alien ship. Although totally different than the opposite two examples above, it was nonetheless a enjoyable “ah ha” second.
Michael Bay Even Made A Tremendous Bowl Business Involving JFK
There have been loads of massive Tremendous Bowl LIX commercials that caught the world’s consideration this 12 months, and a kind of was a Secret Service advert directed by none aside from Michael Bay. The prolonged advert, which dives into the historical past of the Secret Service and every thing it has executed over time, options a variety of pictures of various presidents, together with John F. Kennedy. Nonetheless, this time, it’s much less about conspiracies and focuses extra on his well-known “Don’t ask what your nation can do for you” speech after which a shot of his motorcade from the 1960 marketing campaign.
I might love to seek out out if Michael Bay has a selected curiosity in John F. Kennedy or if that is just a few random collection of occurrences. Till then, I suppose I’ll maintain watching his motion pictures…