It's hard not to feel smug

[angelophile]

But after a few months of people telling me how great the Transformers movie was and crediting Michael Bay for making it good, I get a sense of enormous satisfaction from an interview that's just appeared with ILM's CGI artist Cameron Folds.

"Originally, the whole "Boy and his Car" premise was quite literal. Don Murphy's message board for the fans during pre-production may have saved this movie. It was literally going to be Sam and Mikaela as a War of the Worlds scenario unfolded all around them. The occasional legs and whatnot shown. We were lucky to get the characterization we did get.

This is because that was the only way Michael Bay could stomach the concept."

Makes the couple of years I spent with Don and the other guys on the boards desperately trying to get Speilberg and Bay to understand that what makes Transformers interesting is Transformers worthwhile.

Comments

[denyer.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Remarkable how quickly that interview got pulled...

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

I wasn't that surprised. Mind you, it wasn't anything new anyway, just nice to see it publically acknowledged. There's always been more going on behind the scenes than I like to think about.

[denyer.livejournal.com]

I found it surprising how sites voluntarily removed discussion -- well, shifted it out of public view -- not just copies of / links to the interview... rather than, say, dumping it onto Usenet to be archived. Maybe we're getting old and sympathetic to kids who post things without thinking through.

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

Could be. Remind me to head out to the barn when I get old and sympathetic.

Although I have no clue what Usenet is. My internet speak fails me.

[denyer.livejournal.com]

Newsgroups -- predated all this web nonsense, and are still just about kicking. :)

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, good old ATT. Been a few years since I've been on THERE.

That's the trouble with trying to organize cover ups. You have to tell absolutely everyone to take something down and hide it elsewhere and if they're not in the club it takes all the fun out of it. Can't talk to any old prole.