Michael Bay Thinks It’s ‘Bulls—‘ That James Bond, Not ‘Pearl Harbor,’ Holds World Record for a Film Explosion

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“James Bond tried to take the ‘largest explosion in the world’,” Bay said in an interview with Empire Magazine. “Bulls—. Ours is.”By “ours,” Michael Bay is referring to his WWII film “Pearl Harbor,” released 14 years before “Spectre” and which features a 40-minute re-enactment of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu.

One segment in particular holds an explosion that Bay believes should hold the record instead of “Spectre,” which according to Guinness used the equivalent of 136 kilograms of TNT to blow up Blofeld’s secret base in the film’s climax. “[Producer] Jerry Bruckheimer showed Ridley Scott the movie,” Bay said. “And the quote [from Scott] was, ‘F— me.’ No one knows how hard that is.

We had so much big stuff out there. Real boats, 20 real planes. We had 350 events going off. Three months of rigging on seven boats, stopping a freeway that’s three miles away.” Bay says that there’s more to making a big movie boom than just rigging some explosives and getting the camera shots just right.

He compares the process to “making a Caesar salad.” “There’s a special sauce for explosions,” he explains. “It’s like a recipe.