Behind the scenes of Transformers 2

·Most of the final battle was filmed on the White Sands Missile Proving Grounds of the US Army in New Mexico;


·The actors who played the US military in the film were mostly real soldiers who had just returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than ordinary extras;


·Military actors We put a lot of enthusiasm in this movie, because they want their children to see themselves fighting the Transformers on the big screen of "Transformers 2";


·The Pentagon provided great support to the filming work , Not only let the crew use the Baisha missile test site, but also let them follow the roaring fighter jets from the air;


·The Pentagon also asked the film to create a good and positive image for the U.S. military;


·Some of the scenes were in Filmed on the USS John Stennis aircraft carrier of the Navy, it was the scene where the Marine Corps also joined the attacking forces to fight against the invading Transformers;


·This movie is the largest ever combination of the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps The result of the filming operation;


·The resources directly used are roughly: 2 A-10 fighters, 6 F-16 fighters, 10 armored Hummers, "Golden Knights" military parachuting team, 2 M1A2 tanks, 2 M3A3 tanks , 2 self-propelled missile launch vehicles, 2 armored vehicles, Baisha missile test site, military explosives and bombs, soldiers on vacation.


· There has always been a competition between the US Army and the Air Force, and the shooting in New Mexico has made this competition even more intense. Although the Army’s Baisha Proving Ground and the Air Force’s Harlow League base are very close, the camps for soldiers and actors from different sides are completely separated;


·Brass shells collected by the staff on the field during the shooting of the battle scene There are a lot of barrels, and some people joked that if you sell them to the junkyard, you can buy a lot of boxes of beer with the money you earn;


·The military role of the black actor Tyrese (Tyrese Gibson) in the previous movie is promoted in this episode The official, the ground positioning guide for the bombing during the exercise;


·All the temporary Egyptian villages and temples in the Baisha missile test site will be used to highlight the effect of the explosion;


·There are not many things that were actually filmed in Egypt. Most of the relevant themes were shots in local US military bases;


·The Egyptian pyramids are a very important plot point in this movie, and some scenes were even shot on the pyramid towers. ;


·The U.S. military allowed the M1 tanks in the play to fire empty ammunition, because this shooting was also used as a training for the U.S. tank soldiers, but the bad shells still wanted to use live ammunition for shooting;


·The crew wasted some unnecessary military supplies In the filming, he used some military resources deemed by the military to be inconsistent with the original intention of the training (Is this filming or the US military training? The conclusion is that the military took the opportunity to hold back), and also paid compensation to the US Department of National Treasury Money;


·Starscream is still transformed into an F-22 fighter in this episode;


·Because everyone in the military and actors wanted to appear on the scene, the roof of the props was once full of soldiers, and the military liaison of the crew had to find excuses to disperse They: "You are so tightly packed, it is too unrealistic. The enemy can kill you all with a grenade." As a result, the answer is: "This is Hollywood. We are not using ammunition and Invisible aliens fighting?"


·In a scene where Sam and Michaela escaped from the temple in a village and were chased by the Decepticons, the two were shot at the same time by 75 soldiers and tanks, of course. It is the "invisible aliens" chasing them behind them;


·In the explosion scene, the 700-mile-per-hour air wave generated by the explosive explosion makes an eyelash a weapon that can hurt people. As a result, the hero and heroine explode in these explosions. The blank mind only knows the desperate running;


·Once, after the shooting of a scene, a soldier shyly gave Shia LaBeouf (Sam’s actor) and Megan Fox (Mikaela’s actor) ) Ask for a signature and say sorry. Sean asked him why he wanted to apologize, and promptly signed him. Then suddenly, a group of soldiers with paper and pen appeared...

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