Thursday, June 09, 2011  #108: The Rock  The Rock, 1996,
directed by Michael Bay, screenplay by David Weisberg & Douglas
S. Cook and Mark Rosner, story by David Weisberg & Douglas S.
Cook.  Here's Michael Bay on the commentary track for The Rock,
talking about his decision to insert a stand-alone car chase
into the film, a sequence that, for all its sound and fury,
accomplishes exactly nothing that has anything at all to do with
the narrative.  Actually, I had a fight about the car chase with
one of the writers, because I felt, "This is a way for me to
help, after all this complicated setup, to help suck the younger
audience back into it." And I know that sounds kind of weird, of
trying to make movies for demographics and whatnot but,
basically that's, that's what it was. I had a fight with one of
the writers, um, he said "I've never heard of a director talking
about demographics." And I'm like, "Well,"—this is a writer
who's never had a script actually made into a movie—and I said,
"Well, let me tell you som