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Coming off the Bruce Willis/Ben Affleck Armageddon, director Michael Bay was primed for another big summer hit. So, you know, why not combine one of the greatest tragedies in U.S. history with leaden dialogue, a lame love triangle and one of the stars from your last flick? In the July 2011 issue of GQ, K.C. Hodenfield, an assistant director on several Bay films, recalled that the initial idea was to give Pearl Harbor a different feel. “Michael was saying he was going to go about this movie differently This was going to be like a classic movie … By lunchtime, we’re making a Michael Bay movie, in the Michael Bay style.” As with all of the auteur’s films, however, the film made plenty of money. It grossed nearly $450 million against a $140 million budget.