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Michael Bay used one of the same sound effects as he did in Pearl Harbor

posted 8 years ago by RustyShacklefurd
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At the beginning of the first battle at the Annex, one of the militants throws a Molotov cocktail into the compound and when it explodes it makes the same sound as a bomb that blew up a battleship at the beginning of the Japanese attack in the movie Pearl Harbor. You can see for yourself:

Pearl Harbor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIsVYdB0lA
2:44

13 Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCt1jo87zKI
0:13

[–] dallasbagley 8 years ago

Who ever was able to point that out, is an absolute nut job! lol. I'm sure Bay has probably been using the same sound designer for a while now, and he most likely has an arsenal of go to sounds that you can probably find in a LOT of movies.

[–] RustyShacklefurd 8 years ago

The sound effect was noticeable to me because it's not a normal explosion sound. It's not a sound effect one would normally associate with explosions. More significantly, don't you think it's interesting that Michael Bay used the same sound effect for a simple Molotov cocktail exploding on the ground as he did for a thousand pound bomb blowing up a whole battleship? Consider the enormous difference between the size and force of those 2 explosions.

[–] dallasbagley 8 years ago

Absolutely, it's incredibly weird, lol. But it's entirely possible that even Bay himself didn't notice this, since sound design is a department all it's own. Sure, Bay has some say over it, but it could have EASILY slipped by him.

[–] TheRothschilds 8 years ago

Bay reuses a lot of stock & sound from previous movies. He does not let anything fly.

[–] btcarroll 8 years ago

You've probably heard the sound bites of someone dying in 007 goldeneye in hundreds of movies