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"Transformers: Dark of the Moon director Michael Bay is reportedly a big fan of classic &amp;#039;60s musical West Side Story. The filmmaker&amp;#039;s Wesleyan University professor Jeanine Basinger revealed that Robert Wise&amp;#039;s Oscar-winning classic first came to Bay&amp;#039;s attention during a class on musical cinema. &amp;quot;That class was important to him, because he realised that you&amp;#039;re not bound by reality in film if you don&amp;#039;t want to be,&amp;quot; she told GQ. &amp;quot;And his work is about colour and movement and a kind of abstraction and unreality that is found in musicals.&amp;quot; Bay admitted that he was initially unenthusiastic about taking the class, saying: &amp;quot;I thought, &amp;#039;Musicals? Ugh, what am I doing? I don&amp;#039;t want to take a musical class. Sounds terrible.&amp;#039; I loved it. It was all about form, style, how they use the medium. That&amp;#039;s what I try to do with my action.&amp;quot; Transformers: Dark of the Moon opens in cinemas today. &amp;gt; Bayhem 101: A Transformers guide to the films of Michael Bay Watch Michael Bay and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley discuss Transformers with Digital Spy below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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