While these scenes lack dialogue, they certainly don’t lack chemistry or significance. As a result, the relationship between Driver and Irene focuses on powerful and meaningful glances. In these moments of silence come the most powerful notes of the movie, which create the melody, and flow of the film. Steeped in a beautifully shot noir tone (Cinematography – Newton Thomas Sigel) and accompanied by a stylistic electronic soundtrack, Drive balances silence and limited dialogue with kinetic visuals and superb subtext. His mysterious background and lack of dialogue really make you fear him, while his actions romanticize his character we begin to sympathize with his wants and the very real struggles he goes through.
backdrop to protect the innocent in a world full of villains. (Scene with Driver and Benicio watching a cartoon together)ĭriver is our mysterious hero emerging from the L.A. Cliff Martinez and Matthew Newman help to sculpt a nostalgic 80’s synth-pop soundscapes that breathes cool into these gripping scenes.ĭrive asks the question we all have: Are we in control of our own destiny? Are we inherently good or bad? The story unfolds from there into a noir crime thriller accompanied by a breath-taking soundtrack.
When Irene’s husband (Oscar Isaac) is released from jail and threatened by old connections, Driver offers his help. This new focus became the innocence of love and the length we may go to protect it…but naturally, it has a Grimm, Refn-esque twist.ĭrive follows the story of an unnamed and mysterious Driver (Ryan Gosling), who, having met Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her younger son Benicio (Kaden Leos), sees an opportunity for a different life. Driving for criminals, he struggles to salvage the life he never knew he wanted. Having read the Grimm’s tales to his daughter, Director Refn, pulled the original script apart and refocused it. hills, director Nicolas Winding Refn and screenwriter Hossein Amini, produced, cut, and auditioned for a movie about a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver.
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