The Movie Drive Movie

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Movies featuring car chases have always been popular in Hollywood. Classics like Smokey and the Bandit, To Live and Die in L.A. and Bullitt all contributed to the action genre. The movie Drive however, used car chases in a movie that drew from the action genre, the romance genre, and the crime genre of films. The movie is a depiction of the life of a man only known as “The Driver”. The movie follows him as he tries to balance his life of crime, with his love of cars and driving, and also an attempt at romance. The movie follows the Driver and details his daily life as a stunt driver, a mechanic, and a getaway driver for criminals. The Driver meets his neighbor Irene and her son Benecio, and begins to bond with them. He learns that Irene's husband is in jail and is due to be released soon. After her husband, Standard, is released, crime bosses immediately want payment for keeping him safe in prison. The Driver, having deep feeling for Benecio and Irene offers to help. Things go awry, Standard gets killed, the Driver is on the run with stolen money, and is furious for being set up. The movie follows his quest to make things right, however this causes a rift between Irene and the Driver, and at the conclusion of the movie the audience never knows what becomes of the relationship. In Drive the camera work soundtrack casting and style all fuse together to create a fantastic film detailing the criminal underworld, corruption, and romance.

The first scene that I believe showcases the brilliance of this movie is the very first scene of the film. In the scene the Driver is shown leaving his house, going to pick up a car, and driving to a dark location. The Driver then proceeds to wait on two burglars, and drives them through the streets...

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...oes things for a good reason, but they are bad things like killing and thievery. Opposite of Gosling in Carey Mulligan, a soft featured and nurturing woman, which make the audience believe that she is exactly what the Driver needs. The audience can feel the need that they have for each other. He needs her nurturing, and she needs him as a good guy.

Drive is a wonderfully shot film, with an interesting plot, and an amazing soundtrack. The film does a good job giving off a retro vibe to pay homage to the classic car films, but also carves out a niche of its own as a fast paced, romantic, crime drama. Through it's clever use of cinematography, setting, soundtrack, and color usage, Drive is a fascinating look into a man's life and the romance he wants and also how that romance ends up inadvertently ends up throwing him into a whirlwind of corruption and greed.

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