Movies
How to host a 'Baby Driver'-style heist
If you're going to hit a bank, you'll need a getaway track, writes Thomas Falkiner
THE CINEMATIC INSPIRATION
Awful name, Baby Driver. Pretty cool movie, though. Especially if you prefer your action films chased with a double-shot of cars and music.
Ripping a page out of Nicolas Winding Refn's playbook, English director Edgar Wright delivers an explosive heist flick that, like in his Danish contemporary's 2011 release Drive, centres on a troubled getaway driver torn between the seemingly inescapable despair of the criminal underworld and the promise of love.
Indeed, the characters are eerily similar. The main difference being that this film's protagonist, Baby, played by Ansel Elgort, views the world with far more optimism.
The Neon Noir milieu of Drive was one built upon extreme nihilism: a Glam Gothic arena in which ultra violence and disappointment ultimately dictated the fate of the unnamed driver played by Ryan Gosling...
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