Commandos Underwear Patch' title='Commandos Underwear Patch' />What We Loved And Didnt Love About Baby Driver. Do you like good music and cool car chasesAccident List Table 1 Police have confirmed that they have recovered body from the sea off the coast of Dunbar, thought to be that of a missing Fife diver. Commandos Underwear Patch' title='Commandos Underwear Patch' />News and opinion from The Times The Sunday Times. If so, you will probably find something to like in Baby Driver, Edgar Wrights new spring loaded rock n roll heist flick. My colleague Gita Jackson and I handbrake spun into theaters after the movie came out last week, and decided wed sit down afterward and talk about it. Push in your earbuds and lets do this thing. Kirk Hamilton puts on The Jon Spencer Blues ExplosionGita Jackson Kirk, right now I want to tell you about the fabulous, most groovy. Kirk Are they made out of Kashmere And worn by a girl named Debra Or maybe Debora Gita You can do the Harlem Shuffle in them, thats for sure. Kirk Ill do that while I drink my Tequila, Early in the Morning. Know How Hocus Pocus, thats how. Gita Perfect Now we dont ever have to make this joke ever again. Kirk I have the playlist on right now and was like, hmm, how long are we gonna keep this up Gita I actually bought the playlist right after I saw the movie. What we are talking about, gentle readers, is the new flick from cult director Edgar Wright, Baby Driver, a movie that has been out a week and that I have seen three times. Kirk I have only seen it once. I think I probably need to see it again. Its one of those movies where theres a lot going on, but also not very much at allIf that makes sense. Gita Makes perfect sense. Baby Driver is a bare bones skeleton that Wright uses to hang his good ass car chases on. You could sum up the entire plot in a sentence good kid gets into trouble and then gets out of it again. But its a really dense, choreographed movie, like all of Wrights work. Kirk Right. I liked some parts of the movie more than others, at least on first viewing, but I dont mean not very much going on as a bad thing. Its just its a heist movie. Youve seen it a million times. Its a vessel for Edgar Wright and the rest of his crew to do a bunch of cool, creative shit. Which they totally do. Gita This movie really got me in the first two scenes. The first one is a car chase set to Bellbottoms by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. The other is a tracking shot of main character Baby going out to get coffee while listening to some sweet jams. Kirk That tracking shot I was falling out of my seat. Gita Did you see all the grafitti Kirk I was so into the whole thing that Im sure I missed like a hundred details. What was it Gita As Baby walks down the street, the grafitti in the background are the lyrics to the song hes singing. Kirk Ah, yeah, I caught some of that during that sequence. Gita It kinda sets up how music is used throughout the movieas a device to highlight Babys emotional state. My favorite instance of that is when Babys In Trouble and a characters starts singing Nowhere To Run by Martha and the Vandellas. Kirk I bet theres a lot of that kind of thing I missed as the film went on. Solubilidad Compuestos Organicos Pdf. That credits sequence where he gets coffee it really set up a lot of the films rhythms, didnt it Gita Yeah I liked how it vaguely follows the arc of the movie. Baby has fun on his way to get coffee, but on his way back hes paranoid, surrounded by police. It also sets up the dynamic of Baby versus the rest of the crew hes with. Theyre all hardened criminals. Baby just wants to drive fast and listen to music. Hes their coffee guy. Kirk I hadnt even considered that about how he sees the cops on the way back, how that kinda captures how the film grows darker and more paranoid in the back half. I said earlier that I want to rewatch the movie, and thats why. For such a straightforward movie, my reaction was actually less straightforward than I was expecting. My initial thoughts, walking out of the theater, were that I loved the first half and didnt love the second half as much. I still feel that way, more or less. I thought the film stalled a bit after the second heist, but not because it slowed down. I actually thought it lost some mojo because it didnt slow down enough, or more specifically, because it didnt slow down in the right places or the right ways. But then I think back to Wrights Hot Fuzz, and I remember having a similarly jumbled reaction the first time I saw that movie. Subsequent viewings of Hot Fuzz have put it among my favorite movies of all time, an opinion Ive chronicled in depth on this very website. The best movies get better each time you watch them. That is why I am now going to praise the 2. Read more Read. Edgar Wrights films are so rich and detailedIm assuming you started noticing a lot more layered stuff like that on subsequent viewings Gita Oh yeahmy growing obsession with this movie had a lot to do with seeing how the music interplays with the plot, and how its used as cues to set up action. Its something that Wright has done a LOT. Theres the jukebox fight scene in Shaun of the Dead, the tracking shot set to The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society in Hot Fuzz, and the repeated use of Sisters of Mercy as a musical sting in The Worlds End maybe my favorite music joke in all of Wrights work. But this is a movie based entirely on that concept. When I went back for repeat viewings, I understood more deeply how the songs on the soundtrack not only relate to Babys plight in an abstract way, but often a very, very literal way. I was watching an interview with Wright and Ansel Elgort, who plays Baby, and apparently Wright packaged the script for him in an app that would play the songs from the soundtrack when they were supposed to appear in the movie itself. Kirk Oh, thats cool. Its interesting how this movie fits into Wrights overall filmography, right I immediately felt his longtime collaborator Simon Peggs absence when it came to the scriptBaby Drivers dialogue was nowhere near as dense as its audio visual milieu. I love a good Hot Fuzz triple callback dialogue joke, but on the other hand, this movies script got out of the way of the action a lot of the time. It made for a more direct film, especially as the stakes got higher and the action got more intense. Noticeably different from earlier WrightPegg stuff. Gita If this had been a silent movie, I would not have noticed at all. Its barely got a script in terms of dialogue. But its also not a comedy, and Pegg is a comedian. He writes comedy scripts. Much as I love when Pegg, Nick Frost and Wright all work together, I had this horrible fear of the three of them being forced into a nerd movie ghetto, neer to emerge. Seeing Wright do a more pure action movie rather than say, Ant Man, was nice in that regard. Less chuckle yucks, but hopefully next time he wants to do a movie it wont be as hard of a sell. Kirk The more I read about Baby Driver, the more I realize that its more of a personal film for Wright than Id picked up on in the theater. It actually seems personal in a way that the Cornetto films probably arent, overall. For example I hadnt been aware of that 2. Mint Royale video Wright directed, which he basically recreates during Babys opening lip sync dance in the car. I cracked up when I finally watched it yesterday, after seeing the movie. So, Baby Driver has that element of a homecoming to it. Its Edgar Wright doing his own thing, which is something I really like, just in general. When a creative person whos been successful in a very specific way puts that down for a bit and follows their own personal north star. Theres a feeling of freedom in it. Gita Oh So glad you mentioned the Mint Royale video.