{"id":22891,"date":"2011-09-22T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22891"},"modified":"2023-01-24T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:11:50","slug":"drive-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/drive-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive: the movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Friday Nicolas Winding Refn’s new movie Drive is due for UK release.<\/p>\n

Refn won best director at this year’s Cannes film festival <\/a>for the slick existential thriller, which is a riff on Jean Pierre Melville’s 1967 classic le Samourai<\/a>– the tale of a lone assassin.<\/p>\n

In that broody, elliptical study, played by stone cold French idol Alain Delon \u00a0there was more moody silence and long shots of silent spaces than car chases – but this offering promises plenty of crash bang and wallop for your hard-earned.<\/p>\n

The film also obviously bears a resemblance to The Driver<\/a>, too, the 1978 car chase movie that makes it onto our top ten of all time.<\/p>\n

In Refn’s film Hollywood hottie Ryan Gosling<\/a> plays a stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman and discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist goes badly wrong. Curvacious star of Mad Men Christina Hendricks<\/a> is co star too (which will help).<\/p>\n

Looking at the trailer there’s a lot of Mustang action, some class stunt driving and even a bit of Nascar hero worship. But what we’re excited about is the metaphoric potency of being behind the wheel examined, pretty much for the first time since the seventies.<\/p>\n

It’s about time that an intelligent take on the act of driving made it back onto our screens.<\/p>\n