I cannot honestly be expected not to buy this. (Taken with instagram)
Drive
I mean, I don’t think there’s anything I rather do than drive around the hills at night blasting pop music and crying watching movies while developing a script with these two.
For the last year or so, we’ve worked ourselves in a lather over Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive. When the project was first announced, it seemingly had everything go for it. A great and unique director, an outstanding cast, an engaging story, and, a great setting (Los Angeles). I can’t count how many times I prayed to the Movie Gods for a great film.
Thankfully, the Movie Gods heard and answered my prayers.
Drive is not only the best film of 2011, it’s the best film I’ve seen in a theater since Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Every aspect of Drive is note perfect. Mat Newman’s editing, specifically in the film’s opening sequence is flat out incredible. Newton Thomas Sigel paints a beautiful picture of Los Angeles in glorious scope! The cast, where do I begin?
Just watch the film this weekend. Bring your friends. Bring everyone you know. Then see it again and again.
Thank you, Hugh Jackman and Neil Marshall for not making this film!
Thank you, Movie Gods for letting us have this one.
Agreed. This film is incredible, and Gosling just gets better with every role these days.
Nice work, Vulture.
PS: Drive was AMAZING. I’d watch that same character in a couple more movies. (Hear that, RyGos & Refn?)
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Drive (Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
“When I read this script, the character seemed to me somebody who had seen too many movies and had become the star of his own action film, so that’s how I thought about it.
Los Angeles is a fairy tale place, built on fantasy, so we made it a fairy tale land. We tried to make the Driver a knight and Irene [Carey Mulligan] this princess in the tower who needed to be rescued, Bernie Rose [Albert Brooks] was the evil wizard and Ron Perlman was the dragon. We treated it like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Nicholas seems to think that it fits into neo-noir.
It was a great script, Hoss [Amini] had written a really great script, but it was so authentic to Los Angeles and gang culture and you would have to make a Ken Loach style film in order to honor that script– what we wanted to make was a violent John Hughes movie that was a fairy tale about a guy who drives around listening to music at night because that’s the only way he can feel anything. And a guy who’s seen so many movies that he turned himself into his own super hero and made his own superhero costume [he pauses, miming the Scorpion jacket Driver wears], so that’s what excited us and Hoss helped us to realize that.
We made this film for the audience, and we made it for the theatre. I wanted this movie to be a film that you wanted to be in the movie theatre to see, not one that you wanted to watch at home. There are those movies [that you watch at home] but there are those films as well that you’re just glad that you’re in the theatre to see them. For instance when I first saw Valhalla Rising, Nic’s movie, halfway through the movie, a character cuts open his friend and pulls out his guts and starts showing them to him and [the audience] lost their minds! They were hitting each other getting up laughing screaming it just evoked a real hodgepodge of emotions and I guarantee you everybody in that theatre—whether they liked it or not—were glad that they saw it in the theatre, so my hope is that what we made—we made [Drive] to be played loud, we made it for the big screen and hopefully people will appreciate that.”
- Ryan Gosling
Beyond stoked to be seeing this tomorrow night.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrj7f67AhB1qixaono1_500.jpg)
Drive (Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
“When I read this script, the character seemed to me somebody who had seen too many movies and had become the star of his own action film, so that’s how I thought about it.
Los Angeles is a fairy tale place, built on fantasy, so we made it a fairy tale land. We tried to make the Driver a knight and Irene [Carey Mulligan] this princess in the tower who needed to be rescued, Bernie Rose [Albert Brooks] was the evil wizard and Ron Perlman was the dragon. We treated it like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Nicholas seems to think that it fits into neo-noir.
It was a great script, Hoss [Amini] had written a really great script, but it was so authentic to Los Angeles and gang culture and you would have to make a Ken Loach style film in order to honor that script– what we wanted to make was a violent John Hughes movie that was a fairy tale about a guy who drives around listening to music at night because that’s the only way he can feel anything. And a guy who’s seen so many movies that he turned himself into his own super hero and made his own superhero costume [he pauses, miming the Scorpion jacket Driver wears], so that’s what excited us and Hoss helped us to realize that.
We made this film for the audience, and we made it for the theatre. I wanted this movie to be a film that you wanted to be in the movie theatre to see, not one that you wanted to watch at home. There are those movies [that you watch at home] but there are those films as well that you’re just glad that you’re in the theatre to see them. For instance when I first saw Valhalla Rising, Nic’s movie, halfway through the movie, a character cuts open his friend and pulls out his guts and starts showing them to him and [the audience] lost their minds! They were hitting each other getting up laughing screaming it just evoked a real hodgepodge of emotions and I guarantee you everybody in that theatre—whether they liked it or not—were glad that they saw it in the theatre, so my hope is that what we made—we made [Drive] to be played loud, we made it for the big screen and hopefully people will appreciate that.”
Beyond stoked to be seeing this tomorrow night.
Because I woke up this morning and promptly scored 2 free tickets to an advance screening of The Gos’ new movie Drive tomorrow night. CAN.NOT. WAIT.
Who cares that I’m catching a cold? Not me.
Currently rewatching Blue Valentine.
It says a lot that a movie with a dead dog and a near aborsh is still one of my faves because of RyGos. Mofo was robbed of that Oscar. The bit where he is undoing her blouse and asks “what kind of operation are you running here” is almost as hot as the scene where he goes downtown.
Michelle Williams is great, but I’ll forever be mad that she didn’t enjoy boffing The Gos in a room with Star Trekky panels. (Anybody else wonder if Cindy & Dean might have made it if they’d only chosen Cupid’s Cove instead of the Future Room?)
Today can you make me this but starring RyGos and in real life and he’s saying Hez, not Pamela?
Thanks! You’re the best!
Can we talk about how Ryan Gosling’s dog, George, has a mohawk? I can’t decide if it’s cute or totally fucking lame.
We most definitely could, but you don’t seem to have replies enabled, Frangirl. ;-)
Scene from Nicolas Winding Refn’s upcoming Drive
This is great*.
*I’m being really understated here because in reality this is one of the best scenes I’ve watched in a very long time and I don’t want my heart to get broken if this film turns out to be bad. But my god, what a scene.
Yup. What Peter said.
I was all set to do a clever post about RyGos in direct homage to this adorableness from Grambo, but somewhere between the creases in the brow and the pants I realized that would not be happening, but other, more loin-based things would. I’m just gonna roll with it.
OH FUCK, I JUST PICTURED HIS FINE CANADIAN ASS IN A CANUCKS JERSEY…