The Driver
Where the DNA of The Driver travels
Films that shaped it
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Le Samourai, the Jean-Pierre Melville film, was certainly an inspiration, and certainly the French gangster films in general.
Films it shaped
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I wanted to make a movie about a superhero, and the idea of a character that is silent, never speaks, is a man of few words, kind of a knight without armor, but has a very strong morality. That, combined with a car chase movie like 'The Driver' or 'Thief,' Walter Hill. That was the inspiration.
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Certainly in terms of the DNA of the film, and this is why Baby Driver is not a remake, but more kind of like a spiritual successor in some respects. Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978), I love that film. It’s a very clean, simple premise. It’s got a very cool driver and a very cool detective. It's almost like a zen B-movie, and that film, if you watch it, it really informs Baby Driver in terms of the clean lines of the concept.
