'Baby Driver' Release Date, News: Film Perfectly Combines Music With Action
It's time for mainstream racing movies to pump up the gas and hit the road as a new driving drifter is coming soon on theaters. How is this film any different from the rest? The adrenaline-filled high-speed car chases are drowned out by wonderful music in Edgar Wright's "Baby Driver."
In the film's official trailer, an extremely talented driver named Baby (Ansel Elgort) meets a girl (Lily Allen) that will change his life forever, so much that he decides to do one last heist for the mob boss (Kevin Spacey) and then make a clean getaway. This is a proposition that didn't sit well with his top client, and so his personal life is on the line.
The plot may sound conventional and normal, but the execution and minor details are strokes of genius. It is revealed that Baby always listens to music to drown the ringing in his ears which he got after a tragic car accident with his family. This means that movie audiences will be in for a treat not only for the eyes but more importantly for the ears, as the soundtrack promises to be well picked.
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In an interview with Coming Soon during the South by Southwest (SXSW) event, writer/director Edgar Wright boasted that the film is carefully patterned with the music. "It is a movie that is heavily sound-centric, so the action and the drama is choreographed to the music but also in a way that it's not score laid on," Wright explains. "The main character is listening to the tracks in the movie, so it is diegetic music in a way," he went on to say.
Participants during the SXSW were all praises for the movie. Jen Yamato of LA Times even said that "Baby Driver" is Edgar Wright's version of "La La Land" as the music is carefully choreographed to every facet of the film.
"Baby Driver" gets released in cinemas on Aug. 11, 2017.
