speaking of deliberate tension before a car chase, there's a moment during the robbery scene in Refn's Drive , specifically around 1:15 of this clip, where the chrysler enters the scene and pulls this little slow, circular turn that ends exactly perpendicular from where it started, perfectly parked within a parking space without slowing or correcting the turn.
obviously it's already ominous because its entering the parking lot of a quiet robbery in progress and our protagonist is looking at it, but the slow precision of that parking job to casually parallel the getaway vehicle tightens the tension so hard for me and is one of the standout details in the movie. like the way a hired killer might do a small flick or flourish with a weapon while holstering it.
also, in trivia, i remember reading somewhere that Refn had never driven a car before making the movie, lol.
That clip won't play for me but I've seen that movie enough that I know exactly the moment you mean. The calm of the charger pulling into the lot is exactly why you know it's a serious threat. Even aside from the purposefully parallel parking job you mention, it mimics everything Ryan Gosling says about his own process. A car that's powerful but not too obvious (the slight difference is deliberate), black, doesn't make a scene until he has to, waits subtly in the way he did several times in the opening etc.
I don't know if that factoid is true for Refn, I think I remember him talking about driving places on the commentaries for the Pusher filmsfilms and on Drive he definitely talks about Gosling driving him around playing the radio at night while they talked about the movie.
Have you ever seen The Driver? Great in its own right and a big influence on lots of things including very obviously Drive. It's a lot slower and more tense and muted like Drive but the modernised trailer gives a real good sell of it.
speaking of deliberate tension before a car chase, there's a moment during the robbery scene in Refn's Drive , specifically around 1:15 of this clip, where the chrysler enters the scene and pulls this little slow, circular turn that ends exactly perpendicular from where it started, perfectly parked within a parking space without slowing or correcting the turn.
obviously it's already ominous because its entering the parking lot of a quiet robbery in progress and our protagonist is looking at it, but the slow precision of that parking job to casually parallel the getaway vehicle tightens the tension so hard for me and is one of the standout details in the movie. like the way a hired killer might do a small flick or flourish with a weapon while holstering it.
also, in trivia, i remember reading somewhere that Refn had never driven a car before making the movie, lol.
That clip won't play for me but I've seen that movie enough that I know exactly the moment you mean. The calm of the charger pulling into the lot is exactly why you know it's a serious threat. Even aside from the purposefully parallel parking job you mention, it mimics everything Ryan Gosling says about his own process. A car that's powerful but not too obvious (the slight difference is deliberate), black, doesn't make a scene until he has to, waits subtly in the way he did several times in the opening etc.
I don't know if that factoid is true for Refn, I think I remember him talking about driving places on the commentaries for the Pusher filmsfilms and on Drive he definitely talks about Gosling driving him around playing the radio at night while they talked about the movie.
Have you ever seen The Driver? Great in its own right and a big influence on lots of things including very obviously Drive. It's a lot slower and more tense and muted like Drive but the modernised trailer gives a real good sell of it.