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{{quote|''"If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window, anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours no matter what. I don't sit in while you're running it down; I don't carry a gun... I drive."''|'''The Driver'''}}
[[Ryan Gosling]] plays [[No Name Given|The Driver]], a stuntman/mechanic in [[Los Angeles]] who moonlights as a getaway driver for robberies. The Driver has isolated and detached himself from just about everyone else in the world -- except his boss, Shannon ([[Breaking Bad|Bryan]] [[Malcolm in the Middle|Cranston]]), and his young neighbor Irene ([[Carey Mulligan]]), whom he becomes emotionally attached to. His daily life changes when a deal goes wrong...
Despite various [[Award Snub]]s, critics and cinephile circles alike heaped tons of praise upon the film; thanks to this praise and its box office success, ''Drive'' looks to become a [[Cult Classic]].▼
▲Despite various [[Award Snub]]s, critics and cinephile circles alike heaped tons of praise upon the film; thanks to this praise and its box office success, not to mention its unique atmosphere, ''Drive''
Don't confuse this film with the 1998 [[wikipedia:Drive (1998 film)|Marc Dacascos film of the same name]].▼
▲Don't confuse this film with the 1998 [[wikipedia:Drive (1998 film)|Marc Dacascos 1998 film of the same name]].
{{tropelist|The following tropes belong to ''Drive'', no matter what:}}
* [[Affably Evil]]: Bernie Rose. {{spoiler|Hell, he genuinely apologizes to Shannon when he slits his wrist and comforts him while as dies, and is visibly shaken with his death afterward. He also appears to genuinely like (or at least respect) the Driver.}}
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* [[Chest Insignia]]: The Driver has a yellow scorpion insignia on the back of his silver jacket, which the camera frequently lingers on. Later, he refers to the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: A few, namely Nino's resentment of how the ever unseen East Coast mob treats him.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: It's not
** His backstory is developed in more detail in the novel: his mother was a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who eventually murdered her husband. (In a nod to this, the manner in the film in which {{spoiler|Bernie murders Cook}} is the same way that Driver's mother kills his father in the novel.)
* [[Dead Star Walking]]: {{spoiler|Christina Hendricks}} gets fourth billing in the opening credits and all the trailers but is around for all of two scenes with barely any dialogue before {{spoiler|getting shot in the head.}}
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* [[The Dragon]]: Nino, with shades of [[Number Two for Brains]].
* [[Drone of Dread]]: Takes over the soundtrack during violent scenes.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: The Driver brings along a
* [[Eye Scream]]: Bernie jams a fork in a [[Mook]]'s eye.
* [[The Film of the Book]]: A surprisingly faithful adaptation of James Sallis' novel.
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* [[Mercy Kill]]: {{spoiler|The way Bernie kills Shannon is definitely this. He HAD to kill Shannon, didn't mean he had to do it brutally or prolong it. Slitting his wrist and letting him bleed out(and comforting him as he did) was, when all's said and done, probably the most humane way to kill him, short of a lethal injection or something.}}
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The movie uses a lot of happy music before it switches to very brutal violence. In particular, the elevator scene goes from a very romantic scene to {{spoiler|a mook having his brains stomped into pulp.}}
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailers give the impression that the film is a straight car chase thriller similar to ''The Fast and the Furious'', when it actually features quite a lot of quiet drama scenes sprinkled amongst the bone-crunching violence. One woman even [https://web.archive.org/web/20120719113810/http://movies.ign.com/articles/119/1199189p1.html sued] because she didn't receive a ''The Fast and the Furious'' clone.
* [[No Name Given]]: Driver. The closest to a name we get is Shannon calling him Kid. The soundtrack refers to him by Deluxe, which is taken from a pun on Standard's name in the film.
* [[Not Wearing Tights]]: The Driver's satin jacket with its scorpion motif is akin to this. In interviews, Ryan Gosling and director Nicholas Winding Refn have both likened the character to a superhero.
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