DRIVE 'Opening Scene' Clip (2011) Ryan Gosling

DRIVE "Opening Scene" Clip (2011) Ryan Gosling

PLOT: An action drama about a mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic who moonlights as a getaway driver, and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor.

CAST: Ryan Gosling, Cary Mulligan, Bryan Cranston

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[casbot]

His real skill was in finding a parking spot in the stadium carpark.

[evolutionizer]

Any other movie has the thieves freaking out and shouting at the driver what to do. It's actually nice to finally see a couple guys that know when to keep their mouths shut and just let the driver drive

[romilrh]

What I find most interesting about this scene is that it's an elaborate, drawn-out car chase, but the camera never once leaves the car the entire time the protagonist is driving. We're right there with him

[isaacszeto]

This scene has a silent apprehensiveness that is just perfect

[BGSGBF]

The roaring acceleration is the best transition from silence of hiding to action of pursue.

[jordanturner]

I like how he just continuously drives right toward the cops the whole time.

[mattmozgiel]

The best Michael Mann movie not made by Michael Mann

[Doughty]

One of my favourite openings to any film.

[jedirobertkenobi]

I swear I really believe this is one of the best opening scenes of a movie I have ever seen. It introduces all we need to know about the main character, and his one main accomplice, while totally ignoring almost anything but the most essential details of the other characters that are in the scene. The thieves are not important, and so this introduction only allows them about two words of dialogue ("Come on!"), despite them being ostensibly what is driving the whole first scene of this movie. We don't care about them and the writer does such a good job of making them important while also utterly meaningless, that we don't even see if they got caught coming out of the car park at the end (although they probably didn't, since it was a brilliant trick). This "first reel" of the movie Drive strips down everything that happens to the bare essentials and throws out every unimportant detail that isn't almost entirely needed to understand what is happening. In doing this, it mimics the main character's personality, which is very bottomlining. It focuses you in on the few sentences that are said and their significance, and meanwhile it brilliantly steps up the tension minute by minute. Everything is visual and nothing is without intense connection to the main plot. Even as he walks away from the car at the end, he does a little dance on the edge of the curb and the sidewalk (making it look accidental) intentionally to slow down a cop that is headed into the car park, and he also turns and eyes a girl going by to take suspicion away from him (and to not show his face to the cop). Every movement is slick and calculated, and yet perfectly seamless in terms of taking suspicion away from him and evading the cops.

This all leads the audience to have the feeling that he might have been TOO slick. How did he even know how to do that?! However, we were already introduced cleverly to his accomplice who, as they scan over an auto shop filled with beautiful classic cars, explains that he will be driving the most common car in California. This means we can suspect that he really has some well-developed backing that makes it believable he might have this level of skill in driving. Then we see he is a stunt driver in just the next section of the movie after the intro, so we know he has been trained in how to drive to a level that is well-beyond the average person. When the girl asks him what he does for work, he can just say, "I drive, " and leave it at that, because we already know that he is far from just a chauffeur. So much of this movie intro is so well-balanced I am amazed at its brilliance. It can take an audience who could be anywhere in the world, unaware of anything about this movie that might interest them, and it takes them on a ride from wondering who this guy is in the hotel room, to knowing he is in Los Angeles, California, driving criminals for money, and he is damn good at it. The rapidity with which this movie accomplishes this goal is record breaking. The director drives this movie almost as fast as his main character drives a late mode silver Impala.

[JUNO-ITW]

He opened the door to let the robbers in at 3:27 and stops the car in the parking at 8:27 ... perfect 5 minute time frame, and great attention to details here...

[manasbhadauria]

The ambience and sound design is so perfect it just feels like that we are actually sitting right beside gosling on passenger seat

[ijustifymylies]

5:37, when he guns it he's still moving with the pace of traffic lol

[awreckingball]

Great soundtrack, cinematography, performances.

[jcpagain]

This is one of my all-time favorite movies. What an incredibly visceral and yet strangely dream-like thriller.

[techboy]

Great part I’ve always loved about this is how he gets in the cops way at the end. He makes sure he’s seen leaving the stadium under his guise and gives the robbers more of a margin to get away from the impala. As far as believable effective criminals go, this guy takes the cake. Meticulous and opportunistic.

[amjhlah]

I remember seeing this film for the first time. I thought it might just be a contender to knock off HEAT as my all time favourite film. It didn't, but man did i enjoy it. Fantastic film. Love the soundtrack and score, too.

[jonahmorgan]

The fact I drive a Chevy Impala makes me smile

[CyrilSneer]

Great movie and one of the best opening scenes.

[ChristopherHallett]

Damn, the pigs knew it was a silver Impala in under 10 seconds with zero eyes on the scene - somebody sold Driver out!

[arieltraasdahl-xhri]

I've always considered Ryan Gosling to be on the cooler end of actors, based on their roles that they chose.
I used to have this on my YouTube playlist.

Thank you, sir.