In the TV series Spaced, Wright’s underemployed twentysomethings escaped their own humdrum monotony by imagining themselves into the kinds of zombie films, buddy-cop actioners, and sci-fi epics that the protagonists of Wright’s later feature films would find themselves living out for real. But it also puts him in a long line of Wright protagonists who find their place in the world through an obsession with popular culture and are sometimes incapable of functioning without it.
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As a boy, he was in a car accident that claimed his parents’ lives, and he’s been stuck with tinnitus-a “hum in the drum,” in the movie’s overcooked argot-ever since. Even listening to the soundtrack album in advance feels like a spoiler-moreso even than a recounting of the film’s plot.īaby’s attachment to music has a grounding in childhood trauma. Wright worked with choreographer Ryan Heffington, best known for videos such as Sia’s “Chandelier,” and the result is like a screen musical staged for an audience of one, with a song list so irresistible that even people who can’t hear the music get swept into Baby’s world. When Baby struts down the street to Bob & Earl’s “Harlem Shuffle,” everything around him falls into place a trumpet blares, and there’s a shop window with a trumpet in it, tilted just so that Baby can arch his back and pretend to blow into it at the perfect moment.
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Wright’s most novel idea is to approach the heist movie like one of Michael Powell’s “ composed films,” where every element plays its part in a larger symphony.
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It’s studded with cameos from the worlds of music and film, the most substantial (and nerdy) of which comes as such an unexpected surprise that I gasped out loud in the theater. Wright’s movie is part greatest-hits compilation, part remix, a high-speed all-access tour of car-chase movies that still manages to find a new route. That’s not a bad synecdoche for Baby Driver itself.