Characters: Red if they die in the film.
-Driver (name is never given) referred to as 'kid' a lot.
-Shannon
-Bernie Rose (Killed by Driver)
-Nino (Killed by Driver)
-Irene (Relationship with Driver was over before it began)
-Standard
-Benicio
-Blanche
-Cook
-Thug in Elevator (Killed by Driver)
-Two Men in Motel (Killed by Driver)
-Nino's Driver (Killed by Driver)
Not many characters survive the film, a lot of deaths occur.
Location:
Sparsely populated Los Angeles (hyperreal - Self contained world).
Night time long shots of the city (From Helicopters).
Birds eye views.
City as a character?
Music:
Love scene - Oh my love (doesn't fit).
Electronic/80's/Retro sounding
Genre:
Crime/Gangster
Psychological/Thriller
Romance
Neo Noir* (In drive we're on the side of the bad guys and see their perspective)
-Noire films often featured an inspector who was on a similar level of intelligence to the criminial they're pursuing, however they do finally catch up on them.
Drama
Action
Hyperreal**:
Director: Nicolas Winding-Refn (Bronson, Pusher (I, II, III), Valhalla Rising, Drive, Only God Forgives.)
*Neo-noir (English: New-black; from the Greek neo, new; and the Frenchnoir, black) is a style often seen in modern motion pictures and other forms that prominently use elements of film noir, but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media that were absent in filmnoir of the 1940s and 1950s.
**In semiotics and postmodernism, hyperreality is an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies.
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