Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Re: Boy, people smarter than me have been remarkably slow on the uptake lately.

[quote name="Hans Clastorp"][quote name="Mischief Shai-hulud"]Seeing as how "Drive" blatantly spells out to the audience that the Driver is the Scorpion in <A HREF="http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheScorpionandtheFrog" TARGET="new">The Scorpion and the Frog</A>, I don't see how anyone could come away thinking the Driver's actions are supposed to be "Moral" or "Sensitive." I guess that smarter guy was so furiously air quoting in the theater that he missed that part.[/quote] Even though I just sort of half-watched an apparently non-canonical download, I definitely don't see a connection between that fable and anything that happens in the movie except dude's jacket (which I figured was a clear homage to Just Cause 2). Did Ryan Gosling kill someone who naively trusted him? I missed that part. It's a straight-up revenge/power fantasy, as far as I can tell, done in a stylish way. I have no problem with that. My issue with the movie is with the execution. Ryan Gosling is supposed to be the "quiet obsessive loner" archetype (i.e. the sort of adolescent personality type that often figures in revenge/power fantasies), but they fucked it up by having him be an utterly affectless blank when he's not lashing out violently. He has no personality apart from that archetype. The Jewish mobsters were the only characters that didn't seem totally bland. Unlike that other Hans Clastorp downthread, I like the Coen brothers, and thought No Country was fine, just fine. But when I think back on No Country, I can distinctly remember 3 unique characters just off the top of my head. I also remember it having good dialogue, interesting locations, and imaginative murders. Drive had none of these things, and just was a boring mess TBQH.[/quote]