#BABY DRIVER SOUNDTRACK AMAZON MOVIE#

At the time, I wasn’t necessarily, “This is a movie I’m gonna make.” But it was almost like the closest thing to having action-movie synesthesia, I would listen to that song and imagine this car chase. And I just started visualizing this car chase. When I was 21 and I was living in London for the first time, and had made my first low-budget movie but certainly wouldn’t have called myself a film director, and was completely broke and sitting in my bedroom, not sure how I was going to really break into the industry, I listened to that song a lot. But it sounds like it was a slightly less vintage track, “Bellbottoms,” by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (from 1994), that was really the instigating track for you and this project.Įdgar Wright: Yeah.

You’ve got these chase sequences set to high-energy tracks from the 1970s by Queen, the Damned, Focus, and Golden Earring. On the morning of the movie’s release, Wright took time out from celebrating to talk with Variety about the kicks of creating a movie so infused with music that the characters actually talk about songs, on top of peeling out from bank heists to them. The automotive scenes tend toward recently underexposed, revved-up ’70s rock classics by the likes of Queen and Golden Earring, but the “Baby Driver” soundtrack also offers cuts of various styles and vintage from Beck, Brubeck, Barry White, the Beach Boys, and soul duo Bob and Earl, just to touch on Wright’s B-list. Wright is as much of a music geek as a tire-squeal fetishist, and time spent with this mixtape - whether it’s via the packed two-CD soundtrack, or just as it plays out to picture, very loudly, in theaters - is time few rock fans would regret. That’s because vehicular mayhem and music compete for top billing in Edgar Wright’s action-comedy-romance, with the whole idea of “incidental” music going by the wayside as the director lets most of the 30-plus songs on the soundtrack play out at close to full length. Or, conversely, you could think of it as a playlist that happens to have a crime film attached. You could describe “ Baby Driver” as a car-chase movie set to rock and roll.

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